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Overview

RTX Map - From Arctic to Desert Volcano · 3k, Download, 1.16+, Multibiome, Java & Bedrock, Minecraft Custom World

Ixellior is a realistic Minecraft island with custom biomes adjusted for RTX... it's 3 km by 3 km made by McMeddon. It's a rugged Cliffed Island with multiple huge snow covered mountain ranges, taiga/spruce; oak; birch; and mushroom forests, huge cliffs, a Desert, a huge volcano and a custom arctic region in the north. Dedicated river systems that flow from the mountains all the way to the sea, which crosses through the huge lands of this island. Explore along the paths that connect the world or take a boat and cross the ocean with a near-seamless transition to the default Minecraft (java). Based on the PBR Texturepack provided by NV_Tim, and Blockworks, the focus of this map was to enhance biomes in a mystical but kinda natural way and enabling new custom ambients. With the help of colored lights and using the hard reflective blocks, the world has an endless surreal and magical experiences.

Size

5K world 22 of 262 this size

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ixellior at 5K, against the sizes the worlds are built on. Every square is to scale.

Footprint

5,120 × 5,120

blocks, 26.2 km² at one block per metre

Edge to edge

  • Happy ghast 24 min
  • On foot 20 min
  • Minecart 11 min
  • Horse 9 min
  • Elytra 3 min

Walking, a minecart on powered rails, an average horse and rocket-boosted elytra.

Sizes in the library 67% smaller than this

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Most worlds are 4K (87 of them). The largest is MCS SMP Season 3 Server Map #S3 at 9K.

Biome composition

18 biomes 8 land biomes

Shares are measured across the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so biomes missing from this list can still be found out there.

Land 74.1% of map

  • Plains 82.5%
  • Forest 6.9%
  • Snowy Plains 3.6%
  • Desert 2.2%
  • Mushroom Fields 2.0%
  • Beach 1.8%
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga 0.9%
  • Snowy Taiga <0.1%

Water 25.9% of map

  • Ocean 32.2%
  • Warm Ocean 24.9%
  • Deep Ocean 24.5%
  • Deep Cold Ocean 5.0%
  • River 5.0%
  • Deep Frozen Ocean 3.4%
  • Deep Lukewarm Ocean 2.9%
  • Frozen Ocean 1.2%
  • Lukewarm Ocean 0.8%
  • Frozen River 0.2%

Caves

9.0% of the underground

What this world's caves are made of, by volume, measured from the save in 4 block cells.

  • Normal Caves 98.4%
  • Ice Caves 1.0%
  • Magma Caves 0.6%

Inferred. These have no biome of their own in Minecraft, so they are named from the blocks around the cave rather than read from the save.

Structure coverage

8 of 19 confirmed

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so structures not confirmed here can still generate out there.

Surface 0/7 confirmed

  • Desert pyramids Not checked
  • Igloos Not checked
  • Jungle pyramids Not checked
  • Pillager outposts Not checked
  • Swamp huts Not checked
  • Trail ruins Not checked
  • Woodland mansions Not checked

Underground 3/6 confirmed

  • Amethyst geodes Missing
  • Ancient cities Missing
  • Dungeons / monster rooms Included
  • Mineshafts Included
  • Strongholds Included
  • Trial chambers Missing

Ocean 4/4 confirmed

  • Buried treasure Included
  • Ocean monuments Included
  • Ocean ruins Included
  • Shipwrecks Included

Portal structures 1/1 confirmed

  • Ruined portals Included

Settlements 0/1 confirmed

  • Villages Not checked
IncludedNot checkedMissing

Loot tables

9 of 37 confirmed

Which of the game's loot tables can turn up on this map, read from the world's own files. Confirmed means the scan found the table itself; not observed means the structure carrying it was not seen in this export.

Counted inside the built map. Past its edge the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so tables not seen here can still turn up out there.

Chest loot 9/20 confirmed

  • Abandoned mineshaft Not observed
  • Buried treasure chest Included
  • Desert pyramid Not observed
  • End City treasure Not observed
  • Igloo chest Not observed
  • Jungle temple Not observed
  • Jungle temple dispenser Not observed
  • Nether fortress bridge Not observed
  • Pillager outpost Not observed
  • Shipwreck map Included
  • Shipwreck supply Included
  • Shipwreck treasure Included
  • Simple dungeon Included
  • Spawn bonus chest Not observed
  • Stronghold corridor Included
  • Stronghold crossing Not observed
  • Stronghold library Included
  • Underwater ruin (big) Included
  • Underwater ruin (small) Included
  • Woodland mansion Not observed

Village chest loot 0/15 confirmed

  • Village armorer Not observed
  • Village butcher Not observed
  • Village cartographer Not observed
  • Village desert house Not observed
  • Village fisher Not observed
  • Village fletcher Not observed
  • Village mason Not observed
  • Village plains house Not observed
  • Village savanna house Not observed
  • Village snowy house Not observed
  • Village taiga house Not observed
  • Village tannery Not observed
  • Village temple Not observed
  • Village toolsmith Not observed
  • Village weaponsmith Not observed

Archaeology 0/1 confirmed

  • Archaeology loot Not observed

Structure loot 0/1 confirmed

  • Trial chamber loot Not observed
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WorldPainter source files for ixellior

ixellior is published twice: the finished world you drop into your saves folder, and the project source files it was built from. Depending on the world that means the WorldPainter project, with the terrain, the biomes and the structures still on separate layers, or the black and white height and colour maps behind it, or both.

  • Switch the structure layers off and export a clean terrain-only version.
  • Re-export at a different Minecraft version instead of waiting for an updated build.
  • Reshape the terrain, move a biome or fix something yourself, on the original layers.
  • Use the terrain as the base for your own map, on your own server or project.

Opening them needs WorldPainter, which is free. See the FAQ for the terrain-only case in full.

These files are for you, not for passing on

The project source files are licensed to you personally, and they are the one part of a world that is not under Creative Commons. Everything above is yours to do. What is not:

  • Share, pass on or publish the project source files
  • Sell the source files, or sell a world exported from them
  • Redistribute a world exported from them, modified or not
Source file terms

Download source files Patreon

SURVIVAL WORLD CONTENTS Beta Inspector

What’s included in ixellior?

See what this Minecraft world contains. Results combine MCA Selector findings, chunk data, level.dat, and manually placed structure pins.

Beta edition: some results are still being verified.

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Questions about ixellior

What is ixellior?

ixellior is a hand-made survival world of 5,120 × 5,120 blocks, made with WorldPainter, World Machine, Gaea, Axiom and WorldEdit, built for Minecraft Java 1.16. You download the world folder and play it like any other save, in singleplayer or on your own server.

How big is ixellior?

5,120 × 5,120 blocks, so about 26 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 20 minutes at normal walking speed. The terrain runs from Y 0 to Y 255.

Outside that area the world keeps generating normal vanilla Minecraft chunks, so you never hit a wall, you just leave the built part behind.

Which Minecraft version does ixellior need?

ixellior is built for Minecraft Java 1.16. Newer releases normally open it fine. Opening it in an older release is not supported: blocks and structures added after that version cannot load, and the world can be damaged by the attempt.

Bedrock players need a converted copy. See the Bedrock notes in the FAQ.

Which biomes are in ixellior?

18 in total. The land is mostly Plains (82.5%), Forest (6.9%), Snowy Plains (3.6%) and Desert (2.2%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.

Water covers 25.9% of the map, and land 74.1%.

By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (98.4%), Ice Caves (1.0%) and Magma Caves (0.6%). The cave breakdown has the rest.

The full breakdown is further up this page, with every biome and its share.

Which structures are in ixellior?

8 of the 19 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (0/7), underground (3/6), ocean (4/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (0/1).

Not confirmed: Desert pyramids (not checked), Igloos (not checked), Jungle pyramids (not checked), Pillager outposts (not checked), Swamp huts (not checked) and Trail ruins (not checked). "Searched, not found" means the scan looked and came up empty; "not checked" means it has not been looked for yet.

The structure list above names every one of them.

Is ixellior ready to play in survival?

Yes. A scan of the world file confirms loot tables, structures and ores, so the survival loop runs from the first night: chests hold the game's real loot tables, mobs spawn as they do anywhere else, and you can mine, farm and build without adding anything. It plays in vanilla Minecraft, with no mods, no datapacks and no creative mode.

The scan did not see animals in this export. That means it did not find any, not that none can be found or bred here.

The world contents report at the bottom of this page holds the item-by-item detail.

Where do I download ixellior?

From the download link on Google Drive, also on the button at the top of this page.

Also available: the source files on Patreon and the PlanetMinecraft project page, which carries the release notes and the known issues for this particular build.

Can I look at ixellior before downloading it?

Yes. Open it in the 3D explorer and fly the real terrain in your browser, with the biomes, the caves and the marked structures. Nothing to install.

How do I install ixellior on Java Edition?

  1. Unpack the archive you downloaded from Google Drive.
  2. Open your saves folder. On Windows press Win + R and enter %appdata%\.minecraft\saves. On macOS it is ~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/saves, on Linux ~/.minecraft/saves.
  3. Move the unpacked folder in. It must be the folder that contains level.dat, not a folder wrapping it.
  4. Restart Minecraft on 1.16 or newer and pick the world in singleplayer.

Full install guide

Can I play it on Bedrock, or on a server?

Bedrock needs a converted .mcworld copy, and converted worlds carry their own quirks around spawn, chests and villagers.

For a server, drop the world folder in as the server's world and start it.

Bedrock install · Bedrock quirks · Server use

What may I do with it?

The worlds are released under CC BY-NC 4.0. The Rights panel on this page lists what that allows and how to credit it.

· How to credit · Selling builds