# 🌋 Elkonian Wilderness

**A hand-crafted dimension of custom biomes, trees, and structures — no mods required.** Elkonian Wilderness is a data-driven overworld dimension for **Minecraft 26.1.2** that trades vanilla's familiar terrain for a curated wilderness: misty stone pillars, dark volcanic peaks, drowned coral shoals, baobab savannas, and a swamp that never stops raining. Everything runs on a datapack + resource pack, so it works on vanilla clients and servers alike.

## ✨ Biomes

- **Zhang Spires** — misty subtropical valleys pierced by clustered stone pillars, draped in moss and bamboo, ringed by gentle foothills.
- **Blackstone Peaks & Foothills** — jagged volcanic mountains of dark rock, pale groves clinging to the slopes, and lava veins in the deep.
- **Golden Rolling Hills** — sunlit meadows of dense birch groves and fancy oaks, mixed wildflowers, and fallen logs.
- **Red Savanna** — sweeping dry grassland studded with groves of towering **Great Baobabs**.
- **Red Sands Desert** — rolling red dunes and oversized **saguaro-style cactus** clusters.
- **Coastal Shoals** — a thin drowned-shelf border biome of driftwood, dead coral shells, tide grass, and shipwrecks.
- **Deep Coral Ocean** — dark, deep reefs of tall branching coral, sponges, kelp forests, and teeming fish.
- **Mirefen Basin** — a sunken, rain-soaked swamp maze of weeping willows, cypress, and mangroves, alive with frogs, slimes, and overworld-surviving hoglins.
- **Cherry Grove**, plus a full set of **vanilla-style oceans** and a Y-layered **underworld** of cave biomes.
- Plus an early **Wide Nether** — a custom, expanded nether dimension (bonus, still in development).

## 🏛️ Structures & Custom Trees

- **The Blackstone Volcano** — a massive multi-piece build wrapping a lava crater, with stone "legs" that grow down to meet the terrain wherever it spawns.
- **Giant Sequoias**, **Great Baobabs**, **golden birch groves**, **weeping willows & cypress**, and **big checkerboard cactus** — all custom, hand-shaped trees.
- Reworked **villages** (taiga, savanna, cherry, mangrove), **shipwrecks & buried treasure**, **sunken temples**, **witch huts**, **pillager outposts**, and more.

## 🌍 Two Editions

- **Elkonian Wilderness** — the pure custom dimension.
- **Blend Fork** — the same wilderness with vanilla biomes (taiga, dark forest, pale gardens, desert & badlands, snowy biomes, and more) woven in for a more familiar, varied experience.

## 📦 Installation & Entry

1. Drop the datapack into your world's `datapacks` folder (or your server's) **before first load** — datapack dimensions bake their generator at world creation, so use a **fresh world**.
2. Apply the matching resource pack for the custom visuals.
3. Travel between worlds with the built-in warps (complete with a portal warp animation):
   - **`/function elkonia:wob/enter`** — warp into the Elkonian Wilderness
   - **`/function elkonia:wob/leave`** — return to the overworld

**Requires:** Minecraft **26.1.2**. No mods, no loaders — pure vanilla datapack + resource pack.
