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Way too many caves and cliffs and oceans....

I feel like there isn't enough "big" land masses anymore? Like I remember on the old system I could walk through a plains/meadow area for a long time and not run into a massive cliff/ravine/cave and wouldn't run into massive oceans and rivers all the time. 

Like now I feel like every land biome is extremely small due to the mass amounts of oceans and rivers everywhere, it doesn't feel like you can ever go inland and get away from the water anymore and it just feels like no matter where you go you're basically on an island. 

Also, I like the cliffs and caves, but I think there is WAY too many of them generating. Yesterday I explored a few new seeds trying to find a massive, relatively flat plains/meadows/forest biome without too much water around it and without a massive mountain around it and I finally found a "decent" area that fit that description (even though the plains/meadows area was only about 100 x 250 blocks) and as soon as I get to the center what do I see?... A massive crack in the ground that drops into nowhere and is as wide as the entire land mass I wanted to build on. 

I just think they should make them less common because it's impossible to find a good, flat, massive biome anymore. It sucks...

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• April 27, 2022 21:03
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  • April 23, 2023 14:35
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  Agreed! Today I experimented with the large biomes world type (would recommend), as I'm also looking for a wide open area. I found a great one, except every 30 blocks there's a cave! I look underground and lo and behold, half the earth under my feet is air.

  I remember that in older versions of minecraft there were very advanced options for world generation. You could choose what biomes you wanted and at what levels ore spawned. I'm not sure if that still exists, but it should definitely include cave options! Also, maybe certain biomes like mountains and badlands could be more caved than others.

  In real life, flat areas are less likely to have caves, because caves are formed by water erosion that would also carve up flat land.

  I think a good solution would be to have a depth below which caves are very prevalent, but there should still be a good 30+ blocks of largely solid ground just below the surface. Then, have scattered, small caves that lead down to the lower areas. This way you can actually build on the ground, and if you want, you can find an unobtrusive cave and take it down to the massive sprawling network below.