alcatrazEscapee

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Why Are Rivers So Complicated?

Let's narrow that down a bit. This document will try to explain some of the difficulties, limitations, and possible ways to generate rivers in Minecraft. There have been many papers, articles, and other medium which have generated realistic rivers to great success. So what makes Minecraft so much more difficult, or what makes these other methodologies so difficult? And what methods have found success?

Drullkus

import com.mojang.datafixers.util.Function3;
import com.mojang.serialization.Codec;
import com.mojang.serialization.codecs.RecordCodecBuilder;
import net.minecraft.block.BlockState;

import java.util.List;

public class CodecExample {
    public static final Codec<CodecExample> CODEC = RecordCodecBuilder.create(
            instance -> instance.group(

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KdotJPG

/**
 * K.jpg's OpenSimplex 2, smooth variant ("SuperSimplex")
 *
 * More language ports, as well as legacy 2014 OpenSimplex, can be found here:
 * https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2
 */

public class OpenSimplex2S {

    private static final long PRIME_X = 0x5205402B9270C86FL;