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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by Nullabillity on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @07:12PM (#10977290)
> Just flying through a minecraft world in a straight line in creative mode needs 80% of one core to keep pace with the world generation.

But that's the absolute worst case, nobody actually plays the game like that.

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Re:Microsoft's forthcoming Minecraft Education Edition is wr... by wlesieutre on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @07:39PM (#10977416)
People don't spend most of their time in-game that way, but they definitely do it. Especially when looking for an interesting places to set up.

Multiplayer gets much worse though, god forbid you have several people exploring new terrain on a server.

And god forbid you play with any of the mods that add faster railways[1] or jetpacks[2] or boots that make you walk faster[3], etc. It's a bummer that the optimizations are coming to the less moddable version, MC is a great platform for people to build new gameplay on.

[1] http://ftbwiki.org/Railcraft

[2] http://ftbwiki.org/Simply_Jetpacks

[3] http://ftbwiki.org/Boots_of_the_Traveller

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