Tellus 0.8.1

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You can download compatible Distant Horizons forks here: https://github.com/Yucareux/Tellus/releases/tag/v.0.8.1

New Features

• Added NeoForge support for Minecraft 1.21.1.
• Press M to open the map; the key can be changed in the controls.
• World scale can now reach 1:1 km.
• Random Biomes now allows manual biome selection.
• Updated Distant Horizons forks for Increase Height compatibility.

Terrain & World Generation

• Improved terrain accuracy around coastlines, water, overlapping land-cover areas, and map tile borders.
• Fixed repeating land cover, inland river cutoffs, Caspian Sea water levels, and terrain at extreme world heights.
• Fixed Terrestrial Height when using Increase Height.
• Snow and cliffside deepslate now generate more accurately based on terrain slope.
• Overhauled caves to closely match vanilla generation, including previously missing ores.
• Improved the Badlands biome and support for Tellus’s extremely tall terrain.

Distant Horizons & LOD

• Fast LOD mode now preserves terrain detail across longer distances.
• Reduced blocky or oversimplified distant terrain.
• Improved LOD generation around buildings, trees, mangroves, water, and other tall features.
• Skyscrapers remain visible farther away, and distant buildings align more accurately with loaded chunks.

Stability & Performance

• Improved recovery from internet, Overture Maps, and download failures.
• Fixed stuck or corrupted map tiles, background-loading issues, and failed place searches.
• Improved handling of damaged caches and malformed, incomplete, slow, or oversized downloads.
• Reduced unnecessary processing and memory usage across terrain, maps, climate data, and cached files.
• Improved cache cleanup to prevent gradual memory growth.
• Weather and time synchronization now handle invalid responses correctly.
• Corrected version numbering to properly reflect the 0.8.x series.
• Improved and added missing translations.