You can terrafrom all you like in Minecraft, but unless you use a third-party program like WorldEdit, you're gonna need a lot of time, tools, and materials. At least until Minecraft 1.8 is out. The Mojang crew released a video teasing one of and perhaps the most anticipated of the update's many features, world customization, letting players create "their own wild and crazy terrain!"
The new customization options consist of 16 different categories affecting the game's terrain, from noise and biome height to depth, stretch, and scale. Players will be able to decide the sea level, whether the world will have mineshafts, strongholds, ravines, lakes (water and lava), caves, temples, dungeons, and with what frequency. Very involved.
For those who still like the idea of the various customizations, but don't want to get as involved, Mojang will also provide seven presets they think players will find "interesting." They include the aptly named Water World; Isle Land; Caver's Delight; Mountain Madness; Drought; Caves of Chaos; and Good Luck, a preset that from the looks of it, is littered with laval oceans and scant with resources.
It's definitely worth a look, see for yourself below.
With the new customization features, 1.8 promises to be one truly massive update, but that's just one of the many new features.
New blocks include a trampoline-like slime block, skin customization, and an array of fixes for gameplay includes adjustments for enchanting, villager trading, repairing, crafting, mob A.I, and more than 100 bugs have been fixed. This is just one of the many new features that'll hit Minecraft when 1.8 drops in May. There's also a new mob coming, the End equivalent of Silverfish, dubbed Endermites.
At the moment, Minecraft 1.8 is set to release this May. We'll let you know when Mojang provides an exact release date.