# Bekalyxos *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. ## Details - Creator: McMeddon - Type: Survival world - World size: 4096 x 4096 blocks (4K) - Elevation range: -64 to 320 blocks - Playable version: 26.3+ - Editions: Java, Bedrock - Made of: Grassland 25%, Forest 18%, Arid 13%, Shore 12%, Wetland 11%, Cold 11%, Mountain 9%, Cave 0.9%, Mushroom 0.6% - Beyond the border: Vanilla chunks - Published: 2026-09-03 - Inspection: incomplete. No structure has been located and pinned by hand yet. ## 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. 39 biomes. Land 67%, Water 32%. Made of: Grassland 25%, Forest 18%, Arid 13%, Shore 12%, Wetland 11%, Cold 11%, Mountain 9%, Cave 0.9%, Mushroom 0.6%. ### Land (67% of the map, 29 biomes) - Plains: 24% of land - Swamp: 11% of land - Beach: 8% of land - Stony Peaks: 5% of land - Wooded Badlands: 5% of land - Stony Shore: 5% of land - Desert: 4% of land - Snowy Slopes: 4% of land - Jungle: 4% of land - Windswept Gravelly Hills: 4% of land - Dark Forest: 3% of land - Savanna: 3% of land - Snowy Plains: 3% of land - Cherry Grove: 2% of land - Taiga: 2% of land - Snowy Taiga: 2% of land - Pale Garden: 2% of land - Sparse Jungle: 2% of land - Jagged Peaks: 1% of land - Meadow: 1% of land - Dappled Forest: 0.9% of land - Flower Forest: 0.8% of land - Birch Forest: 0.6% of land - Mushroom Fields: 0.6% of land - Eroded Badlands: 0.4% of land - Forest: 0.4% of land - Frozen Peaks: 0.4% of land - Mangrove Swamp: 0.3% of land - Old Growth Pine Taiga: 0.1% of land ### Water (32% of the map, 7 biomes) - Warm Ocean: 40% of water - Ocean: 21% of water - River: 18% of water - Deep Ocean: 12% of water - Lukewarm Ocean: 8% of water - Frozen Ocean: 0.6% of water - Frozen River: 0.2% of water ## Questions about this world ### What is Bekalyxos? 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? 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? 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](https://mcmeddon.com/faq#install-bedrock). ### Which biomes are in Bekalyxos? 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](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260903-bekalyxos#biome-composition) is further up this page, with every biome and its share. ### Where do I download Bekalyxos? From the [download link](https://mcmeddon.com/go/2dibmrfho0s7r) on Google Drive, also on the button at the top of this page. Also available: the [PlanetMinecraft project page](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/bekalyxos/), which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build. ### Can I look at Bekalyxos before downloading it? Yes. [Open it in the 3D explorer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260903-bekalyxos/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 (Google Drive)](https://mcmeddon.com/go/2dibmrfho0s7r) ## Elsewhere - [Official PlanetMinecraft Post](https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/bekalyxos/) ## 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, "Bekalyxos"`, with a link back to https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260903-bekalyxos wherever the format allows one. ## On this site - [World overview](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260903-bekalyxos) - [3D map viewer](https://mcmeddon.com/worlds/20260903-bekalyxos/explore)