Real badlands clay bands and a real biome temperature table

The bandlands rule cycled four terracotta colours off a per-column random draw.
Vanilla generates a 192-entry band table once per world, from a random source
named clay_bands, and reads it at the block's height shifted by the
clay_bands_offset noise. Brown, red and light grey terracotta were never placed
anywhere; the stripes were the wrong thickness and did not line up between
neighbouring columns. All seven colours now appear.

The temperature condition matched a hand-written list of eleven biome names.
Replacing it with the temperature field read out of the jar's 65 biome JSONs
fixes one of them: deep_frozen_ocean reads cold by name but its base
temperature is 0.5, so vanilla does not freeze it. taiga and the pine taigas
were the other way round -- excluded by name, and correctly so, but by
coincidence rather than by data.

Two parts of the vanilla calculation are left out and documented where they
belong: the height adjustment that cools peaks, and the "frozen" modifier that
warms scattered patches of frozen ocean. Both need PerlinSimplexNoise. Neither
is reachable from the overworld tree in a way that shows: the single condition
that consults temperature sits under a frozen_ocean biome check, below a water
check, and decides whether a hole in the ocean floor ices over. The snowy
mountain tops come from biome selection, not from here -- which is not what the
plan for this commit assumed.

The per-column *rand.Rand threaded through SurfaceContext goes away with the
old bandlands rule; nothing needs it now that vertical_gradient rolls
positionally.

cmd/gendump/main.go

@@ -302,6 +302,48 @@ func main() {
 		fmt.Printf("  OK: %d of %d grass columns carry 2+ blocks of dirt\n", banded, allGrass)
 	}
 
+	// Badlands banding: the clay band table is 192 entries of seven terracotta
+	// colours. The stand-in it replaced cycled four, so brown, red and light
+	// grey never appeared anywhere in the world.
+	fmt.Println("\n=== Badlands clay bands (expect several terracotta colours down a column) ===")
+	terracottas := map[uint16]string{
+		12912: "terracotta", 11444: "white", 11445: "orange", 11448: "yellow",
+		11452: "light_gray", 11456: "brown", 11458: "red",
+	}
+	seenBands := map[uint16]int{}
+	badlandsCols := 0
+	for cx := int32(-300); cx < 300 && badlandsCols < 8; cx += 7 {
+		for cz := int32(-300); cz < 300 && badlandsCols < 8; cz += 7 {
+			name := world.BiomeNameAt(od, int(cx)*16+8, int(cz)*16+8)
+			if name != "minecraft:badlands" && name != "minecraft:eroded_badlands" && name != "minecraft:wooded_badlands" {
+				continue
+			}
+			ch := gen(cx, cz)
+			for lx := 0; lx < 16; lx += 4 {
+				for lz := 0; lz < 16; lz += 4 {
+					for wy := world.MinY + world.WorldHeight - 1; wy >= world.MinY; wy-- {
+						if _, isBand := terracottas[ch.GetBlock(lx, wy, lz)]; isBand {
+							seenBands[ch.GetBlock(lx, wy, lz)]++
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+			badlandsCols++
+		}
+	}
+	if badlandsCols == 0 {
+		fmt.Println("  (no badlands in the scan area)")
+	} else {
+		for id, label := range terracottas {
+			fmt.Printf("  %-11s %d\n", label, seenBands[id])
+		}
+		if len(seenBands) < 6 {
+			fmt.Printf("  FAIL: only %d of 7 terracotta colours placed\n", len(seenBands))
+		} else {
+			fmt.Printf("  OK: %d of 7 terracotta colours across %d badlands chunks\n", len(seenBands), badlandsCols)
+		}
+	}
+
 	// 2) Cross-section at chunk (0,0): column x=8, over full Y, ASCII.
 	fmt.Println("\n=== Cross-section chunk(0,0) z=8, x=0..15 (side view, top 96 blocks near surface) ===")
 	c := gen(0, 0)

internal/world/store.go

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const dataVersion26 = 4790
 // first time it ran: chunkAt prefers the store over the generator, so the
 // already-explored area around spawn keeps its old terrain and every later fix
 // looks like it did nothing in exactly the place you are standing.
-const generatorVersion = 5
+const generatorVersion = 6
 
 // generatorVersionTag is the NBT key holding generatorVersion. It is namespaced
 // because it is ours, not part of the vanilla chunk format.

internal/world/vanilla.go

@@ -123,13 +123,12 @@ func generateVanilla(od *worldgen.OverworldDensity, fluidPicker worldgen.FluidPi
 				sctx = surfaceRule.NewContext()
 			}
 			for lz := 0; lz < 16; lz++ {
-				rng := newColumnRand(baseX+lx, baseZ+lz, int(seed))
 				if ruleErr == nil {
 					applySurfaceRule(od, surfaceRule, sctx, &columns[lx][lz],
-						baseX+lx, baseZ+lz, lx, lz, &worldSurface, biomeName[lx][lz], rng)
+						baseX+lx, baseZ+lz, lx, lz, &worldSurface, biomeName[lx][lz])
-				} else {
+					continue
-					fillLegacySurface(&columns[lx][lz], surfTop[lx][lz], rng)
 				}
+				fillLegacySurface(&columns[lx][lz], surfTop[lx][lz], newColumnRand(baseX+lx, baseZ+lz, int(seed)))
 			}
 		}(lx)
 	}
@@ -275,7 +274,7 @@ func substance(aq *worldgen.Aquifer, fluidPicker worldgen.FluidPicker, x, y, z i
 // One *rand.Rand is created per column (not per block) — bandlands/gradient
 // consume from it sequentially, which is correct because vanilla seeds those
 // per-column too. This avoids ~98k rand.New allocations per chunk.
-func applySurfaceRule(od *worldgen.OverworldDensity, rules *worldgen.SurfaceRuleSet, sctx *worldgen.SurfaceContext, out *[WorldHeight]uint16, wx, wz, lx, lz int, worldSurface *[16][16]int, biomeName string, rng chunkRand) {
+func applySurfaceRule(od *worldgen.OverworldDensity, rules *worldgen.SurfaceRuleSet, sctx *worldgen.SurfaceContext, out *[WorldHeight]uint16, wx, wz, lx, lz int, worldSurface *[16][16]int, biomeName string) {
 	top := -1
 	for i := WorldHeight - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
 		if out[i] != StateAir {
@@ -299,7 +298,6 @@ func applySurfaceRule(od *worldgen.OverworldDensity, rules *worldgen.SurfaceRule
 	sctx.SurfaceDepth = surfaceDepth
 	sctx.MinSurfaceLevel = od.MinSurfaceLevelAt(wx, wz, surfaceDepth)
 	sctx.Steep = steepAt(worldSurface, lx, lz)
-	sctx.Rng = rng.toRand()
 	minY := MinY
 	stoneDepthAbove := 0
 	waterHeight := worldgen.NoWaterAbove

internal/worldgen/bandlands.go

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+package worldgen
+
+import "math"
+
+// bandlands.go ports SurfaceSystem's badlands clay banding: a 192-entry table
+// of terracotta colours generated once per world, indexed by height plus a
+// noise offset. It is what gives badlands their horizontal stripes.
+//
+// The previous stand-in cycled four colours off a per-column random draw, which
+// produced stripes of the wrong thickness in the wrong places and never used
+// brown, red or light grey at all.
+
+const clayBandCount = 192
+
+// clayBands is the generated band table plus the noise that shifts it
+// horizontally.
+type clayBands struct {
+	bands  [clayBandCount]uint16
+	offset *NormalNoise
+}
+
+// bandAt is SurfaceSystem.getBand.
+func (c *clayBands) bandAt(x, y, z int) uint16 {
+	// Math.round, which is floor(v+0.5) — not Go's round-half-away-from-zero.
+	shift := int(math.Floor(c.offset.GetValue(float64(x), 0, float64(z))*4.0 + 0.5))
+	return c.bands[((y+shift)%clayBandCount+clayBandCount)%clayBandCount]
+}
+
+// newClayBands is SurfaceSystem.generateBands: terracotta everywhere, then
+// orange stripes at random intervals, then runs of yellow, brown and red, then
+// white bands flanked by light grey.
+func newClayBands(random RandomSource, offset *NormalNoise) *clayBands {
+	c := &clayBands{offset: offset}
+	terracotta, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:terracotta", nil)
+	orange, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:orange_terracotta", nil)
+	yellow, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:yellow_terracotta", nil)
+	brown, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:brown_terracotta", nil)
+	red, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:red_terracotta", nil)
+	white, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:white_terracotta", nil)
+	lightGray, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:light_gray_terracotta", nil)
+
+	for i := range c.bands {
+		c.bands[i] = terracotta
+	}
+	// The stride is added to the loop variable, so the ++ at the end of each
+	// iteration is part of the spacing — as it is in vanilla.
+	for i := 0; i < clayBandCount; i++ {
+		if i += int(random.NextIntN(5)) + 1; i >= clayBandCount {
+			continue
+		}
+		c.bands[i] = orange
+	}
+	c.makeBands(random, 1, yellow)
+	c.makeBands(random, 2, brown)
+	c.makeBands(random, 1, red)
+
+	whiteBandCount := nextIntBetweenInclusive(random, 9, 15)
+	for i, start := 0, 0; i < whiteBandCount && start < clayBandCount; i, start = i+1, start+int(random.NextIntN(16))+4 {
+		c.bands[start] = white
+		if start-1 > 0 && random.NextBoolean() {
+			c.bands[start-1] = lightGray
+		}
+		if start+1 >= clayBandCount || !random.NextBoolean() {
+			continue
+		}
+		c.bands[start+1] = lightGray
+	}
+	return c
+}
+
+// makeBands is SurfaceSystem.makeBands: six to fifteen runs of one colour, each
+// a few bands wide, dropped at random offsets.
+func (c *clayBands) makeBands(random RandomSource, baseWidth int, state uint16) {
+	bandCount := nextIntBetweenInclusive(random, 6, 15)
+	for i := 0; i < bandCount; i++ {
+		width := baseWidth + int(random.NextIntN(3))
+		start := int(random.NextIntN(clayBandCount))
+		for p := 0; start+p < clayBandCount && p < width; p++ {
+			c.bands[start+p] = state
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// nextIntBetweenInclusive is RandomSource.nextIntBetweenInclusive.
+func nextIntBetweenInclusive(random RandomSource, lo, hi int) int {
+	return lo + int(random.NextIntN(int32(hi-lo+1)))
+}

internal/worldgen/biome_temperature.go

@@ -0,0 +1,99 @@
+package worldgen
+
+// biome_temperature.go holds each overworld biome's base temperature, extracted
+// verbatim from the "temperature" field of data/minecraft/worldgen/biome/*.json
+// inside the 26.1.2 server jar. It replaces a hand-written list of biome names
+// that guessed at which ones were cold.
+//
+// The surface rule tree consults it through exactly one condition
+// (minecraft:temperature), which decides whether a hole in a frozen ocean floor
+// freezes over.
+
+// biomeTemperature maps a biome to Biome.getBaseTemperature().
+var biomeTemperature = map[string]float32{
+	"minecraft:badlands":                 2.0,
+	"minecraft:bamboo_jungle":            0.95,
+	"minecraft:basalt_deltas":            2.0,
+	"minecraft:beach":                    0.8,
+	"minecraft:birch_forest":             0.6,
+	"minecraft:cherry_grove":             0.5,
+	"minecraft:cold_ocean":               0.5,
+	"minecraft:crimson_forest":           2.0,
+	"minecraft:dark_forest":              0.7,
+	"minecraft:deep_cold_ocean":          0.5,
+	"minecraft:deep_dark":                0.8,
+	"minecraft:deep_frozen_ocean":        0.5, // temperature_modifier: frozen
+	"minecraft:deep_lukewarm_ocean":      0.5,
+	"minecraft:deep_ocean":               0.5,
+	"minecraft:desert":                   2.0,
+	"minecraft:dripstone_caves":          0.8,
+	"minecraft:end_barrens":              0.5,
+	"minecraft:end_highlands":            0.5,
+	"minecraft:end_midlands":             0.5,
+	"minecraft:eroded_badlands":          2.0,
+	"minecraft:flower_forest":            0.7,
+	"minecraft:forest":                   0.7,
+	"minecraft:frozen_ocean":             0.0, // temperature_modifier: frozen
+	"minecraft:frozen_peaks":             -0.7,
+	"minecraft:frozen_river":             0.0,
+	"minecraft:grove":                    -0.2,
+	"minecraft:ice_spikes":               0.0,
+	"minecraft:jagged_peaks":             -0.7,
+	"minecraft:jungle":                   0.95,
+	"minecraft:lukewarm_ocean":           0.5,
+	"minecraft:lush_caves":               0.5,
+	"minecraft:mangrove_swamp":           0.8,
+	"minecraft:meadow":                   0.5,
+	"minecraft:mushroom_fields":          0.9,
+	"minecraft:nether_wastes":            2.0,
+	"minecraft:ocean":                    0.5,
+	"minecraft:old_growth_birch_forest":  0.6,
+	"minecraft:old_growth_pine_taiga":    0.3,
+	"minecraft:old_growth_spruce_taiga":  0.25,
+	"minecraft:pale_garden":              0.7,
+	"minecraft:plains":                   0.8,
+	"minecraft:river":                    0.5,
+	"minecraft:savanna":                  2.0,
+	"minecraft:savanna_plateau":          2.0,
+	"minecraft:small_end_islands":        0.5,
+	"minecraft:snowy_beach":              0.05,
+	"minecraft:snowy_plains":             0.0,
+	"minecraft:snowy_slopes":             -0.3,
+	"minecraft:snowy_taiga":              -0.5,
+	"minecraft:soul_sand_valley":         2.0,
+	"minecraft:sparse_jungle":            0.95,
+	"minecraft:stony_peaks":              1.0,
+	"minecraft:stony_shore":              0.2,
+	"minecraft:sunflower_plains":         0.8,
+	"minecraft:swamp":                    0.8,
+	"minecraft:taiga":                    0.25,
+	"minecraft:the_end":                  0.5,
+	"minecraft:the_void":                 0.5,
+	"minecraft:warm_ocean":               0.5,
+	"minecraft:warped_forest":            2.0,
+	"minecraft:windswept_forest":         0.2,
+	"minecraft:windswept_gravelly_hills": 0.2,
+	"minecraft:windswept_hills":          0.2,
+	"minecraft:windswept_savanna":        2.0,
+	"minecraft:wooded_badlands":          2.0,
+}
+
+// coldEnoughToSnow is Biome.coldEnoughToSnow: below 0.15 the biome gets snow
+// and ice rather than rain.
+//
+// Two parts of vanilla's calculation are not reproduced, both because they need
+// PerlinSimplexNoise, which we do not have:
+//
+//   - the height adjustment, which cools a column above sea level + 17 and so
+//     puts snow on peaks in otherwise temperate biomes. No rule in the
+//     overworld tree reaches this condition above that height.
+//   - the "frozen" temperature modifier, which warms scattered patches of
+//     frozen_ocean and deep_frozen_ocean. Its absence makes frozen-ocean ice
+//     uniform where vanilla leaves open water in it.
+//
+// An unknown biome reads as warm, which is the safe direction: it leaves the
+// default block alone rather than icing something over.
+func coldEnoughToSnow(biome string) bool {
+	temperature, ok := biomeTemperature[biome]
+	return ok && temperature < 0.15
+}

internal/worldgen/loader.go

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ type Loader struct {
 	rs           *RandomState
 	dfCache      map[string]DensityFunction
 	interpolated []*Interpolated
+	bands        *clayBands
 }
 
 // OverworldDensity is the parsed final_density plus the set of Interpolated
@@ -446,3 +447,17 @@ func (l *Loader) parseSplineValue(v any) (DensityFunction, error) {
 	}
 	return l.parseNode(v)
 }
+
+// clayBands builds the world's badlands band table on first use. It is seeded
+// from the root positional factory hashed by name, as SurfaceSystem does.
+func (l *Loader) clayBands() (*clayBands, error) {
+	if l.bands != nil {
+		return l.bands, nil
+	}
+	offset, err := l.noiseField("minecraft:clay_bands_offset")
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("clay_bands_offset noise: %w", err)
+	}
+	l.bands = newClayBands(l.rs.Positional().FromHashOf("minecraft:clay_bands"), offset)
+	return l.bands, nil
+}

internal/worldgen/surface.go

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"math"
-	"math/rand"
 )
 
 // surface.go implements the vanilla SurfaceRules interpreter: a rule tree that
@@ -59,10 +58,6 @@ type SurfaceContext struct {
 	// the interpolated preliminary surface level plus SurfaceDepth less 8.
 	// above_preliminary_surface tests Y against it.
 	MinSurfaceLevel int
-	// Rng is a per-column deterministic source for the bandlands rule. It is
-	// seeded by the column so results are stable across runs.
-	Rng *rand.Rand
-
 	// noiseValues holds one sample per noise the rule tree's noise_threshold
 	// conditions reference, refreshed once per column by BeginColumn. Vanilla
 	// caches these the same way, through LazyXZCondition.
@@ -107,29 +102,13 @@ func (r conditionRule) Apply(ctx *SurfaceContext) (uint16, bool) {
 	return r.then.Apply(ctx)
 }
 
-// bandlandsRule reproduces the vanilla badlands coloured-clay banding: a
+// bandlandsRule reads the world's clay band table at the block's height,
-// deterministic per-column pattern of terracotta colours at certain Y bands. We
+// shifted horizontally by the clay_bands_offset noise. It is what stripes the
-// approximate the 8-band rotation using the column RNG; exact band geometry is
+// badlands.
-// captured well enough to read as badlands.
+type bandlandsRule struct{ bands *clayBands }
-type bandlandsRule struct{}
 
-func (bandlandsRule) Apply(ctx *SurfaceContext) (uint16, bool) {
+func (r bandlandsRule) Apply(ctx *SurfaceContext) (uint16, bool) {
-	orange, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:orange_terracotta", nil)
+	return r.bands.bandAt(ctx.X, ctx.Y, ctx.Z), true
-	if ctx.Rng == nil {
-		return orange, true
-	}
-	// Vanilla chooses band by Y + a per-column random offset; the rotation
-	// cycles white/orange/yellow/orange terracotta. Pick from the cycle by Y.
-	white, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:white_terracotta", nil)
-	yellow, _ := surfaceBlockID("minecraft:yellow_terracotta", nil)
-	switch (ctx.Y + ctx.Rng.Intn(7)) % 4 {
-	case 0:
-		return white, true
-	case 1, 3:
-		return orange, true
-	default:
-		return yellow, true
-	}
 }
 
 // ---- Condition tests ---------------------------------------------------
@@ -188,27 +167,13 @@ func (t waterTest) Test(ctx *SurfaceContext) bool {
 	return y >= ctx.WaterHeight+t.offset+ctx.SurfaceDepth*t.surfaceDepthMul
 }
 
-// temperatureTest passes when the (column) temperature is below freezing — the
+// temperatureTest passes where the biome is cold enough for snow and ice
-// snow-at-height rule. We fold temperature into the biome name (snowy_*
+// rather than rain. The overworld tree uses it once, to freeze holes in a
-// biomes) rather than sampling the temperature noise, so pass for cold biomes.
+// frozen ocean floor.
 type temperatureTest struct{}
 
 func (temperatureTest) Test(ctx *SurfaceContext) bool {
-	return isColdBiome(ctx.BiomeName)
+	return coldEnoughToSnow(ctx.BiomeName)
-}
-
-// isColdBiome reports whether the biome should receive snow cover. We use the
-// biome name rather than the temperature noise for simplicity; this matches
-// the visible result for the standard overworld biomes.
-func isColdBiome(name string) bool {
-	switch name {
-	case "minecraft:snowy_plains", "minecraft:snowy_taiga", "minecraft:snowy_beach",
-		"minecraft:snowy_slopes", "minecraft:jagged_peaks", "minecraft:frozen_peaks",
-		"minecraft:frozen_river", "minecraft:frozen_ocean", "minecraft:deep_frozen_ocean",
-		"minecraft:ice_spikes", "minecraft:grove":
-		return true
-	}
-	return false
 }
 
 // yAboveTest passes when Y clears an anchor, with optional surface-depth and
@@ -445,7 +410,11 @@ func (p *surfaceParser) parseRule(raw json.RawMessage) (SurfaceRule, error) {
 		return conditionRule{test: test, then: then}, nil
 
 	case "minecraft:bandlands":
-		return bandlandsRule{}, nil
+		bands, err := p.loader.clayBands()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return bandlandsRule{bands: bands}, nil
 	}
 	return nil, fmt.Errorf("surface: unknown rule type %q", obj.Type)
 }

internal/worldgen/surface_test.go

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package worldgen
 
-import (
+import "testing"
-	"math/rand"
-	"testing"
-)
 
 // loadTestRules compiles the overworld surface rule set at a fixed seed.
 func loadTestRules(t *testing.T) *SurfaceRuleSet {
@@ -47,7 +44,6 @@ func TestSurfaceRuleNoPanic(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx.SeaLevel, ctx.MinY = 63, -64
 	ctx.MinSurfaceLevel, ctx.WaterHeight = 80, NoWaterAbove
 	ctx.SurfaceDepth = 3
-	ctx.Rng = rand.New(rand.NewSource(1))
 	for _, b := range biomes {
 		ctx.BiomeName = b
 		for y := 0; y < 100; y++ {
@@ -70,7 +66,6 @@ func TestSurfaceBedrockFloor(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx.BiomeName = "minecraft:plains"
 	ctx.MinSurfaceLevel, ctx.WaterHeight = 62, NoWaterAbove
 	ctx.SurfaceDepth = 3
-	ctx.Rng = rand.New(rand.NewSource(1))
 	state, ok := rules.Apply(ctx)
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("no rule matched at bedrock floor")
@@ -116,21 +111,37 @@ func TestSurfaceBlockIDResolution(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// TestIsColdBiome confirms the snow-cover predicate recognises cold biomes so
+// TestColdEnoughToSnow pins the temperature predicate against the biome table
-// the temperature condition routes snowy biomes to snow.
+// extracted from the jar. deep_frozen_ocean is the interesting case: the name
-func TestIsColdBiome(t *testing.T) {
+// reads cold but its base temperature is 0.5, so vanilla does not freeze it —
-	cold := []string{"minecraft:snowy_plains", "minecraft:frozen_peaks", "minecraft:grove"}
+// the hand-written list this replaced got it wrong.
+func TestColdEnoughToSnow(t *testing.T) {
+	cold := []string{
+		"minecraft:frozen_ocean", "minecraft:frozen_peaks", "minecraft:frozen_river",
+		"minecraft:grove", "minecraft:ice_spikes", "minecraft:jagged_peaks",
+		"minecraft:snowy_beach", "minecraft:snowy_plains", "minecraft:snowy_slopes",
+		"minecraft:snowy_taiga",
+	}
 	for _, b := range cold {
-		if !isColdBiome(b) {
+		if !coldEnoughToSnow(b) {
-			t.Errorf("isColdBiome(%q) = false, want true", b)
+			t.Errorf("coldEnoughToSnow(%q) = false, want true", b)
 		}
 	}
-	warm := []string{"minecraft:desert", "minecraft:plains", "minecraft:badlands"}
+	warm := []string{
+		"minecraft:desert", "minecraft:plains", "minecraft:badlands",
+		"minecraft:deep_frozen_ocean", "minecraft:taiga", "minecraft:windswept_hills",
+	}
 	for _, b := range warm {
-		if isColdBiome(b) {
+		if coldEnoughToSnow(b) {
-			t.Errorf("isColdBiome(%q) = true, want false", b)
+			t.Errorf("coldEnoughToSnow(%q) = true, want false", b)
 		}
 	}
+	if coldEnoughToSnow("minecraft:not_a_biome") {
+		t.Error("an unknown biome read as cold")
+	}
+	if len(biomeTemperature) != 65 {
+		t.Errorf("biome temperature table has %d entries, want 65", len(biomeTemperature))
+	}
 }
 
 // TestWaterCondition pins SurfaceRules.WaterConditionSource against the