Brecher's Exploration Dimensions

Unlimited Exploration Potential; Itty Bitty Disk Space

Brecher's Explorations Dimensions creates temporary, duplicates of existing dimensions that regularly reset/regenerate with new seeds. Perfect for servers with wolrd borders enabled, these dimensions offer untouched exploration, mining, and resource gathering opportunities to players while requiring minimal oversight from server admins. No longer do you need to manually prune chunks, reset worlds, fiddle with seeds or regenerate worlds to keep things fresh and disk usage low - this mod does it for you, automatically.

Key Features

Pristine Worlds, Regularly Delivered

"Exploration Dimensions" are reset automatically and regenerated with a new seed on every server restart
Seeds are propagated to both terrain generation and structure generation/placement - a "new" world each cycle
Original world remains untouched and protected
Stragglers are automatically evacuated from Exploration Dimensions before the dimensions are cycled
Compatible with all Vanilla dimensions - modded dimensions should theoretically work, but are untested as of yet
Compatible with many of your favorite world generation mods/datapacks

Player Interaction

Players access the Exploration Dimensions using slash commands and/or clickable chat menus
Return tracking remembers where players came from
Safe teleportation with intelligent spawn point finding
Emergency platform creation if no safe spot is found
Automatic player evacuation on server restart/crash

Notable Config Options

Specify which dimensions to duplicate
Option to limit teleports between like dimensions only (e.g., Overworld -> Overworld, Nether -> Nether)
Option to set world border independent of normal dimensions
Option to choose how many - if any - "old" Exploration Dimensions to keep
Option to disable saving Exploration Dimensions to disk entirely (Chunks are wiped once unloaded)
Automatic cleanup of old map data (Xaero's Compatibility, Journeymap WIP)

Commands

Player Commands (/exploration)

list - View available exploration dimensions
tp <dimension> - Teleport to exploration dimension
return - Return to saved position
info - Display mod information

Admin Commands (/explorationadmin)

returnall - Evacuate all players
info <dimension> - Dimension statistics
stats - Performance statistics
debug - Troubleshooting tools

Perfect For

Survival servers with world borders that would otherwise limit exploration, mining, and/or resource gathering opportunities
Servers updating to newer versions or adding new mods/content - Exploration Dimensions are all "new" chunks
Server admins conscious of disk usage -
SMP servers wanting daily fresh content without world resets
Any server wanting unlimited exploration without world bloat

Known Limitations, Future Plans

Mods that use custom generation/placement systems (e.g., AE2) do not yet properly receive the updated world seeds
Support for LOD mods, mapping mods to reduce caching impacts for old/deleted Exploration Dimensions
Wider version support

Installation

Drop the mod file into your server's mods folder and configure via config/brecher_dim-common.toml. The mod handles all dimension management automatically.

Give your players infinite exploration opportunities without the headache!