Unbalanced biome generation

they are not really related, this is about unbalanced biome generation whereas that one is about a single technical biome not generating at all

OK, so the "Frozen Ocean" biome is simply missing. Not good. Time to fix that, Mojang!

its not missing, its intended, its just still somewhere buried in the code of Minecraft, it was replaced by the Cold Beach biome

this took ages, but heres a tally count prooving what I mean, i went in a single direction and did a count for every biome I bumped into (the ones nearer to the top are the ones I found first), this does not include technical biomes (e.g. river, beach...), and doesn't include Ocean/Deep Ocean biomes:
Plains: 68
Desert: 25
Desert Hills: 13
Savanna: 26
Savanna M: 7
Sunflower Plains: 14
Forest: 65
Mesa F (no such biome, just applies to a Mesa with Mesa Plateau F): 2
Mesa: 2
Forest Hills: 24
Extreme Hills: 41
Extreme Hills+: 32
Swampland: 14
Roofed Forest: 12
Birch Forest Hills: 9
Birch Forest: 18
Taiga: 29
Taiga Hills: 9
Swampland M: 1
Flower Forest: 7
Jungle: 3
Desert M: 3
Extreme Hills+ M: 3
Extreme Hills M: 3
Mega Taiga Hills: 1
Mega Taiga: 3
Birch Forest M: 3
Birch Forest Hills M: 1
Ice Plains: 8
Ice Mountains: 8
Cold taiga: 7
Mesa (Bryce): 1
Jungle Hills: 1

I've been noticing the same issues:
1-Hot+Snowy meta-biomes are rare
2-Jungle, Mega Taiga, Ice Spikes and Mesa biomes are extremely rare in their respective meta-biomes.
3-Biomes are too large.

I know that some people have already updated worlds to the snapshots, but please fix this anyways Mojang. It leads to the opposite of the intended purpose of adding variation because all the interesting biomes are incredibly difficult to find.

Confirmed for 13w42a/b !

i dont know whether or not they made redwood forests more common, but I generated 2 worlds in a row and I spawned right near them

Can't believe Mojang is releasing 1.7 without fixing this being the update about biomes...

This could be intentional.
It's their game, and for sure they noticed it, and maybe they want the biomes to be like it is now. Yes, Jungles are much more rare now, but only because they were so common in earlier versions, they don't need to be as common with new biomes. All the Meta-biomes are supposed to be rarer as their "original" counterpart. And changing the generation now would be just redicoulusly wrong.

I would like for the new Mesa biomes to be somewhat less rare.

I call having to hike thirty thousand tiles or more from spawn a bit much! When you consider this can occur in both x and z directions, even with a horse, one is going to spend many hours searching for these elusive Mesa biomes.

Please, Mojang, make the Mesa biomes somewhat less rare than they currently are!

...yes, it took me ages as well, until I gave up and used Amidst.
And guess what, there are apparently some pretty close.
This report is a suggestion! That some biomes are very very rare is intended! The frozen ocean was removed for 1.7 (check Jeb's Tweets) and is still in for technical purposes.
Well, neither mods confirmed or Mojangstas commented on it, leaving this report unanswered.

I see that Mojang attempted to make biomes more realistic, when in fact what they did was to overcomplcate things. Minecraft world generation should not really depend on whether a biome is at the "hot" or "cold" end of the spectrum, it should depend on the way the biomes used to generate. That is, biomes should always be generated by percentage chance of generating and transition biomes that blend two biomes together should be reworked so that the current set of biomes can be easily blended.

One point of note, however: Why can't users set what biomes they want to generate themselves? If that was doable, biome problems could be up to the user to solve themselves. The randomness of Minecraft world generation may have appealing characteristics but perhaps it's time for people to be able to customize biomes to their liking, since it seems obvious that everyone has a vastly different opinion on what biomes they like or dislike.

Here's my problem: I spawned in a mesa biome, and after setng spawn base I set out to find new biomes. These are by far the only biomes I found excluding the variations and tehnicals: Mesa, Roofed Forest, Savanna, Desert, Plains, Forest, Ocean. 90% of the time I kept getting the drylands biome type (Mesa, Desert, Savanna), and one of these biomes would extend akk the way to like 2-5k blocks. If you think that ain't much, then let me tell you it was that kind of situation for around 60 km in negative co-ords both X and Z. Mojangsters, if you read this you might want to alter the generation just a tiny wee bit in a few way: make biomes smaller, include some not-so dramatic biome type contrasts.

On the account that Geoffrey Hyde reported about the settings of realistic world generation or fictional: please really DO apply those settings into world generation, preferably in the next update. If not, the next major update.

Now, it's too late.
Other people would tell they haven't found any dry biomes yet. I looked in Amidst, and I think the biomes are well balanced. Yes, about 60 % of the biomes are "warm" and 40% are "cold", but that might be intended: Desert are big, yes, but they are supposed to be big. If Mojang doesn't/didn't want them to be that big, they would've changed it in the Snapshots. But apparently, they didn't.
Again: This report is not a bug, it's a suggestion! Go to the Forums and the Reddit, I guess many people alredy created threads about it.

There are issues with world generation and rendering which can be partially solved by using the Shift F3+a chunk reload shortcut, however, this is only a temporary solution.

Regarding what the above has to do with this bug: Excessive amounts of world terrain generation and rendering can exacerbate this chunk rendering bug. Currently the only workarounds are to either keep reloading chunks when the renderer fails to keep up, or to restart Minecraft and reset it's memory buffer entirely by doing so.

Mojang could make this less problematic by reworking the biome mix so that biomes generate in the way they used to so that rarity is only determined by percentage.

I submit that the biome generation being too rare for certain biomes is in fact a bug because of the side-effects it has on world generation and rendering, and therefore should be fixed.

Players can only do so much, they will always want new terrain, Mojang knows that. If they make it easier on the players to find biomes (whether rare or not) they'll make it easier on their rendering code to maintain and update it. In this way, everyone wins, not just the players.

Wait.. what?
MC-129 has nothing to do with world generation. As far as I know, it also occurs in already generated biomes.

To this bug, a fix will be upcoming as soon as TheMogMiner starts his work on the Rendering. But again, completely different topic.