Advent Map 24
Overview
3k, 1.21.5, The Christmas Winter Survival World
The last map, of the 2025 Advent Map Calendar, one of 24 Maps, made for the community
News & updates
Size
Footprint
3,072 × 3,072
blocks, 9.4 km² at one block per metre
Edge to edge
- Happy ghast 14 min
- On foot 12 min
- Minecart 6 min
- Horse 5 min
- Elytra 2 min
Walking, a minecart on powered rails, an average horse and rocket-boosted elytra.
Sizes in the library 12% 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
- Firefly bush, Leaf litter, Short dry grass, Tall dry grass
- 1.20.5–1.21.1
- Blocks
- Pale hanging moss, Pale moss block, Pale moss carpet
- 1.20.2–1.20.4
- Items
- Pre-filled containers (402 stacks) are emptied Apple, Bread, Potatoes, Emerald, Iron ingot, Iron nugget, Oak sapling, Dandelion and more
- 1.20–1.20.1
- Blocks
- Short grass
- 1.19–1.19.4
- Structures
- Trail ruins
- Blocks
- Suspicious gravel
- 1.18.2and 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 62.7% of map 12/40 found
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Badlands Missing -
Bamboo Jungle Missing -
Beach 7.2% -
Birch Forest 2.1% -
Cherry Grove Missing -
Dappled Forest Missing -
Dark Forest Missing -
Desert Missing -
Eroded Badlands Missing -
Flower Forest Missing -
Forest 0.6% -
Frozen Peaks 1.2% -
Grove Missing -
Ice Spikes Missing -
Jagged Peaks 4.1% -
Jungle Missing -
Mangrove Swamp Missing -
Mushroom Fields Missing -
Old Growth Birch Forest Missing -
Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.5% -
Old Growth Spruce Taiga Missing -
Pale Garden Missing -
Plains 0.9% -
Savanna Missing -
Savanna Plateau Missing -
Snowy Beach Missing -
Snowy Plains 31.7% -
Snowy Slopes 8.1% -
Snowy Taiga 36.0% -
Sparse Jungle Missing -
Stony Peaks Missing -
Stony Shore 7.4% -
Sunflower Plains Missing -
Swamp Missing -
Taiga 0.1% -
Windswept Forest Missing -
Windswept Gravelly Hills Missing -
Windswept Hills Missing -
Windswept Savanna Missing -
Wooded Badlands Missing
- Snowy Taiga 36.0%
- Snowy Plains 31.7%
- Snowy Slopes 8.1%
- Stony Shore 7.4%
- Beach 7.2%
- Jagged Peaks 4.1%
- Birch Forest 2.1%
- Frozen Peaks 1.2%
- Plains 0.9%
- Forest 0.6%
- Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.5%
- Taiga 0.1%
- Badlands Missing
- Bamboo Jungle Missing
- Cherry Grove Missing
- Dappled Forest Missing
- Dark Forest Missing
- Desert Missing
- Eroded Badlands Missing
- Flower Forest Missing
- Grove Missing
- Ice Spikes Missing
- Jungle Missing
- Mangrove Swamp Missing
- Mushroom Fields Missing
- Old Growth Birch Forest Missing
- Old Growth Spruce Taiga Missing
- Pale Garden Missing
- Savanna Missing
- Savanna Plateau Missing
- Snowy Beach Missing
- Sparse Jungle Missing
- Stony Peaks Missing
- Sunflower Plains Missing
- Swamp Missing
- Windswept Forest Missing
- Windswept Gravelly Hills Missing
- Windswept Hills Missing
- Windswept Savanna Missing
- Wooded Badlands Missing
Water 37.2% of map 5/11 found
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Cold Ocean Missing -
Deep Cold Ocean Missing -
Deep Frozen Ocean Missing -
Deep Lukewarm Ocean Missing -
Deep Ocean 20.2% -
Frozen Ocean 17.1% -
Frozen River 3.9% -
Lukewarm Ocean Missing -
Ocean 38.7% -
River 20.0% -
Warm Ocean Missing
- Ocean 38.7%
- Deep Ocean 20.2%
- River 20.0%
- Frozen Ocean 17.1%
- Frozen River 3.9%
- Cold Ocean Missing
- Deep Cold Ocean Missing
- Deep Frozen Ocean Missing
- Deep Lukewarm Ocean Missing
- Lukewarm Ocean Missing
- Warm Ocean Missing
Caves of the cave volume 3/4 found
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Deep Dark 0.4% -
Dripstone Caves 0.6% -
Lush Caves 3.1% -
Sulfur Caves Missing
- Lush Caves 3.1%
- Dripstone Caves 0.6%
- Deep Dark 0.4%
- 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 0.4%
- Dripstone Caves 0.6%
- Ice Caves 2.9%
- Lush Caves 3.1%
- Magma Caves 1.5%
- Normal Caves 91.4%
- Sulfur Caves Missing
- Normal Caves 91.4%
- Lush Caves 3.1%
- Ice Caves 2.9%
- Magma Caves 1.5%
- Dripstone Caves 0.6%
- Deep Dark 0.4%
- 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 3/8 confirmed
- Abandoned camps Missing
- Desert pyramids Missing
- Igloos Missing
- Jungle pyramids Included
- Pillager outposts Included
- Swamp huts Missing
- Trail ruins Included
- Woodland mansions Missing
- Jungle pyramids Included
- Pillager outposts Included
- Trail ruins Included
- Abandoned camps Missing
- Desert pyramids Missing
- Igloos Missing
- Swamp huts Missing
- Woodland mansions Missing
Underground 4/6 confirmed
- Amethyst geodes Included
- Ancient cities Loot only*
- Dungeons / monster rooms Included
- Mineshafts Included
- Strongholds Included
- Trial chambers Missing
- Amethyst geodes Included
- Dungeons / monster rooms Included
- Mineshafts Included
- Strongholds Included
- Ancient cities Loot only*
- Trial chambers Missing
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
* Why these are not confirmed
- Ancient cities Loot only: its loot table is in this world, but the structure itself was not found.
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 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 Missing
- Abandoned mineshaft Included
- Ancient city 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
- 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
- Woodland mansion 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 Missing
- 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 Included
- Village cartographer Included
- Village fisher Included
- Village fletcher 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 weaponsmith Included
- Village armorer Missing
- Village butcher Missing
- Village desert house Missing
- Village mason Missing
- Village shepherd Missing
Structure loot 0/2 confirmed
- Abandoned camp loot Missing
- Trial chamber loot Missing
- Abandoned camp loot Missing
- Trial chamber 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 Advent Map 24
- added gravel slopes
- reworked the desert river walls
- updated the forest floors
- fixed masking bugs for hot ponds
What’s included in Advent Map 24?
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 Advent Map 24
- What is Advent Map 24?
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Advent Map 24 is a hand-made survival world of 3,072 × 3,072 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 Advent Map 24?
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3,072 × 3,072 blocks, so about 9 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 12 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 Advent Map 24 need?
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Advent Map 24 is made for Minecraft Java 1.21.5 and opens in 1.19 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 1.19 cannot open it.
Bedrock players need a converted copy. See the Bedrock notes in the FAQ.
- Which biomes are in Advent Map 24?
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19 in total. The land is mostly Snowy Taiga (36.0%), Snowy Plains (31.7%), Snowy Slopes (8.1%) and Stony Shore (7.4%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.
Water covers 37.2% of the map, and land 62.7%.
By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (91.4%), Lush Caves (3.1%) and Ice Caves (2.9%). The cave breakdown has the rest.
The full breakdown is further up this page, with every biome and its share.
- Which structures are in Advent Map 24?
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12 of the 20 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (3/8), underground (4/6), ocean (3/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (1/1).
Not confirmed: Abandoned camps (missing), Desert pyramids (missing), Igloos (missing), Swamp huts (missing), Woodland mansions (missing) and Ancient cities (loot only). "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 Advent Map 24 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 Advent Map 24?
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From the download link on Google Drive, also on the button at the top of this page.
Also available: the PlanetMinecraft project page, which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build.
- What is new in Advent Map 24?
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Every world is built on the one before it, and Advent Map 24 brought 4 logged changes into the line: new terrain, new assets and fixes to the generators that made it.
From its list:
- added gravel slopes
- reworked the desert river walls
- updated the forest floors
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 Advent Map 24 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 Advent Map 24 on Java Edition?
- Unpack the archive you downloaded from Google Drive.
- 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.