Bekalyxos
Overview
4K, 1.21.5-26.3+, 🌳 Swamps & Base Dapple Forests & Sulfur caves
A 16km² custom Minecraft Survival Map, created by McMeddon. This world is on the more packed diverse side, with tons of biomes closeby, and mountains decorating the world corners together with a giant sleeping volcano in the world center. But most notably will be the new giant diverse swamp areas around the map core. Dev note: On this world i continued with some more biome and world optimizations, the integration of the new swamps, and layed the groundwork for dappled forest and sulfur caves, together with 150 new swamp objects (tree types, bog, stumps, deads, etc). Sadly i couldnt make bogs make work properly, as mc generation takes heavily over, even against my best measures. Sidenote: this world might not be a "total revolution" as it sweeps in and takes over where i left last after a prolonged break and offtime working on different projects, and served mostly for me a way to get familiar with my workflows again.
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 MCS SMP Season 3 Server Map #S3 at 9K.
Biome composition
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.
Land 67.4% of map
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Plains 24.2% -
Swamp 10.6% -
Beach 7.6% -
Stony Peaks 5.5% -
Wooded Badlands 5.4% -
Stony Shore 4.5% -
Desert 4.5% -
Snowy Slopes 4.2% -
Jungle 4.1% -
Windswept Gravelly Hills 3.9%
19 more 25.4%
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Dark Forest 3.5% -
Savanna 2.6% -
Snowy Plains 2.6% -
Cherry Grove 2.2% -
Taiga 2.1% -
Snowy Taiga 2.0% -
Pale Garden 1.7% -
Sparse Jungle 1.5% -
Jagged Peaks 1.4% -
Meadow 1.2% -
Dappled Forest 0.9% -
Flower Forest 0.8% -
Birch Forest 0.6% -
Mushroom Fields 0.6% -
Eroded Badlands 0.4% -
Forest 0.4% -
Frozen Peaks 0.4% -
Mangrove Swamp 0.3% -
Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.1%
Water 32.1% of map
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Warm Ocean 40.2% -
Ocean 21.0% -
River 18.3% -
Deep Ocean 11.7% -
Lukewarm Ocean 8.1% -
Frozen Ocean 0.6% -
Frozen River 0.2%
What’s included in Bekalyxos?
No content report has been generated for this world yet.
Questions about Bekalyxos
- What is Bekalyxos?
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Bekalyxos 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 26.3. You download the world folder and play it like any other save, in singleplayer or on your own server.
- How big is Bekalyxos?
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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 Bekalyxos need?
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Bekalyxos is built for Minecraft Java 26.3. 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.
- Which biomes are in Bekalyxos?
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39 in total. The land is mostly Plains (24.2%), Swamp (10.6%), Beach (7.6%) and Stony Peaks (5.5%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.
Water covers 32.1% of the map, and land 67.4%.
The full breakdown is further up this page, with every biome and its share.
- Where do I download Bekalyxos?
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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.
- Can I look at Bekalyxos 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 Bekalyxos 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 26.3 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.