Genesis: Atlas

🚀 Version 1.0 (2026-09-20) — Initial Release: Continental World Engine

• Target Platform: Minecraft 26.1 · NeoForge 26.1.0.19-beta+ · Java 25 · Requires Genesis: Core 0.1.0+
• Summary: The inaugural release of the Genesis: Atlas world generation engine featuring true hydrological river networks, continental biomes, and architectural zoning.
• 🗺️ Live In-Game World Previewer:
  • Integrated 2D continental seed preview screen on the world creation menu.
  • Interactive pan and zoom (4 to 32 blocks per pixel) with live coordinates, elevation, water, and zone readout.
  • Real-time terrain presets: Standard, Continents, Archipelago, Highlands, Lowlands, Canyonlands.
• 🏞️ Hydrological River Networks:
  • Realistic drainage basins flowing downhill from mountain springs into oceans without dead-ends.
  • Water current vectors pushing boats, mobs, and players along waterways.
  • Rivers carve deep valleys and wide floodplains.
• 🌲 Continental Scale & Dramatic Landforms:
  • Expansive biomes spanning thousands of blocks.
  • Alpine ranges with U-shaped glacial valleys, sheer rock cliffs, and rounded summits.
  • Unique geological landmarks: active volcanoes with smoking lava craters, calderas with lake islands, glacial mountain tarns, and tectonic fault rifts.
• 🕳️ Karst Caverns & Subterranean Rivers:
  • Massive cathedral caverns and underground rivers descending in waterfalls.
  • Seamless integration with vanilla Mineshafts, Ancient Cities, and Trial Chambers.
• 🏷️ Architectural Zoning Reservations:
  • Pre-flattened natural basins tagged with hidden zoning metadata (METROPOLIS, SUBURBAN, HIGHWAY_CORRIDOR, RURAL_OUTPOST, MILITARY_FACILITY) for upcoming city and apocalypse mods.
• ⚡ High-Performance Generation:
  • ~1.3 ms per chunk generation speed with zero-allocation FastNoiseLite kernels.
  • Bamboo jungle tree density balanced and restricted below Y 130 to prevent Elytra chunk stutter.