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Quote from asphyxiate9

Love the creeper hiding in the first two pictures :biggrin.gif:

Oh and i wish mountain regions like this had snow on top, or had trees on them because they look so plain : /

The current world generating code is clearly flawed in a few ways related to mountains, and topography in general. We don't have desert mountains or forested mountains anymore. The non-mountain terrain is decidedly flat as well, not much in-between.

Quote from Ulriv

Well with the 256 you get twice the height to build on, meaning structures can be about 120+ blocks high, this is huge already. Also with the 512 version, it goes even higher.

Having a deeper underground to explore seems cooler too...

I really dont care about a deeper underground myself. I want to build on top of mountains and still have a fair amount of room to grow so I'd much rather have sea level remain at 64 and simply triple the amount of air space. That way on the current terrain generation if I was on top of a 64 high mountain I would still have 128 blocks above it that I could build in.

Quote from renadi

Beautiful. My next smp map will be double height, it will be epic! It's all client side on a server right? the client doesn't need to be modded at all? omgomg soo amazing >_<

No, client needs to be modded to run a different height.

Cheeseboy gusta! >:3

It seems that while 256 works fine, 512 is almost unplayable.

Pretty cool mod.

Quote from Gavin458

My gaming computer still struggles at loading the chunks though, patience is the key I guess.

Or a RAMDisk?

I'd suggest anyone considering a bigger sized map uses one, HDDs won't be able to keep up at all.

An SSD would be a maybe.

Gentlemen, I think it's readily apparent to all of us.

Increased height limits are the future of Minecraft.

Amazing mod, anything higher than 256 wouldn't work for me.

world seed = crystal

world seed = prospero

Idk about you, but a higher ceiling sounds like a great idea.

Quote from crysis9999

I want higher mountains.... So high that you dont see the top..... Almost like an adventure to just climb.
Anyone agree?

I hear the increased map height makes the NPC's noses bigger.

Quote from Cybertronic

I hear the increased map height makes the NPC's noses bigger.

Less oxygen in the high altitude air, so they need a bigger intake.

Greater height limit could mean things like giant redwoods in pine forests, or mahogany wrapped with vines in tropicals.

And with the proposed volcano biome, how scary can it be if the volcano is only 100' tall? Don't we deserve rivers of lava. Just think of that volcano biome located in the middle of an ocean with a river of lava running down it's side making the island bigger.

o_o

wow.

minetest already have much higher height limit. It has a limit of +-31000 blocks in all direction.

Quote from wilftest

So if you had a very fast computer you could make the hight limit massive (1000s?)

Yep, but also if Notch changed how chunks worked (made them 24-block cubes instead of 16*16*worldHeight), anyone could have height up to 65,536

Quote from warfighter67

Yep, but also if Notch changed how chunks worked (made them 24-block cubes instead of 16*16*worldHeight), anyone could have height up to 65,536

I don't think we need to be making space elevators, but 512 or 1024 native support would be incredibly nice.

Quote from mazZza01

Just 1 Word:

EPIC:

O.O If my computer would be decent, I could use this, but it barely runs vannila minecraft. T.T

Quote from DiggerMark

What happens to the ore veins? Does one still need to dig deeper to get the shinies?

This is the main problem, for now... the taller mountains are amazing, but other than to explore them, there is no real reward for climbing... only digging. The good ores are still below base level.

Quote from Drybonz

This is the main problem, for now... the taller mountains are amazing, but other than to explore them, there is no real reward for climbing... only digging. The good ores are still below base level.

From a "this is a game" perspective I can understand why certain precious resources were restricted to certain Y ranges, but honestly, I'd prefer to see that restriction removed. There are plenty of gold veins in mountains, and diamonds found just below the surface of flatlands in reality.

Minecraftians have developed plenty of ways to make mining efficient. Most of the precious ores might as well be generated anywhere stone can be found. It would be more "adventuresome" if precious minerals were more predominant lining the walls of caves, regardless of elevation.

Quote from Chris0132

It'd be very nice if this was in the world options tab, so you can set the height of your world. I like the regular height but I'd also like to have the option of generating crazy stuff like this.

That's what I'm crossing my fingers for as well. I don't want to have to use a mod to achieve this. It ought to be as simple as a slider/setting for world generation. And with multiplayer, when a person is logging in, part of the info exchanged before the world is loaded can be a verification that the player accepts the Y limit of the map they're joining - to allow someone who knows their computer couldn't handle it the chance to not join rather than freezing/crashing.