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8k, 1.21.5, Giant Rocky´s and Badlands World · survival friendly, Download, Java, Minecraft World

Krontalos, a 64km² custom Minecraft map created by McMeddon. Welcome to the Badlands world of black deserts, mesas, and canyons. Based on a triple peninsular continent. With an arctic region at spawn, surrounded by oceans, plains and cliffs. Gigantic mountain ranges to the north, mesa´s, deserts and the grand canyon to the south, and tons of smaller islands will keep you endlessly exploring. The focus of this world was the reworked Grand Canyon. Trying to replicate the style and feel of the vast size, huge sand plains and the stepped eroded cliffs. Embark on thrilling adventures by plundering forests and balloons, battling through deserts, or constructing your dream home on cliffs or mountains. Discover custom thriving diverse island to explore.

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Size

8K world 34 of 268 this size

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Krontalos at 8K, against the sizes the worlds are built on. Every square is to scale.

Footprint

8,192 × 8,192

blocks, 67.1 km² at one block per metre

Edge to edge

  • Happy ghast 38 min
  • On foot 32 min
  • Minecart 17 min
  • Horse 14 min
  • Elytra 4 min

Walking, a minecart on powered rails, an average horse and rocket-boosted elytra.

Sizes in the library 87% smaller than this

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Most worlds are 4K (88 of them). The largest is Eulyxian at 12K.

Versions

Made for 1.21.5 Opens from 1.21

Older releases drop what they do not know yet. Each row lists what it loses on top of the rows above it.

  1. 1.21.5and newer Made for

    The world as built. Nothing is lost.

  2. 1.21.2–1.21.4
    Blocks
    Bush, Firefly bush, Leaf litter, Short dry grass, Tall dry grass
  3. 1.21–1.21.1
    Biomes
    Pale Garden becomes plains
    Blocks
    Pale oak leaves, Pale oak logs, Closed eyeblossom, Pale hanging moss, Pale moss block, Pale moss carpet
  4. 1.20.6and older

    Does not load.

Biome composition

37 biomes 26 land biomes

Shares are measured across the built map, and "not found" means not in the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so those biomes can still be found out there.

Land 53.4% of map 26/41 found

  • Badlands 10.2%
  • Bamboo Jungle Missing
  • Beach 8.4%
  • Birch Forest 2.2%
  • Cherry Grove 0.7%
  • Dappled Forest Missing
  • Dark Forest 1.0%
  • Desert 13.2%
  • Eroded Badlands Missing
  • Flower Forest 0.8%
  • Forest 3.4%
  • Frozen Peaks 3.1%
  • Grove Missing
  • Ice Spikes Missing
  • Jagged Peaks 2.5%
  • Jungle 0.9%
  • Mangrove Swamp <0.1%
  • Meadow 0.6%
  • Mushroom Fields 0.7%
  • Old Growth Birch Forest Missing
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga 2.8%
  • Old Growth Spruce Taiga Missing
  • Pale Garden 0.2%
  • Plains 23.7%
  • Savanna 1.1%
  • Savanna Plateau Missing
  • Snowy Beach Missing
  • Snowy Plains 2.1%
  • Snowy Slopes 1.3%
  • Snowy Taiga 0.9%
  • Sparse Jungle 0.8%
  • Stony Peaks 16.8%
  • Stony Shore Missing
  • Sunflower Plains Missing
  • Swamp 0.2%
  • Taiga 1.0%
  • Windswept Forest Missing
  • Windswept Gravelly Hills Missing
  • Windswept Hills Missing
  • Windswept Savanna Missing
  • Wooded Badlands 1.3%

Water 46.2% of map 8/11 found

  • Cold Ocean 11.7%
  • Deep Cold Ocean Missing
  • Deep Frozen Ocean Missing
  • Deep Lukewarm Ocean Missing
  • Deep Ocean 17.4%
  • Frozen Ocean 0.6%
  • Frozen River 0.1%
  • Lukewarm Ocean 20.2%
  • Ocean 41.8%
  • River 2.7%
  • Warm Ocean 5.4%

Caves of the cave volume 3/4 found

  • Deep Dark 0.4%
  • Dripstone Caves 0.9%
  • Lush Caves 3.3%
  • Sulfur Caves Missing

Shares are of the cave volume, from the underground scan. See Caves for the full breakdown.

Included Missing

Caves

6/7 found 18.8% of the underground

What this world's caves are made of, by volume, measured from the save in 4 block cells.

Measured under the built map, and "not found" means not under it. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so vanilla cave biomes missing here can still be found out there.

  • Deep Dark 0.4%
  • Dripstone Caves 0.9%
  • Ice Caves 0.2%
  • Lush Caves 3.3%
  • Magma Caves 0.1%
  • Normal Caves 95.0%
  • Sulfur Caves Missing
  • Normal Caves 95.0%
  • Lush Caves 3.3%
  • Dripstone Caves 0.9%
  • Deep Dark 0.4%
  • Ice Caves 0.2%
  • Magma Caves 0.1%
  • Sulfur Caves Missing
Included Missing

Inferred. These have no biome of their own in Minecraft, so they are named from the blocks around the cave rather than read from the save.

Structure coverage

17 of 20 confirmed

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so structures not confirmed here can still generate out there.

Surface 6/8 confirmed

  • Abandoned camps Missing
  • Desert pyramids Included
  • Igloos Missing
  • Jungle pyramids Included
  • Pillager outposts Included
  • Swamp huts Included
  • Trail ruins Included
  • Woodland mansions Included
  • Desert pyramids Included
  • Jungle pyramids Included
  • Pillager outposts Included
  • Swamp huts Included
  • Trail ruins Included
  • Woodland mansions Included
  • Abandoned camps Missing
  • Igloos Missing

Underground 6/6 confirmed

  • Amethyst geodes Included
  • Ancient cities Included
  • Dungeons / monster rooms Included
  • Mineshafts Included
  • Strongholds Included
  • Trial chambers Included
  • Amethyst geodes Included
  • Ancient cities Included
  • Dungeons / monster rooms Included
  • Mineshafts Included
  • Strongholds Included
  • Trial chambers Included

Ocean 3/4 confirmed

  • Buried treasure Missing
  • Ocean monuments Included
  • Ocean ruins Included
  • Shipwrecks Included
  • Ocean monuments Included
  • Ocean ruins Included
  • Shipwrecks Included
  • Buried treasure Missing

Portal structures 1/1 confirmed

  • Ruined portals Included
  • Ruined portals Included

Settlements 1/1 confirmed

  • Villages Included
  • Villages Included
IncludedMissing

Loot tables

29 of 41 confirmed

Which of the game's loot tables can turn up on this map, read from the world's own files. Included means the scan found the table itself; missing means neither it nor the structure carrying it was found in the built map.

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so tables not seen here can still turn up out there.

Chest loot 16/22 confirmed

  • Abandoned mineshaft Included
  • Ancient city Included
  • Buried treasure chest Missing
  • Desert pyramid Included
  • End City treasure Possible
  • Igloo chest Missing
  • Jungle temple arrow dispenser Missing
  • Jungle temple chest Included
  • Nether fortress bridge Possible
  • Pillager outpost Missing
  • Ruined portal Included
  • Shipwreck map Included
  • Shipwreck supply Included
  • Shipwreck treasure Included
  • Simple dungeon Included
  • Spawn bonus chest Included
  • Stronghold corridor Included
  • Stronghold crossing Included
  • Stronghold library Included
  • Underwater ruin (big) Included
  • Underwater ruin (small) Included
  • Woodland mansion Included
  • Abandoned mineshaft Included
  • Ancient city Included
  • Desert pyramid Included
  • Jungle temple chest Included
  • Ruined portal Included
  • Shipwreck map Included
  • Shipwreck supply Included
  • Shipwreck treasure Included
  • Simple dungeon Included
  • Spawn bonus chest Included
  • Stronghold corridor Included
  • Stronghold crossing Included
  • Stronghold library Included
  • Underwater ruin (big) Included
  • Underwater ruin (small) Included
  • Woodland mansion Included
  • Buried treasure chest Missing
  • End City treasure Possible
  • Igloo chest Missing
  • Jungle temple arrow dispenser Missing
  • Nether fortress bridge Possible
  • Pillager outpost Missing

Village chest loot 11/16 confirmed

  • Village armorer Missing
  • Village butcher Missing
  • Village cartographer Included
  • Village desert house Missing
  • Village fisher Included
  • Village fletcher Included
  • Village mason Included
  • Village plains house Included
  • Village savanna house Included
  • Village shepherd Missing
  • Village snowy house Included
  • Village taiga house Included
  • Village tannery Included
  • Village temple Included
  • Village toolsmith Included
  • Village weaponsmith Missing
  • Village cartographer Included
  • Village fisher Included
  • Village fletcher Included
  • Village mason Included
  • Village plains house Included
  • Village savanna house Included
  • Village snowy house Included
  • Village taiga house Included
  • Village tannery Included
  • Village temple Included
  • Village toolsmith Included
  • Village armorer Missing
  • Village butcher Missing
  • Village desert house Missing
  • Village shepherd Missing
  • Village weaponsmith Missing

Structure loot 1/2 confirmed

  • Abandoned camp loot Missing
  • Trial chamber loot Included
  • Trial chamber loot Included
  • Abandoned camp loot Missing

Archaeology 1/1 confirmed

  • Archaeology loot Included
  • Archaeology loot Included
IncludedPossibleMissing

* Why these are not confirmed

  • End City treasure Possible: outside the scanned Overworld; the vanilla Nether or End generates it.
  • Nether fortress bridge Possible: outside the scanned Overworld; the vanilla Nether or End generates it.

WorldPainter source files for Krontalos

Krontalos is published twice: the finished world you drop into your saves folder, and the project source files it was built from. Depending on the world that means the WorldPainter project, with the terrain, the biomes and the structures still on separate layers, or the black and white height and colour maps behind it, or both.

  • Switch the structure layers off and export a clean terrain-only version.
  • Re-export at a different Minecraft version instead of waiting for an updated build.
  • Reshape the terrain, move a biome or fix something yourself, on the original layers.
  • Use the terrain as the base for your own map, on your own server or project.

Opening them needs WorldPainter, which is free. See the FAQ for the terrain-only case in full.

These files are for you, not for passing on

The project source files are licensed to you personally, and they are the one part of a world that is not under Creative Commons. Everything above is yours to do. What is not:

  • Share, pass on or publish the project source files
  • Sell the source files, or sell a world exported from them
  • Redistribute a world exported from them, modified or not
Source file terms

Download source files Patreon

SURVIVAL WORLD CONTENTS Beta Inspector

What’s included in Krontalos?

See what this Minecraft world contains. Results combine MCA Selector findings, chunk data, level.dat, and manually placed structure pins.

Beta edition: some results are still being verified.

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Questions about Krontalos

What is Krontalos?

Krontalos is a hand-made survival world of 8,192 × 8,192 blocks, made with WorldPainter, World Machine, Gaea, Axiom and WorldEdit, built for Minecraft Java 1.21.5. You download the world folder and play it like any other save, in singleplayer or on your own server.

How big is Krontalos?

8,192 × 8,192 blocks, so about 67 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 32 minutes at normal walking speed. The terrain runs from Y -64 to Y 320.

Outside that area the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so you never hit a wall, you just leave the built part behind.

Which Minecraft version does Krontalos need?

Krontalos is made for Minecraft Java 1.21.5 and opens in 1.21 and later. Between the two, anything added after the release you load it in is removed or replaced (new biomes load as plains), so 1.21.5 or newer shows the world as built. Releases older than 1.21 cannot open it.

Bedrock players need a converted copy. See the Bedrock notes in the FAQ.

Which biomes are in Krontalos?

37 in total. The land is mostly Plains (23.7%), Stony Peaks (16.8%), Desert (13.2%) and Badlands (10.2%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.

Water covers 46.2% of the map, and land 53.4%.

By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (95.0%), Lush Caves (3.3%) and Dripstone Caves (0.9%). The cave breakdown has the rest.

The full breakdown is further up this page, with every biome and its share.

Which structures are in Krontalos?

17 of the 20 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (6/8), underground (6/6), ocean (3/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (1/1).

Not confirmed: Abandoned camps (missing), Igloos (missing) and Buried treasure (missing). "Missing" means the scan looked and it is not in the built map; "loot only" means its chests are here but the structure is not; "possible" means only indirect evidence was found.

The structure list above names every one of them.

Is Krontalos ready to play in survival?

Yes. A scan of the world file confirms loot tables, structures, animals and ores, so the survival loop runs from the first night: chests hold the game's real loot tables, mobs spawn as they do anywhere else, and you can mine, farm and build without adding anything. It plays in vanilla Minecraft, with no mods, no datapacks and no creative mode.

The world contents report at the bottom of this page holds the item-by-item detail.

Where do I download Krontalos?

From the download link on Patreon, also on the button at the top of this page.

Also available: the source files on Patreon and the PlanetMinecraft project page, which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build.

Can I look at Krontalos before downloading it?

Yes. Open it in the 3D explorer and fly the real terrain in your browser, with the biomes, the caves and the marked structures. Nothing to install.

How do I install Krontalos on Java Edition?

  1. Unpack the archive you downloaded from Patreon.
  2. Open your saves folder. On Windows press Win + R and enter %appdata%\.minecraft\saves. On macOS it is ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves, on Linux ~/.minecraft/saves.
  3. Move the unpacked folder in. It must be the folder that contains level.dat, not a folder wrapping it.
  4. Restart Minecraft on 1.21.5 or newer and pick the world in singleplayer.

Full install guide

Can I play it on Bedrock, or on a server?

Bedrock needs a converted .mcworld copy, and converted worlds carry their own quirks around spawn, chests and villagers.

For a server, drop the world folder in as the server's world and start it.

Bedrock install · Bedrock quirks · Server use

What may I do with it?

The worlds are released under CC BY-NC 4.0. The Rights panel on this page lists what that allows and how to credit it.

· How to credit · Selling builds