Continent of Meridea - a free 17k x 12k map for Creative and Adventure players [1.18+]

Welcome to Meridea, the creative playground!

Meridea is a large continent measuring over 16km x 10km in total full of biomes and regions for you to build on. This map is designed for Creative players looking for larger, realistic terrain to build on, or for RPG/Adventure map creators who want a large and varied map to work with.

Features

• A diverse region with forests, a jungle, deserts, a snowy wasteland, hills, meadows, deep oceans, rivers and many more!
• Includes a large continent and various islands.
• A large network of caves, including hand-crafted unique caves.
• Deep oceans that go down to -60.
• Tall mountains that go up to 320.

• More images of forests
• More images of deserts
• More images of islands
• More images of various plains and hills
• More images of alpine and snowy regions

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition 1.18.
  
• At least 5GB storage space.

Recommendations

Meridea was created to work in vanilla and only uses vanilla blocks and height limits, however this map was designed with the following resource packs and mods in mind:

• OptiFine: greatly improve performance and is required for the recommended resource pack.
• BetterVanillaBuilding: a great resource pack that includes reworked vanilla blocks and connected textures, as well as custom leaf colours in some biomes.
• Distant Horizons: creates LODs for chunks outside of your render distance for an extended render distance up to 512 chunks (still in Alpha).
• Effective: adds effects to falling liquids, making waterfalls look more realistic
• Small Ships: adds ships to Minecraft and makes travelling Meridea's vast river network more enjoyable (still in Alpha).
• JourneyMap: adds an overworld map to your display and a full-sized map of Meridea.

FAQs

Does this map work in Survival?
No. Meridea was not designed for Survival in mind and does not feature enough resources for you to comfortably play in Survival. This map is designed for Creative and Adventure modes.

What's outside of the map?
Meridea has a custom sea level of 20; there is a 512 block "buffer" of undecorated ocean between Meridea and new terrain which Minecraft will generate. However, Minecraft's sea level is 62 and this will not merge at all. There is an entire fence around Meridea before the "buffer" so venture past this fence at your own peril.

What shaders did you use for the screenshots?
Nostalgia Shader. There’s a lot of biomes and Nostalgia is pretty neutral and looks nice everywhere.

How did you get pink and other colour leaves?
OptiFine and BetterVanillaBuilding. They change the leaves in some biomes. Without BVB, they’ll just be birch trees.

Why are there no buildings?
This map is for you to build on. Use it to make your own builds and adventure maps.

Can I use this map for my server?
You can, but you must make the server available for free.

What permissions do I have?
You may not use this map for commercial uses or any financial profit. You may not repost or rehost any part of this map, including small areas of it.
You may feature this map in YouTube videos provided you give me full credit.

Will you release a version for-
No. This map will only work in 1.18 and above due to the height limit. It was designed for 1.18.2 and has not been tested for 1.18 and 1.18.1; I can't see why it wouldn't work on those two but you your mileage may vary.

It’s designed for 1.18 because no one’s happy about the reporting nonsense in 1.19+.

Do you want to see my builds?
Yes!!! If you ever build something on Meridea, please show me! I'd love to see what people do with this map.

Credits

This map was not made possible without WorldPainter where all of this terrain was created, nor without the free schematics provided by the Minecraft and WorldPainter community. A full list of credits can be found here: pastebin.com/hJ9uP961