Ironic you should call him a noob whilst getting one of your own facts wrong. The Minecraft world on the PC DOES end at a point. Go look it up.
Okay, okay, you got me... A minecraft world can be generated up to eight times the surface area of the actual earth. In my extremely limited human brain, that is the next best thing to endless. If anyone here has a computer powerful enough to run a game with a world that size, I guess it's not technically endless. But, because of the possible size that a world could be, I highly doubt that anyone has had the time to sit at their computer 24/7 until they have walked far enough to bump into the border. That's close enough to endless for me. Also, the noob comment was in fun and directed to the sea monsters comment.
Edit... seems the "eight times the surface of the earth" was merely a talking point. From the wiki:
In practice, technical reasons (the limits of 32-bit math[1]) force the maximum map size, including the Far Lands, to be around 9.3 million times the surface area of Earth[1], which comes out to about 4.7 quadrillion km2 (The hard limit where chunks are overwritten is at X/Z of ±34,359,738,368, making the world at most 68,719,476,736 meters wide and long, which is about 4,722,366,482,869,645 km2. When compared to Earth's total surface area, 510,072,000 km2, this works out to be about 9,258,235 times that). Whilst the horizontal planes of the maps are vast in size, the vertical plane remains at a fixed (soft limit) 256-block height [2].
Seems that it is actually 9 million times the surface area of the actual earth. Now does anyone wanna try and tell me that they have bumped up against the border in the PC version?
Okay, okay, you got me... A minecraft world can be generated up to eight times the surface area of the actual earth. In my extremely limited human brain, that is the next best thing to endless. If anyone here has a computer powerful enough to run a game with a world that size, I guess it's not technically endless. But, because of the possible size that a world could be, I highly doubt that anyone has had the time to sit at their computer 24/7 until they have walked far enough to bump into the border. That's close enough to endless for me. Also, the noob comment was in fun and directed to the sea monsters comment.
Edit... seems the "eight times the surface of the earth" was merely a talking point. From the wiki:
In practice, technical reasons (the limits of 32-bit math[1]) force the maximum map size, including the Far Lands, to be around 9.3 million times the surface area of Earth[1], which comes out to about 4.7 quadrillion km2 (The hard limit where chunks are overwritten is at X/Z of ±34,359,738,368, making the world at most 68,719,476,736 meters wide and long, which is about 4,722,366,482,869,645 km2. When compared to Earth's total surface area, 510,072,000 km2, this works out to be about 9,258,235 times that). Whilst the horizontal planes of the maps are vast in size, the vertical plane remains at a fixed (soft limit) 256-block height [2].
Seems that it is actually 9 million times the surface area of the actual earth. Now does anyone wanna try and tell me that they have bumped up against the border in the PC version?
But, because of the possible size that a world could be, I highly doubt that anyone has had the time to sit at their computer 24/7 until they have walked far enough to bump into the border. That's close enough to endless for me.
Look up Kurtjmac. He's walking to the Far Lands. So yes, he has the time to do this. He's only like 5% of the way there though.
I have a local server that I've setup to play minecraft (PC version) on with my kids (I bought 3 copies of the game to do this). One idea my youngest daughter came up with is making a railroad track that goes around the world. While this would be a fun project, it really depends on how the world is created. If there's no boundary roll over this would mean the gaming world is flat and the track would never meet it's starting point. I've tried looking into this but there doesn't seem to be a consensus on this. Some say it's a flat plane that's randomly created as the player approaches, some say endless water is created when you reach a boundary... Is there any here that could shed some light on this? Could we make a track that goes right around the game world?
Let me clarify everything up...
The simple answer to the original question is no, the Minecraft world is not round, it is flat.
Here's the complicated answer:
The Minecraft world will generate normally for 30,000,000 blocks in all directions before beginning the generation of "phantom chunks", which are essentially chunks that do not exist, so if you were to walk into one, you would simply fall into the void. After going 32 blocks into these phantom chunks with flying, you will be held in a position where you cannot move, world editors like MCEdit will also fail at this point in the world generation. As of snapshot 13w37a, there is an invisible wall where the phantom chunks begin, it is not clear if this will remain.
And there you have it!
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there are sea monsters?
The PC version is endless. It goes on and on until your computer crashes
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Ahhh... Fun with noobs lol
This thread bores me.
Ironic you should call him a noob whilst getting one of your own facts wrong. The Minecraft world on the PC DOES end at a point. Go look it up.
Okay, okay, you got me... A minecraft world can be generated up to eight times the surface area of the actual earth. In my extremely limited human brain, that is the next best thing to endless. If anyone here has a computer powerful enough to run a game with a world that size, I guess it's not technically endless. But, because of the possible size that a world could be, I highly doubt that anyone has had the time to sit at their computer 24/7 until they have walked far enough to bump into the border. That's close enough to endless for me. Also, the noob comment was in fun and directed to the sea monsters comment.
Edit... seems the "eight times the surface of the earth" was merely a talking point. From the wiki:
In practice, technical reasons (the limits of 32-bit math[1]) force the maximum map size, including the Far Lands, to be around 9.3 million times the surface area of Earth[1], which comes out to about 4.7 quadrillion km2 (The hard limit where chunks are overwritten is at X/Z of ±34,359,738,368, making the world at most 68,719,476,736 meters wide and long, which is about 4,722,366,482,869,645 km2. When compared to Earth's total surface area, 510,072,000 km2, this works out to be about 9,258,235 times that). Whilst the horizontal planes of the maps are vast in size, the vertical plane remains at a fixed (soft limit) 256-block height [2].
Seems that it is actually 9 million times the surface area of the actual earth. Now does anyone wanna try and tell me that they have bumped up against the border in the PC version?
This thread bores me.
If you edit your position you can
No, I was referring to a joke from the Pirates! claymation movie that's out now. It's pretty damn funny.
Look up Kurtjmac. He's walking to the Far Lands. So yes, he has the time to do this. He's only like 5% of the way there though.
Minecraft xbox= flat with invisible barrier because its 1000x1000
Still technically a square, because the worlds end around 32,000,000x32,000,000.
got me there
The simple answer to the original question is no, the Minecraft world is not round, it is flat.
Here's the complicated answer:
Hey there, all. I stream CTMs as well as other indie games, Minecraft servers and probably that's it. I'm your supreme overlord too so I command you to CHECK ME OUT: www.twitch.tv/techniclepanther
The PC world is flat and effectively, although not actually, infinite. (it's about 60 million blocks square).
None of them wrap at the edges, so a railroad isn't going to be possible.
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