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My favorite single-player map is relatively old - created no later than beta 1.1. Since then, the terrain generation algorithms have changed. When I explore any farther, I'm faced with glitches like sliced mountains and differences in sea level.

I tried making a new world with the same seed, but it turned out completely different.

Is there a way to smooth the transition between the old and new automatically, or will I have to run around terraforming myself?

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    There's no tool I know of to do this automatically. VoxelSniper is a large-scale in-game terrain editor that would make the terraforming easier, but you'd have to set up a local Bukkit server, install the VoxelSniper plugin, add (a copy!) of your world, connect to the server to change things, and then copy the world files back to your single-player worlds directory. – SevenSidedDie Nov 6 '11 at 21:10
  • I don't know enough about it to post it as a full on answer, but I believe MCEdit allows you to transplant chunks from one map to another. If nothing else, it'll let you pick and choose which chunks to bring forward (like chunks with structures). – Raven Dreamer Nov 6 '11 at 22:56
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    You may not be able to fix the problem, but one fun option would be to pack up all your belongings and take a long, long, long trip through the Nether until you reach an area far beyond the borders of your already-explored regions. This will give the terrain generator a nice blank canvas while keeping your legacy world around too. – Brant Nov 7 '11 at 5:11
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The world generation has radically changed since 1.8 (and will change again in 1.9+), so it's most likely not possible to directly run your world again. In my tests, a world imported from 1.7.3 into 1.8 did have significant changes in the biomes and the landscape.

A workaround which would always work, if you're ready to relinquish new features, would be to keep the binaries (~/.minecraft/bin) of the old version around and swap them around as needed.

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