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Ok ok. so I was falling asleep last night and I had a really good idea. IF the game made it so even if you were playing single player you could set it so as you travel you would connect to other players games! it would be like multiplayer survival only far apart! the game would stream constant data from the internet and alter your terrain to match there terrain over time. but at the same time you could also turn it off if it suited your pleasure

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Sounds almost impossible, but actually quite smart.

Also, read this:
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true. but if it only streamed a very small amount at a time it COUlD be posable. or perhaps the start point of the download would be areas ware the other builder had altered the terrain. that is to say none of the untouched land would download. that and it would only download as a cookie so it wouldn't block up your computer.

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ok new thought. it downloads as a zip file and minecraft auto unzips it. so the zip would be like

165
121314135141
124124141241354363

and your game would interpret those digits as blocks. and in effect make those blocks. in effect it would be as simple as downloading or viewing a streamed youtube video

and by the by. though this is not alpha I still feel that it would make since to put it here. as both alpha and classic have download and multiplayer capabilities