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Overview

6k, The Badlands Caldera & Volcano Islands · 1.21.5, survival friendly, Download, Java, Minecraft World

Graxerion, an huge 36km² custom Minecraft map created by McMeddon. Graxerion is an calm Volcano world with a black-sand central caldera island, surrounded by hundreds of small, medium and huge islands to explore, which host every type of Biome to encounter. Embark on thrilling adventures by plundering forests and balloons, battling through deserts, or constructing your dream home on cliffs or mountains. Discover custom thriving diverse island to explore. Enjoy your adventure!

Size

6K world 27 of 262 this size

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Map of Graxerion 6K
Graxerion at 6K, against the sizes the worlds are built on. Every square is to scale.

Footprint

6,144 × 6,144

blocks, 37.7 km² at one block per metre

Edge to edge

  • Happy ghast 28 min
  • On foot 24 min
  • Minecart 13 min
  • Horse 11 min
  • Elytra 3 min

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

Sizes in the library 76% 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

33 biomes 22 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 32.7% of map

  • Badlands 37.0%
  • Beach 20.6%
  • Plains 19.1%
  • Snowy Plains 4.5%
  • Mangrove Swamp 2.2%
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga 2.0%
  • Forest 1.9%
  • Snowy Slopes 1.8%
  • Wooded Badlands 1.5%
  • Snowy Taiga 1.3%
12 more 8.3%
  • Birch Forest 1.2%
  • Mushroom Fields 1.1%
  • Cherry Grove 0.8%
  • Jungle 0.8%
  • Taiga 0.8%
  • Swamp 0.7%
  • Flower Forest 0.7%
  • Savanna 0.6%
  • Pale Garden 0.5%
  • Dark Forest 0.5%
  • Meadow 0.3%
  • Desert 0.2%

Water 66.6% of map

  • Ocean 36.9%
  • Lukewarm Ocean 23.2%
  • Cold Ocean 15.2%
  • Deep Ocean 14.8%
  • Warm Ocean 7.1%
  • Frozen Ocean 1.5%
  • River 1.2%
  • Frozen River <0.1%

Caves

15.6% of the underground

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

  • Normal Caves 94.7%
  • Lush Caves 3.4%
  • Magma Caves 1.2%
  • Dripstone Caves 0.4%
  • Ice Caves 0.2%
  • Deep Dark 0.2%

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

16 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 5/7 confirmed

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

Underground 6/6 confirmed

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

Ocean 3/4 confirmed

  • Buried treasure Not checked
  • Ocean monuments Included
  • Ocean ruins Included
  • Shipwrecks Included

Portal structures 1/1 confirmed

  • Ruined portals Included

Settlements 1/1 confirmed

  • Villages Included
IncludedNot checked

Loot tables

28 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 13/20 confirmed

  • Abandoned mineshaft Included
  • Buried treasure chest Not observed
  • Desert pyramid Not observed
  • End City treasure Not observed
  • Igloo chest Not observed
  • Jungle temple Included
  • 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 Included
  • Stronghold corridor Included
  • Stronghold crossing Included
  • Stronghold library Included
  • Underwater ruin (big) Included
  • Underwater ruin (small) Included
  • Woodland mansion Included

Village chest loot 13/15 confirmed

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

Archaeology 1/1 confirmed

  • Archaeology loot Included

Structure loot 1/1 confirmed

  • Trial chamber loot Included
IncludedNot observed
WHAT THIS WORLD ADDED

What is new in Graxerion

  • cliff/pirate islands reworked
  • reworked mega taiga floors
  • added badlands to volcano areas
  • fixed various worldpainter layers
  • adjusted forest densities

WorldPainter source files for Graxerion

Graxerion 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 Graxerion?

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 Graxerion

What is Graxerion?

Graxerion is a hand-made survival world of 6,144 × 6,144 blocks, made with WorldPainter, World Machine, Gaea, Axiom and WorldEdit, built for Minecraft Java 1.21.5. You download the world folder and play it like any other save, in singleplayer or on your own server.

How big is Graxerion?

6,144 × 6,144 blocks, so about 38 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 24 minutes at normal walking speed. The terrain runs from Y -64 to Y 320.

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 Graxerion need?

Graxerion is built for Minecraft Java 1.21.5. 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 Graxerion?

33 in total. The land is mostly Badlands (37.0%), Beach (20.6%), Plains (19.1%) and Snowy Plains (4.5%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.

Water covers 66.6% of the map, and land 32.7%.

By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (94.7%), Lush Caves (3.4%) and Magma Caves (1.2%). The cave breakdown has the rest.

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

Which structures are in Graxerion?

16 of the 19 structure types the scan checks are confirmed present: surface (5/7), underground (6/6), ocean (3/4), portal structures (1/1) and settlements (1/1).

Not confirmed: Igloos (not checked), Jungle pyramids (not checked) and Buried treasure (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 Graxerion ready to play in survival?

Yes. A scan of the world file confirms loot tables, structures, animals 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 world contents report at the bottom of this page holds the item-by-item detail.

Where do I download Graxerion?

From the download link on Patreon, 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.

What is new in Graxerion?

Every world is built on the one before it, and Graxerion brought 5 logged changes into the line: new terrain, new assets and fixes to the generators that made it.

From its list:

  • cliff/pirate islands reworked
  • reworked mega taiga floors
  • added badlands to volcano areas

The full list is on this page. These are the world's own additions, not patches released after it, so an older download is not missing them.

Can I look at Graxerion 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 Graxerion on Java Edition?

  1. Unpack the archive you downloaded from Patreon.
  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 1.21.5 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