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Perceived surface area is relatively insignificant - Minecraft is already at least several times the surface area of the planet (details vary by version) even i

Perceived surface area is relatively insignificant - Minecraft is already at least several times the surface area of the planet (details vary by version) even if it's much simpler and vertically constrained.

Frenchgeek 11y ago
I wonder how far people get from the spawn point in average... And how it relate to the average MMORPG.
- vetrom 11y ago
  depends on server count, pvpness, and the sizes of what you like to build -- on a pvp heavy server i bet running 5-10k blocks from spawn before you build is not unheard of.
a3voices 11y ago
Are you sure about that? How long does it take to run from one edge of the map to the other?
- prawks 11y ago
  http://farlandsorbust.com/ http://farlandsorbust.com/ That guy's been doing it for quite a while. > At the end of that most recent FLoB-ATHON Weekend in 2015 we discovered that I was 2,266,779 blocks in the furthest 'Z' coordinate, the equivalent of 2,266-kilometers from spawn! Amazing, yes, but it means we are still only 18.06% of the way to reaching the Far Lands located at 12,550,820 meters! They don't call them "far" for nothing! INDEED!
  - a3voices 11y ago
    Ah, I guess I was used to playing on multiplayer where the map size is much more limited.
    - Roodgorf 11y ago
      You may have only played the Xbox version, which did have a strict constraint on the map size. The PC version, IIRC, has no such restriction aside from perhaps memory and/or maximum possible values. The Far Lands referred to are actually a result of this lack of constraint allowing the player to reach a point where floating point errors begin to wreak havoc on the map generator.
      - tehbeard 11y ago
        Most PC servers have limits enforced to prevent runaway disk usage. In fact it's now baked into the vanilla game as a command.
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- jagger27 11y ago
  Yep. Minecraft's chunk coordinates can cover about 10,000,000 Earth's worth of surface area. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/The_Overworld#Sizes http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/The_Overworld#Sizes

Frenchgeek 11y ago

I wonder how far people get from the spawn point in average... And how it relate to the average MMORPG.

vetrom 11y ago
depends on server count, pvpness, and the sizes of what you like to build -- on a pvp heavy server i bet running 5-10k blocks from spawn before you build is not unheard of.

a3voices 11y ago

Are you sure about that? How long does it take to run from one edge of the map to the other?

prawks 11y ago
http://farlandsorbust.com/ http://farlandsorbust.com/ That guy's been doing it for quite a while. > At the end of that most recent FLoB-ATHON Weekend in 2015 we discovered that I was 2,266,779 blocks in the furthest 'Z' coordinate, the equivalent of 2,266-kilometers from spawn! Amazing, yes, but it means we are still only 18.06% of the way to reaching the Far Lands located at 12,550,820 meters! They don't call them "far" for nothing! INDEED!
- a3voices 11y ago
  Ah, I guess I was used to playing on multiplayer where the map size is much more limited.
  - Roodgorf 11y ago
    You may have only played the Xbox version, which did have a strict constraint on the map size. The PC version, IIRC, has no such restriction aside from perhaps memory and/or maximum possible values. The Far Lands referred to are actually a result of this lack of constraint allowing the player to reach a point where floating point errors begin to wreak havoc on the map generator.
    - tehbeard 11y ago
      Most PC servers have limits enforced to prevent runaway disk usage. In fact it's now baked into the vanilla game as a command.
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jagger27 11y ago
Yep. Minecraft's chunk coordinates can cover about 10,000,000 Earth's worth of surface area. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/The_Overworld#Sizes http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/The_Overworld#Sizes