In Highlands Mod, highlands aims to be a comprehensive improvement of Minecraft biomes, trees and terrain. If you’ve ever felt bored exploring the world of Minecraft, this is your mod.
Features:
- 18 new biomes
- 8 trees with their own wood, leaves and planks
- 6 small plants
- Custom world type and mountain generation
- Fully compatible with customized world settings
- Settings to disable biomes you don’t want
- Biome rarity fix
- Ore generation changes per biome
- Forest generation based on height
- Improvements to vanilla biomes
Biomes:
- Adirondacks: Tall mountains of dirt and exposed stone with forested foothills.
- Alps: Inhospitable mountains covered in deep snow with pine forests in the valleys.
- Badlands: Plateaus and valleys of clay and dirt.
- Bald Hill: A tall treeless hill that provides a good lookout point over forests.
- Bamboo Forest: A dense forest of thin bamboo plants.
- Dry Forest: A low landscape covered in Aspen trees and shrubs.
- Grey Mountains: Ominous rocky crags covered in boulders and gnarled plants. The forested valleys contain many dead trees.
- Highlands: Rolling hills covered in shrubs and flowering plants.
- Lake: A small body of water that appears in many inland biomes. Poplar trees can grow on the shores.
- Lowlands: Scattered lakes and low hills with stone and pine trees.
- Meadow: An idyllic plain with poplar trees and many flowers.
- Mojave: A dry semi-desert with red sand and Acacia trees.
- Pinelands: Tall but weathered hills and mountains with pine trees and shrubs.
- Poplar Hills: Lakes and hills covered in poplar trees.
- Redwood Forest: A dense forest with fir and giant redwood trees, and a podzol floor.
- Tropical Hills: Tall hills with a forest of Eucalyptus trees.
- Tropical Islands: A player lost at sea might discover one of these palm tree covered islands.
Trees and Plants:
- Aspen: A medium tree with light colored wood and autumn leaves.
- Bamboo: A small tree with a very thin stem.
- Eucalyptus: A tall straight tree that grows in the tropics.
- Fir: A tall thin pine tree with dark wood.
- Palm: A tropical palm tree.
- Poplar: A small tree that grows straight and thin.
- Redwood: A giant redwood tree that can grow to be more than 40 blocks.
- Dead: An oak tree that has lost all of its leaves.
- Great Oak: Oak trees can grow much more massive in the forests of Highlands.
- Shrubs: Pine and oak shrubs that grow low to the ground.
- Waterflower: Small blue flowers on a dark stem.
- Cattail: Reeds that grow in the swamps and wetlands.
- Cotton: A bush with fluffy white tufts that can be spun into cloth.
- Blueberry Bush: Wild blueberries that grow in hilly areas.
- Raspberry Bush: Wild raspberries that grow in hilly areas.
- Lavender: A purple flowering plant.
- Tropical Leaf Fern: A fern-like plant with one big leaf.
- Thornbush: A bush with prickly thorns.
Screenshots:
How to install:
- Download and install Minecraft Forge.
- Download the mod.
- Go to %appdata%.
- Go to .minecraft/mods folder.
- If the ?mods? folder does not exist you can create one.
- Drag and drop the downloaded jar (zip) file into it.
- Enjoy the mod.
Download Links:
For 1.8
http://dl2.mod-minecraft.net/download.php?file=f58dbc9cf2f40fa11596558f3721190a
Credits: sdj64