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Description
Streams Reflowing
Streams Reflowing weaves wonderful waterways to your Minecraft world. Streams flow downhill, follow the grooves of your terrain, pool into lakes at varying elevations, and drain all the way out to rivers and oceans. Standard rivers now also now flow towards the sea, pushing particles, items, and entities. The first ever mod to bring realistic hydrology to ANY terrain. Built for compatibility first, it works alongside ALL of your favorite world generation mods, into any landscape without conflict.
This mod is highly optimized for smooth gameplay, and for lower-end systems, try lowering your terrain-accuracy or waterhsed size in the config. It is highly recommended that users use a terrain mod like Tectonic or Lithosphere for suitable terrain for stream formation. My favorite worldgen combo for creative mode is Lithosphere + Still Life. My favorite for performance and survival gameplay is Tectonic + Regions Unexplored.
Streams Reflowing is not affiliated with or in any way derived from delvr's original Streams mod. It's built on entirely new mechanisms and design philosophy, the name is simply a nod to the spirit of that original creation.
Primary Features:
Terrain-Following Streams
Streams carve their way through the world organically, reading elevation following terrain shape to produce waterways realistically. Stream generation is fully configurable, and can be disabled entirely if you only want the vanilla behavior tweaks.
Lakes and Ponds at Varying Elevations
Lakes and ponds now generate at varying elevations, fitting naturally into the existing terrain, and providing realistic pools for streams to flow in and out of. In drier biomes a lake fills to a lower level (covering less ground), and a dryness-scaled share of basins stay dry altogether, so wet biomes keep full lakes while arid ones get shallow ponds and empty beds.
Normally-Generating Rivers Flow
Any river (vanilla or modded) now has a directional flow that drains toward nearby oceans. Boats and items will bob downstream alongside fallen leaves and twigs. Can be disabled in config.
Organic Water Flow
Vanilla Minecraft stops flowing water when it hits a water source block. Streams Reflowing allows water to continue flowing over-top other source blocks, preserving momentum and direction so elevation drops produce natural cascades rather than flat pools. This behavior is configurable and can be toggled off independently of other features.
World Gen Compatible
Designed for compatibility first, Streams Reflowing comes with no biome conflicts, no worldgen fights, just streams and lakes cleanly integrated with all of your favorite world-gen mods. Streams Reflowing is tested and proven to work with countless terrain mods, and has so far only been found incompatible with Terrain Diffusion and Tellus. It does not affect the overall terrain shape or biome placement in any way, placing streams precisely over what already exists.
Detailed Feature List:
There's a lot more under the surface. Every one of these is configurable, and most can be toggled off entirely.
Boat-Friendly Currents
Navigating upstream shouldn't mean abandoning your boat. Boats can move against currents and ascend small waterfalls without being sunk, making waterway travel a genuine mode of exploration. Can be turned off in the config.
Custom Banks: Biome-aware, datapack & config driven
Streams don't just expose raw stone. Each channel is "skinned" in three zones: the bed (under the water), the waterline, and the cut bank above, with biome-appropriate materials.
- Sensible defaults out of the box: gravel beds + grassy banks, sandy banks in deserts/badlands, raw stone in mountains and cliffs (including Terralith's granite/basalt cliffs), and more.
- Fully customizable. Define your own bank styles: materials per zone, targeted by exact biome or biome tag, with an exclude list ("all overworld but not frozen"), adjustable waterline width and edge blending, or disabled entirely for a given biome.
- Add styles two ways: drop JSON in the config folder for your own game, or ship them in a datapack/addon. The mod seeds a
READMEandexamples/folder on first launch.
Waterside Vegetation & Bank Features
- Bank flora: extra grass, ferns, and flowers dress the waterline, with configurable density (and a radius that fades out from the water).
- Off-by-default Biome-Boost: near the water, and configurably- the mod can re-run a biome's own plants and rocks so the waterline looks native to wherever you are: lush jungle undergrowth, desert shrubs, mountain boulders. You can blacklist any feature you don't want crowding the banks (vanilla pumpkin patches are excluded by default).
- Bank Features: plant your chosen features: reeds, bushes, even trees right along the banks, targeted by biome, via config folder or datapack. Ships empty; add what you like.
Whitewater, Spray & Particles
- Waterfalls churn. Falling water throws white spray and soft foam that scales with the height of the drop.
- Whitewater at the details: water flecks a little spray wherever it steps down even a single block, at the lip of every drop, and along seams where a stream meets a wall, a drop edge, still water, or a stream turning a different way. Froth appears naturally at bends and confluences.
- On vanilla water too: rivers, lakes, and vanilla waterfalls get the same treatment, not just the mod's own streams (toggle with
particlesOnVanillaWater). - Distant waterfalls froth far past the ~16 blocks the game animates around you, out to a configurable range, with level-of-detail so faraway falls stay cheap.
- Gentle surface bubbles drift on calm water.
Floating Debris
Small leaves (tinted to the local foliage colour) and the occasional forked wooden twig drift downstream with the current, lying flat on the water: a subtle touch of life on the surface. Uses the mod's own textures, so it shows on every supported version. Toggle with streamDebris.
Rebiome Streams as Rivers
Carved streams are stamped as whatever river biome would natural generate in that climate after they generate so they read as rivers for water colour, fish/mob spawns, and ambience. It runs as the very last worldgen step, so it never changes what the surrounding biome placed. Configurable.
Deeply Configurable
- Every feature can be toggled or tuned: flow, boats, vegetation, particles, debris, banks, the works.
- Quality presets from Potato to Max (see below).
- Settings are split into a worldgen/gameplay file and a client rendering file, so dedicated servers never load the client one.
- Fine dials for wetness (how much water the land carries), stream width and meander, appearance, and performance.
Performance & World Generation
If you have any issues with performance or compatibility, please take a look at our configuration file. The mod is highly configurable and designed to flex to fit any machine or modpack.
Quality Presets
Streams Reflowing includes quality/terrain accuracy presets in the config ranging from Potato to Max. These control how accurately streams follow natural terrain waterflows and how far watersheds extend across the landscape. If you plan to pregen your world with Chunky, consider bumping up your quality preset. You'll get streams that trace the terrain's natural waterflows much more faithfully, with no runtime cost once generation is complete.
Compatibility
Streams Reflowing is standalone, requires no dependencies, and is built to drop into any pack alongside other world-generation mods without biome or worldgen conflicts.
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