A Minecraft Question

[DudeistBelieve]

I was dreaming up projects for me to undertake in Minecraft over the summer, and I think I thought of something really cool. I was watching a video of a recreated New York City in Minecraft and I thought...

Would it be possible to make the entire planet Earth in Minecraft, if you had all the resources to be able to say what goes where? Is that even physically possible within the games limitations?

 

[Junkle]

No. First, not a circular world. Second, good luck generating everything correctly. Third, good luck putting resources in the correct areas. The list of things you would have to know/be able to create goes on and on, to the point that you would need to be omniscient.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

So what I'm hearing is that, in theory, it's possible if one had the help and the knowledge?

Not saying I want to take up such an endavor, but some group of people should.

 

[marurder]

Impossible as the maps start to bug out at a massive distance from 0. A city, perhaps, but not a country (to scale). Unless it were somewhere tiny.

 

[Torrasque]

Its a problem of scale really. Technically speaking, if you scaled everything correctly, then yeah, it is possible. But (I am not sure how small it would have to be to fit in the Minecraft world) if you make it too small, then it would kinda defeat the purpose of making Earth in Minecraft.

 

[jamesmax]

Impossible as the maps start to bug out at a massive distance from 0. A city, perhaps, but not a country (to scale). Unless it were somewhere tiny.

minecraft is 8 times the size of the world you could do it it would just take time

 

[emeraldrafael]

well, on scale the Minecraft world is 4 times the size of earth, so you should be able to make for earths. It will just have to be on a flat view, and will be very crowded as well as will take a ton of supplies that you may not get without doing it on a server or having some form of command to spawn material.

 

[Layz92]

It would be difficult because it is randomly generated maps. You could build cities sure but Oceans would be completely wrong, unless you wanted to send out a crew of players and reform the entire ocean. I guess the problems with maps being too huge could be solves by spreading the project over several servers.

 

[LobsterFeng]

I can't remember where, but someone told me that even though the world is endless, there comes a point where it pretty much blows up from lag if you go out too far. Granted it would take forever (about 820 hours of nonstop running) but... yeah it would be kind of hard to make the world if you run out of room, I'm not sure if that's true or not.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

okay lets presume something a bit more realistic... do you think someone could make an entire state?

 

[binvjoh]

Good luck.

Remember to eat.

 

[emeraldrafael]

okay lets presume something a bit more realistic... do you think someone could make an entire state?

Oh you could easily make a scale rhode island.

Or even a scale alaska. its easy to make a scale State if you have enough resources. Hell, you could probably make a scale country.

 

[Fenring]

No, not enough height. Many things would be cut off at 64m above sea level. It does expand to 8x the size of the world though.

 

[Caligulust]

Well, it's been done like this

 

[CoverYourHead]

The biggest problem would be height, and mountains would have to be scaled down big time. I'm pretty sure the highest height the game can achieve is only about 64 meters (64 blocks) above sea level (which I believe is 64 blocks up from the bottom of the map where bed rock is generated). But theoretically, yeah, you could generate it.

 

[Korolev]

I imagine that with a perfect computer and unlimited hard-drive space and millions of people working round-the-clock, then yeah, it might just be possible. Theoretically. Practically, no it's not possible.

 

[Corkydog]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWPk5zlKAEM

Probably as close as you'll get.

Anyone want to help me embed that?

Nevermind, ninja'd

 

[DudeistBelieve]

The biggest problem would be height, and mountains would have to be scaled down big time. I'm pretty sure the highest height the game can achieve is only about 64 meters (64 blocks) above sea level (which I believe is 64 blocks up from the bottom of the map where bed rock is generated). But theoretically, yeah, you could generate it.

which is about a little less then 200 feet. One could still create the earth, but it would be flat and everything would be cut off above that point.

I have to be honest, the idea of it does make me want to try it lol.