Talk:Overworld

Major Overhaul after merge
this are some notes on what needs to be done as I don't think I can do it aloun.
 * thou the pages where merged some info doesn't belong here, the overworld is about the dimension, and sentences such as "There are a number of tools that allow users to edit their map" don't belong here anymore.
 * a lot of contradictions " It is the only dimension that has existed throughout the development of Minecraft. The Nether was the second dimension added"
 * aesthetics
 * duplicating some of the info from here into the nether article as now there is no article that talks about things that exist in both dimensions(I am talking mostly on the "Navigating the Overworld" paragraph)--Yurisho 20:30, 28 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Yep. It could use some more editing.
 * I don't see this as a contradiction. The key word is 'throughout'. It could be reworded though. Are there any others you see?
 * Aesthetics. Sure. What specifically?
 * Should there be a seperate navigation page? Maybe a tutorial?
 * I want to rework some of the excerpts, especially the biomes paragraph. Qcdynamics 22:08, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
 * all right it will be reworded
 * specifically the void pic in quirks to be moved to the right, it's small, but i said it here anyways.
 * If i'm not wrong a navigation page all ready exist, I'll check this out...aha! here it is - Tutorials/Navigation
 * we should merge the page with the paragraph in the article.--Yurisho 10:59, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Numbers
The max size of the map can be calculated using 2^N, where N is equal to twice the number of bits available to the chunk offset ints. At the moment, chunk offset is stored as 32-bit signed. I imagine it will stay this way for many years, since if I'm not mistaken, to store a complete map eight times the size of Earth would take a storage capacity of at least 16TB, or four of the biggest singular consumer hard-drives on the market. For most, that would mean a professional storage solution of the sort only used by the big guys in the hosting business, and while I suppose that may be the case for a server, what poor sods spend enough time to cover that much ground? Kookas 20:44, 27 July 2011 (UTC)