https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/climatic-biome-placement
An experiment in placing biome into minecraft using a climate model. It grew out of playing around with how to generate maps for procedural action RPG settings (which would have included cities, roads, and points of interest to build multi-step procedural quests around, had I kept on that path with it). Ultimately, however, it turned into a way to simply put biomes into a Minecraft world in a way that made more sense.
Basically, this is what I'd hoped the Minecraft 1.7 update would be like (and also more-or-less how I assumed biomes worked when I first found my second biome in game, but in 1.4.7). To me this brings back a certain fun small world feel, where biome could be big, but you didn't have to travel a long way through repetitive repetition of just a few similar biomes, something that makes exploring my world much more fun. Besides that, it was an interesting project to work out.
The software used to work this out can be found here: https://github.com/BlackJar72/ProcGenLab
Copyright (C) Jared Blackburn, 2017-2020
MIT License
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.