Worldbuilding/Minecraftby GenuineKaylee on TwosList of Environments & Geological Formations Resource Environment / Geological Formations Names: Context: A list of environments & terrain that world builders might want to use in their worlds: Abandoned Mines or Quarries Abandoned Structures or Ruins Alien Encroachment, Alien Environment Foothold (areas near gateways, dimensional rifts, crashed ships, bio-domes, meteor impacts, or a recently opened environment where environs, flora, and fauna from one side have spread to the other side) Anchialine Pool (a landlocked pool of water with a subterranean connection to the ocean) Animal / Monster (+ burrow, lair, graveyard, hatching grounds, hive, nest, nesting grounds, warren) Animal / Monster Trail Arch (+ natural arch, bridge*, ice arch, sea arch, stone arch ) Archipelago, Island Chain Aretes (narrow ridge between 2 valleys) Artesian Well (water under positive pressure coming out of the ground / coming out of a hollow tree) Ash Field, Ash Plain (area covered in volcanic ash) Atoll ( ring shaped coral island ) Avalanche Site (+ ice, snow, rock) Badlands Barrens Barrier Island Barrows Basalt Columns Basin, Bowl (landform sunken below the surrounding area) Bay Bayou Beach (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Blowhole Blue Hole (a large marine cavern or sinkhole, which is open to the surface and has developed in a bank or island) Bluff, Bluffs Bog (+ peat) Boreal Forest, Snow Forest, Taiga (subarctic coniferous forest) Bornhardt (dome shaped, steep-sided, bald rock outcropping) Boulder Field, Block Field, Stone Field Bowl, Basin (landform sunken below the surrounding area) Bridge (+ fallen tree, ice, natural, roots, skeletal, stone, tidal, vines, web) Brook Burm (narrow ledge or shelf) Butte (isolated hill or mountain) Caldera (cauldron-like depression created by collapse of crust above an emptied or partially emptied magma chamber) Canyon Cape Cataract (large waterfall) Causeway (natural) Cave, Cavern (+ ice, sea, undersea) Cenote (pit or sinkhole that exposes groundwater) Chaparral, Shrubland Cirque, Corrie (ampitheatre shaped valley created by glacier) Clearcut (area where all the trees have been cut down) Cliff Coast Coral Forest (+ giant, on land, undersea) Coral Reef Cove Crag Crater (+ black glass, lake) Crater Lake Creek Crevasse Crossing Crystal (type)(+ canyon, cavern, cluster, deposit, druse, field, forest, garden, giant geode, vein) Dale Dam (+ beaver, natural) Desert (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Dimensional Rift, Planar Rift Divide Dry (+ creak, gulch, lake bed, pond, river bed, stream) Dune, Dunes (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Dust Bowl Enchanted / Cursed Forest (+ animated, awakened, candy, crystallized, demonic corruption, flesh abomination, haunted, slime, toxic, etc) Escarpment (steep slope or long cliff, that separates 2 relatively level areas of different elevation) Esker (long winding ridge of stratified sand & gravel) Estuary Falls Farm, Farms, Farmland (+ crop type, herd type, fallowed) Fen Field, Fields Field of (cacti, coral, crystals, flowers, fulgurites, fungi, moss, mushrooms, pods, spikes, thorns, vines, webs) Fissure Fjord (long narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs) Flats (+ mud, salt) Floating Island (levitating, floating on water, floating on lava) [Sky Isles] Flood Plain Ford Forest (type)(+ bamboo, bonsai, boreal, burned, coniferous, cursed, dwarf, dead, dying, evergreen, fungal, giant, haunted, ironwood, of flowers, petrified, pygmy, redwood, spiny, temperate, tropical) Forest of (cacti, coral, crystals, flowers, fulgurites, fungi, moss, mushrooms, pods, spikes, thorns, vines, webs) Fulgurite Forest Fumarole / Fumarole Field - Volcanic gas vents Fungal Forest Gap Garden Geothermal Mudpot(s) Geyser (+ blowhole, lava, sand, steam) Geyser Basin Giant Footprint, Pawprint, Hoofprint (size: wagon, house, castle, town) Giant Forest Giant Fulgurite Giant Geode Giant Insect (+ carapace, cocoon, hive, mound, nest, shell, tower, webs) Giant Lilly Pad Giant Monster Remains (body, insect carapace, sea shell, skeleton, snail shell, tortoise shell) Giant Mushroom Giant Plants (type: bushes, flowers, trees, vines) Giant Tree Glacial Horn (sharp pyramid shaped peak) Glacier Glade Glass Field, Glass Plain (site where some event super heated the ground turning the sand into glass or clay into ceramic) Glen Gorge Grassland Graveyard (type: animal, kaiju, monster) Grounds (+ breeding, burial, hatching, hunting, nesting, proving, spawning) Grotto Grove Gulch Gully Hanging Valley (tributary valley higher than the main valley) Hellscape (+ burning, frozen, toxic, volcanic) Hill Hot Springs Hurst ( Hillock ) Island, Isles (+ barrier, chain, tidal, volcanic) Isthmus Jungle Kame (irregularly shaped hill made of sand & gravel, left by a glacier) Key, Keys Krummholz (stunted windblown trees growing near the tree line on mountains) Lagoon Lake (+ arctic, boiling, bubbling, color, fresh water, frozen, hypersaline, inland, of acid, of fire, of lava, salt water, shallow, toxic, underground, volcanic) Lake Bed (+ dried) Landing Landmass (+ floating on water, held up by plants, held up by roots, levitating, on pillars) Lava (+ fields, flow, geyser, lake, pool, river, sea, tube) Lava Flow (+ molten, solidified, old) Lava Tube Ledge Levee Mangrove Marsh (+ brackish, freshwater) Massif (isolated mountain or isolated mountain range) Meadow Mesa Mineral (+ deposit, field, surface deposit, vein) Mire Moor Moraine (debris left by a glacier) Mound Mount / Mountain Mountain Cloud Layer (+ above, below, within) Mudflats, Tidal Flat Mudflow, Mudslide Mudpot, Mud pool (acidic hot spring of bubbling mud) Natural Tower, Pinnacle, Spire, Needle (individual rock column shaped like a vertical shaft) Natural Water Slide Nunatak (exposed rocky ridge not covered in ice within an ice field or glacier) Oasis Ocean Orchard, Orchards Overhang Overlook Pack Ice Pass Pasture Paternoster (series of glacial lakes connected by a stream) Path Pattern - Large pattern or symbol that can be seen from above (crop circle / geoglyph / natural formation that resembles something) Peak Peninsula Petrified Forest Pingo (mound of earth covered ice in arctic environments) Pit, Pits (+ mud, sand, slime, tar) Planar Rift, Dimensional Rift Plateau Point Pond Pool, Pools Prairie Precipice Pumice Raft Quicksand Rainforest Rapids Ravine Reef Ridge Rift Valley River (+ cascading, flooded, frozen, underground, whitewater rapids) River Delta River Valley Roche Moutonnee (rock formation created by passing of a glacier) Salt Flats Salt Marsh Sand Bar Sand Pit Sands (+ sand color: black, bluish, brown, green, lavender, orange, pink, red, tan, white, yellow / iron sands) Savanna Scrubland, Shrubland, Chaparral Sea (+ arctic, bubbling, color, fresh water, frozen, hypersaline, inland, of acid, of fire, salt water, shallow, toxic, underground, volcanic) Sea Cave Shallows Shelf Shoreline (+ rocky, sandy) Sink Hole Spire Springs Steppes Stream Summit Swamp Taiga, Boreal Forest, Snow Forest (subarctic coniferous forest) Tarn (mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque by a glacier) Tar Pits Tepui, Table Top Mountain - flat top mountains Terrace Tidal Cave Tidal Island Tidal Land Bridge Tide Pool, Tidal Pool Trail Trembling Earth (spongy ground / plant material over water) Trench (+ undersea) Tundra Tunnel (+ earthen, giant insect, ice, monster burrow, natural, stone) Undersea (+ canyon, cavern, deeps, kelp beds, oyster beds, reef, ruins, shallows, trench, volcano) Vale Valley (+ glacial, hanging, river, step, u-shapped) Valley Step Volcano (+ active, dormant, inactive, island, smoking, underwater) Warrens Waste, Wastes, Wasteland Waterfall Well (+ artesian, divine, infernal, of magic, of power, water) Wetland, Wetlands Whirlpool, Maelstrom (permanent, reoccurring) Wild, Wilds Wood, Woods (type)(+ burned, cursed, giant, haunted, petrified, spiny) Biome Mods: (biome type + mod) Arctic - cold, often frozen or icy conditions Aware - animated / sentient / collective sentient / genius loci / benevolent / hostile Day Light - always day / always night / always solar eclipse / long day or night Dimensional Anomaly - terrain appears in a fixed location, terrain appears & disappears at certain times or certain events Disaster (during / after) - avalanche, blizzard, earthquake, fire, flood, fungal bloom, hurricane, ice storm, meteor shower, plague, red tide, sand storm, swarm, tidal wave, tornado, volcanic eruption, war vs. monster, war vs. sentient Giant Monster - Biome is on top of a living giant monster / Biome is a giant monster (earth elemental / golem) Fauna - normal, clockwork, elemental, enchanted, giant, helpful, intelligent, magic construct, mischievous, monster, poisonous, spirit, thieves, toxic to eat, transformed people, zombie Flora - normal, burned, clear cut, dead, enchanted, fast growing, fast life cycle, floating gas bags, giant, intelligent, magic construct, predatory, toxic Hollow Earth - terrain in giant hollow space within the planet (underground) Magic - absorbing / amplified magic / cursed / reduced magic / wild magic Perpetual Weather - fire tornado, fog, hurricane, ice storm, lightning storm, mist, rain storm, sand storm, snow storm, wild magic storm Resources (animals) - able to domesticate, bioluminescent light source, bones, carapace, dung, feathers, food, fossils, fur, guano, hide, honey, ink, ivory, oil, pearls, quills, scales, silk, venom, wax, wool Resources (plants) - bioluminescent light source, building material, brewed drink, cotton, drug, dye, flowers, food, fuel, incense, innately magical, medicine, needles, oil, poison, resins, spice, syrup, tinder, water, wax Resources (minerals) - clay, coal, crystals (+ fast growing, giant, luminescent), gems, innately magical material, metals, minerals (+ glowing), salt, stone Resources (other) - fertile soil, fossils Resources (magic) - innately magic material or substance, amplify magic, resist magic, replenish mana, anti-magic Season - spring, summer, fall, winter / dry season, rainy season Unusual Atmosphere - corrosive / flammable / low oxygen / thin / toxic / steamy / vacuum Unusual Features - mineral formations (luminescent) / mineral formations (spiky) Unusual Gravity - hi-gravity / low gravity / fluctuating Unusual Magnetic Field - fluctuating / moving / strong / weak Vegetation - animated / bio-luminescent / fast growing plants or fungus / giant / spikes / toxic Wandering - terrain moves over time / locomotion - grows into area / transforms adjacent area / teleports