Sky dimension



The Sky Dimension is an upcoming dimension in Minecraft, to go along with The Nether and The End.

In a live webcast on the Swedish gaming site feber.se Notch revealed that the Sky Dimension would "probably be a dream world" and that when "you go to bed there is a certain chance that you get dragged into the dream world instead. Then you will be able to do it on purpose later on.."

The Sky Dimension was originally planned for the Beta 1.8 Adventure Update, but was still a work-in-progress at that time and was not released.

The original concept of the Sky Dimension was later rebranded as "The End", a dark place fittingly referred to as the "end of the game", home to the Endermen and the Enderdragon, and a total conversion of the original idea. However, Notch tweeted much later that a different "Skylands" dimension probably is still in the making. This version, completely seperate from the End, is now set to replace the original idea.

History
In a very old version of Minecraft, you could spawn a world on a floating island. The Sky Dimension was first announced by Notch tweeting a picture of the dimension. It was probably made to be like a "heaven," because the Nether was considered to be and act like a hell, and The End is similar to limbo. The Sky Dimension was not completely confirmed until Notch released an update via Twitter stating: "And because PC Gamer made such a big deal of the Sky Dimension, I guess I'll have to finish it. Consider it confirmed."

The Mod-Enabled Version
Notch left data in for an early prototype of the Sky Dimension in Beta 1.6 and 1.7. Using various mods it is possible to access this currently unfinished version of the Sky Dimension.

In this version of the Sky Dimension, the build up of the world blocks-wise is very much like the Overworld, but it is always midday and it does not rain or snow (though cloud cover does appear as if it were raining). Although uncommon, it is possible to find Sugar cane, Redstone, Lapis Lazuli, and more rarely Diamond. Like the normal world, you can also find Dungeons, Iron, Coal, and Gold. The only mobs that currently spawn in the sky dimension are chickens and very rarely cows and pigs. Below the islands of the Sky Dimension is nothing but the Void and a layer of clouds.

Bugs


Originally, the Sky Dimension was hidden within the region 0 (Overworld) code. However, starting in Beta 1.9 Pre-release 3, it was given its own region: Region 2, Region 1 being the Nether. However, instead of Sky Dimension chunks spawning within its region, they would generate in the Overworld on Multiplayer servers. This is most likely due to an issue with map generation and saving causing Sky Dimension chunks to save over Overworld chunks rather than being made in their own, separate map files like the Nether does. If a world with Sky Dimension chunks is brought from Multiplayer to Singleplayer, the area of the chunks will always be Plains biome, even if snow generated naturally on the ground.

It has also been recently been discovered that if Beta Pre-release 3 has been installed, and you create a multiplayer world with the seed as "666" there will be a large area of skyworld corruption. This was removed in Pre-release 4, as well as in the official release.

Videos

 * Notch's Sky Dimension in Minecraft Beta 1.6.4

Trivia

 * If the player selects a map while in the unfinished version of the Sky Dimension, their game will display the Saving Chunks screen and crash. This is because the current implementation of maps can’t handle exposed sections of the Void.
 * Maps work in the Sky Dimension in SMP. Parts of the Map that exposes the void appears as if it has been 'unmapped', with the beige colored checker pattern.
 * The Sky Dimension is an inversion of The Nether, whereas the latter is basically a large cave with monsters and a massive open space within, the former are peaceful floating islands spawn surrounded by open space. The Nether may also be thought of as being a hell with The Sky Dimension being a heaven.
 * The Sky Dimension, similar to the Nether, has weather disabled. This is likely explained by the fact that it is above the clouds.
 * In Indev there was a World Type called "Floating." It spawned floating islands full of terrain based on the World Theme.
 * Jeb tweeted that the Sky Dimension was scrapped in favor of "The End". Notch later tweeted that an alternate version of the Dimension was still in the work.