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Modrinth
Data Pack
Unnamed Desert
Additional structures for the desert and badlands biomes, focusing on an immersive expansion for the vanilla game.
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Type
Data Pack
Access
Free
Latest version
2.0.3
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Minecraft versions
1.19 – 1.21.11
Categories
adventure
worldgen
Description
Detailed information
# 🌵 About
Looking to spice up your world generation? You’ve come to the right place!
**Unnamed Desert** expands your world with unique, handcrafted structures that enrich the atmosphere of the desert and badlands biomes. Some are built for adventure and conquest, while others exist purely to enhance the visual experience and deepen your sense of immersion.
Consider using my other mod, [Tumbleweeds](https://modrinth.com/mod/tumbleweeds), for an even more lively atmosphere.
For more details, refer to the image gallery, the wiki below, or the following quick summary:
- 8 structure types / 35 total variants
- Cactus
- Cactus Fork (9 variants)
- Cactus Patch (3 variants)
- Skeleton
- Rib Skeleton (2 variants)
- Spine Skeleton (2 variants)
- Termite Mound (2 variants)
- Pillager Outpost (2 variants)
- Oasis
- Lively Oasis (3 variants)
- Dried-Up Oasis (3 variants)
- Ruin
- House Ruin (2 variants)
- Pit Ruin (2 variants)
- Well Ruin (1 variant)
- Fossil
- Croc Fossil (1 variant)
- Head Fossil (1 variant)
- Geyser (2 variants)
## 🌐 Wiki
If you are looking for a wiki of sorts or just a more detailed walkthrough of the content of this mod, then you can find quick and easy introductions to all the added features of this project below.
If you find no answers to your questions here or want to suggest improvements for the project, then feel free to leave a comment on the CurseForge site ([here](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/unnamed-desert)).
<details>
<summary>Supported Mods</summary>
The following mods should be natively supported. However, support for any of these mods may be broken at any time. If this is the case, feel free to comment on the CurseForge site to let me know!
... Work in progress ...
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# 📬 Remarks
Please keep in mind that at any given time vast amounts of the mod may be edited or completely overhauled! These changes should not, but may leave existing worlds on older versions corrupted. Creating backups before updating to a new version is advised!
I want to reiterate that this is simply a passion project. It may occur that for longer periods no updates or bug fixes are being developed/released simply because I do not want to.
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Project images
Screenshots and images from the original Modrinth page.
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Pillager Outpost
Lively Oasis
Dried Up Oasis
House Ruin
Pit Ruin
Well Ruin
Cactus Fork
Cactus Patch
Geyser
Change log
Project versions
Published versions and original Modrinth files.
2.0.3
Current
Release
01.02.2026
[1.21 - 1.21.11] - v2.0.3
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
1.21.9
1.21.10
1.21.11
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2.0.3
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01.02.2026
[1.21 - 1.21.11] - v2.0.3
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
1.21.9
1.21.10
1.21.11
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**<Version Bump>**
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.11
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2.0.2
Release
19.10.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.10] - v2.0.2
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
1.21.9
1.21.10
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2.0.2
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19.10.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.10] - v2.0.2
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
1.21.9
1.21.10
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**<Version Bump>**
- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.9 & 1.21.10
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2.0.1
Release
16.08.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.8] - v2.0.1
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
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2.0.1
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16.08.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.8] - v2.0.1
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
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**<Minor Update>**
- Structures
- 'Fossil'
- Added structure 'Triceratops Skull Fossil' (1 variant)
- Added structure 'Tyrannosaurus Skull Fossil' (1 variant)
- Miscellaneous
- Fixed 'Pillager Outpost' processor list
- Fixed 'Fossil' processor list
- Improved terrain integration
- Adapted project_start_to_heightmap for some structures
- Expanded internal block replacement
- Internal restructuring
- Reclassified 'Cactus' structure as desert structure
- Reclassified 'Skeleton' structure as badlands structure
- Reclassified 'Termite Mound' structure as badlands structure
- Restructured structure sets
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2.0.0
Release
31.07.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.8] - v2.0.0
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
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2.0.0
Release
31.07.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.8] - v2.0.0
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
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**< Part 1/6 > Ambient Update**
- Configured Features
- Added dead & lively trees
- Added pebbles
- Structures
- 'Cactus'
- Added structure 'Cactus Fork' (9 variants)
- Added structure 'Cactus Patch' (3 variants)
- 'Skeleton'
- Added structure 'Rib Skeleton' (2 variants)
- Added structure 'Spine Skeleton' (2 variants)
- 'Termite Mound'
- Added structure 'Termite Mound' (2 variants)
- 'Pillager Outpost'
- Added structure 'Pillager Outpost' (2 variants)
- 'Oasis'
- Added structure 'Lively Oasis' (3 variants)
- Added structure 'Dried-Up Oasis' (3 variants)
- 'Ruin'
- Added structure 'House Ruin' (2 variants)
- Added structure 'Pit Ruin' (2 variants)
- Added structure 'Well Ruin' (1 variant)
- 'Fossil'
- Added structure 'Croc Fossil' (1 variant)
- Added structure 'Head Fossil' (1 variant)
- 'Geyser'
- Added structure 'Geyser' (2 variants)
- Miscellaneous
- Added small jigsaw additions to:
- 'Oasis' structures
- 'Geyser' structures
- Added processor lists for each structure
- Improve terrain adaptation
- Randomize block placement / decoration
**Note:** Going forward, this mod will only support Minecraft version 1.21 and above. This decision was made to reduce the overhead associated with maintaining compatibility across multiple versions and to facilitate the integration of new content from future updates.
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1.6.3
Release
20.07.2025
[1.19 - 1.21.8] - v1.6.3
Supported Minecraft versions
1.19
1.19.1
1.19.2
1.19.3
1.19.4
1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
1.20.5
1.20.6
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
1.21.8
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- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.8
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1.6.2
Release
02.07.2025
[1.19 - 1.21.7] - v1.6.2
Supported Minecraft versions
1.19
1.19.1
1.19.2
1.19.3
1.19.4
1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
1.20.5
1.20.6
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
1.21.7
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- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.7
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1.6.1
Release
24.06.2025
[1.19 - 1.21.6] - v1.6.1
Supported Minecraft versions
1.19
1.19.1
1.19.2
1.19.3
1.19.4
1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
1.20.5
1.20.6
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
1.21.6
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- Updated to Minecraft 1.21.6
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1.6.0
Release
12.05.2025
[1.19 - 1.21.5] - v1.6.0
Supported Minecraft versions
1.19
1.19.1
1.19.2
1.19.3
1.19.4
1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
1.20.5
1.20.6
1.21
1.21.1
1.21.2
1.21.3
1.21.4
1.21.5
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- Removed dependency 'Unnamed Framework'
- Removed dependency 'Formations'
- Backports to version range 1.19 - 1.21.5
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1.5.0
Release
11.01.2025
[1.21 - 1.21.1] - v1.5.0
Supported Minecraft versions
1.21
1.21.1
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- Removed experimental features
- Added structure 'desert ruin'
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1.4.0
Release
26.09.2024
[1.21 - 1.21.1] - v1.4.0
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1.21
1.21.1
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1.3.1
Release
02.08.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.3.1
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1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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1.3.0
Release
29.03.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.3.0
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1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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- Added 2 variants of 'oasis'
- Added 1 variant of 'geyser'
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1.2.1
Release
10.03.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.2.1
Supported Minecraft versions
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1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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**Fixed crash on Forge / Neoforge loader due to corrupted mods.toml file**
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1.2.0
Release
09.02.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.2.0
Supported Minecraft versions
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1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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**A corrupted file makes this version incompatible with Forge / Neoforge**
- Added 2 (experimental) variants of 'small lost tomb'
- Added 2 (experimental) variants of 'medium lost tomb'
- Added 3 (experimental) variants of 'lost dunes'
- Added 1 (experimental) variant of 'desert pyramid'
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1.1.0
Release
17.01.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.1.0
Supported Minecraft versions
1.20
1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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- Added structure 'skeleton'
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1.0.1
Release
15.01.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.0.1
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1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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1.0.0
Release
03.01.2024
[1.20-1.20.4] - v1.0.0
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1.20.1
1.20.2
1.20.3
1.20.4
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