Earth Platform is a Minecraft mod that recreates the planet at a scale of one block per meter, using real elevation, land-cover, climate, and water-flow data. Mountains, valleys, rivers, forests, deserts, and other biomes appear in their real-world locations, with regional survey data providing especially fine terrain detail in places such as the United States, Canada, France, and Japan. Minecraft’s familiar biomes are assigned according to real climate, and vanilla caves, ores, villages, and structures remain available. Built-up areas are not reproduced as cities; they become the surrounding natural landscape. The project cautions that its processed data is not a survey and should not be used for navigation.
The mod supports ordinary survival and creative play, portals to the Nether and End, multiplayer servers, and several other popular mods. A travel map lets creative players select a destination on the globe; survival players can navigate toward locations, while commands, elytra flight, and ocean currents offer ways to cross the enormous world. A custom renderer displays distant terrain roughly 94 kilometers away by default, with longer ranges available at higher performance cost. It requires Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge and an internet connection to download terrain on first visits; downloaded areas are cached for offline use. Shaders are supported, but the mod’s immense world height and rendering distances require substantial memory and computing power.
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