One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
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Re: One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
#2It's kinda remarkable how much the new update overhauled world generation. If you've been standing on the sidelines, waiting for "the big one" to draw you back in, I was greatly surprised at how much fun I had exploring some surprisingly realistic and cool vistas. Canyons don't feel sheer, savannas have remarkable valleys and hills, and the cave generation feels... well, "next-gen" for a lack of a better phrase. I have admittedly been pretty unimpressed with Microsoft's handling of the game up until this point, but I've been pleasantly surprised by how fresh it feels now.
Bravo, nu-Mojang.
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#3This has me pumped. Time to try it out again.
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#4The new worldgen is incredible, both above and below the surface. Hats off to everyone at Mojang that worked on this!
One of my favorite game memories of all time was the first time I played Minecraft during the alpha days and immediately got lost in the world. For me, going into a 1.18 world and finding a giant mountain chain and then finding a cave on the peak of the mountain that falls all the way into a giant underground ocean at the bottom of the world in a huge cavern complete with underground vegetation… it brought me right back to that sense of exploration and wonder that I remember from the very first time I played Minecraft.
Also, I found this datapack (sort of like a mod but doesn’t require patching the game since the game natively supports loading datapack files) called Terralith [1] that extends the 1.18 worldgen with even more cool stuff. Wandering around the new 1.18-style mountains is incredible, and then stumbling across something the resembles Yellowstone National Park added by Terralith is even more incredible. It’s worth a try if you like just wandering around in Minecraft marveling at the scenery.
[1] https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/terralith-overworl...
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#5kenjken
Re: One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again
#6Other things to note. One big one is that the world height limit has increased from 256 blocks to 320, which allows for much more verticality.
I think the whole field of world generation is awesome. Perlin noise, and the concepts of "smooth noise" that have come from it, and the clever ways people have found to layer noise and use it to map biomes and heights, and spawn locations, etc. And then, even more impressively, with games like No Man's Sky, you have this concept applied to spherical geometry. I just think it's all so cool.
Incidentally, his (Sean Murray, creator of No Man's Sky) is the best talk I've ever seen on the topic:
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#7Does anyone know if the new generator is used on unexplored parts of previous save games?
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#8Super excited to try this out, I haven't played much since the alpha ended. Does anyone know how well the RTX support is? I could never tell if that was meant to be a tech demo or an actual feature.
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#9Presumably this is just for the PC version? Or do console versions ever get the terrain updates?
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#10Does anyone know if the new generator is used on unexplored parts of previous save games?
Yes! This update goes so far as to blend chunks around the seams, and will fill out the new cave generation at the bottom of your existing world, replacing the bedrock with deepslate. I'm itching to dive in again once the holidays settle down