Qixalia
Overview
4k, 1.21.5, The Nordic Green Cliff Islands - Faroe Islands Inspired WIP · survival friendly, Download, Java, Minecraft World
Qixalia, a 16km² custom Minecraft map created by McMeddon. Welcome to Qixalia, a large 16km² mountainous cliff island world, inspired by the mountains, cliffs and terraces off the Faroe Islands. Explore a big main island, and with its white striped mountains or the black striped satelite islands. This is not a 1:1 replica, but tries to capture the spirit off the islands and combine them with my vision for an adventurous mossy landscape, with tall cliifs, peaks and coastslines that are dominated by heavy flows and erosion. 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
Footprint
4,096 × 4,096
blocks, 16.8 km² at one block per metre
Edge to edge
- Happy ghast 19 min
- On foot 16 min
- Minecart 9 min
- Horse 7 min
- Elytra 2 min
Walking, a minecart on powered rails, an average horse and rocket-boosted elytra.
Sizes in the library 34% smaller than this
Most worlds are 4K (88 of them). The largest is Eulyxian at 12K.
Versions
Older releases drop what they do not know yet. Each row lists what it loses on top of the rows above it.
- 1.21.5and newer Made for
The world as built. Nothing is lost.
- 1.21.2–1.21.4
- Blocks
- Bush, Firefly bush, Leaf litter, Short dry grass, Tall dry grass
- 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
- 1.20.6and older
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Biome composition
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 51.9% of map 16/40 found
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Badlands Missing -
Bamboo Jungle Missing -
Beach 8.4% -
Birch Forest 0.6% -
Cherry Grove 0.2% -
Dappled Forest Missing -
Dark Forest 0.3% -
Desert Missing -
Eroded Badlands Missing -
Flower Forest 0.3% -
Forest 0.8% -
Frozen Peaks Missing -
Grove Missing -
Ice Spikes Missing -
Jagged Peaks Missing -
Jungle <0.1% -
Mangrove Swamp 1.6% -
Meadow <0.1% -
Mushroom Fields Missing -
Old Growth Birch Forest Missing -
Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.2% -
Old Growth Spruce Taiga Missing -
Pale Garden 0.8% -
Plains 50.0% -
Savanna Missing -
Savanna Plateau Missing -
Snowy Beach Missing -
Snowy Plains Missing -
Snowy Taiga Missing -
Sparse Jungle Missing -
Stony Peaks 28.7% -
Stony Shore 4.8% -
Sunflower Plains Missing -
Swamp 2.4% -
Taiga 0.8% -
Windswept Forest Missing -
Windswept Gravelly Hills Missing -
Windswept Hills Missing -
Windswept Savanna Missing -
Wooded Badlands Missing
- Plains 50.0%
- Stony Peaks 28.7%
- Beach 8.4%
- Stony Shore 4.8%
- Swamp 2.4%
- Mangrove Swamp 1.6%
- Forest 0.8%
- Pale Garden 0.8%
- Taiga 0.8%
- Birch Forest 0.6%
- Flower Forest 0.3%
- Dark Forest 0.3%
- Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.2%
- Cherry Grove 0.2%
- Meadow <0.1%
- Jungle <0.1%
- Badlands Missing
- Bamboo Jungle Missing
- Dappled Forest Missing
- Desert Missing
- Eroded Badlands Missing
- Frozen Peaks Missing
- Grove Missing
- Ice Spikes Missing
- Jagged Peaks Missing
- Mushroom Fields Missing
- Old Growth Birch Forest Missing
- Old Growth Spruce Taiga Missing
- Savanna Missing
- Savanna Plateau Missing
- Snowy Beach Missing
- Snowy Plains Missing
- Snowy Taiga Missing
- Sparse Jungle Missing
- Sunflower Plains Missing
- Windswept Forest Missing
- Windswept Gravelly Hills Missing
- Windswept Hills Missing
- Windswept Savanna Missing
- Wooded Badlands Missing
Water 47.6% of map 6/11 found
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Cold Ocean 18.0% -
Deep Cold Ocean Missing -
Deep Frozen Ocean Missing -
Deep Lukewarm Ocean Missing -
Deep Ocean 17.6% -
Frozen Ocean Missing -
Frozen River Missing -
Lukewarm Ocean 15.9% -
Ocean 38.6% -
River 3.7% -
Warm Ocean 6.2%
- Ocean 38.6%
- Cold Ocean 18.0%
- Deep Ocean 17.6%
- Lukewarm Ocean 15.9%
- Warm Ocean 6.2%
- River 3.7%
- Deep Cold Ocean Missing
- Deep Frozen Ocean Missing
- Deep Lukewarm Ocean Missing
- Frozen Ocean Missing
- Frozen River Missing
Caves of the cave volume 3/4 found
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Deep Dark 0.3% -
Dripstone Caves 2.2% -
Lush Caves 2.9% -
Sulfur Caves Missing
- Lush Caves 2.9%
- Dripstone Caves 2.2%
- Deep Dark 0.3%
- Sulfur Caves Missing
Shares are of the cave volume, from the underground scan. See Caves for the full breakdown.
Caves
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 0.3%
- Dripstone Caves 2.2%
- Ice Caves Missing
- Lush Caves 2.9%
- Magma Caves 0.2%
- Normal Caves 94.4%
- Sulfur Caves Missing
- Normal Caves 94.4%
- Lush Caves 2.9%
- Dripstone Caves 2.2%
- Deep Dark 0.3%
- Magma Caves 0.2%
- Ice Caves Missing
- Sulfur Caves 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
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 5/8 confirmed
- Abandoned camps Missing
- Desert pyramids Missing
- Igloos Missing
- Jungle pyramids Included
- Pillager outposts Included
- Swamp huts Included
- Trail ruins Included
- Woodland mansions Included
- Jungle pyramids Included
- Pillager outposts Included
- Swamp huts Included
- Trail ruins Included
- Woodland mansions Included
- Abandoned camps Missing
- Desert pyramids 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
Loot tables
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 14/22 confirmed
- Abandoned mineshaft Included
- Ancient city Included
- Buried treasure chest Missing
- Desert pyramid Missing
- 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 Missing
- 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
- Jungle temple chest 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
- Desert pyramid Missing
- End City treasure Possible*
- Igloo chest Missing
- Jungle temple arrow dispenser Missing
- Nether fortress bridge Possible*
- Pillager outpost Missing
- Ruined portal Missing
Village chest loot 9/16 confirmed
- Village armorer Missing
- Village butcher Missing
- Village cartographer Included
- Village desert house Missing
- Village fisher Missing
- Village fletcher Included
- Village mason Missing
- Village plains house Included
- Village savanna house Included
- Village shepherd Missing
- Village snowy house Included
- Village taiga house Included
- Village tannery Missing
- Village temple Included
- Village toolsmith Included
- Village weaponsmith Included
- Village cartographer Included
- Village fletcher Included
- Village plains house Included
- Village savanna house Included
- Village snowy house Included
- Village taiga house Included
- Village temple Included
- Village toolsmith Included
- Village weaponsmith Included
- Village armorer Missing
- Village butcher Missing
- Village desert house Missing
- Village fisher Missing
- Village mason Missing
- Village shepherd Missing
- Village tannery 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
* 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.
What is new in Qixalia
- added mossy grounds
- added plants for mossfields
- added and integrated "Faroe" Inspired Islands has:
- full mountain range gen
- has cliff gen
- baseland gen
- changed land smoothing from 45 to 30°
- added "light smelting impact" for peak snow
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- made changes to snow gen
- added/tested rockfallpatches
WorldPainter source files for Qixalia
Qixalia 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
What’s included in Qixalia?
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.
- Seed
- Unknown
- World type
- Unknown
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Biomes
Biome types found in the existing Overworld.
Structures
StructuresSurface and underground structure types evidenced by existing starts or reviewed markers.
Loot types
Loot typesLoot families evidenced by existing loot-table references.
Animals
AnimalsAnimal types observed in the existing world.
Blocks
BlocksReference inventory only. Missing crafted or dimension-specific IDs are not automatically survival failures.
Cave biomes
Vanilla cave biomes found in the existing Overworld. Custom cave types have no biome ID in a save, so this scan cannot detect them.
Key compatibility details
The most relevant survival features, grouped by category.
No features match these filters.
This report inventories existing save data without loading, generating, or changing chunks. Vanilla terrain may still generate beyond the existing map boundary.
Inspect the world data
The world settings Minecraft stores in level.dat, as captured when this world was scanned. Read only, and player data is never published.
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Questions about Qixalia
- What is Qixalia?
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Qixalia is a hand-made survival world of 4,096 × 4,096 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 Qixalia?
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4,096 × 4,096 blocks, so about 17 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 16 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 Qixalia need?
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Qixalia 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 Qixalia?
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25 in total. The land is mostly Plains (50.0%), Stony Peaks (28.7%), Beach (8.4%) and Stony Shore (4.8%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.
Water covers 47.6% of the map, and land 51.9%.
By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (94.4%), Lush Caves (2.9%) and Dripstone Caves (2.2%). The cave breakdown has the rest.
The full breakdown is further up this page, with every biome and its share.
- Which structures are in Qixalia?
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16 of the 20 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (5/8), underground (6/6), ocean (3/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (1/1).
Not confirmed: Abandoned camps (missing), Desert pyramids (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 Qixalia ready to play in survival?
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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 Qixalia?
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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.
- What is new in Qixalia?
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Every world is built on the one before it, and Qixalia brought 10 logged changes into the line: new terrain, new assets and fixes to the generators that made it.
From its list:
- added mossy grounds
- added plants for mossfields
- full mountain range gen
The full list is on this page. These are the world's own additions, not patches released after it, so an older download is not missing them.
- Can I look at Qixalia before downloading it?
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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 Qixalia on Java Edition?
- Unpack the archive you downloaded from Patreon.
- Open your saves folder. On Windows press
Win+Rand enter%appdata%\.minecraft\saves. On macOS it is~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves, on Linux~/.minecraft/saves. - Move the unpacked folder in. It must be the folder that contains
level.dat, not a folder wrapping it. - Restart Minecraft on 1.21.5 or newer and pick the world in singleplayer.
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.
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.