Water Erosion - Mods

Water erodes the landscape creating streams and waterfalls producing gravel, sand, clay, and moss

Water escapes from lakes and aquifers. Dirt and sand wash away to deepen stream beds and cut river banks. Find Forest brooks and Mountain creeks in your explorations. Pass through a dry Desert valley one day and find it flooded the next. Supports Forge for 1.12+ and Fabric for 1.14+.

Erosion in Minecraft, just like real life, is a slow process. You must wait see to the effects or increase the random tick speed.

Goals

Implement Water Erosion as though it were a default Minecraft feature to make worlds more dynamic.
Provide a renewable source of Coarse Dirt, Sand, and Clay fitting into the stock game mechanics.
Avoid breaking stock existing game play.

Features/Rules

Water flowing over an edge erodes the block below.
Water flowing into a block "saturates", then dissolves the "wall." Turns towards the closest air space.
Water flow ends "saturate", then dissolve the block below to potentially continue the flow downhill.
Water Sources dissolve blocks to the side in the direction of air spaces.
Erodable blocks include sand, gravel, clay, farmland, dirt, grass, and, rarely, cobblestone.
Erodable blocks have differing resistances to erosion depending on their density, but all erode over time.
Blocks decay during erosion to weaker blocks before disappearing.
Blocks decay upstream in stream beds.
Cobblestone and Stone Bricks grow moss near water.
Enable/disable Farmland erosion via config file (Forge for 1.14+ only for now)

Decay hierarchy:

Cobblestone -> Mossy Cobblestone -> Gravel
Stone Bricks -> Mossy Stone Bricks -> Gravel
Grass Path -> Grass -> Dirt -> Coarse Dirt -> Gravel
Gravel -> Sand -> Clay(rarely) -> Air/Water.

Have an idea about how it could be even better? Let me know in the comments or issues!

Media

Screenshots

Installation

Fabric versions

Download the current release water-erosion-x.x.x-fabric-x.x.x.jar and add to your installation.

Forge versions

The Forge version for Minecraft 1.12.2 is a Coremod containing an embedded copy of the org.spongepowered.asm.launch.MixinTweaker library. It does NOT require MixinBootstrap.

The Forge versions for Minecraft 1.14.4+ require MixinBootstrap. Download the current release water-erosion-x.x.x-forge-x.x.x.jar, then download the MixinBootstrap-1.0.0.jar. Put both files in your MinecraftForge Mod folder.

TODO features

Optionally drop items of eroded blocks
Configurable Erosion odds and types - Slow, Medium(default), Fast, Custom - Version 1.1.2 for Forge 1.14+ adds a config file to enable/disable Farmland erosion. 1.2.0 will contain more options.

Technical Notes

This "core mod" adds code to the Water block randomTick() functions using the Mixin framework. randomTick() is only called by the Minecraft runtime for a 128 block radius around the player, so the odds of erosion occurring are set fairly high.

Tutorial

Sand can be generated from gravel with a simple machine

Test Areas

Create each world, teleport to the specified location, and, optionally, change the randomTickSpeed setting to speed up the process. Note: You must wait upwards of 30 real minutes to see the effects if you do not change the randomTickSpeed, such as in a survival world.

/teleport X Y Z
/gamerule randomTickSpeed NUMBER # Suggest 150

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Tested on Minecraft 1.15.1

1052 79 229 - A Savanna stream near a town flows into a crevasse.
1103 102 467 - A Savanna hilltop lake creates multiple waterfalls, which may change direction or dry up.
1303 80 579 - A Savanna underground lake breaks through the hillside to create a waterfall.
1309 89 753 - A Savanna source block flows through tunnel, then creates a small steam through trees to a pond.

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