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Quote from TheMasterCaver»

Yes, but nothing like Beta 1.7.3 and earlier, where beaches actually looked like beaches, not hills of sand splashed up shorelines (if not always as bad as the first image in the OP); for example, these are some beaches in TMCW, which are based off of the ones in Beta 1.7.3; note how level they are and that the sand/gravel (there also used to be gravel beaches in Beta) doesn't go more than a few layers above sea level - even when right next to extreme terrain (I specially manipulate the heightmap to force beaches to be flat; a similar method is applied to rivers so they carve through even the highest mountains, with a few (intended) exceptions; caves also can't cut through blocks near sea level in beach biomes):

There is also a variant of beach with "quartz sand":


A closer look at a gravel beach, which uses a new variant of gravel called "gravel sand", using the Beta 1.7.3 gravel texture (it looks like sand); beaches may also have "boulders" made out of cobblestone or sandstone, as shown here:




A beach on Large Biomes, including palm trees:


This is not a really good screenshot but you can see a beach in the lower-left, next to a mountain over 120 blocks high:

I agree, I preferred older beaches too. Sometimes I play on beta 1.6 or 1.4 to get that.