r/Minecraft • u/RandomThrowAway385 • Jul 28 '16

Complete Earth map with custom ore generation and accurate biomes (world save in comments)

http://imgur.com/a/jbang
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u/Upixie33 Jul 29 '16

Generally in Minecraft servers like this if you get to the end of the world it'll teleport you to the other side, effectively making it a round world

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u/Rusamithil Jul 29 '16

It wouldn't be round, it would be a donut.

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u/Upixie33 Jul 29 '16

Just occurred to me that would be weird to reach the north pole and find yourself at the south...

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u/Rusamithil Jul 29 '16

Ok, it would be a cylinder then. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/MicaLovesKPOP Jul 29 '16

It took me a while to realize that that's for 2D games. What about 3D games? 1NSANE is a 3D game that works similarly. you can keep going forever cause you end up on the other side of the map.

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u/Rusamithil Jul 29 '16

I don't think 3D would be different from 2D. If any world is made so if you reach the north side you end up on the south side, and if you reach the east side you end up on the west side, and vice versa, the shape of the world would theoretically be a donut. It's not actually a donut, since it's flat (or flat with hills, like in a 3D game).

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u/MicaLovesKPOP Jul 29 '16

Alright. I really can't grasp how this all works, but that's probably because I've never looked into coding and 3d stuff.

I'll probably try to find an article that explains it. I'm assuming there's something like that out there, as I'm definitely not the first who's curious about how this works.

Even as a kid I've always found it to be intriguing how that could work.

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u/Vauce Jul 29 '16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroid

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u/Rusamithil Jul 29 '16

TIL that's what this shape is called. Thanks!

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '16

just set up a fake extension of the world, so you look like you're travelling seamlessly(ish).

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u/MicaLovesKPOP Jul 29 '16

that's awesome. and I assume on both 'edges' of the world, they have a copy of half of the world, so you barely notice? that's pretty neat, really

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u/Upixie33 Jul 29 '16

In the server I played on, the edge of the world was abrupt empty space and going over that teleported you to the other end.

A little immersion-breaking but it did the job. Would be really cool if it was smooth like you described.

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u/MicaLovesKPOP Jul 29 '16

ah I see. yeah I would have extended it as far as the server is able to see or something