Early on it's been mentioned that we can keep our older maps but we'd have to generate new chunks, aka walk to a place we havent explored yet. But now all of a sudden, more people are saying that we will need to make new maps.
I'm kind of getting confused about this. Can someone actually tell me the facts? Will we need new worlds or can we just generate new chunks on existing ones?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forum.
You can make a new world if you want to, and have all the new stuff at your spawn, or you could just keep your old world. You would just need to go to an ungenerated area so it can generate the new stuff in this new area. So just, say, hop in a nether portal and travel in one direction for a few minutes. Then you would essentially have a new world, but with all your stuff.
I say its the opposite of what the first guy said.
Seriously though, I think the confusion arises from people who play Minecraft more for the survival aspect than the building. THEY have to make new maps in order to enjoy all of the new content (NOT necessarily though...but they probably all will). Builders, however, can rest assured as their massive projects will be fine.
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In short, the old chunks will have none of the new content (in terms of biomes), and as such making a new map is advised: it is not necessary, however.
what i meant was, will the new chunks generate on my old world if i explore it further?
As far as I know if you look back far enough, Jeb mentioned on Twitter that players can keep their worlds, everything will update with newly generated chunks. I'm sure they realize players would be upset if they had to give up the work they've put in just to play the updated version.
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also here's a sentence so this isn't a one-word post
Back when the terrain generator updated, you would run into large walls of stone where the gen switched over.
The same thing will happen after 1.8- you'll be frolicking in a peaceful meadow and BAM you'll run into half a mountain.
Back when the terrain generator updated, you would run into large walls of stone where the gen switched over.
The same thing will happen after 1.8- you'll be frolicking in a peaceful meadow and BAM you'll run into half a mountain.
unfortunately, that's already happening to me in 1.7 whenever i start a new map, i get weird walls and such...
unfortunately, that's already happening to me in 1.7 whenever i start a new map, i get weird walls and such...
I'm not positive, but I believe you may need to delete your minecraft.jar.
Don't take my word for it, do a little googling, but I think there is a problem taht sometimes appears there.
These people you are referring to are stupid and misinformed
No they are not. There is a specific line in a video where Notch talks about using 1.7 worlds... and getting the new features, and sadly the audio is really bad so it is hard to make out what he says. To some it sounds like he is saying that the worlds will be usable, but the new stuff won't be in the world EVEN IF you go to new areas, but he could just as easily be saying that the new stuff WILL BE there if you go to new chucks. It's not a very good clip as for hearing what he is saying, and that is where the "controversy" comes in. Until he or Jeb clarifies (or the update comes out), we can assume that the 1.8 will work a lot like the Halloween update die, meaning new stuff ONLY in new chunks. BUT just in case, be prepared to have to make a new world.
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"Looks like another poorly thought out grammatically slaughtered rant." - Phar
I just deleted the entire folder (backed up my saves ofcourse), redownloaded, returned my saves, then entered it and started a new world and this was the view i got:
there's one of those walls on the other side too...
I just deleted the entire folder (backed up my saves ofcourse), redownloaded, returned my saves, then entered it and started a new world and this was the view i got:
there's one of those walls on the other side too...
When you delete a world, and make a new world with that same name as the old world, it might cause chunk errors. To prevent this, you can check your saves folder in .minecraft and check if the name of the world is still there. If it is, you can simply delete it.
Finally, the majority is saying it will work rather then not, i have spent the last 2 weeks argueing with threads and comments full of "NO IT WON'T!!!111ONELEVEN!" and all because antvenom has TERRIBLE hearing and misheard notch, who CLEARLY said, MULTIPLE TIMES that they WOULD work and the new stuff WOULD be in new chunks
I'm kind of getting confused about this. Can someone actually tell me the facts? Will we need new worlds or can we just generate new chunks on existing ones?
Sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forum.
Yes. There will be obvious borders though, separating pre-1.8 lands from newly generated 1.8 lands.
Seriously though, I think the confusion arises from people who play Minecraft more for the survival aspect than the building. THEY have to make new maps in order to enjoy all of the new content (NOT necessarily though...but they probably all will). Builders, however, can rest assured as their massive projects will be fine.
TL:DR
In short, the old chunks will have none of the new content (in terms of biomes), and as such making a new map is advised: it is not necessary, however.
As far as I know if you look back far enough, Jeb mentioned on Twitter that players can keep their worlds, everything will update with newly generated chunks. I'm sure they realize players would be upset if they had to give up the work they've put in just to play the updated version.
Yes, if they are unexplored chunks.
Yes they will
and now to make that huge nether tunnel... :biggrin.gif:
Yes, any new chunk you have not generated will use the new generation coding that will be implemented in 1.8 the current.
The same thing will happen after 1.8- you'll be frolicking in a peaceful meadow and BAM you'll run into half a mountain.
unfortunately, that's already happening to me in 1.7 whenever i start a new map, i get weird walls and such...
I'm not positive, but I believe you may need to delete your minecraft.jar.
Don't take my word for it, do a little googling, but I think there is a problem taht sometimes appears there.
No they are not. There is a specific line in a video where Notch talks about using 1.7 worlds... and getting the new features, and sadly the audio is really bad so it is hard to make out what he says. To some it sounds like he is saying that the worlds will be usable, but the new stuff won't be in the world EVEN IF you go to new areas, but he could just as easily be saying that the new stuff WILL BE there if you go to new chucks. It's not a very good clip as for hearing what he is saying, and that is where the "controversy" comes in. Until he or Jeb clarifies (or the update comes out), we can assume that the 1.8 will work a lot like the Halloween update die, meaning new stuff ONLY in new chunks. BUT just in case, be prepared to have to make a new world.
"Looks like another poorly thought out grammatically slaughtered rant." - Phar
there's one of those walls on the other side too...
that would make sense atleast.
When you delete a world, and make a new world with that same name as the old world, it might cause chunk errors. To prevent this, you can check your saves folder in .minecraft and check if the name of the world is still there. If it is, you can simply delete it.