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The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by 1bpp »

NobodyNada wrote: post #18
1bpp wrote: post #13

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I think "storing deltas" based on seed is largely how Minecraft saves the level already, but you could probably strip out a bunch of useless metadata to get it smaller

> I think "storing deltas" based on seed is largely how Minecraft saves the level already This is not the case, level data is stored in full. One reason for this is that level generation is pretty slow (compare the time it takes to create a new world vs. load an existing one); another reason is that it changes between versions.

My bad, I had skimmed the wiki to confirm but I did misinterpret it as only storing NBT data for user-placed blocks, regenerating the rest. It makes sense why that wouldn't work.

Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by asdff »

icase wrote: post #22
asdff wrote: post #9

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The freedom of loosely moderated minecraft was amazing back in the day. I traded hats all the time between being a shameless griefer or actual contributor to community projects. I remember one server far away from spawn had a growing 1:1 imperial city from Oblivion build going on, that they specifically didn't want to use any build tools for (server admins project). Because of the vertical scale and height limit of t…

> shameless griefer TEAM aVo DESERVES ICE CREAM!

Wow yes, quite a blast from the past. I followed their early videos as inspiration for my griefing. I used their client with the various griefing functions baked in. I would do stuff like torch grief or completely reterraform the footprint of someones build I destroyed as if it was never there. Wallhacking too of course but that's just the table stakes. A lot of those functions were quickly patched on servers running bukkit at least.

Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by csande17 »

nonethewiser wrote: post #40
pineapplepizza6 wrote: post #29

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what? how does censoring "fuck" not make it anarchy?

"Anarchy" in Minecraft means no rules, and "you can't say bad words (or build things containing bad words)" is a rule.

Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by lostlogin »

nonethewiser wrote: post #40
pineapplepizza6 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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what? how does censoring "fuck" not make it anarchy?

That’s wild if true. The slippery slope starts somewhere, but I too am not convinced it starts there.

Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by zamadatix »

ramgine wrote: post #44

How would one go about running this server, or a part of it? I’m guessing not all the map has to be in ram at the same time right?

If you want to play normally you can just log in to 2b2t. If you wanted to play these snapshots in your own way then you'd need to decompress them and recompress them into normal Minecraft save format. You don't have to do the whole thing, (which is good considering the 15 TB figure is for the more optimally compressed version). At any point you can do this from disk. Only the chunks the Minecraft server/client have currently loaded in view distance need to go into RAM.

Re: The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB

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Post by doctorpangloss »

jorl17 wrote: post #5

I have such fond memories of venturing into 2b2t in 2016! I think it was one of the last times I truly felt like a kid in my life. As if I was a part of something larger than me. Multiple factions, and people betraying each other. Secrecy abound. The scarcity of resources leading to small groups forming joining for survival. Item duplication bugs being exploited all the time! Oh, and of course, the wonderful world of…

On the flip side does this stuff add up to a greater cultural impact than playground drama nostalgia? Can I write this without being downvoted?
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