Torrents

Torrent 1.0.0

A real drainage network for Minecraft. Follow any brook downstream and you reach the ocean; walk upstream and you find the spring it came from. Everything is computed from your world seed.

No performance cost

Torrent runs no code while you play. Every river is carved during world generation and then the mod is done — there is no renderer, no particle system, no per-tick handler, no packets.

Measured against the same seed with generation disabled:

• adds 25 water blocks per chunk where vanilla already places 632 (about 4% more water), and removes 90 opaque blocks per chunk
• world generation takes the same time with rivers as without
• frame rate over a river-heavy area: no measurable difference across alternating runs

Because nothing custom is drawn, it works with Sodium, Iris and shader packs, and it installs on a server alone — players connect with any client.

Six kinds of river, chosen by the terrain

Each reach picks a morphology from the slope and how deep the channel sits below the surrounding land:

• Mountain torrent — narrow, steep, cobble bed, boulders breaking the surface
• Gorge — vertical walls, bare stone, no sky from the bottom
• Braided — wide and shallow, splitting into threads around its own gravel bars
• Meander — outer bank undercut, inner bank silted into a beach
• Marsh — very wide, mud bottom, lily pads and reeds
• Calm valley river — sand and gravel

Water that moves

Rivers descend in one-block steps, with genuine flowing water over each lip — the game draws it tilted and it pushes you, your boat and your dropped items downstream. Where the ground drops fast, the whole fall gathers into a waterfall with a vertical curtain, a scoured plunge pool and a column of bubbles at the point of impact.

Sizes that add up

A brook you step over, a river you need a boat for, a great river up to 46 blocks wide. Every confluence widens the water. Closed basins fill into lakes; great rivers split into deltas before the sea.

Commands

• /torrent here — type, drainage area, width, water level, flow direction
• /torrent pregen <radius> — generate an area up front, with progress
• /torrent stats — diagnostics (op)

Overworld only. Requires Fabric API.