Our Minecraft world that we know today has the capability to stretch on for millions and billions of blocks… …in any given direction. If you were to try and walk this distance on your own, it would months or even YEARS of non-stop walking… …depending on which limit you were going for. But that number pales in comparison to another number that we’re going to research for this video. Today, we’re going to find out how long a Minecraft world can last. Buried within your F3 menu on Minecraft Java is a counter that tracks what day it is in your Minecraft world. And I want to know what the LAST DAY of a Minecraft world really is. And I’m not kidding when I say this. You’re going to want to stick around for the final result. Let’s go ahead and let’s check it out. So, alright. How are we going to find the answer to this? Well, I wanted to see how much time I can add to a Minecraft world by running the command ‘/time add’… …which adds a certain number of ticks to the game’s internal clock. Minecraft worlds work with a time system called ‘ticks’, where there are 20 ticks that occur with each real life second and 24,000 ticks that occur per Minecraft day. What that means is, every Minecraft day takes up 20 minutes in real life. Keep that number in mind for later. So I began messing around with the ‘/time add’ command and found out that you can add up to the 32-bit integer limit of ticks at a time to a Minecraft world. So I began typing in the command repeatedly and it quickly became clear that I needed a faster method for doing this. And command blocks were the answer. So I let the command blocks run for a couple of minutes and I noticed that the in-game amount of days pretty quickly exceeded the 32-bit integer limit with no apparent negative effects. So I also quickly realised that command blocks weren’t going to cut it if I wanted to find the answer to this. So instead, I popped open the level data file in what’s known as an NBT editor, which allows me to modify pretty much anything that I want… …including what the game’s in-game time is. Keep in mind that this number is the total number of ticks that have passed, NOT what ingame day it is. So take this number, divide it by 24,000 and that’s what the ingame day will be. Since the 32-bit integer limit isn’t enough to break anything, let’s try the 64-bit integer number, which is over 9 quintillion. I set the ingame time to be 200 ticks shy of this limit, so I have 10 seconds ingame before anything might even happen. I fired up the world and what happened next kinda surprised me. So eagerly looking up to the sky with my F3 menu open, on Day 384,307,168,202,282… …suddenly, the sky FLASHED. As if it suddenly became night time and then it flashed again, with the Sun back in it’s original position. But wait, the Sun looks really STUTTERY now. Also, if we look at where it’s going on the F3 menu, it’s setting in the EAST instead of the WEST like it’s supposed to be. It’s… running backwards. Actually, time ITSELF is running BACKWARDS. If we add a little bit of time onto the clock, we can see the day counter is now running down. And the days themselves increment down during SUNSET, instead of SUNRISE. So… what happened? Well, what actually happened is a simple integer overflow. When time itself hit the 64-bit integer limit, it immediately rolled into the NEGATIVE 64-bit integer limit… …and then it started counting down towards 0. If we use the NBT editor again and set the world to a time of -200 ticks, we can actually see the moment where the Sun stops running backwards and then it also stops being a stuttery mess. From this point, the whole cycle will repeat itself all over again as if nothing ever happened in the first place. So the last day of a Minecraft world is day 384,307,168,202,282. Which means, to see the last day of a Minecraft world, you would need to keep the world running for over 14.6 BILLION real life years. For some context, sometime between 1.5 billion and 4.5 billion years from now… …our Sun will expand into a red giant, boil off Earth’s oceans and then collapse… …all while the days of a Minecraft world… …will keep on ticking. So that just about covers it for now. If you enjoyed this video, please consider leaving a like on it. Because it would help out myself, the channel and the video quite a lot. So I hope you all enjoyed, my name is AntVenom and I bid you all farewell. Thanks so much for watching. Video Information
This video, titled ‘THE LAST DAY of a MINECRAFT WORLD?!’, was uploaded by AntVenom on 2017-05-03 22:56:48. It has garnered 1583199 views and 48707 likes. The duration of the video is 00:04:49 or 289 seconds.
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