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  • WorldGen Specifics
  • Modular Arithmetic
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☆☆☆☆☆ articles are written by known minecraft seedcrackers (EarthComputer, Neil etc)
and are in reference to Minecraft

• World Generation Overview written by TelepathicGrunt

• Vizard Mod in #Tools section

• Layer Generation python raw code by hube12 <???>

• The Alan Zucconi video provides a decent top level overview of the process.

• Redblobgames on terrain from noise and Replicating Minecraft World Generation in Python - While not for minecraft specifically, they do explain a few related concepts very well.

Because of the mojank code quality , there are hardly any relevant articles available for WorldGen, the current best way is to read Minecraft code (considered not read friendly) , if not then the libraries :→ specifically : KaptainWutax’s libraries, neil’s libraries and cubiomes (In general , code that can mimic world generatiom)

• Notes on modular Arithmetic

• More notes

• Class Notes on Modular Arithmetic

• Basics of Modular Arithmetic

• Modular Equivalences

• How to determine the multiplicative inverse modulo 64 (or other power of two)?

• NERD : Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets by William Stein

• NERD : Lecture Notes in Number Theory and Cryptography by Matt Kerr

• Khan Academy video on Discrete Log Problem - Excellent to get a feel of what it is about ; Think of the clock values to be seeds

• THEORY: Hensel’s Lemma by brilliant.org

• NERD : THEORY: IISC notes - Highly Recommended especially the excercise !

• IMPORTANT: computing the multiplicative inverse - Practical stuff however check the below link below for an apt implementation

• Gist on the said computational method presented above and how it is used

• Practical Implementation of the mod inversion demonstrated above

• Practical application of Discrete Log Problem in context of Minecraft - Matthew Bolan’s BoundIntSkips

• Cleaner implementation of where the discrete log problem shows up

• Hensel Lift in ChunkRandomReversal

• lifting by hube12 - Decorator Lifting example by Neil(hube12)

• Distance from zero : Where the discrete log problem shows up!

• [IMPORTANT] Generic Wikipedia Page on Bit Numbering

• Understanding what >> , >>> and << are , read I and III answer

• How AND works

• General Notes on bit operations

• Generic Wiki Page → Opens at Mathematical Equivalents

• Inverse of XORs

• Bit Twindling Hacks

• Concatenate binary representation - Shows up in some code pieces, handy to know

• Sqaure One Matrices - Recommended though assumes you have seen 3blue1brown series

• Lattices in a friendly manner

• LLL with contrast to Gaussian reduction as well as Extended Euclid’s Algorithm and others - also hands on so easy to read

• What are RNGs - RedHat article

• TUE Lecture Slides on RNG

• Extra Info on RNGs

• Tables of linear congruential generators of different sizes and good lattice structure by Pierre L’ecuyer

• New RSA Vulnerabilities Using Lattice Reduction Methods by Alexander May

• Finding Small Roots of Bivariate Integer Polynomial Equations Revisited by Jean-Se´bastien Coron

• Discrete Logarithms and factoring by Eric Bach

• BKZ 2.0: Better Lattice Security Estimates by Yuanmi Chen and Phong Q. Nguyen

• Presentation - The BKZ algorithm by Joop van de Pol

• * Practical seed-recovery for the PCG Pseudo-Random Number Generator Irrelevant

• Lattice Basis Reduction: Improved Practical Algorithms and Solving Subset Sum Problems.by C. P. Schnorr & M. Euchner

• Lattice Basis Reduction Algorithms and their Efficient Implementation on Parallel Systems by Timo Bartkewitz

• Linear Hensel Lifting for ℤ(x,y) and ℤ(x) with Cubic Cost by Micheal Monagan

These are all the papers (except 1) that was referenced ; which is useful and which isn’t is upto the reader. These are only mentioned here as quick references if something is needed asap

• vizard by Neil(hube12) - Tool to visualize structure generation in Minecraft

• Structure Finder - Structure Logger by Burger Guy

• MineMap by KaptainWutax - amidst but really better <lol> || Minemap Download

• SeedMapper by xpple - Do various things with the world seed.

• MCTerrainRenderer by <Polymetric, Neil> - Terrain viewer utility to quickly see seeds and skip for testing

• DiamondSim by 19MisterX98 - Diamond and Ancient Debris Finder || Showcase video

• CrossroadFinder by Gaider10 - Find crossroad formations on a set seed

• GPULootSeedFinder by jellejurre - Generate loot seeds on the GPU

• SeedCandy by WearBlackAllDay - GUI program to crack seeds

• Cubiomes-Viewer by Cubitect - Qt based map viewer and seed finder leveraging on Cubiomes lib

• SeedSearcherStandaloneTool(SASSA) by ZodSmar - All in one utility for general seed searching for specific features

• SeedcrackerX by 19MisterX98 - In-game seed cracking mod for all versions with GUI and other utils || How to use it || SeedCrackerX’s features demo

• PigSpawnerFinder by Gaider10 - Find seeds with pig spawners

• SeedCracker by KaptainWutax - in-game seed cracking mod for 1.16

• TreeCracker(MSCT) by MCRCortex - Seed Cracker based on Trees

• treecrackerPOS by Polymetric - Tree based minecraft seed cracker

• MinecraftSeedReverse by YanWQ-monad - <Note: This is a largely unknown tool with no proper demos/tests available, you are on your own and the QnA is the way to get support.> Find a seed by the positions of the structures and biome information

• DecompilerMC by Neil - Automated tool to grab Mojang Mappings and map the client/Server jar for Minecraft || The Code generated will be under src folder.

• FrabricMC - Primarily a mod development environment, but also since you run genSources, you can view the source freely. Uses Yarn mappings || Setup Video by Technovision || The code for minecraft should be in external libraries and can be searched by pressing LShift twice and pressing Alt + N . Now you can search whatever you want !

• MCP-Reborn by Hexeption - Forge Modding Environment , but also allows browsing code classes , uses own maps or allows to use Mojang Mappings. Code generated by MCP-Reborn (default) is not shareable

• SSG by Neil - 12 eye seeds searcher

• Seedfinding.com by Neil - Gateway Locations and Shadow Seed finder

• SeedInfo by Panda4994 - Seed <somewhat> analysis <more like facts> tool

• seed-cheecker by jellejurre - Generate minecraft terrain 'accurately' and performs checks on it

• bedrock coordinate locator by DaMatrix

• Kaktoos by KaptainWutax - CUDA program to find tallest cactii

• NBTExplorer by jaquadro - NBT data source viewer

• SecureSeed by EarthComputer - Anti Seed Tamper Tech <idk if this is a joke or not>

• SeedUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for seed utility helper funcs

• FeatureUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for "access to minecraft features"

• BiomeUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for "biome generation replication"

• NoiseUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for noise simulation

• TerrainUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for terrain sim

• MathUtils by KaptainWutax - lib for "maths utilities specific to lcg shortcutting and Minecraft world gen"

• LattiCG_rs by Neil - LattiCG written in Rust

• LattiCG by <mjtb49,KaptainWutax,Riley,Neil etc> - JavaRandom Internal Seed reversal with LLL alg and B&B alg || Latticg_example by Neil(hube12)

• Regen by Rayferric - lcg reverser

• libseedfinding by EarthComputer - C++ seed finding utilities

• ChunkRandomReversal by mjtb49 - A collection of algorithms to reverse using partial information various hashes used by Minecraft to seed its ChunkRandom PRNG

• Cubiomes by Cubitect - C Library to mimic terrain generation

• js-cubiome by jan-leila - Javascript bindings for Cubiomes

• Pyubiomes by 4gboframram - A wip easy-to-use Python wrapper for the most important utilities in Cubiomes (and soon to be more)

• minecraft_end_generation_rs by Neil - lib for end generation, part of the SeedFinding factory

• minecraft_nether_generation_rs by Neil - lib for nether generation, part of the SeedFinding factory

• noise_rs by Neil - <wip> lib for noise replication, part of SeedFinding factory

• java_random_rs by Neil - <wip> lib for java random utils, part of SeedFinding Factory

• MCBiomes by Neil - <Probably> code to mimic biome generation <!not confirmed>

Old or deprecated tools aren’t listed but a full tool listing can be found all-tools.adoc(TBD)