Re:Minecraft adds Ordnance Survey Great Britain terrain data
by PhasmaFelis on Monday September 23, 2013 @08:42PM
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Hmm, have the height limitations been removed? I know at one point Minecraft worlds were technically infinite horizontally but limited to...256? 512? meters vertically, from bedrock to skybox, which is obviously not enough for most real-world terrain. I haven't played in ages, though.
I saw a video from one modder who managed to, not remove, but rotate the height limitation, producing a cavern world that was 256 meters wide and infinitely long and deep. He tweaked the terrain generator to accomodate it, too; there was no surface, just uncountable miles of vast tunnels. It was creepy.
Re:Minecraft adds Ordnance Survey Great Britain terrain data
by alsothings on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @07:11AM
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“The raw height data is stored in metres and must be scaled down to fit within the 256 block height limit in Minecraft. A maximum height of 2 500 metres was chosen, which means Ben Nevis, appears just over 128 blocks high.
“Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.”
Re:Minecraft adds Ordnance Survey Great Britain terrain data
by Bpat on Monday September 23, 2013 @09:40PM
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I'm 99% sure it is no longer limited. Notch and Co. added some code so that it can dynamically increase the height in an area allowing for taller builds.
I'm pretty sure what you're thinking about did happen: the height limit used to be 128 and when Notch added some code, it made for a (relatively) big improvement to 256.
Re:Minecraft adds Ordnance Survey Great Britain terrain data
by asdfs on Monday September 23, 2013 @10:49PM
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I believe they changed it so that the height limit now depends on a single variable in the code, making it easy to build a copy of Minecraft with a different limit. Minecraft as distributed by Mojang still has a 256-block height limit, however.
I saw a video from one modder who managed to, not remove, but rotate the height limitation, producing a cavern world that was 256 meters wide and infinitely long and deep. He tweaked the terrain generator to accomodate it, too; there was no surface, just uncountable miles of vast tunnels. It was creepy.
“Although this exaggerates the real-world height, it preserves low-lying coastal features such as Bournemouth's cliffs, adding interest to the landscape.”
- http://www.pcgamesn.com/minecraft/ordnance-survey-recreate-g...
So they are keeping to the 256 block height, but being slightly creative with the vertical scale...
I'm pretty sure what you're thinking about did happen: the height limit used to be 128 and when Notch added some code, it made for a (relatively) big improvement to 256.