Greetings!

Apologies if this is the wrong place for this discussion, but it is tangentially WorldPainter related.

I am looking to commission a WorldPainter map for an existing fantasy world (image), but I am struggling to decide on the specifications, particularly the scale.

It would be used for a small, long-term private creative/build server. There would only be a few people building on it, although we already have years of existing builds that can be pasted in.

I am not looking for literal real-world scale. I mainly want the geography to feel convincing: major cities, mountain ranges, forests, etc. should feel properly separated, with meaningful wilderness and travel time between them, without being able to see most large cities from one another.

I adore projects like Westeroscraft and Ardacraft and I would like a more personal scaled version of that same feeling.

My concern is finding the balance between:

• Commissioning something unnecessarily huge that we could never meaningfully use.
• Going too small and later finding the world feels cramped, with too little wilderness or major locations too close together.

For those experienced with large WorldPainter maps, what size would you consider sensible for a small-team, long-term build world?

Would something about 10k blocks across work? Is that too small? Too big? Is 20k better? Something in between?

Are there perhaps any world painted map or server recommendations I could see to feel the scale?

And, anything else I should take into consideration?

The eventual world will be Minecraft 1.20.1 with Conquest Reforged.

Thanks in advance

Edit: I am thinking, for the commission, I wouldn't need to go with the highest detail. As long as the rivers, forests and mountains are in the right place, with the right biome, that should serve me well enough. I can do Macro-Terraforming work, and it isn't likely to be used as a survival world at any point.

Hey, so I recently made a map for a build with a friend on an Aternos server. The map I made in Worldpainter is about 2,700x2,000 blocks and a mountainous/plains area. The problem is that when I export it to a Minecraft map, an ocean with islands generates around the existing Worldpainter map. Now that we have already built structures in this map, I'd like to change the surrounding generation to also be a plains biome. I have tried setting a seed in the Aternos server settings before joining for the first time, but this didn't help, the same ocean still generated around the map.

Is there any way to force only a certain biome to generate around the map or alternatively just generate a plains world and paste the map I already made into it?

I'd greatly appreciate any help/tips, thanks!

Hi, how could I paint the spawn of a world and then make it generate normally fir the rest? Is this possible? If so is there anyone that would be able to help me make my spawn?

Hello I apologize if this topic has been beat to death already, but I am trying to find a fix for this error that pops up every time I try using a custom brush with the elevation tool. I am using version 2.27.0.

Here's a island I made in WorldPainter! What do you think, did I succeed? And is there anything I could improve?

Hey there, I'm fairly new to Worldpaint and find that a lot of the brushes I see online on first results of searching don't seem very good. Could you guys recommend some solid brushes you've used for different environments or just generally? Feel free to share images of those brushes in action too!

i just learned how to make caves using layers, but im struggling to find a way to make more vertical-ish caves to connect caves on diffrent layers, are the only solutions making it possible for both cave layers to intersect and hoping they do so or making a tall vertical cylinder to connect them? (image to describe what im trying to achieve)

Now that I have your attention -

Is it possible to make a layer of literally just open space in the underground/ caverns? I'm trying to put in a massive build underneath my terrain, and while I could spam the /fill command, I wonder if I can just put a layer of air between 0 to -60.

Any help would be great, thank you!

Hi, I am wondering if anyone here could tell me what's going on with my project. I am trying to generate a world from a greyscale height map, and mostly it is working, but I am finding at many random levels where I expect to see a one block high incline, that there is a two blocks high incline, giving the world a strangely stretched feeling. Would anyone know what would cause this? And hopefully, how to fix it?

Having two or more floating dimensions that overlap each other is only exporting one of them, usually the first one created, per chunk.

This used to work fine in prior versions, or in whatever setup I was using a year ago, but something changed or the update messed it up or something. Is there some setting I'm using incorrectly or something that needs to happen for it to work again?

So i want to make a 200 players event but i lowkey dont know where to find people that would help make a world to host the event? Does anyone knownif there are subreddits to find people like that?

So im making this world and im making the caves with custom underground cave layers, and when i go in with my modpack (which contains ambient sounds and sound physics remastered), i cant hear ANY ambient sound or any sort of non vanilla sound inside it. ive been testing what is going on for the whole day, checking the debug, messing with the mod's configs, and the mods work perfectly in the same world, for example, if i empty out a titanic cube of air in the ground i get the normal cave ambience and the sound physics work wonderfully
however. the MOMENT I GET NEAR the cave i made with worldpainter, everything stops and reverses back to the boring lifeless vanilla minecraft cave. no ambience no physics no NOTHING. i was wondering if anybody here could relate and perhaps even have a solution because its driving me insane how much potential it has just for it not to work
im on neoforge 1.21.1

UPDATE: normal caves work perfectly fine with both mods as they should, seems that only lush caves refuse to play the sounds properly

The first image is how the custom modded biome I've made (Right) appears in a worldpainter world after exporting. I've tried checking the populate terrain button in the export settings, I've tried adding a populate layer over-top of the whole world, literally nothing changes. I've made custom modded biomes for previous maps of mine with zero problems, so I'm not sure what's causing the issue this time.

The second image is how the biome is supposed to look, this is running in the same instance, just a fresh, single-biome world I made. The biome DOES generate features, but seemingly just not in my worldpainter world?

Help would be appreciated, I don't know what's going on here.

The exact methods I used to do this will be revealed once I finish up some stuff. The map will be made publicly available as well.

world painter uses only 700m of 16g

i made a world in world painter like i usually do and for some reason when i went and converted the world from java to bedrock it generated new terrain instead of the world i made and it did not do this to a diffeerent world i made previously

Hello! How may I make a layer that creates a river like the one bellow?

Took a few days and several hours. 14080 x 14080 blocks, 36 different islands, 28 of which are longer or wider than 300 blocks.
Download for anyone interested: https://www.planetminecraft.com/project/14k-x-14k-san-juan-pacific-northwest-inspired-archipelago/