I have been running around on my Java 1.16.4 world, and I have explored every chunk around the spawn in a 5000 blocks radius, but I have not found any desert. Is it possible that a minecraft world is generated with deserts further from spawn? Should I keep exploring or is there a problem with my world?
Minecraft – The emptiness of the deserts
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One work around is to run your own Minecraft server. The a dis-advantage this the Nether isn't currently working. You can launch the Minecraft server to load single player worlds. Just find your old ./world# folder in your .minecraft directory. When launching the server be sure your world matches the world name in the server.properties file.
I believe Mojang mentioned going this route in the future with Single player. Having the client launch a server instance locally and connect to it.
When this is fixed in future versions it should be a simple copy of the ./world folder back to your .minecraft directory and you will be able to load the world normally again.
Nether Fortresses are closer to regular dungeons than they are to strongholds - that is to say, there's no set limit, and they spawn all over the place.
Here's a picture from AMIDST, a stronghold-finder tool with the Nether Fortress overlay active.
And here's a picture of another random portion of the same seed.
There's a definite pattern (though I don't know the exact code) to their position, and it extends in all directions with the map.
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It's entirely possible - the biome map is generated with accordance with temperature map, which often spawns very large distances. You may see thousands of blocks of taiga, snow plains, ice spikes, frozen ocean, extreme hills, snowy taiga, mountains, giant tree taiga, with occasional birch forest, and not a sniff of a desert, a jungle, a mesa or anything like that, because the whole expanse is determined 'cold' and only generates cold biomes. It's very rare to see a cold biome neighbor a warm biome. Or you can travel for thousands of blocks and never see a splotch of snow outside tips of mountains.
2000 blocks isn't much. Scout further, exploring mostly to warmer biomes - savanna, mesa, jungle, swamp, plains, regular (mixed/oak) forests.
This is a map of a server, nothing very special about the seed choice. The area is about 10,000 x 10,000. Observe the upper-right quadrant of the map. That's a 5000x5000 area without a single desert. Lower left also has hardly any. Upper left - savannas, deserts, mesa, and just a splotch of snow in the far corner.