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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

→ 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.

Quote from razer »

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?

Quote from razer »

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... :-)

Quote from Leaf_It »

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.

Quote from sn0re »

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.

Quote from cooldude1128 »

Oh. My. Fu*king. Gosh. AWESOME!! I would try it, but there is no DL.

There is a download. But it's well hidden in the text, to make people actually read it... ;-)

That looks awesome...I'll try it out sometime.

Quote from MinecraftMapMaker »

but now im getting a error when exporting

What does it say, exactly?