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Is this all one large map? If so, since minecraft is flat, where do they cutoff the map (presumably you can’t go around the globe like in the real world)? Are they building based on the Mercator projection?
If they cut out the oceans they can kinda squish it flat
Fun fact: Dymaxion was invented by Buckminster Fuller of geodesic dome fame.
Not directly related to this project but in a similar spirit. Recently, while exploring france’s national geography department (Institut de Géographie Nationale [1]) website, I came across a page [2] which allows anybody to download a Minecraft world representing any 25km^2 area of France. The page lets you set the precise center and many other parameters such as whether to include buildings or even stylistic options…
Someone got paid to make that. That was someone's job. That's freaking awesome. ...I wonder how tricky this would be to auto-generate in Unreal Engine.
"We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft" Nice move, then we can all move to Minecraft, when we are finished with this planet and have used it up.
I'm not familiar with Minecraft, but is there a way to export/save all this effort?
Minecraft data is stored in a mix of JSON and a well documented/understood custom format. It's even documented in the same wiki that players use to learn how to play: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Anvil_file_format The world files are saved unencrypted on disk and can be backed up, edited outside the game, and even converted easily to another format if another game somehow dethrones Minecraft in this niche. There…
Seems to me that satellites and AI could do this much faster while keeping up with the pace of change...
"We are recreating the entire planet in Minecraft" Nice move, then we can all move to Minecraft, when we are finished with this planet and have used it up.
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Someone got paid to make that. That was someone's job. That's freaking awesome. ...I wonder how tricky this would be to auto-generate in Unreal Engine.
That would be an incredibly useful tool for prototypes
https://www.autodesk.com/products/infraworks/overview?term=1...
Is this survival or creative mode? How does it deal with spherical topology while keeping the 1m^3 block size?
The earth is flat, haven't you heard?
