Biomes O' Plenty | 50+ New Biomes Across Three Dimensions

You crest a ridge looking for a clearing to build in, and the oaks around you give way to a redwood forest so tall the canopy disappears into fog. That moment is ordinary in Biomes O' Plenty. The mod adds over 50 new biomes to the Overworld, Nether, and End, all designed with a vanilla style, and it fills them with new plants, trees, flowers, and building blocks. It has been around for years, sits at roughly 39 million downloads, and the team is still shipping updates.

Overworld Biomes and Building Blocks

The vanilla style matters more than it sounds. Nothing looks bolted on, so a Cherry Blossom Grove or a Mystic Grove reads like terrain that fits the game instead of clashing with it. Overworld highlights include the Cherry Blossom Grove, Lavender Fields, Mystic Grove, Redwood Forest, Alps, and Oasis, ranging from cozy to genuinely strange. Builders get plenty out of the deal too. New trees mean new wood types, and the added flowers and blocks give you a palette that vanilla forests never offer.

World Type Options and Generation Settings

World creation is where this mod shows its range. Small Biomes works as the opposite of the Large Biomes world type. A No Parasite option keeps the Parasitic Heap biome out of your world entirely. You can also generate only realistic biomes or only fantasy biomes, depending on how grounded you want your survival to feel.

Missing Biomes mode deserves its own mention. It mixes vanilla areas with classic biomes from older versions of the game, including Rainforest, Savanna, Seasonal Forest, Shrubland, Tundra, Boreal Forest, and Lush Swamp. Two flavor toggles round things out. Seasonal shifts biomes to match the real world season, and Holiday brings touches themed around holidays like Halloween and Christmas.

Beyond the world creation screen, config files handle the finer tuning, and the config folder only generates after your first launch. Server admins can adjust generation through the generator-settings entry in server.properties, changing things like biome size and toggling features such as BOP ores or Nether hives. Individual biomes can also be disabled by editing their ID, a process the community wiki documents. Those docs are fan maintained and not officially endorsed, so back up your config before you experiment.

Nether and End Additions

The Nether gets some of the mod's most memorable terrain. Fungi Forest, Corrupted Sands, Undergarden, and Visceral Heap each bring their own blocks and mood to the dimension. The End receives new biomes as well. If you enjoy the dangerous side of the mod, the toggleable hazards cover quicksand, thorns, poison ivy, liquid poison, hot springs, Nether hives, and BOP's own ore set. Want even more Nether after that? Our Cinderscapes post covers a dedicated Nether biome expansion that sits nicely alongside this one.

How to Install Biomes O' Plenty

1. Set up a loader first. Biomes O' Plenty runs on Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. Our guide on how to install Minecraft mods covers the basics, and our Forge install guide takes you the rest of the way.
2. Download Biomes O' Plenty from the official project page. Grab the dependencies listed there too: GlitchCore and TerraBlender, plus Fabric API if you picked Fabric.
3. Drop every jar into your mods folder. Keep them loose, no subfolders.
4. On MultiMC or Prism, drag the jar into the instance window, or open Edit Instance and add it under Loader Mods.
5. Launch the game once before touching any settings. The config folder does not exist until that first run finishes.
6. Create a new world. The biomes generate in fresh terrain, and older worlds keep their original layout unless you edit them with an NBT editor.

Biomes O' Plenty FAQ

Does Biomes O' Plenty work on multiplayer servers?

Yes. The mod is required on both the server and every client that connects to it. On current releases you do not need to edit server.properties at all. Older releases are different: the level-type setting had to be set to biomesoplenty, with legacy builds using BIOMESOP instead. In every case, use a fresh world or edit an existing one with an NBT tool, or the new biomes will not appear.

Can I disable specific biomes or features?

Yes. Setting a biome's ID to -1 in Biome_ids.json removes it from generation. The config also includes a toggle for whether BOP flowers require shears, plus switches for features like quicksand, poison ivy, and Nether hives. Remember that the config folder only appears after your first launch.

Can Bedrock players use Biomes O' Plenty?

Not as a mod. Bedrock gets a separate official Marketplace add-on built by 4KS Studios, and it installs through the game itself rather than a mods folder.

Is Biomes O' Plenty still being updated?

Yes. Glitchfiend shipped an update in November 2026, and the project has been in steady development for years, with roughly 39 million downloads behind it.

Biomes O' Plenty is the kind of mod that makes starting a fresh world feel worth it again. If your map still feels thin after adding it, our Decent Biomes and Wild Lands posts cover two more biome mods that deserve a closer look.