I love the ability to customize your world that was added in 1.8, but I was disappointed when I saw that you could only have either one or all biomes in a custom world. I would love to be able to choose several biomes for a custom world instead of just one or all. As far as I'm aware, there's currently no way to do this, and I would love to see it added.

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No support. Just because diamond anvils have no basis in realism whatsoever. Diamond tools: we have some tools like drills tipped with diamond. Diamond armor: people have jewelry of all sorts. Diamond Anvils: Wha...?

Yeah, because in real life there are green things that explode and skeletons that fire arrows.

Good idea. Extrabiomes XL had a redwood forest biome. This would be pretty cool.

I like ALL THE THINGS

That actually seems pretty cool... I would donate if I had any money.

I came up with a few ideas that I think would really improve minecraft. Tell me what you think of them!

Oceans: Weather and oceans have always just bugged me a little bit... Shouldn't the sea level rise when it rains and lower when it hasn't in awhile? I'm not talking about anything drastic, I'm only talking about it rising/falling one block in either direction, and only when it's been really rainy, or hasn't been raining much at all. Maybe even having somewhat random currents and rarely whirlpools to make sailing with a boat harder. It should have this effect on any body of water exposed to the sky. Slight modifications might have to be made to terrain generation for this to work, mainly terrain generating slightly higher, but it would be worth it.

Weather: Weather should be changed a little bit. It should happen more or less in specific "seasons." Not exactly seasons, like winter, spring, etc. but more like rainy season, rain/dry season, dry season, rainy/dry season, and so on. This could also have an effect on crop growth, sapling growth, and like mentioned above, water level. There should also be a few more levels to weather and storms, not just rain, snow, thunderstorm. Maybe hurricanes (Rare, and only blow you around, don't destroy blocks) sleet, and maybe even hail and sandstorms. Some of these should only be able to happen in certain. "seasons."

Biomes: Finally, weather should be more biome specific, with only certain biomes getting certain types of weather. Yes, I know this is already in the game, but only with snowy biomes and deserts not getting much rain. I'm talking about extreme hill biomes never getting hurricanes, and them being most common in plains, and sandstorms only happening in deserts of course. Just stuff like that to generally improve biome specific weather.

So what do you think of this idea? Thanks for reading, and if you like the idea, don't forget to push the little button over there!

I was playing on a survival island seed, and seeing some squid off in the distance that needed to be killed, I ran off with my iron sword. After killing the squids, I return to my home to find it invested with zombies. Not realizing this, I bravely attack the zombies with my sword and no armor at all. I was actually winning, until one of them got a single hit off and I was shocked to have died in one hit.

That's when I realize I had run into battle with only one heart and no food.

That's the whole point of mods, to improve minecraft. So yes they do, because otherwise they would not be doing their job.

I kind of enjoy it slightly... It makes them trickier to explore and look more like ruins. Just my opinion.

Ooh, yeah, a shark or a fish would be cool. I would like a hostile water mob that can't attack you in a boat, but can if you swim.

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Alright, so there's this idea I've been working on for the past few weeks. You heard me, weeks. Basically, it's boats. Boats than you can make bigger, slap a name on, armor, choose what propulsion system it has, and carry stuff in.

Full idea in spoiler:

And the Reddit post is here:

http://www.reddit.co..._modular_boats/ (Archived)


*EDIT*

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Minema is a mod that allows you to record smooth videos in Minecraft even at extremely low frame rates by turning the Minecraft engine into an offline renderer.

This allows you to use very expensive rendering techniques which would normally be too slow for real-time rendering and capturing.

Technically, it can be compared with the startmovie command in Source engine or the fixed_time_step variable in CryEngine.

If you try to record, for instance, an explosion of 1,000,000 TNT blocks with tools like Fraps, Dxtory or Shadowplay, you would get nothing more than a slideshow. Even if your PC is fast enough for the targeted movie frame rate, it usually produces less smooth results than Minema. But keep in mind that this mod is designed for intermediate users that need to record cinematic or experimental Minecraft movies rather than for "normal" gameplay movies.


Changelog

3.2:

• Twitch stream integration was removed in MC 1.9, therefore there is no recording indicator anymore.
• Added back "pop" sound when starting or stopping recording.
• Removed the particle size modifier due to compatibility issues with MC 1.9.
• Increased capturing performance by using PBOs when available.
• Increased process pipe throughput by disabling internal stream buffering.
• Added ffmpeg with matching parameters as default encoder.
• Removed support for image formats other than TGA to simplify processing code.

3.1:

• Disabled chunk preloading (incompatible with Minecraft 1.8).

3.0:

• Major code rewrite for better stability and extendability.
• Added graphical config editor for the Forge mod list (accessible from the main menu).
• Using parts of the broadcast interface to indicate a currently ongoing video capture.
• Simplified chunk preloading with better compatibility.
• Replaced tiled rendering with off-screen framebuffer objects, which are much faster to capture and are fully compatible to shader.
• Removed profiler event code to fix performance issues and various crashes when used with other mods.
• Removed the somewhat silly encoder detection.

Known bugs

• After movie capturing is finished, the integrated server may go into a "fast-forward" mode to re-sync with the real time.

Download

• Minema v3.2 for Minecraft 1.9.4
• Minema v3.2 for Minecraft 1.9
• Minema v3.1 for Minecraft 1.8
• Minema v3.0 for Minecraft 1.7.10

GitHub repository: https://github.com/ata4/minema/

Please let me know about any forks of this mod you want to publish!

Download and installation notes:

• Move the .jar file to .minecraft/mods.
• Don't forget to remove the old installation when updating!

Usage

• To start and stop a recording session, simply press F4. The key can be configured in the key bindings menu.

If you're familiar with video encoding, it is highly recommended to use ffmpeg to compress videos on the fly. You can download ffmpeg here:

• Windows: http://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/
• MacOS X: http://ffmpegmac.net/
• Linux: Use a packet manager of your choice and search for "ffmpeg".

Recommended ffmpeg parameters:

Lossy H.264:

-f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s %WIDTH%x%HEIGHT% -r %FPS% -i - -c:v libx264 -preset medium -qp 10 video.mp4

Lossless H.264 (RGB mode):

-f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgb24 -s %WIDTH%x%HEIGHT% -r %FPS% -i - -c:v libx264rgb -preset medium -qp 0 video.mp4

Note: starting with Minema v3.2, all frames need to be flipped vertically using "-vf vflip"!

Recommended third-party mods:

• Camera Studio - for smooth camera movements during recording.

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Table of Contents:

Overview
Changes in how things work
Frequently Asked Questions
[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod!
Gallery
Supporting this suggestion
Special thanks

[spoiler=Tl:dr]Q: Won't this increase lag?
A: Absolutely not. The title of this suggestion and big red letters at the top of this post aren't lying. If you want to know how, then I suggest you actually read this post.

Q: Will this change terrain? Will this break existing worlds?
A: No. Terrain change is not necessary. Existing worlds can be converted fairly easily with a process described later in this post.

Q: How can sunlight or rain work with infinite vertical space?
A: I suggest you read Coping with sunlight, because it's too complex for a tl;dr.

Q: I have a different question but still don't feel like reading this post. What do I do?
A: Too bad, read the FAQ. I put way too much work into this for the entirety of it to be ignored.[/spoiler]

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Overview:

In Minecraft, the sky is the limit - literally. It doesn't matter how many thousands of blocks a player has traveled, or what dimension they're in, or even if they're playing in creative or survival, the highest they can ever build is up to a height of 256. Why is that? If Minecraft can have a world that's infinite in the north, in the south, in the east, and in the west, why can't that world be infinite up and down too?

In Minecraft's earliest days, in Classic and Indev, the world was not infinite in any direction. This was because the entire world needed to be generated at the same time, and the entire world needed to be simulated at the same time as well. This led to a conundrum - the bigger the world, the more it lagged.
Notch didn't like this. He knew his players liked to explore and build large creations, so he found a way to make the world truly infinite. When the Minecraft '' class='bbc'>Infdev came out, it brought with it truly infinite worlds. Suddenly, players could travel hundreds of thousands of blocks in any direction, and never encounter a barrier, or become too laggy.
The Infdev update brought about a very large change to Minecraft worlds to accomplish this feat. For the first time, instead every world being just a single huge piece, they were broken up into a two-dimensional grid of pieces, called chunks. Through breaking the world up into pieces, this 'chunk system' enabled infinite worlds by letting Minecraft create new pieces and simulate them only when it needs to.

Why does that not apply to the vertical axis? Because the type of 'chunk system' Minecraft uses right now is a linear one, which, by using only a two-dimensional grid to map out chunks, means that it is impossible for chunks to stack on top of one another, and by extension, meaning that a single chunk must cover the entire vertical space. This brings back the problem that the Infdev update was supposed to eradicate, now only with chunks, instead of an entire world; the bigger a chunk is, the more laggy it is. You can't just increase the height limit and make chunks taller, because it will become laggier, and laggier, and laggier to do it.
That's why, to fix this, Minecraft must change over to a cubic chunk system. Under this system, 16³ block chunks are aligned on a three-dimensional grid, completely eliminating maximum height as an aspect of lag.

The immediate benefits:
•Minecraft worlds become as virtually infinite vertically as they are horizontally: The absolute limit being Y = ±30,000,000.
•A large FPS increase: Alpha testers report an FPS increase of 100~200%.
•Increase in running capability: Computers running Minecraft on Tiny render distance will handle only 30% the blocks they do now.

The possible features:
•Spherical render/load distance: Reduce handled blocks by up to 30% by cutting corners made of unneeded chunks.
•Server chunk occlusion/exclusion: Reduce bandwidth usage and defeat hackers by only sending data for visible chunks.
•Three-dimensional biomes: Save biome data per chunk rather than per block column, create volcanoes with magma chambers, underground rivers, tropical skylands floating over icy taigas, and more.

The disadvantages:
•Unloaded gravity-pause: Falling non-player entities and fluids will be forced to pause their fall if they reach unloaded chunks, but will resume falling when those chunks are loaded.
•Slow falling-pause: Players with slower computers and smaller render distances will have falling occasionally paused as they fall into unloaded chunks, until new chunks can be loaded.

The problems:
•Current sunlight and rain calculation methods cannot work with infinite vertical space: The solution to this is described here.
•Current BiomeDecorator cannot work with multiple vertical chunks simultaneously: The BiomeDecorator code must be altered to function correctly with this, or removed.
•Current cave generation method is executed an extra time for each vertical chunk created simultaneously, leading to lag spikes on world generation: Cave generation's method must be altered to suit this system more.
•Current grass/dirt generation algorithm forces additional chunk requests when chunks are loaded, causing chunks to load slower than they should: This algorithm must be replaced with something else.

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Changes in how things work:

Obviously, the implementation of this new chunk system will change quite a few things. These changes are mostly either necessary or in the interest of increased efficiency. Such changes are categorized and explained below.

How worlds will be stored:
[spoiler]How the current storage works, and what changes:
Interestingly enough, the current method of storage, the Anvil format, is derived from the storage method that the original Cubic Chunks mod used. The Anvil format stores individual chunk as a series of 16³ quasi-cubic chunks. These 'fake' cubic chunks allow for easier reference of specific data, but they still can't be separated from each other, meaning that it fails to reap the full benefits of this system. Even so, the change allowed Mojang to double the maximum height with no performance hit. Chunks are stored in groups of 32², inside 'MCRegion' files, for a total of 1024 chunks.
By nature, cubic chunks does away with the 'quasi-cubic' nonsense. In terms of chunk grouping, instead of using groups of 32³ chunks, new "3DRegion" files would contain groups of 16³. This means each 3DRegion file contains 4096 chunks, four times as many as MCRegion files. However, each 3DRegion contains only one fourth the amount of blocks. For per-chunk positional metadata, 3DRegion files would use the same number of bits as MCRegion files, after compression. Calculations show that the same area encompassed by a single MCRegion file would consume 64 kilobytes of extra space with 4 3DRegion files, which is nothing.

Converting existing worlds:
Most people are probably wondering something like "But won't this totally destroy all existing worlds?". Absolutely not; conversion could not be simpler. When a non-cubic world is loaded after the implementation of this system, a conversion process will begin and convert the entire world at once(To avoid making chunk loading take longer during play). First, all existing MCRegion files will be divided into quarters to create 3DRegion files. Then, all existing chunks are divided into sixteenths using the quasi-cubic properties to identify boundaries. After that, conversion is done.

The "isEmpty" flag optimization:
A 1-bit flag is added to each chunk, named "isEmpty". If the chunk consists of 100% air blocks, this bit is 1, any other case makes it 0. When the bit is 1, all data for the chunk besides the isEmpty flag is deleted and ignored, which reduces filesize. Empty chunks are never loaded, and locations where they occur are merely simulated as entities reside in them. The chunk will only load when something requires saving inside it.[/spoiler]

Changes to terrain, ores, etcetera:
[spoiler]Terrain:
By default, nothing will change. Small bits of terrain generation code need to be reconfigured to work properly with Cubic Chunks.

Biomes:
By default, nothing will change.

Ore generation:
By default, nothing will change.

Structures:
By default, nothing will change.

The Void:
After conversion to Cubic Chunks, the void and bedrock layer will still exist and generate as they always have. However, the void(Not the bedrock layer!) will not exist as a hard limit and is able to be moved, but not removed, by editing an associated NBT data tag inside a world's level.dat. This feature, that allows for increasing the maximum depth, is intentionally disabled without external programs, to prevent terrain change of any sort. It is intended to be used by experienced mapmakers and world generation mods only.

Superflat settings:
Existing superflat worlds will not change. However, new superflat worlds will gain a new decoration parameter, 'void'. Inclusion of this parameter will cause the void to form below the lowest defined layer. Exclusion of it will cause all layers below the lowest defined layer to copy the settings of that layer.[/spoiler]

Coping with sunlight:
[spoiler]There used to be a solution here, but it wasn't deemed good enough by Jeb. Suggest solutions in this thread.[/spoiler]

Changes to servers:
[spoiler]Settings:
There's a setting inside the Server.properties file called 'max-build-height'. The setting makes it impossible for any player to place or remove blocks above that height.
With the implementation of Cubic Chunks, a new setting named "maximum-generation-depth" would be added. The void, bedrock layers, and magma layers will generate normally at and above the Y level designated by the value of this setting.

Chunk occlusion/exclusion:
Using the raytracing methods already available in the code and used for explosion calculations, servers can identify which chunks are visible to a player, within safe assumptions, and only send the data for those chunks. This both reduces bandwidth usage, and cripples the usefulness of X-Ray cheats.[/spoiler]

Render/Load distance alterations:
[spoiler]After the implementation of Cubic Chunks, view distances' radii will apply to the vertical axis too. This reduces handled blocks in the cases of tiny and short render distances, and increases them in the cases of normal and far render distances. This can be optimized by utilizing a spherical render distance instead of a cubic one, which would reduce handled blocks in all distances except Far.[/spoiler]

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Frequently Asked Questions:

[spoiler=FAQ]Q: This is impossible.
A: No it's not. See below.

Q: Is this available as a mod?
A: Not yet! But it will be!

Q: I like X-ray! What if I don't want it to be broken?
A: First of all, breaking X-ray hacks will only be possible to do in multiplayer. That said, the system that would break X-ray would be possible to disable by the server owner. If the owner doesn't disable the system, then they don't want you using X-ray, and you should not be doing what the server owner doesn't want in the first place.

Q: I play on a PvP/Anarchy/Raid/Faction server. Won't this system let people pillar up into the sky and create a base thousands of blocks in the air and never be found?
A: No.

Q: I like Minecraft's current height limits. What if I don't want to have an infinite sky or infinite underground?
A: If this system is added, all worlds will not automatically gain an infinite underground. As stated below, the Void will remain in all worlds, even after the conversion to Cubic Chunks. The ability to remove the Void will simply be there. As for infinite space in the sky, the current build limit is over one hundred blocks above any terrain that vanilla Minecraft can possibly generate. It is ENTIRELY your decision on whether or not you take advantage of this height. If you play on a server, like stated above, the server owner can set a maximum build height. If s/he doesn't, then don't play on their server - you don't play on servers where the server owners allow things you don't like. Why would you play on an anarchy server if you hate being stolen from and killed?

Q: Will this affect Redstone at all?
A: No. This system will simply make it possible to make larger redstone circuitry than before.

Q: Won't this break existing worlds?
A: No. Existing worlds can be easily converted by dividing each MCRegion file into 4 pieces, then slicing the existing 256 block-high chunks inside them into 16 individual chunks.

Q: Won't this affect mods? Won't mod authors have a hard time updating their mods?
A: The answer to this question depends solely on the answer to the following two questions: Do parts of the modification code rely on chunk data/metadata? Does the mod author want to take advantage of the features of the new chunk system? If the answers to the first and second question are both "No", then updating a mod to this system should be very easy and quick. If the answer to the first question is "Yes", then those parts of the code will need to be rewritten somewhat, but in most cases, the changes should be fairly quick and easy. The only time that it should be hard to update a mod to this system, is if the answer to the second question is "Yes".

Q: Won't this require a total rewrite of the mod API if that's released first?
A: No. Whether or not even a small part of the mod API needs to be rewritten depends on the way that it is implemented and whether or not there are API inclusions for chunk handling and other chunk-related behavior.

Q: Could a player fall into unloaded chunks if chunks aren't loaded fast enough?
A: No, they could not, and for several reasons. Minecraft has a terminal velocity, though it might not seem like it. This velocity is slower than it should take to load new chunks below the player. In cases with exceptionally slow computers, even if the player did manage to reach an unloaded chunk, their fall would be paused until that chunk can be loaded.

Q: What would happen when water, sand, or a mob falls into an unloaded chunk?
A: Nothing. The water/sand/mob would freeze in place until the chunk is loaded and it can continue moving. You can already see this same thing happening on the horizontal axis.

Q: What will happen to the Void?
A: It will still exist, along with all its effects. The only difference is that the Void is no longer a hard limit and it can be moved. After the conversion to Cubic Chunks, the Void's location will be stored in a world's ' class='bbc'>level.dat, and this location can be changed with NBT editing tools. When and where the Void exists, chunks will cease to generate.

Q: Will this affect terrain?
A: No. However, terrain generators will gain the ability to use infinite height.

Q: Will this affect ore generation?
A: No. Ore is a part of terrain generation. As stated above, terrain will not be changed.

Q: Won't all current terrain generators be incompatible with this system and need to be rewritten?
A: No. Terrain generators work independently of chunks. When a chunk is generated for the first time, it calls the terrain generator and receives a specific section of the resultant terrain to save inside itself. Because of this, some custom terrain generators can generate steep terrain all the way to Y256, where you can experience a large, flat cut-off. Since there are no chunks above Y256 to call the terrain generator for terrain, no terrain exists there.

Q: What would happen if there's a huge solid ceiling so far above you that it is unloaded? Wouldn't you just see the sky, just with everything being completely dark?
A: Yes. This already happens on the horizontal axis, and it is an issue with sky rendering, not this chunk system. As such, this has nothing to do with this suggestion. Please do not post about this.

Q: If you go deep underground, will your plants grow/ores smelt/animals grow?
A: No, because those chunks would be unloaded, just as if you had walked far away. This is a flaw with any chunk system, regardless of shape. It is a necessary evil that allows Minecraft to have infinite worlds. The only way to fix this would be to introduce a separate new system that works with chunks as they are loaded and unloaded. This suggestion deals with the chunk system itself, and not sister processes. Because of that, that is outside of the scope of this suggestion. Please do not post about this.[/spoiler]

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[WIP] The Cubic Chunks Mod! (Tall Worlds Mod):

Cuchaz has taken it upon himself to bring us the glorious Cubic Chunks, since Mojang refuses to do so.

Cuchaz is using a API of his own creation to help assist in the making of this mod, and he's quite far along, as seen in these two tech demo videos:
[spoiler=T-Demo 1: Vertical chunk loading][/spoiler]
[spoiler=T-Demo 2: Broken height cap and no lag!][/spoiler]
With the basic functionality in place - a complete overhaul of the basic chunk system, and height limit removed - this whole concept can already be considered proven. What remains is making sure everything else functions correctly under the new chunk system. In any case, stay tuned for future updates if it interests you(If it doesn't, then you are the weakest link - goodbye!).

You can follow the mod's development in much more depth in its very own topic!

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Gallery:

[spoiler=A mountainside with an experimental engine using Cubic Chunks designed by Nocte. 960 block view radius, and 30 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler=A different view of the mountainside with the same engine by Nocte. This time, with 1600 block view radius and 15 FPS.][/spoiler]
[spoiler="A video demonstrating Nocte's engine."]

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Note: Many calculations and information can be found among the many posts of this topic. There are too many for me to cite here, but if you wish, you can search for them yourself.

The Idea:
I thought how to make in-game ores better, we could add Ore metadata on an actual block. This would work as followed: Block; as smooth stone spawns and it's given a metadata of an ore block that would normally spawn at it's place. Imagine a cluster of andesite and the world generation would cause a single diamond ore to spawn at the surface. instead of replacing the block with an ore block, the andesite block would spawn with diamond ore metadata.

Examples:
Textures:

(image example- used iron)

In game:
Change applied:


Current ores:


Just to clarify:
"Ores in every block" isn't literal. The point is to change the mechanics of how ores work so that they don't need a new kind of block for every ore type. Instead the ore is stored as metadata for the block. A possible extension of this is the ability to put ore in ANY block, however chances are ores would still be restricted to stone blocks like stone, granite, diorite, and andesite, instead of just in stone only.

One could do an entire creative page just for ores (or rather just for ores in stone, granite, diorite, and andesite)... or they could add a shift right click function to the pickaxe in creative mode that allows the player to cycle through different ore values (or other metadata for other kinds of blocks), or leave the creative inventory menu as is and just modify the appropriate console commands to account for ore in blocks other than bland grey stone.
(thanks Unclevertitle for this clarification)

How ores will be handled for mining:
Regarding mining these modified blocks the stuff is very simple:
Mining speed: Block.
Drop and tool tier requirements: Ore.
Iron, gold ores will be dropped as raw non-block items.

Example:

Dirt with coal metadata

- Coal ore can be mined with a wooden pickaxe upwards.

- Preferred tool for the dirt block is a shovel.

Result

When you use a Wooden shovel (or better), the block will break at a normal speed and it would yield only the coal chunk.

Otherwise it would break and nothing would drop.

Obsidian with Iron ore metadata (note that obsidian is generated after the world so, no obsidian-infused ore would exist naturally).

- Iron ore can be mined with a Stone pickaxe upwards.

- Preferred tool for the obsidian block is a diamond pickaxe.

When you use a Stone pickaxe (or better), the block will break at a normal speed and it would yield only the raw iron chunk.

Otherwise it would break and nothing would drop. (note: when you use a stone pick, the mining speed would be equal to that of a normal obsidian block)

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Minecraft worlds are humongous. As in, dazzlingly not small.

Which is why finite world requests are common. But people want finite worlds with no boundaries, where polar extremes of X and Z meet each other, adding lots of painful code writing for teleportation and harmonization. This is not what I propose here.

Discworld

Instead, see this: worlds limited by a circular boundary (world generation when x²+z² is smaller than r) after which biome generation stops completely.

One could then build on the sides, risking to fall their death in the Void

The size is given as a slider in custom world creation (given in minecraft maps):

• zoom 0 (8² chunks) for one smallest map size (well, hey, tiny can do the job too!)
• zoom 1 (16² chunks) for one second smallest map size
• zoom 2 (32² chunks) for one medium map size
• zoom 3 (64² chunks) for one second biggest map size
• zoom 4 (128² chunks) for one biggest map size
• 3² zoom 4 (384² chunks) for 9 biggest map size
• 5² zoom 4 (640² chunks) for 25 biggest map size
• 7² zoom 4 (896² chunks) for 49 biggest map size
• 9² zoom 4 (1152² chunks) for 81 biggest map size
• Infinite - which is the default setting, as this is optional.

Upsides:

• Computer: Many chunks by many players makes a world heavy. Keep things closer and your world files are not so heavy anymore.
• Calculation: One could have the whole world ready, downloadable and all. That can make custom world creation with mods and everything even more interesting to share.
• Gameplay mentality: Give infinity and the world gets rekt until rekt further away. Give finity (?) and people will hopefully be more careful.
• Gameplay life: Still, other worlds can be accessed in the universe (slime block flying machine or through portals in far nether) or in the multiverse (by stargate portal or items), for discovery, harvest, or a new home.
• Portability: No added block, item, texture, or much coding required. Yet a whole new vibe.

Downside:

• Much clearer rarity of certain biomes/structures - but that can be arranged by forcing more chance of getting things like frozen biomes.
• It may look as if the rest of the world has to be generated as if simply lagging, especially close to the 4 poles. That could be made more clear by adding an edge variant to biomes.

Multiverse

So the world is truly finite eh? What do you do when the world is hollowed out but you still want to go on?

First presented on this suggestion by Ouatcheur but based off the suggestion from AThingWithAThing, there should be a way to create dimension in Creative mode.

I believe we should access these worlds through creative-mode created portals making access to these other worlds limited, but an item could do as well as in whatever bukkit add-on they exist.

If you like the idea of a multiverse, please discuss how it should work in this neat Multiple Dimension suggestion.

Still want a finite and boundless world?

A world that you can walk your way back to start is the only thing that will make you happy? I fully understand. Unfortunately it will require a bit more work than the option I present here. I do think both options could coexist in the future, and it's likely that this idea will be supplanted by torus worlds. But I think because this option is much easier to code, it should come first for finite worlds to become an actual thing.

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