[MC-30560] River through Eroded Badlands biome generates floating rock formations at water surface

The bug

River through Eroded Badlands biome generates floating rock formations at water surface.

How to reproduce

Seed	-587730347156075
World type	Default
Coordinates	/tp @s -92 63 -908 -160 0

Example

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Linked issues

is duplicated by 10

MC-36735 Mesa (Bryce) with water underneath at sea level Resolved

MC-54887 biome mesa (bryce) floating above water lakes in all worlds generated from 1.7 and snapshots for 1.8 in the world generator bug, is not resolved Resolved

MC-67468 Mesa (Bryce) biome interacting oddly with water Resolved

MC-86405 Floating mesa bryce Resolved

MC-102433 World Generation Resolved

5 more links

relates to 2

MC-214795 Structures can generate floating on the surface of water Open

MCPE-8000 Mesas generate on top of water bodies in Bryce mesa biomes Resolved

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Comments 31

Carl Lystad 2013-09-10T02:10:10Z

Seed is 1290472606737912650

Coordinates are in screenshot.

likalaruku 2013-09-10T11:39:27Z

Used that seed, flew to that location. All I saw was a forest.

Carl Lystad 2013-09-11T03:49:23Z

Could be because I started the world in 13w36a but didn't get to those coordinates until 13w36b was posted. Let me take another look.

Edit: Just recreated the world in creative and those coordinates show the same thing as the screenshot. Are you sure you went to the right coordinates?

Carl Lystad 2013-09-11T04:23:39Z

After further exploration, it looks like it isn't restricted to when the water comes from a river biome. Swamplands and naturally spawning water pools will cause it too. It seems as if the water is getting placed after the columns are in place and simply cutting away the bottom portions.

Regular Mesa and Mesa Plateau don't exhibit this behavior, either.

Anon Ymus 2013-09-15T18:47:46Z

Confirmed.

21 more comments

TitaniumTurtle 2013-09-24T17:56:39Z

Confirmed

Seed: 2829825073613879027

Biome: Mesa (Bryce)

Coordinates:
X: -19
Y: 61
Z: -4

All around that area has instances of floating landmasses. It seems it is due to water pools taking priority during generation.

TitaniumTurtle 2013-09-24T17:58:47Z

I'm using a Potion of Night Vision to give a clear view of the issue. Seed and Coordinates are in my comment above.

I assumed the comment would be attached to the image. My mistake.

TitaniumTurtle 2014-08-05T22:32:16Z

Still in 14w31a please update. Effects all worlds and all instances of Mesa (Bryce). Issue is not confined to a single occurrence, and can be easily replicated.

Sonicwave 2014-09-17T22:57:32Z

Confirmed for 1.8.

Varilence 2014-11-18T00:39:04Z

The issue is still present in 1.8.1 pre-4. Attached is an example from one pillar, and these are all over the place throughout the area.

Nathan 2015-08-16T00:14:59Z

Issue still present in 15w33c

Jaime 2017-05-08T21:02:51Z

Issue still present in 17w18b

Jeuv 2018-02-22T21:06:39Z

Still in 18w08b.

Jaime 2018-05-17T16:41:59Z

Issue still present in 18w20b (before and after)

Jaime 2018-06-21T21:22:28Z

This bug has not been fixed yet after 6 big releases of minecraft java edition like 1.7, 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12. still present bug and I thought it had been corrected, not is bothered to check at this error and fix?

Dexter Monark 2018-06-21T21:38:40Z

I have the same problem, the bug not fixed yet

Latest snapshot/version affected 1.13-pre3

TitaniumTurtle 2018-07-17T22:31:08Z

Still in 1.13-pre10

Dexter Monark 2018-07-19T19:53:49Z

Bug still presents in release 1.13, six versions later... this bug never has fixed

Tokes 2018-11-26T07:32:29Z

Still in 1.14 snapshots (I saw it in 18w43b specifically).

gaspoweredpick 2019-03-10T00:34:02Z

Confirmed for 19w09a

gaspoweredpick 2019-03-31T07:45:23Z

Confirmed for 19w13b

gaspoweredpick 2019-12-11T04:28:15Z

This might be related to MC-146410? They are caused by different issues that happened in different versions, but do both involve weird terrain interactions between sea level, and they also both involve biome exclusive structures (water caves for ocean, "bryce" for badlands).

Aviator 2020-04-09T00:42:05Z

I notice a similar issue is occurring with the basalt structures in the new nether biomes, where they are cut off by the lava ocean- the basalt pillars in the soul sand valley will just generate the bottom floating atop the lava, and the basalt "piles" in the Basalt Delta will get partially cut off when generated above lava, often leading to just a few blocks of floating basalt.

TorandoChaser 2020-04-29T04:23:41Z

Can confirm in snapshot 20w17a.

tjalp 2020-06-08T11:08:54Z

Still happens in 1.16-pre2 (seed: -5870226273086213037, location: -1200 64 2500)

pulpetti 2020-07-06T18:33:08Z

Affects 1.16 Pre-8

Daaalo 2020-09-21T17:15:11Z

Affects 1.16.3

Arisa Bot 2020-10-29T17:11:51Z

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Richard Felder 2020-10-30T14:40:18Z

This biome actually has a very interesting terrain generation. It does seem like all the "hoodoos" are individual structures and this can be observed in Minecraft Win10 past X/Z ±12582912.

I'm guessing to fix it, the whole terrarin generation code would need a rewrite.

Marty McFly 2021-06-10T10:36:51Z

Relates to MC-214795

Michael Ritchey 2021-09-07T11:54:36Z

Ignore a problem long enough and it will go away! Nice to see this fixed!