Imagine a video game world that is the size of an entire planet. Not with the dimensions of an entire city, nor a county with its wilderness areas, or an entire country, but we are referring to something on the scale of the Earth itself. Basically, that is the great premise of Light No Fire, but even in those it is difficult to visualize, as players, an idea like that. What if I told you that Minecraft worlds can be seven times our planet?
Let's start from something simple: it can be said that the size of a world of Minecraft It depends on the settings we make at the beginning and whether we are referring to the Bedrock version or the Java version. However, in both games there is a common denominator: each block (or cube) that composes it measures one square meter. So if we apply basic mathematics to the number of blocks that define the size of each world, the figure it gives us is shocking.
The slogan was always true: Minecraft is “Bigger than Earth”
As stated on the website of Scale of the Universeand although it is possible to choose between several sizes of worlds in Minecraft, if we apply the largest dimensions we can see that when calculating the size of 60 million blocks wide by another 60 million blocks along and assuming that each block occupies one square meter the final size is 3.6 billion square km. What is the surface of the Earth? A not inconsiderable 510.1 million square km.
A figure that, as we said, is difficult to imagine without a visual example. Luckily, from the channel DG VFX They have made a comparison in which you can see the surface of huge video games, the planet Earth and, finally, a Minecraft world.
How is it possible that the dimensions are on this scale? The trick to understanding why everything is so big is, as we already mentioned, to visualize the size of a simple game cube, so that each voxel that we step on, break or modify is not the size of a ball as is implied. in Minecraftbut much larger: in terms of height, a single cube would be more than half of what an average adult measures.
So if you've ever played Minecraft and seen the game's slogan stating in yellow letters that the game was “Larger than Earth,” it was neither an exaggeration nor a promise of success. its infinite possibilities, but a resounding and amazing fact.
…And if we put the maps together it is impossible to imagine the size
We have made it clear that Minecraft It is larger than Earth, but the question remains the same: How big is the entire game really? To find out we must use much larger scales.
To begin with, the best way to understand the proportions that a loose world of Minecraftand continuing with the examples, is to compare its size with the planets we know in our solar system. The closest thing to its dimensions, in fact, is the planet Neptune. And although we're talking about a relatively flat surface, Earth and our neighboring planets are ridiculous in comparison.
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The process to calculate the size is not simple and you have to have a huge number of parameters. But the most amazing thing is that from the channel Corridor Crew have dared to calculate how tall everyone would be Minecraft if each map in the game was placed like a gigantic stage. And although visualizing the result is almost impossible for a human being, their calculations indicate that its width is equivalent to 27 light years. Crazy.
As a side effect, our characters, the Ghouls and the beings that inhabit Minecraft They are gigantic compared to us, although it is also worth remembering that Steve was not among the tallest fighters in Super Smash Bros. But if the official proportions had been maintained, the game would be even more surreal.
Minecraft It is much more than dimensions: its true greatness lies in its infinite creative possibilities and its ever-growing social component as a platform to play on consoles, PCs, mobile phones, through virtual reality… Its proposal always adapts to the experiences that their own players are able to imagine, being the sandbox par excellence. The greatest video game ever made? Let's say that 3.6 billion square km is something very, very complicated to overcome.
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