Welcome to WorldPainter, a graphical and interactive map painter / generator. Quickly generate expansive, natural looking landscapes, with full manual control over the terrain, using an easy to use and well performing program.
Check out these great examples of both usage and results of WorldPainter. Note that I didn't create these landscapes, or these videos:
Features:
Custom biome painting
Create your own custom brushes
Add custom objects from bo2 files or schematics to the world
Customise the location and frequency of underground ores and resources
Add snow and ice
Easy to use yet flexible and powerful paint-like tools
Create oceans, landmasses, plains and mountains
Change the terrain type, add trees and create caverns
You can check the change log here. The installers were created with . WorldPainter is free and open source software, released under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3. The source code is hosted on GitHub.
It should be pretty self-explanatory, and the rest you should be easily able to find out by clicking around. Don't forget to try all your mouse buttons, and try holding them down! Post in this thread to get support from me or other users of WorldPainter.
The Load and Save functions save the map in WorldPainter format. The Export function exports the map to a Minecraft world. By default it is exported right to your Minecraft saves directory. You can then open the world in Minecraft under Singleplayer.
The Import and Merge functions allow you to import the landscape from an existing map, and then merge any changes you make to the landscape back to the existing map. It is not meant for general purpose map editing! WorldPainter is, and always will be, a map generator, not a map editor. Note that this functionality is dangerous! Use it at your own risk. Please see this post for important information about how these functions work, and their limitations.
This tool is not meant to create ready to run single player maps, it's meant to create server levels and adventure maps. The idea is to create the basic landscape, with your mountain ranges, oceans, forests, snow and ice, lakes, hills, etc. using the tool, and then go in and fill in the details with other tools.
Please donate!
WorldPainter takes a lot of time to create and maintain. Even though it is free, please show your appreciation by donating: or .
Linking to WorldPainter
If you want to link to WorldPainter from your own site or another forum, I would be honoured! But please don't link directly to the downloads, or upload the files to file sharing sites or host them yourself! Instead, please link people to the official homepage: https://www.worldpainter.net/
2 things
1. for everyone whos is worried this is legit it does work.
2. the pointer is a bit off (using windows xp if that has anything to do with it.)
it works now. cant w8 for you to finish making this. maybe you could add a volcano feature that makes a mountain with lava at the top of it, and the lava is even with the very top so you could go up to it and destroy a block and let the lava run down the side of it.
maybe you could add a volcano feature that makes a mountain with lava at the top of it, and the lava is even with the very top so you could go up to it and destroy a block and let the lava run down the side of it.
Excellent idea. :-) I think I would to this by allowing you to flood with lava in addition to water. You can easily create a volcano shaped mountain already by raising a mountain and then digging the caldera by right-clicking with "raise mountain" selected (and a much smaller radius, which you can change with your mouse wheel). All that's left is to flood the caldera with lava... :-)
Ok i used if for a little and all i can say is its LEGIT awesome :DD For a beginner it was very easy to learn and use and put in game and i had fun creating giant pyramids keep the good work going Also im using windows 7 and it runs rather well.
I like it. I haven't checked yet, but does the world keep expanding once you reach the edge of the generated world? If you were to add the option of either having it keep going or to stop that would be great.
I like it. I haven't checked yet, but does the world keep expanding once you reach the edge of the generated world? If you were to add the option of either having it keep going or to stop that would be great.
Once you reach the edge of the generated world, Minecraft will start generating its own chunks again, which won't match the generated world at all. You'll get sheer cliffs there, with water and lava pouring out.
I think I'll add an option to surround the generated world with ocean, or a lava sea, or even empty chunks, so that you can't reach the edge of the generated map.
This is amazing :biggrin.gif: <3 Once you develop a bit more, can you maybe add a custom brush format so we can make it create are own awesome things?
I think I will make it so other people can create plugins for it. You'll have to be a programmer, but at least other people can then code cool extensions for it. It will probably too complex to make a simple custom brush format for.
Wow! the default generated world looks amazing! I really hope you continue this project Captain Chaos. This could turn out to be the best map generator yet. It's already off to a great start.
Oh. My. Fu*king. Gosh. AWESOME!! I would try it, but there is no DL. And my good computer has
the BSoD, so I can't play minecraft. Keep up the good work ;D
Welcome to WorldPainter, a graphical and interactive map painter / generator. Quickly generate expansive, natural looking landscapes, with full manual control over the terrain, using an easy to use and well performing program.
Check out these great examples of both usage and results of WorldPainter. Note that I didn't create these landscapes, or these videos:
Features:
→ To download WorldPainter, go to the official website at https://www.worldpainter.net/
→ For support, please use the official WorldPainter subreddit!
Troubleshooting - FAQ - other documentation - support.
You can check the change log here. The installers were created with . WorldPainter is free and open source software, released under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3. The source code is hosted on GitHub.
It should be pretty self-explanatory, and the rest you should be easily able to find out by clicking around. Don't forget to try all your mouse buttons, and try holding them down! Post in this thread to get support from me or other users of WorldPainter.
The Load and Save functions save the map in WorldPainter format. The Export function exports the map to a Minecraft world. By default it is exported right to your Minecraft saves directory. You can then open the world in Minecraft under Singleplayer.
The Import and Merge functions allow you to import the landscape from an existing map, and then merge any changes you make to the landscape back to the existing map. It is not meant for general purpose map editing! WorldPainter is, and always will be, a map generator, not a map editor. Note that this functionality is dangerous! Use it at your own risk. Please see this post for important information about how these functions work, and their limitations.
This tool is not meant to create ready to run single player maps, it's meant to create server levels and adventure maps. The idea is to create the basic landscape, with your mountain ranges, oceans, forests, snow and ice, lakes, hills, etc. using the tool, and then go in and fill in the details with other tools.
Please donate!
WorldPainter takes a lot of time to create and maintain. Even though it is free, please show your appreciation by donating: or .
Linking to WorldPainter
If you want to link to WorldPainter from your own site or another forum, I would be honoured! But please don't link directly to the downloads, or upload the files to file sharing sites or host them yourself! Instead, please link people to the official homepage: https://www.worldpainter.net/
Frequently Asked Questions
If you have a question which is not answered on the official Frequently Asked Questions page, please go to the official WorldPainter support subreddit.
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
1. for everyone whos is worried this is legit it does work.
2. the pointer is a bit off (using windows xp if that has anything to do with it.)
Could you try again, see if it's fixed now?
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
Excellent idea. :-) I think I would to this by allowing you to flood with lava in addition to water. You can easily create a volcano shaped mountain already by raising a mountain and then digging the caldera by right-clicking with "raise mountain" selected (and a much smaller radius, which you can change with your mouse wheel). All that's left is to flood the caldera with lava... :-)
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
I'll report any bugs I find. None so far.
Once you reach the edge of the generated world, Minecraft will start generating its own chunks again, which won't match the generated world at all. You'll get sheer cliffs there, with water and lava pouring out.
I think I'll add an option to surround the generated world with ocean, or a lava sea, or even empty chunks, so that you can't reach the edge of the generated map.
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
I think I will make it so other people can create plugins for it. You'll have to be a programmer, but at least other people can then code cool extensions for it. It will probably too complex to make a simple custom brush format for.
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
the BSoD, so I can't play minecraft. Keep up the good work ;D
I'm a pixel artist who makes pixel things and maps! I also do line art occasionally.
I have two work in progress resource packs!
This is the second one!
And of course, by "work-in-progress" I mean "will never, ever be completed".
There is a download. But it's well hidden in the text, to make people actually read it... ;-)
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.
The flood button
oh ok thanks
but now im getting a error when exporting
What does it say, exactly?
I created WorldPainter. For support, please visit the WorldPainter subreddit.