# Xarkoles *6K, 1.21.5+, 🌳 Lush Canyons and Plateaus · Download, survival friendly, Java, Overworld World* A 36km² custom Minecraft Survival Map, created by McMeddon. A great cross shaped continent, with a giant terrace and mesa terrain at the core, shaped by canyons and cliffs from west to east. Explore the picturesque mountains in the north, the 2 lone volcano's. Or venture through the large plains and forests across the lands. From arctic regions to lush valleys, all ready to be explored. With this world, i made further progressions adding new terrains, renewed biome placement systems, world improvements, and especially the implementation of many new additional subbiomes for birch, spruce, oak, plains, and meadows. ## Details - Creator: McMeddon - Type: Survival world - World size: 6144 x 6144 blocks (6K) - Elevation range: -64 to 320 blocks - Spawn point: X 3072, Y 137, Z 3072 - Playable version: 1.21.5+ - Survival friendly: Yes. Confirmed by the scan: loot tables, structures, animals, ores present in the save. Plays in vanilla Minecraft with no mods or datapacks - Editions: Java, Bedrock - Made of: Grassland 32%, Forest 25%, Shore 17%, Arid 12%, Cold 9%, Mountain 2%, Wetland 2%, Cave 0.8%, Mushroom 0.1% - Beyond the border: Vanilla chunks - Published: 2026-03-25 ## Biomes Shares are measured across the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so biomes missing from this list can still be found out there. 38 biomes. Land 58%, Water 41%. Made of: Grassland 32%, Forest 25%, Shore 17%, Arid 12%, Cold 9%, Mountain 2%, Wetland 2%, Cave 0.8%, Mushroom 0.1%. ### Land (58% of the map, 27 biomes) - Plains: 28% of land - Beach: 9% of land - Stony Shore: 8% of land - Forest: 7% of land - Savanna: 5% of land - Wooded Badlands: 4% of land - Jungle: 4% of land - Meadow: 4% of land - Snowy Plains: 3% of land - Dark Forest: 3% of land - Flower Forest: 3% of land - Snowy Taiga: 3% of land - Birch Forest: 3% of land - Desert: 2% of land - Taiga: 2% of land - Snowy Slopes: 2% of land - Stony Peaks: 2% of land - Jagged Peaks: 2% of land - Old Growth Pine Taiga: 1% of land - Swamp: 1% of land - Sparse Jungle: 0.9% of land - Pale Garden: 0.6% of land - Mangrove Swamp: 0.5% of land - Cherry Grove: 0.4% of land - Frozen Peaks: 0.2% of land - Mushroom Fields: 0.1% of land - Eroded Badlands: <0.1% of land ### Water (41% of the map, 8 biomes) - Ocean: 49% of water - Lukewarm Ocean: 21% of water - Cold Ocean: 9% of water - River: 8% of water - Warm Ocean: 6% of water - Deep Ocean: 6% of water - Frozen Ocean: 1% of water - Frozen River: 0.3% of water ## Caves Open cave reaches 24% of this world below sea level. What those caves are made of, by volume, measured from the save in 4 block cells: Shares are measured across the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so biomes missing from this list can still be found out there. - Normal Caves: 95% - Lush Caves: 3% - Magma Caves: 1% (inferred from surrounding blocks) - Dripstone Caves: 0.6% - Deep Dark: 0.6% - Ice Caves: 0.2% (inferred from surrounding blocks) Inferred types have no biome of their own in Minecraft. They are named from the blocks around the cave rather than read from the save. ## Structures 15 of 19 confirmed present. A pinned marker outranks the scan; anything not confirmed is what the scan alone recorded. 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 of 7) - Desert pyramids: Included - Igloos: Not checked - Jungle pyramids: Included - Pillager outposts: Included - Swamp huts: Included - Trail ruins: Included - Woodland mansions: Not checked ### Underground (5 of 6) - Amethyst geodes: Included - Ancient cities: Missing - Dungeons / monster rooms: Included - Mineshafts: Included - Strongholds: Included - Trial chambers: Included ### Ocean (3 of 4) - Buried treasure: Searched, not found - Ocean monuments: Included - Ocean ruins: Included - Shipwrecks: Included ### Portal structures (1 of 1) - Ruined portals: Included ### Settlements (1 of 1) - Villages: Included ## Loot tables 28 of 37 confirmed present. Confirmed means the scan read the table out of the save. Not observed means the structure carrying it was not seen in this export, not that the table is impossible here. 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 (12 of 20) - Abandoned mineshaft: Included - Buried treasure chest: Not observed - Desert pyramid: Not observed - End City treasure: Not observed - Igloo chest: Not observed - Jungle temple: Included - Jungle temple dispenser: Not observed - Nether fortress bridge: Not observed - Pillager outpost: Not observed - 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: Not observed ### Village chest loot (14 of 15) - Village armorer: Included - Village butcher: Not observed - Village cartographer: Included - Village desert house: 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 weaponsmith: Included ### Archaeology (1 of 1) - Archaeology loot: Included ### Structure loot (1 of 1) - Trial chamber loot: Included ## What is inside - Biomes: yes - Structures: yes - Ores: yes - Plants: yes - Animals: yes - Loot: yes - Caves: yes Outside the built map the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so anything missing here can still be found out there. ## What is new - created new mixed mesa-canyon terrain - changed river banks floodplains max 25° - changed river banks max 41° - Spruce: added new subbiomes - Oak: added new subbiomes - decreased oak mature density slightly - fixed terrain floor spills for birch, spruce, and oak forest - added new meddow sub biomes, tall, sunflower - reduced render times - increased biome volume, by reducing deadzones - added fluvial modifiers to determine "plains like" subbiomes pockets - removed perlin bubble river plain-pockets - increased meander lengths - raised bottom slopes of the alpine mountain ranges - reworked terrain mixing - added flattening function for the canyon base to reduce interference - reduced river with, to avoid/reduce edge overlap at river beginning stages - added new lake flattening method to evenly place the lake - increased river max width - added additional displacement formation to Alpine gen 6 mountains - added dedicated massive gravel aluvial fans now only forming at mountains - added new meadow subbiomes - fixed meander sandbanks from above 50° - reworked mountain sediment flows - added new separate sediment flows for mesa terrains mask - removed unused bollow mountain terrain - removed unused splittered mountain terrain - removed unused base land terrains - removed deprecated biome implementations - removed some biome mask overlaps ## Questions about this world ### What is Xarkoles? Xarkoles is a hand-made survival world of 6,144 × 6,144 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 Xarkoles? 6,144 × 6,144 blocks, so about 38 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 24 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 Xarkoles need? Xarkoles is built for Minecraft Java **1.21.5**. Newer releases normally open it fine. Opening it in an *older* release is not supported: blocks and structures added after that version cannot load, and the world can be damaged by the attempt. Bedrock players need a converted copy. See [the Bedrock notes in the FAQ](https://mcmeddon.com/faq#install-bedrock). ### Which biomes are in Xarkoles? 38 in total. The land is mostly Plains (28.0%), Beach (9.1%), Stony Shore (8.5%) and Forest (6.8%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map. Water covers 41.3% of the map, and land 58.2%. By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (94.8%), Lush Caves (2.5%) and Magma Caves (1.3%). The [cave breakdown](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles#caves) has the rest. The [full breakdown](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles#biome-composition) is further up this page, with every biome and its share. ### Which structures are in Xarkoles? 15 of the 19 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (5/7), underground (5/6), ocean (3/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (1/1). Not confirmed: Igloos (not checked), Woodland mansions (not checked), Ancient cities (missing) and Buried treasure (searched, not found). "Searched, not found" means the scan looked and came up empty; "not checked" means it has not been looked for yet. [The structure list](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles#structure-coverage) above names every one of them. ### Is Xarkoles 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](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles#world-contents) at the bottom of this page holds the item-by-item detail. ### Where do I download Xarkoles? From the [download link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/xarkoles-6k-1-21-155433371) on Patreon, also on the button at the top of this page. Also available: the [source files](https://www.patreon.com/posts/source-files-png-155432457) on Patreon and the [PlanetMinecraft project page](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/xarkoles/), which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build. ### What is new in Xarkoles? Every world is built on the one before it, and Xarkoles brought 30 logged changes into the line: new terrain, new assets and fixes to the generators that made it. From its list: - created new mixed mesa-canyon terrain - changed river banks floodplains max 25° - changed river banks max 41° The [full list](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles#world-changelog) 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 Xarkoles before downloading it? Yes. [Open it in the 3D explorer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles/explore) and fly the real terrain in your browser, with the biomes, the caves and the marked structures. Nothing to install. General questions about downloading and installing: https://mcmeddon.com/faq.md ## Downloads - [Download world (Patreon)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/xarkoles-6k-1-21-155433371) - [Download source files (Patreon)](https://www.patreon.com/posts/source-files-png-155432457) ## Elsewhere - [Official PlanetMinecraft Post](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/xarkoles/) ## Rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0, with commercial servers and media allowed by exception. Allowed: play it, stream it, put it in videos; run it on your server, commercial or not; share videos, images, renders and art, commercial or not; remix and redistribute, meaning build on top and share with friends and your community. Not allowed: sharing the map as-is, reselling it or selling it on the Marketplace, bundling worlds into modpacks, claiming it as your own, or skipping the attribution. Credit like this: `World by McMeddon, "Xarkoles"`, with a link back to https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles wherever the format allows one. ## On this site - [World overview](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles) - [3D map viewer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260325-xarkoles/explore)