MAXIMUM FILE-SIZE for a FULL MINECRAFT WORLD?!

So how big do you think a fully generated minecraft world is? The very question itself seems daunting. How do you even get the information required to answer that question? Also, what even qualifies as the proper area of a minecraft world? As well as file size is concerned anyways,

Some people say it might be Terabytes. Some say it’s Petabytes! And some say it’s way more than that. Well today, I’m aiming to answer this question. Once and for all. But I do want to note, This will not be an exact answer. Because I’m finding the answer for naturally generated minecraft terrain.

And there’s always going to be a possibility for a variation in these results. What this video is meant to show is a good approximation of the answer. I wanted something that was more than just a guess. So let’s go ahead, and let’s check this out. [ [I [In [Int [Intr [Intro [Intro]

Alright, let’s do science all over this question. What is the maximum file size of a Minecraft world? Well to answer this, we’re going to need to answer a fundamental question first. What is the volume, or area, of a Minecraft world? In a video I released a couple of days ago,

I showed that the world border for Minecraft can be removed completely. Allowing terrain to generate up to 2.147 billion blocks away. However, this isn’t how things work in the vanilla version of Minecraft. Also, there’s a bug with the mod I made for that, that prevents terrain between 2 to the 26,

And 2 to the 27 blocks from generating. So for the sake of simplicity, we’re going to stick with vanilla Minecraft’s area of 60M blocks squared, times 256 for the height. I know that there’s 240 blocks extra that generate beyond the world border in each direction. But again, to make the math simpler

We’re going to ignore that for now. So now that we have that, how are we going to get the file size for a minecraft world of this kind of scale? Surely I can’t login to Minecraft and generate all that terrain within my own lifetime! (Yes you could, you just don’t want to).

Let alone enough time to make this video. (You’d probably get a lot of hate for if you actually did that instead, but probably a lot of respect). So instead, we’re going to generate a map with an area of 6,000 by 6,000 blocks. With a map of that size,

I feel that any file size randomness caused by variations with natural Minecraft terrain will be most mostly accounted for. But if I just login to Minecraft and try and generate all of this terrain, the answer might not be precise at all! (Crap, um, forget what I said earlier).

So instead, I’m going to use a program called MCEdit to generate the exact amount of chunks that we need. Chunks in minecraft are made up of 16 by 16 by 256 sections of blocks. Using MCEdit, I can generate a world and tell it how many chunks I would like MCEdit to pre-generate. In this case, 375 chunks in each direction to get an area of 6,000 by 6,000.

I hit go and waited an HOUR! Yeah, that’s how long it took. So after pruning some extra chunks that MCEdit likes to throw on there for whatever reason, we now have our 6,000 by 6,000 map. So, what do we do now? Well that’s pretty easy, actually. 6,000 is 1 ten-thousandth of 60 million.

So if we take the file size of the 6,000 by 6,000 map and multiply it by 10,000 squared, or 100 million, then we have our answer. The file size for this map, is 972.816384 megabytes. Yeah, so how big is the biggest hard drive in your computer?

Because if it’s 1 terabyte for all of you, then I’m going to need to borrow it from at least 97,282 of you. Jeez! So yeah, that’s the answer for at least the overworld in Minecraft.

The answer for the nether and the end individually will vary a lot because of the way that they generate. But I feel that this video does a good job at providing a lot more than just a guess at the maximum file size of a Minecraft world.

And if you feel like finding the answer for a Minecraft world that stretches 2.147 billion blocks in each direction, just multiply the file size for the 6,000 by 6,000 map by 715,827.882333 sqaured instead of 10,000 squared. Alright guys, that just about does it for me for now.

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