MCDungeon Tool FAQ

It is a standalone map editing utility that generates procedural dungeons and treasure hunts inside existing Minecraft worlds. It automatically finds a suitable location based on range, size, and depth, and tries not to overwrite player structures.

It does not add new items or blocks; it places existing blocks, chests, loot, mob spawners, traps, and entrances into your world. Dungeon features use materials listed in the config, including 1.6 and 1.7 materials.

The changelogs reference 1.6 and 1.7 items and materials, but the facts do not state a specific supported Minecraft version range.

It is a standalone Python map editing utility, not a mod loader mod. It uses code from Paul Hodge's minetown project and codewarrior's pymclevel.

Yes. Dungeons can be removed later and the landscape allowed to regenerate, or regenerated in place with a new layout, mobs, and treasure. There is also an option to regenerate all known dungeons on a map.

Yes. It can generate multiple dungeons in a map, or try to fill the map with as many dungeons as possible.

It can optionally place a MultiVerse (Craftbukkit plugin) portal at the bottom of the dungeon to teleport players out to a world of your choice.

Room layouts, hallways, floors, room features, ruins, doors, portcullises, torches, chest density, loot tables, mob spawner types and density, tower height, and per-biome entrances are configurable. River and ocean biome exclusions are also configurable.

Yes. Hard mode attempts to fill in nearby natural caves to concentrate random monster spawns inside the dungeon.

Yes. It can output floor maps to a terminal with color on ANSI systems, and output entire dungeon maps to HTML.