The larger it is, the longer the server will last I imagine. Not that it was already not big enough.
If Notch does this, I demand certain modes of transportation including,
Rideable creatures
Minecarts
Constructable Teleportation points (When magic is implamented)
True, but its still cool to hear that a server, theoretically, could be "8 times the size of Earth". Not that it will happen, but its still cool just to think that the map generating software is capable of it.
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Infinite is great, I don't see why you guys say it's too big. In a way, this allows Survival to be MUCH more playable, as resources won't run out as long as you don't do a few stupid things.
-Stay in one spot EVEN if EVERY resource in your general area has been used up. (You can make multiple bases, though I guess I haven't really even used ALL the resources in a whole column of land...)
-Second, it provides us with a secondary Objective: To explore and find the best, optimal spots to set up camps and to survive, sort of like a nomadic lifestyle.
It's not that he made it bigger because he feels we need more earth, he made it bigger because optimizing the game just happened to increase how much it could support.
Well...in another certain game (Fate, a Diablo rip-off) the lowest possible randomly generated level is 2,147,483,647 (that's two billion, one hundred and forty-seven million, four hundred and eighty-three thousand, and six hundred and forty seven).
Given that the biggest creature that you encounter in the dungeon is a dragon which is probably about 20 feet tall, this means that the depth of the planet that Fate takes place on is 42,949,672,940 feet deep. Now, Fate only loads one level at a time (with certain recently played levels stored in memory) but in my experience Fate is the largest "game planet" I've ever encountered...theoretically speaking of course.
I'm not down talking Minecraft or anything, I love this game, just felt like giving a little vidjya gaem edumacation.
The larger it is, the longer the server will last I imagine. Not that it was already not big enough.
If Notch does this, I demand certain modes of transportation including,
Rideable creatures
Minecarts
Constructable Teleportation points (When magic is implamented)
No such thing.
True, but its still cool to hear that a server, theoretically, could be "8 times the size of Earth". Not that it will happen, but its still cool just to think that the map generating software is capable of it.
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You don't HAVE to use it all, hell you can't. It's just something to marvel at in his coding. Damn.
Menen wants update.
Also, by surface, does he mean all USABLE surface or everything?
Oh, and there's an update comming out for infdev this weekend. YAY! :biggrin.gif:
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Or at least get it more playable.
See? I'm not so malicious...
-Stay in one spot EVEN if EVERY resource in your general area has been used up. (You can make multiple bases, though I guess I haven't really even used ALL the resources in a whole column of land...)
-Second, it provides us with a secondary Objective: To explore and find the best, optimal spots to set up camps and to survive, sort of like a nomadic lifestyle.
That's your opinion.
Well...in another certain game (Fate, a Diablo rip-off) the lowest possible randomly generated level is 2,147,483,647 (that's two billion, one hundred and forty-seven million, four hundred and eighty-three thousand, and six hundred and forty seven).
Given that the biggest creature that you encounter in the dungeon is a dragon which is probably about 20 feet tall, this means that the depth of the planet that Fate takes place on is 42,949,672,940 feet deep. Now, Fate only loads one level at a time (with certain recently played levels stored in memory) but in my experience Fate is the largest "game planet" I've ever encountered...theoretically speaking of course.
I'm not down talking Minecraft or anything, I love this game, just felt like giving a little vidjya gaem edumacation.
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whats the point in that? you wouldnt even be able to see the ground because of fog. 256 = enough.
Not being able to see the ground because of the fog = ****ing magical.