Vanilla Vistas FAQ

It overhauls terrain generation and biome placement using only vanilla biomes, aiming for a more picturesque exploration experience. The terrain has lots of height variety without being difficult to walk across, and plenty of flat areas for building.

No. It overhauls terrain generation and biome placement using only vanilla biomes, maintaining a vanilla feel.

It is an OTG preset, so Open Terrain Generator is required.

There are two: Vanilla Vistas (Normal), with rolling hills, gradually sloping mountains and plenty of flat areas to build in, and Vanilla Vistas (Amplified), with more aggressive height increases and less realistic terrain shapes while creating minimal floating terrain or other abnormalities.

The 9Minecraft article lists 1.16.5 and 1.12.2, and it runs on Forge.

When running on a server, level-name is VanillaVistas for the normal version and VanillaVistasAmplified for the amplified version.

The Modrinth project page describes Vanilla Vistas as a vanilla+ modpack dedicated to overhauling Minecraft's immersion and visuals without using shaders. The 9Minecraft article describes it as an OTG preset that overhauls terrain generation and biome placement.

No. The modpack is incompatible with shaders and will break if they are installed.

The author recommends setting your modpack's Java memory to at least 4096, or you might have performance problems.

No. Though it may look like it, the pack is not client-side and relies on server side mods for terrain generation, misc improvements, and feature backports.