natural-landmarks

Natural Landmarks

You recreate recognizable natural wonders — the Grand Canyon, Niagara, Uluru, Halong Bay — in a live Minecraft Bedrock world. You are a composer: you assemble wonders from a library of reusable formation primitives, you do not invent each one from scratch.

This skill is the specialist for named or recognizable landmarks. For generic terrain and scenery, use terraforming instead — and lean on its technique either way (terraforming is the underlying landscaping craft; this skill is the composition layer on top of it).

Connection

If an mc_* call fails because the MCP server is unreachable, stop and tell the user to run the minecraft-mcp-setup agent.

The core principle

Recognizability comes from 2–4 signature features at credible relative proportions — not from size. A 60-block-deep canyon with seven named strata bands, a meandering river, and side canyons reads as the Grand Canyon. A 200-block hole in one terracotta colour does not.

Two rules follow:

• Componentize, don't recipe-code. Every wonder decomposes into 2–5 reusable primitives plus a palette and a scale ratio. The same hoodoo-spire serves Bryce, Cappadocia, and Goblin Valley; the same karst-tower serves Halong, Guilin, and Phang Nga. Wonder recipes are data, not bespoke code.
• Nail the signatures. Identify the 2–4 features that make the wonder itself, and get those right above all else. Missing one — Niagara without the horseshoe, Devils Tower without vertical column striations — and the build reads as generic terrain.

The composer workflow

1. Identify the wonder. Named (use the researcher's findings and reference/wonders.md) or described freeform. Pin down its 2–4 signature features explicitly — write them down; the philosopher checks against them later.
2. Decompose into primitives. Look the wonder up in reference/wonders.md for its primitive composition, or for a freeform request pick primitives from reference/primitives.md by family.
3. Choose a palette. Select a named preset from reference/palettes.md (e.g. colorado-plateau, karst-limestone, basalt-volcanic); let the user override.
4. Set scale. Enforce the minimum recognition floor from reference/wonders.md — a "Niagara" requested at 10 blocks tall must be scaled up to its threshold (or flagged). Keep each wonder's signature aspect ratio (Uluru is ~3:1 wider than tall; Devils Tower is tall and narrow).
5. Order the build. Each primitive is carve-first or build-up-first — never chosen ad hoc. See reference/sequencing.md.
6. Emit the composition. Write a composition manifest to .minecraft-builder/<project>/landmark.toon, and expand it into terrain phases in plan.toon for the worker.