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Overview

8k, 1.21.5, Giant Rocky´s and Badlands World · survival friendly, Download, Java, Minecraft World

Krontalos, a 64km² custom Minecraft map created by McMeddon. Welcome to the Badlands world of black deserts, mesas, and canyons. Based on a triple peninsular continent. With an arctic region at spawn, surrounded by oceans, plains and cliffs. Gigantic mountain ranges to the north, mesa´s, deserts and the grand canyon to the south, and tons of smaller islands will keep you endlessly exploring. The focus of this world was the reworked Grand Canyon. Trying to replicate the style and feel of the vast size, huge sand plains and the stepped eroded cliffs. 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.

Size

8K world 32 of 262 this size

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Map of Krontalos 8K
Krontalos at 8K, against the sizes the worlds are built on. Every square is to scale.

Footprint

8,192 × 8,192

blocks, 67.1 km² at one block per metre

Edge to edge

  • Happy ghast 38 min
  • On foot 32 min
  • Minecart 17 min
  • Horse 14 min
  • Elytra 4 min

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

Sizes in the library 88% 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

37 biomes 26 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 53.4% of map

  • Plains 23.7%
  • Stony Peaks 16.8%
  • Desert 13.2%
  • Badlands 10.2%
  • Beach 8.4%
  • Forest 3.4%
  • Frozen Peaks 3.1%
  • Old Growth Pine Taiga 2.8%
  • Jagged Peaks 2.5%
  • Birch Forest 2.2%
16 more 13.7%
  • Snowy Plains 2.1%
  • Snowy Slopes 1.3%
  • Wooded Badlands 1.3%
  • Savanna 1.1%
  • Dark Forest 1.0%
  • Taiga 1.0%
  • Jungle 0.9%
  • Snowy Taiga 0.9%
  • Sparse Jungle 0.8%
  • Flower Forest 0.8%
  • Cherry Grove 0.7%
  • Mushroom Fields 0.7%
  • Meadow 0.6%
  • Pale Garden 0.2%
  • Swamp 0.2%
  • Mangrove Swamp <0.1%

Water 46.2% of map

  • Ocean 41.8%
  • Lukewarm Ocean 20.2%
  • Deep Ocean 17.4%
  • Cold Ocean 11.7%
  • Warm Ocean 5.4%
  • River 2.7%
  • Frozen Ocean 0.6%
  • Frozen River 0.1%

Caves

18.8% of the underground

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

  • Normal Caves 95.0%
  • Lush Caves 3.3%
  • Dripstone Caves 0.9%
  • Deep Dark 0.4%
  • Ice Caves 0.2%
  • Magma Caves 0.1%

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 Searched, not found
  • 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 Searched, not found
  • Ocean monuments Included
  • Ocean ruins Included
  • Shipwrecks Included

Portal structures 1/1 confirmed

  • Ruined portals Included

Settlements 1/1 confirmed

  • Villages Included
IncludedSearched, not foundNot checked

Loot tables

27 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 14/20 confirmed

  • Abandoned mineshaft Included
  • Buried treasure chest Not observed
  • Desert pyramid Included
  • 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 11/15 confirmed

  • Village armorer Not observed
  • Village butcher Not observed
  • Village cartographer Included
  • Village desert house Not observed
  • 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 Included
  • Village temple Included
  • Village toolsmith Included
  • Village weaponsmith Not observed

Archaeology 1/1 confirmed

  • Archaeology loot Included

Structure loot 1/1 confirmed

  • Trial chamber loot Included
IncludedNot observed

WorldPainter source files for Krontalos

Krontalos 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 Krontalos?

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 Krontalos

What is Krontalos?

Krontalos is a hand-made survival world of 8,192 × 8,192 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 Krontalos?

8,192 × 8,192 blocks, so about 67 million blocks of surface. Walking from one edge to the other takes roughly 32 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 Krontalos need?

Krontalos 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 Krontalos?

37 in total. The land is mostly Plains (23.7%), Stony Peaks (16.8%), Desert (13.2%) and Badlands (10.2%), counted as shares of the land rather than of the whole map.

Water covers 46.2% of the map, and land 53.4%.

By volume this world's caves are Normal Caves (95.0%), Lush Caves (3.3%) and Dripstone Caves (0.9%). The cave breakdown has the rest.

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

Which structures are in Krontalos?

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 (searched, not found) and Buried treasure (searched, not found). "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 Krontalos 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 Krontalos?

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.

Can I look at Krontalos 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 Krontalos 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