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Revamp Ocean/Continent Generation

From a gameplay perspective, larger oceans make sense. Players move faster in boats than on foot, so the current oceans feel very very small. Having more water than land is also results in more realistic and Earth-like maps.

An ideal map should have a number of very large continents surrounded by interconnected oceans with scattered islands around 100-500 blocks across. This would create a better experience for players because there's a greater distinction between "Land" areas of the map and "Ocean" areas with islands to explore. In contrast, today's terrain generation feels like a series of large lakes.

Obviously this is a large change to world generation. As such it might be best to implement it as an alternative world type so that old maps remain compatible with the new version of the game. This change really should have come with the 1.13 ocean update, but it's never too late to improve!

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    Oceans need to be much larger.  If I'm in the middle of an ocean I don't want to be able to see land nearby.  It's impossible to build an island in the middle of the ocean because the oceans are too small.  Build anything and there's land nearby.

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    To be honest, I really enjoyed pre-1.7 world generation, even with all of it's flaws. The sparce continents brought players together and made player interaction more common, be it PVP or cooperation. An overabundance of land in modern versions made many multiplayer servers feeling like barely connected singleplayer sessions, rather than true multiplayer, players rarely if ever interact outside of late-game trading.
    Every player should have the option of playing their own way and have the access to every feature, but if they want to choose to isolate themselves from multiplayer, it should be a reasonably high challange (Reqiuring them to travel up to a 1000 blocks, build infrastructure through oceans etc.).

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    I agree. 1.7.2 was an over-correction. We want smaller oceans, not lakes. Interconnected, can't see the other side, but not so big that you get bored and give up even with a boat. 500-1000 blocks wide seems pretty reasonable to me.

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    Agree, I’d like the world to look like continents, islands and all oceans interconnected into one water volume surrounding them.

    But also I’d note that some problems are solved using large biomes worlds. Oceans and islands get really large and exciting with large biomes.

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    It frustrates me that the "salt lake" I always go to does not have warm oceans so there would be no coral reefs for a coral zombie nautilus to spawn. I want my coral zombie nautilus to be together with my nautilus and regular zombie nautilus but transporting the coral variant through large masses of land is ridiculous.