NoCubes is a mod by Cadiboo for 1.12.2+ that creates smooth terrain in Minecraft. It is the spiritual successor of the NoCubes mod by Click_Me for 1.7.10.
IMPORTANT READ BEFORE YOU DOWNLOAD!!!
- NoCubes is currently under development. It is almost completely stable but its not 100% done yet. Bug reports/Issues should go in the appropriate channel on the discord server or on GitHub.
- All configuration options for the mod can be found by going to Mod List > NoCubes > Config (Beta).
- The official website of NoCubes is https://cadiboo.github.io/projects/nocubes/.
- The official discord of NoCubes is https://cadiboo.github.io/projects/nocubes/discord/. Join the discord server for pre-releases, development updates and much, much more!
Thats all the super-important stuff, feel free to download and play the mod now. Enjoy!
About NoCubes
No Cubes is a completely unique mod that aims to add an exceptional twist to normal Minecraft gameplay and is the first mod in Minecraft history to fully transform and improve Minecraft’s terrain. NoCubes drastically transforms Minecraft’s traditional blocky terrain into smooth, rolling landscapes complete with circular caves, flowing mountain ranges and jaw-droppingly realistic scenery while leaving your painstakingly curated buildings untouched.
The mod is entirety multiplayer compatible, so you can adventure and enjoy the experience of re-exploring all that Minecraft’s abundant landscape has to offer in the company of your friends. Furthermore, the mod has an endless range of customisable options that the player can tweak to their hearts content in order to achieve the perfect experience. Additionally, NoCubes has built-in compatibility with other mods, most notably BetterFoliage, OptiFine, Dynamic Lights and Shaders so that you can view Minecraft in its full glory.
NoCubes is exceptional for a number of reasons. Firstly, it does all its modifications without affecting your FPS at all. It is also so optimised that, when used on certain configurations, it is faster than Vanilla’s rendering system. Finally, it functions in a way that doesn’t actually modify the way the game works. Blocks, while their appearance and collisions may have been changed, are still square at heart. The mod merely makes the existing cubes have more polygons in a way that makes sense for their environment.
At first glance the world may seem to have been drastically changed, but this strange new world actually feels quite similar once you explore it for a little bit. After traveling around your world for a while, you will realise that the vista you are inside is still the same familiar landscape you know and love. And, though the ground is smoother and the trees are round; the magical and unique way the world unfolds, generates and interacts with you hasn’t changed.
The latest update to the mod features new renderers - such as OldNoCubes and SurfaceNets - to better suit individual players preferences, smooth lighting, liquid bodies that reach all the way to the shoreline, accurate collisions, rounded trees, smooth biome color transitions, enchanted multiplayer capabilities, many performance improvements and speed upgrades, RAM optimisations, texture randomisation, particle integration, leaves separation, faster lighting, texture improvement, emissive lighting support, increased mod compatibility and a multitude of other user-customisable options.
This isn’t all that this mod has in store though, with even more mod compatibility, texture blending, even more performance optimisations, tree branch and trunk tweaks, placement previews, 3d minimaps, community configuration presets, higher resolution renders, more translations and more renderers all being worked on, and scheduled to be added in an upcoming update.
Bonus Features
This mod includes fixes for a number of vanilla fluid rendering bugs. These fixes are enabled separately from the main mod, so you can play without smooth terrain and only the improved fluid rendering. These features include Smooth Fluid Lighting, Smooth Fluid Biome Color Blending and Natural Fluid Textures.
Smooth Fluid Lighting
Smooth Fluid Biome Colour Transitions
Natural Fluid Textures
Credits
- Thank you to Click_Me for the original mod, the amazing idea for this and the massive amount of work they put into the their original mod. Without them this mod would definitely not exist
- Thank you to CosmicDan for their 1.7.10 port and deobfuscation of the Click_Me's original 1.0 release. I initially based my code off their repo and without them I would probably have given up before I even started.
- Thank you to LeBossMax2 for their tips on porting the OldNoCubes renderer, their work on NoCubes Reloaded and their tips about how SurfaceNets works
- Thank you to EquityX for not giving up on this mod and continuing to try and find a dev to continue it
- Thank you to Tailer for making the NoCubes discord server and patiently waiting for NoCubes since 2014
- Thank you to V0idWa1k3r for looking over my code and spotting the gamebreakinig bug that I couldn't find
- Thank you to jredfox for their 1.7.10 port and fix of NoCubes 0.8 and for their ASM advice
- Thank you to FellFromTheSky for their work on NoCubes Reloaded and their advice
- Thank you to delvr for letting me steal their collisions code from Repose. Without this, the collisions in NoCubes would not exist. The mods are 100% compatible and Repose plays amazingly with NoCubes. Repose also includes a number of features like soil gravity and avalanches that make your gameplay more realistic. Go check it out!
- Thank you to Sildur for making Mac-compatible shaders that look great and also somehow run decently on my very low-end machine. Your shaders have boosted my screenshot quality immeasurably
NoCubes Reloaded Info
NoCubes is currently being ported to 1.13.2 and 1.14 and is merging with the NoCubes Reloaded project by FellFromTheSky. More info on the discord server.
Features coming with the merge with the NoCubes Reloaded project:
An entirely alternative rendering model.
- No Coremod
- Some tests show this alternative model is faster that Cadiboo's rendering model.
- Automatic compatibility with Optifine and other mods that use core mods (because of the lack of coremod).
- Better management of lighting/brightness and shadows
- This model is fast, really fast.
- Compatibility with blocks and fluids* from other mods. (e.g. fluids from the Applied Energetic's mod)
- Custom models for blocks like leaves and fluids*
- Fixing the shape of the models of the blocks when touching leaves, flowers or fluids*
- Fixing the lighting and shadows of the models according to them x,y,z pos and angle of the facings and the lighting sources (sun torches)
- Replacing a lot of dynamic code of the mod with static code. For coders - Replacing as much of (if not all of) the if statements and for loops. This might result in longer code, but it will be a lot faster (so higher fps).
* Fluids in this case means air, water, lava and similar blocks from other mods
So it worked! Thank you again!
Looks awesome. I'm using BoP and Dynamic Trees. Rooted dirt should be „uncubed” too. :)
Look at a block and press n to add it as a terrain smoothable. Also check out the other NoCubes key binds.
I love playing NoCubes together with Biomes O'Plenty (BOP); my problem is BOP's original terrain blocks (mud, flowering grass block, white sand, much more) are left out by NoCubes unsmoothed. The result landscape (mixture of smoothed terrain and left out cubes) is kind of weird. Is there any way to let NoCubes treat these external blocks much like the vanilla blocks? Thank you.
Look at a block and press n to add it as a terrain smoothable. Also check out the other NoCubes key binds.
Wasn't interested but sniped with my eyes "accurate collisions" then I had a fucking heart attack as I member the old days where it was still cubes I HAVE TO TRY THIS OUT NOW.
why don't u connect the cross-blocks like wood logs of trees? they shouldn't be separate in cross directions.
Can you explain this more?
In reply to Cadiboo:
So you're saying I should make logs render as more branch like?
I don't do this by default because there are already mods that change logs. BetterFoliage changes how logs look and DynamicTrees changes trees to have a more natural and branch like structure.
Users can make this happen themselves by adding Logs to the terrain smoothable list.
Couple questions / feedback I guess?
Can you somehow modify the block highlighting so it matches the new block geometries? Or maybe just ADD a block highlighter, so you can see the block you're breaking? Both highlighters I can see a use for.
...can you turn off leaves and logs? Mainly the leaves. BetterLeaves works nicer for this anyway IMO, I'd prefer their rendering. Like it's great for natural terrain blocks, but anything structured not so much, and trees fall under structured to me. And really, it should really snap back to cubic when adjacent to a cubic block, so you don't have weird hiding rails in in mineshafts and such. Just my opine, but.
Also. Is there a really super minimal terrain web that doesn't change things a ton? Like I'm imagining it keeps the cubic vertices, just blends between them so you have slopes everywhere, but also keeps the planes if it's mostly flat. Just like... essentially scaling the smoothing waay back. I think that would be a great option (if it isn't already).
Can't wait to try it out with Repose, though. That'll be great, and it'll make the guesswork of trying to navigate caves and such a lot less of an issue.
I have? Make sure you've got the latest version.
Leaves rendering can be toggled in the config or with the keybind. NoCubes doesn't touch logs at all by default. I'm working (slowly) on a new mesh generator that does this. OldNoCubes also does exactly this, but doesn't look super smooth.
You can switch your mesh generator to OldNoCubes in the config.
You can toggle NoCubes' accurate collisions system in the config or using the keybind.
In reply to Cadiboo:
Great. Thanks.
Sorry I haven't loaded it up in a long while, really prefer documentation/thorough spotlights but this is good. Collision is a gamechanger!! Keep up the good work.
In reply to Cadiboo:
Where is that option, for changing the mesh generator in the config? I only see 'leavesMeshGenerator' as an option.
To clarify I'm using 12.2 and this is what the generated .toml file looks like
[general] #If smooth terrain should be rendered renderSmoothTerrain = true #If smooth leaves should be rendered renderSmoothLeaves = false #The list of leaves smoothable blocks leavesSmoothable = ["minecraft:leaves", "minecraft:leaves2"] #The mesh generator that generates leaves leavesMeshGenerator = "SurfaceNets" #How leaves should be rendered smoothLeavesType = "TOGETHER" #If diffuse lighting should be applied when rendering. Accentuates differences between heights applyDiffuseLighting = true #If better textures should be searched for when rendering betterTextures = true #If short grass should be rendered shortGrass = true #If fluids should be rendered with smooth lighting smoothFluidLighting = true #If fluids should be rendered with smooth biome blending smoothFluidColors = true #If fluids should be rendered with flipped and rotated variants of their textures naturalFluidTextures = false
In reply to riverc1:
Terrain mesh generators are in the server config. This means that they are stored per-world. You can change the mesh generator by going into a single player world and changing it through the config GUI or by editing the server config file at .minecraft/saves/<world name>/serverconfig/nocubes-server.toml.
this crashes my game to desktop upon launching, even with no other mods loaded. (version 1.12.2)
Please post your log/crash report if you want help.
To correct the wrong version error open the mod .jar folder with Winrar, then click the META-INF folder and open the file named mods.toml with any notepad or similar program, scroll towards the end of the file and find text saying "modId="minecraft"mandatory=trueversionRange="[1.14.2]"" and change it to .3.
Fixed in the latest release
As much as it pains me to complain, 1.14.3-0.4.0-pre1 though claiming to be for 1.14.3, still expects 1.14.2 on load and fails.