Only Desert by KeyToFun

A datapack that turns the Minecraft world into an endless desert and badlands, with rare oceans and smoothed terrain.
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Description

This datapack changes world generation. Now the entire world is desert and badlands. Oceans are rare and small. Terrain is smoothed out. Rivers have been transformed into shallow oases with scattered jungle trees, oak trees, and acacia trees. Cave biomes remain unchanged and generate just like in vanilla. Also, the Nether now only has the Soul Sand Valley biome.
I tried to make the world as vanilla-like as possible, drawing inspiration from my own past experience surviving in the desert, since vanilla Minecraft's single-biome preset left me genuinely disappointed.
Make sure to share your impressions of your desert adventures in the comments, and follow me to see even more small datapacks that make vanilla better!

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