In the new 1.18 terrain generation, rivers are much wider than in the old generation. When this is combined with the 16x size of biomes in a "large biomes" world, rivers no longer look like rivers and look more like huge lakes... This wouldn't be a problem if rivers in Large Biomes were separated by thousands of blocks, but they pop up every few hundreds of blocks, making the world look like a map of Finland riddled with lakes everywhere.
This even spoils the feeling in arid biomes like mesas, which no longer feel like desertic inland biomes because every few blocks you stumble upon another huge river.
Please consider that people who like playing on large biomes love the sense of increased immersion in a particular biome, but want to preserve the feeling that rivers still look like rivers and not like enormous lakes sprinkling the world everywhere.
Maybe in Large Biomes rivers shouldn't be scaled 4x along the X and Z axis.
World Type: Large biomes
Seed: 3302723756429769076
Coords: x:-5341 y:150 z:566
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What's the seed of this world? (And also the coordinates of this location?) According to MC-241853, rivers don't get scaled. Maybe this seed has large rivers at this location anyway, no matter if it's a large biomes world or not?
In MC-241853 you can see on the maps that in large biomes, rivers are a bit wider and look like lakes, while in normal biomes, look more like proper rivers. So I would say that they are somewhat scaled.
Hmm thank you. The terrain in that seed is quite different between large biomes and non-large biomes. However I don't think it's necessarily always the case that the rivers in the large biome world are larger. Example:
/execute in minecraft:overworld run tp @s -5390.19 157.11 187.14 396.69 65.09
Default:
[media]Large Biomes:
[media]Do you mean it's exactly the same river? I didn't know the river basin map was the same both in default biomes and in large biomes.
I thought the separation between rivers in Large Biomes would be 4 times higher as well.
The images attached show two different rivers that almost overlap each other. This is a constant occurrence, because rivers are everywhere.