# Ouranos vs Stratos

Ouranos and Stratos are two differents plugins with both strengths and weaknesses. This page has been made to help you choose between those two world generation plugins.

### Comparison

| Category | Stratos                                           | Ouranos                                                                                                                                        |
| -------- | ------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Biomes   | Biomes influence terrain height                   | Terrain height is defined with areas and terrain height influence biomes. Each biome has a climate                                             |
| Caves    | Caves are made using 3D perlin noise              | 3 kinds of caves, each of them has specificities                                                                                               |
| Trees    | Limited tree density to avoid CPU overload        | Complex tree system to allow maximum 96 blocks long trees                                                                                      |
| Rivers   | Custom rivers                                     | Reworked rivers to remove artifacts                                                                                                            |
| Dungeons | Custom dungeons                                   | Custom dungeons                                                                                                                                |
| Villages | Villages are made of a center building and houses | Villages are made of different buildings, houses and wall. They can include custom buildings you made. Each building can hold one or many NPCs |
| Cities   | /                                                 | Cities are made of different buildings, houses and wall. They can include custom buildings you made. Each building can hold one or many NPCs   |
| Loots    | Vanilla items can be looted in chests             | Vanilla and custom items (see [items](https://alex-plugins.gitbook.io/ouranos/items "mention")) can be looted in chests                        |
| Ores     | Vanilla ores with customizable ore rates          | As many ores as needed can be added using a material or blockdata                                                                              |
| Canyons  | /                                                 | Canyons are big holes in the terrain that can sometimes be connected to water caves                                                            |