It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by arboles on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:56AM (#32775466)

Minetest seems hardcoded to have much smaller worlds than Minecraft (32,000 vs 30,000,000 blocks in width)

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by catach on Friday September 09, 2022 @01:52AM (#32775754)

I believe it makes up for that quite usefully by having a similar depth/height limit as width.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by oynqr on Friday September 09, 2022 @03:21AM (#32776308)

If those numbers are correct, the Minecraft world still has ~1000 times the volume.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by MichaelCollins on Friday September 09, 2022 @05:05AM (#32777045)

It shouldn't matter anyway, because minecraft lazily generates chunks when the player visits them for the first time, and I assume minetest does to.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by oynqr on Friday September 09, 2022 @06:55AM (#32777707)

Of course they do. This is about world size limits.

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Re:It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play ar... by MichaelCollins on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:18PM (#32781137)

Right, but neither will have large worlds if you explore little, and both will have large worlds if you explore a lot. The file size of the fully explored world doesn't seem relevant, because neither game fully generates the world.

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