BetterBiomes

[1.3.0] - 2026-10-11

Better Biomes now Requires Hytale 0.7.0 (server version >=0.7.0 <0.8.0). Hytale 0.6.x is no longer supported.

Added

• More new biomes
  - Orchard (Zone 1, Tier 1/2)
  - Old Growth Woods (Zone 1, Tier 2)
  - Bamboo Grove (Zone 1, Tier 3)
  - Karst Peaks (Zone 1, Tier 3)
  - Clay Pits (Zone 2, Tier 1)
  - Sinter Terraces (Zone 2, Tier 1)
  - Cappadocia (Zone 2, Tier 1/2)
  - Bloomspine Flats (Tier 2)
  - Dune Sea (Tier 2/3)
  - Dry Wadis (Tier 2/3)
  - Buried City (Zone 2, Tier 2/3, rare)
  - Geodes (Zone 2, Tier 2/3, rare)
  - Pale Dunes (Tier 3)
  - Palm Coast (Zone 2, coast)
  - Storm Heath (Zone 3, Tier 1)
  - Rune Moor (Zone 3, Tier 1/2)
  - Autumn Taiga (Zone 3, Tier 1/2)
  - Rimebound Woods (Zone 3, Tier 2/3)
  - Fungal Jungle (Zone 4, Tier 4)
  - Void Scar (Zone 4, Tier 5)
  - Crystal Chasm (Zone 4, Tier 5)
  - Coral Reef (tropical ocean)
• Mountain overhaul: new variants of the vanilla mountains, with their own forms and shapes:
  - Splinter Peaks (Zone 1, Tier 2/3)
  - Firwood Slopes (Zone 1, Tier 2/3)
  - Mist Peaks (Zone 1, Tier 2/3)
  - Ember Spires (Zone 2, Tier 2/3)
  - Rime Ridges (Zone 3, Tier 3)
• Cave overhaul:
  - Great Hollows: huge open halls
  - Wormways: long, winding, branching tunnels
  - Crawlways very thin, twisty passages
  - Underground lakes of water, and lava lakes
  - Sinter Halls: calcite floors, dense calcite stalactites, sinter
  columns and small pools.
  - Moss Gardens: moss on floor and ceiling, lianas
  - Umbral Depths: a huge, dark hall just above the lava, with slate and
  basalt floors
  - Iron and copper lodes: long bands of ore mixed with basalt, marble
  or slate.
  - Giant Maw (all land zones): a wide vertical shaft from the surface
  into a large hall.
  - Meteor craters (Zone 4, rare): a crater around a meteorite with adamantite veins and sometimes a voidstone.
• Small structures in the new biomes
• Natural transitions
  - Forests in BetterBiomes' biomes thin out towards their edges instead
  of ending abruptly.
  - The woodland biomes have open clearings with flowers.
  - Vanilla mountains in Zones 1 and 3 have an alpine meadow band
  - Rivers and lakes in Zone 1 have belts of reeds and cattails along the
  water.
• Atmosphere
  - Biomes with their own environment now also get the ambient sounds of the
  environment they are based on. Willow Swamp and Mangrove Swamp get swamp
  sounds.
  - New weather with particles: pink petals in the Cherry Grove, pink
  sparkles in Pink Ice, violet spores in the Fungal Jungle and glitter in
  the Crystal Chasm. Falling leaves in Maple Woods.
• More wildlife (vanilla creatures): deer and rabbits in the Cherry
  Grove, deer and foxes in Maple Woods, foxes in the Mystic Grove, frogs in
  Karst Peaks.
• New wood sets: Apple, Ash, Bamboo, Palm and Fir, each with planks,
  half slab, stairs, fence, fence gate and beam.
• Complete wood sets: every BetterBiomes wood set now also has decorative and ornate planks and all five roof shapes.
• New stone set: tuff bricks (crafted from beige clay), with half slab,
  stairs, wall and beam.
• New flowers: edelweiss, gentian, cattail, daffodil, bluebell,
  hibiscus, fireweed and lotus.