Hungry Wasteland

Hungry Wasteland

This datapack adds a new, continously growing biome to the center of the overworld called The Wasteland. This datapack is a proof of a concept to see if changing the world on a large scale is possible in vanilla minecraft without crippling the game's performance. It has not been tested in multiplayer, though it should work just fine.

Gameplay

The Wasteland will continue to expand even when you're not around. Building in certain biomes and with certain blocks can help protect you and your base from its path of destruction. You can expect to find occasional loot caches as well as valuable raw resources while exploring The Wasteland. During rain and thunderstorms, poisonous gas will fill the air. As time goes on, enemies will get tougher, but resources will become more abundant.

Spoiler

The Wasteland can be repelled by the Mushroom Fields and Pale Garden, as well as by blocks associated with those biomes. It can be stopped for good by placing a heart of The Wasteland on the altar after defeating the Ender Dragon.

Anybody is free to copy, modify, and reupload any and all components of this datapack with or without attribution as per the CC0 license.