Isekai API

**Isekai API is a toolbox for the *shape and rules* of a Minecraft world — not a world, but the machine that makes worlds.** Like `div`/`span` for web pages, it's a small set of neutral, composable primitives you combine to build *any* world you can imagine, straight from datapack JSON. It ships no biomes, structures, or themes of its own. ## A floating-island world in two files Reference the shipped `isekai_api:hooked_overworld` preset from your dimension, then override one small terrain-shape hook file. No Java, and no copy of vanilla's 2500-line `noise_settings` — change the hook and the whole world changes shape. Runnable example: [`examples/1_shape/floating_island/`](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api/tree/main/examples/1_shape/floating_island). ## What you can control *Every axis of world generation, as composable primitives:* - **Terrain shape** — 17 math/geometry density primitives + 5 worldshape composers (`squeeze`, `y_envelope`, `blended_noise`, `band_density`, `sloped_density`). Floating islands, hanging or inverted continents, hollow shells, capped mountains, mirrored/tiled space — any 3D form on any Y band. - **Biome placement** — the `isekai_api:rule` biome source places biomes by pure spatial rules: vertical layers, concentric rings, regions, and `and`/`or`/`not` combos (`y_below 20 -> deep_dark`). No climate-noise tuning. - **Surface & fill** — re-skin any biome's top block or stone fill from JSON. `isekai_api:vanilla_overworld_surface` hands you the whole vanilla overworld surface rule as one line, so overworld replacements skip the 30 KB copy. - **New dimensions** — combine the above with vanilla dimension JSON to ship a whole new dimension. Zero Java, zero vanilla edits. - **Atmosphere** — per-world sky, fog, and water colors. - **Set-pieces, features & trees** — build neutral content from composable parts: drop a hand-authored NBT set-piece only on flat, dry ground (`grounded_template`), grow connected block clusters and fluid pools, and assemble decay-safe trees from any trunk + foliage placer. No themes baked in — you supply the blocks. - **Placement control** — decide exactly where features/structures go: relative to surface or fluid, by block context, Y range, slope, proximity to a block or biome, and logical combos. - **Re-place existing content** — take any vanilla *or modded* ore, structure, mob, or feature and redistribute it into your world's new shape. A rare ore vanilla buries deep can be remapped to the underside of your floating islands. Strategies: linear, inverted, fixed-range, count-scaling, band-split, pipelines — plus exclude/add. - **Terrain-relative re-placement** — `isekai_api:column_local` resolves an ore's depth against *each column's own* surface and underside instead of one absolute Y band. Floating islands, orbiting planets and sky continents get the same internal ore layout whatever altitude they sit at. - **Boot-time validation** — broken or mistyped registry references are caught at server start, before they silently no-op. - **Java API** — `Isekai.query()` reads vanilla/modded worldgen rules; `Isekai.remap()` declares worldshapes in code. ## Built to be built on Isekai isn't tied to any one world or author. **However you want to use it, you're welcome** — datapack worldshapes, full Java mods, modpack glue, quick experiments, total conversions. MIT licensed: free to use, fork, and bundle in modpacks. - **Datapack authors:** the [Datapack Reference](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api/blob/main/docs/DATAPACK_REFERENCE.md) lists every key with its JSON shape; copy a runnable skeleton from [`examples/`](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api/tree/main/examples) — shape, placement, and adaptation each have their own folder. - **Java modders:** add `isekai_api` as a `compileOnly` Gradle dependency (Cursemaven, or the repo's own maven branch — see [COMPATIBILITY](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api/blob/main/docs/COMPATIBILITY.md)) and use the `Isekai` facade. Everything outside the `api` package is internal, so the public surface stays small and stable. Sources and javadoc jars ship with every release. - **Extend the library itself:** the five dispatch interfaces — spatial predicates, remap strategies, biome zones, surface anchors, transition rules — are registry-backed extension points. Register your own variant from your own mod id and use it in JSON alongside the built-ins. No fork, no PR. - **Questions, ideas, bugs:** [open an issue](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api/issues). Built a world with Isekai? Share it — I'd love to see what people make. MIT · [Source & docs](https://github.com/KURONAMI333/isekai-api). *Unrelated to the "Isekai Adventure" modpack.*