Changes from 1.16.1

• Biomes have become immutable data classes
• Instead of using Biome objects, you now have to use RegistryKey<Biome> for most operations, since it will be stable even across world and datapack reloads
  • This means that any custom data you previously attached to your Biome subclass can no longer be attached directly to Biome objects, since Vanilla will serialize and deserialize Biome objects to copy them using their codecs, you could in theory attach custom data by extending the Codec, but this would mean this data would be attached to every Biome.
  • What you can do instead is maintain an IdentityHashMap<RegistryKey<Biome>, YourCustomData> in your mod, and query the custom data based on the biome's key.
  • The key of a biome must be obtained via the DynamicRegistryManager of the current world, ClientWorld and ServerWorld offer a convenience method for this called method_31081 (currently unnamed), which retrieves the key of the biome at a given BlockPos, although you can also do this yourself via world.getRegistryManager().get(Registry.BIOME_KEY).getKey(<the_biome_variable>).
• FabricBiomes#addSpawnBiome was removed, since this is now a property that can be set via Vanilla's Biome.Builder (see SpawnSettings.Builder#playerSpawnFriendly).
• Parent Biomes are gone and now hardcoded in AddHillsLayer#field_26727 based on their raw ids. Since the mapping is from unmodified biome → modified biome, there's no real point in exposing this to mods, because there can only be _one_ modified biome for each unmodified one.

The following diagram shows various objects that participate in defining world generation, and where they are registered/defined.

The general rule of thumb is that Registry will contain objects that contain some form of custom code, while BuiltInRegistry contains built-in data objects that mostly reference code objects from an associate Registry by ID and sometimes add configuration data.

As an example:

• Vanilla registers an instance of the class OreFeature under the ID minecraft:ore in Registry.Feature.
• Vanilla then registers 21 configured features in BuiltInRegistries.CONFIGURED_FEATURE that reference minecraft:ore, and configure it differently (for example minecraft:ore_iron to place iron ore)

For use in an actual world, all data objects from BuiltInRegistries will be copied by value into a new DynamicRegistryManager and may be overridden by JSON files in enabled data packs.

You should register your custom worldgen in the following order in your mod initializer:

1. Register all of your custom code (feature, structure feature, etc.) into Registry or using a specific API (i.e. see fabric-api for structures)
2. Register all of your data such that referenced code or data is already registered
   1. Register configured features and configured structures before using them in biomes for example
3. Use the Fabric biome API to insert your custom biomes into vanilla generation of the overworld, nether and the end as needed
4. Register your custom configured features and structures for insertion into other biomes using the Fabric biome API