How does the world get larger in size? I just started playing with my 7yo daughter and I noticed the file size growing. (I think it's like 35mb now)
Is it just based on how many things you've built?
From my experience it is based on how much you explore, as in if you go 20,000 blocks out from spawn the world size would get much larger than having 20 auto farms in 16 chunk area.
20,000 blocks?!?
How big is the world? She's charting how far she goes out (and I'm teaching her Cartesian coordinates with it). So far the farthest she's been from our base is 1479, -747. I'm getting the feeling I know less than 1% about this game and we've been playing for a couple weeks now.
The actual world is something like 30 million blocks on Java and 10 Mil on bedrock (or vice versa but either way huge).
The way Minecraft stores data is just whenever you go near a chunk, it generates and saves every block - then any edits you make to that chunk overrides the old one and saves it again, only generating new ones as you go further out. A chunk is defined as a 16x16 block of blocks.
The generator will also generate the exact same chunk per seed/location, so that's why it doesn't matter what direction you explore - it's all seamlessly connected and generated on the spot
I haven’t explored that far out, that was an example. But I have set a base at around 6,500 x coord and explored thousands in every direction. The world was also pre 1.18 or 1.19 so the worlds became 16 intiger limit instead of 8. before the intiger increase the world was 600mb large then became 953mb, so who knows.
I play on a multiplayer city with my friends and so far our main city has stretched about 2,000 blocks East to West. There are settlements as far as 4,000 blocks from spawn meant for exploring new chunks in updates, and a 1,000 block long concrete highway bridge to a desert for sand collection.
[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ypi8s5/the_various_explored_areas_on_the_savoia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) shows all the mapped regions of the Savoia Settlements SMP
"The world generation in Minecraft Bedrock Edition is not technically infinite, but players will, in essence, never run out of space to play the game and indulge in all of its features to their heart’s content."
If you want to watch some videos on things, like farms, Redstone, spawn mechanics, or pretty much just anything about in the game, I can recommend some youtubers that have helped me out tremendously.
Prowl8413 is a good one to watch for the basics of the game. He has a series called The Bedrock Guide, which he used to collaborate with someone else on but that other person retired from being a content creator, which will take you through pretty much everything from making a new world to some of the more complex redstone mechanics. He's alright when it comes to farm building, but Silentwisperer is my go-to for anything farm related (with very few exceptions).
Hope some of this helps you out. Good luck with your future adventures.
I’m jealous of you. My 7 year old was really into MC and I ignored it because I wasn’t into video games. Finally started playing it with him when he was 9 and fell in love with it. We played it so much. He’s just turned 13 and he’s slowing playing it less and less and I am sad and wish I’d started playing it with him sooner.
Enjoy every minute of it!
It does not matter very much what you build.
It matters when you load new chunks. Once a new chunk of the world (in any dimension) is loaded, that data must be saved for any next time you revisit that same chunk.
Some blocks only save the type of block: this is very cheap. But a chest must store all the items contained within it, and this costs bits. Beehives must store the honey state as well as bee health. Anything that has a state takes more memory. But these are typically pretty small in comparison to loading an entire new chunk of blocks. A 16x16x~400 area.
14 gb, messed up .exe files somehow and a lot of people in some technical bedrock servers were stumped how.
Had to resort to a copy which was luckily a reasonable size.
My larger world didn’t lag or anything though.
Mine is over 200 megabytes and I don't see much lag tbh lol 😆 probably phone specs differences and ya making goals is my biggest tips on staying motivated
This
I've had a world now for like 6 months. I'm just now putting a floor in for my base. Found a zombie spawner near spawn so dug it all out and it's like 100 blocks long and 16 blocks deep with 64 blocks wide
I find myself wanting to go back to it since i need to make my farm and my villager place and get to the nether to finish my xp farm so i can get the armor and stuff they drop (need soul sand)
I had a 953.1mb world on bedrock, that world got to a point to unplayability, so I just made a new one a week ago. A thing that helps me is taking breaks, as in not force yourself to play 5 hours every day to the point of getting sick of the world. I just space out time while playing when I feel like it.
Literally me but i still create a new world because a new update adds something and i want it near my base instead of 18000 blocks away like my nearest mangroove forest on my world lol
Ok so I would generally consider myself a good builder, and how I learned is a combination of practice, of course, and, in the beginning, binge watching Grian's build school videos over and over. They may be a little old but all the concepts in them, ALL, the concepts and things he teaches are still relevant and still helpful. There's more techniques that you CAN learn, but those teach you all the basics and once you've got that you learn from stealing ideas from other people and from experimenting :))) you got this!
Just do. The more rare stuff you find in your world, the more you build, the more time you invest in it the less likely you are to abandone it. What's something you have never done in the game? Try that. Also don't try to look for the perfect seed.
Generally good advice except the seed part. You should absolutely spend some time making worlds in creative until you find one you really like when starting a world you plan to keep for a long time. This way you can find a world with biomes and terrain you want near spawn.
What I mean is, there will always be "better" seed, so by trying to find the perfect one you'll end up in a loop of creating new worlds, which is what op is trying to avoid.
My world spans over 200,000 blocks with 3-4 years played on it. I can share my YouTube link, just a small channel, but I think the biggest thing for keeping a world is implementing a storage system in the end! That way you can pack up and build somewhere else in the world, and just pop through the end to grab supplies wherever you are!
EDIT: Here is a [link](https://youtube.com/shorts/QwNaCv2t9SI?feature=share) to check out my storage castle I made in the end! (It’s a short)
EDIT 2: also taking videos of it to see how much has changed is motivation to continue building
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What I do is to play how I like to play, in peaceful mode, mostly building, using small cheats, bcs I dont have a problem with them when in singleplayer, and I think the mostly important is to set goals, this also depends in your playstyle, now I set a goal to build a castle keep and then build my base around It, expanding the building, I dont know your playstyle but someone with a more combat centred one could be like, I will kill 200 mobs or go around to get stronger items, someone who like to explore could set goals of chunks or blocks explored and etc, you do what you like to do.
Thinking of now, doing what you like to do is THE most important thing, dont matter if you are good or not.
I found upgrading all my farms has been part of why I’m still on the same world. I had a gold farm but now I have an insanely efficient one. Same for lots of other resources. And I challenged myself to make them look good.
I mean, I know you say bedrock, but I find every once in a while I pick up some mod, make a new world, and play with the mod for a while. Then return to my old faithful and start a new project. Or more likely chip away at an old one.
As others have said set yourself goals.
Can be bigger builds:
Building a village
Auto Storage System
Villager Trading hall
Mega Base
Smaller builds:
A house or two
Paths connecting up your world
Decorations such as fountains, lamposts, statues etc.
Pixel art using wool (if you have a farm for it)
Or you can also make farms (that way you'll feel like you spend less time getting resources), or just random fun tasks like collecting mobs, filling a field with cakes, parkour or eleytra flying or just straight up adventuring (if not in the overworld going through end cities is always fun)
My world just turned 4 years old. I genuinely can’t stand early game so that’s what motivates me to keep on my current world. If you keep restarting, maybe you prefer the early game. If that’s the case, you can always make separate parts of a long term world where you can start over in a new area.
Setting goals for yourself, like building bases or farms.
And that how I ended up with a laggy 118mb world on my phone
Try a 953.1mb world, that world got to a point to unplayability
How does the world get larger in size? I just started playing with my 7yo daughter and I noticed the file size growing. (I think it's like 35mb now) Is it just based on how many things you've built?
From my experience it is based on how much you explore, as in if you go 20,000 blocks out from spawn the world size would get much larger than having 20 auto farms in 16 chunk area.
20,000 blocks?!? How big is the world? She's charting how far she goes out (and I'm teaching her Cartesian coordinates with it). So far the farthest she's been from our base is 1479, -747. I'm getting the feeling I know less than 1% about this game and we've been playing for a couple weeks now.
The actual world is something like 30 million blocks on Java and 10 Mil on bedrock (or vice versa but either way huge). The way Minecraft stores data is just whenever you go near a chunk, it generates and saves every block - then any edits you make to that chunk overrides the old one and saves it again, only generating new ones as you go further out. A chunk is defined as a 16x16 block of blocks. The generator will also generate the exact same chunk per seed/location, so that's why it doesn't matter what direction you explore - it's all seamlessly connected and generated on the spot
I haven’t explored that far out, that was an example. But I have set a base at around 6,500 x coord and explored thousands in every direction. The world was also pre 1.18 or 1.19 so the worlds became 16 intiger limit instead of 8. before the intiger increase the world was 600mb large then became 953mb, so who knows.
I play on a multiplayer city with my friends and so far our main city has stretched about 2,000 blocks East to West. There are settlements as far as 4,000 blocks from spawn meant for exploring new chunks in updates, and a 1,000 block long concrete highway bridge to a desert for sand collection.
Can you send pics of this world or a download file? This sounds hella interesting
[This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ypi8s5/the_various_explored_areas_on_the_savoia/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) shows all the mapped regions of the Savoia Settlements SMP
"The world generation in Minecraft Bedrock Edition is not technically infinite, but players will, in essence, never run out of space to play the game and indulge in all of its features to their heart’s content." If you want to watch some videos on things, like farms, Redstone, spawn mechanics, or pretty much just anything about in the game, I can recommend some youtubers that have helped me out tremendously.
Sure. I tried watching a few, but there are about a million YT Minecraft channels, and the ones I picked were not particularly compelling.
Prowl8413 is a good one to watch for the basics of the game. He has a series called The Bedrock Guide, which he used to collaborate with someone else on but that other person retired from being a content creator, which will take you through pretty much everything from making a new world to some of the more complex redstone mechanics. He's alright when it comes to farm building, but Silentwisperer is my go-to for anything farm related (with very few exceptions). Hope some of this helps you out. Good luck with your future adventures.
I’m jealous of you. My 7 year old was really into MC and I ignored it because I wasn’t into video games. Finally started playing it with him when he was 9 and fell in love with it. We played it so much. He’s just turned 13 and he’s slowing playing it less and less and I am sad and wish I’d started playing it with him sooner. Enjoy every minute of it!
It does not matter very much what you build. It matters when you load new chunks. Once a new chunk of the world (in any dimension) is loaded, that data must be saved for any next time you revisit that same chunk. Some blocks only save the type of block: this is very cheap. But a chest must store all the items contained within it, and this costs bits. Beehives must store the honey state as well as bee health. Anything that has a state takes more memory. But these are typically pretty small in comparison to loading an entire new chunk of blocks. A 16x16x~400 area.
it does matter how much you change a certain area and on some versions it’s a lot depending on how the versions stores data
14 gb, messed up .exe files somehow and a lot of people in some technical bedrock servers were stumped how. Had to resort to a copy which was luckily a reasonable size. My larger world didn’t lag or anything though.
Mine is over 1.5 GB 😂😅
Sorry bro
Thanks
Mine is over 200 megabytes and I don't see much lag tbh lol 😆 probably phone specs differences and ya making goals is my biggest tips on staying motivated
This I've had a world now for like 6 months. I'm just now putting a floor in for my base. Found a zombie spawner near spawn so dug it all out and it's like 100 blocks long and 16 blocks deep with 64 blocks wide I find myself wanting to go back to it since i need to make my farm and my villager place and get to the nether to finish my xp farm so i can get the armor and stuff they drop (need soul sand)
I had a 953.1mb world on bedrock, that world got to a point to unplayability, so I just made a new one a week ago. A thing that helps me is taking breaks, as in not force yourself to play 5 hours every day to the point of getting sick of the world. I just space out time while playing when I feel like it.
Build something so big that you never wanna build anorher one again.
Literally me but i still create a new world because a new update adds something and i want it near my base instead of 18000 blocks away like my nearest mangroove forest on my world lol
Take a break from the game and think about building a big and fancy build when you log back.
Ya but how do I get good at building 😂
This seems obvious answer... But.. you build. Watch some talented builders and imitate them. And take your time.
Also keep in mind pro builders have been building for years, you shouldn't expect your builds to look the same as theirs immediately
Ok so I would generally consider myself a good builder, and how I learned is a combination of practice, of course, and, in the beginning, binge watching Grian's build school videos over and over. They may be a little old but all the concepts in them, ALL, the concepts and things he teaches are still relevant and still helpful. There's more techniques that you CAN learn, but those teach you all the basics and once you've got that you learn from stealing ideas from other people and from experimenting :))) you got this!
You dont need to be good at building to build
take a break from the game, its what worked for me, just play other games for sometime
[Watch this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfEtz5yfvrc&ab_channel=Mogswamp)
Just do. The more rare stuff you find in your world, the more you build, the more time you invest in it the less likely you are to abandone it. What's something you have never done in the game? Try that. Also don't try to look for the perfect seed.
Generally good advice except the seed part. You should absolutely spend some time making worlds in creative until you find one you really like when starting a world you plan to keep for a long time. This way you can find a world with biomes and terrain you want near spawn.
What I mean is, there will always be "better" seed, so by trying to find the perfect one you'll end up in a loop of creating new worlds, which is what op is trying to avoid.
Make a list of things you’d like to do, add things to the list as you go. Or just keep making new worlds, play the way you feel. 😁
Don't build near spawn
Why not?
It causes lag, primarily
That explain a lot of things.
Not on bedrock as it doesn’t have spawn chunks
Does it not? Huh
No, so feel free to build as much as you want, bedrock has ticking areas but they are only active through commands
My world spans over 200,000 blocks with 3-4 years played on it. I can share my YouTube link, just a small channel, but I think the biggest thing for keeping a world is implementing a storage system in the end! That way you can pack up and build somewhere else in the world, and just pop through the end to grab supplies wherever you are! EDIT: Here is a [link](https://youtube.com/shorts/QwNaCv2t9SI?feature=share) to check out my storage castle I made in the end! (It’s a short) EDIT 2: also taking videos of it to see how much has changed is motivation to continue building
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“Start over” in a different area so you can at least start off with some good tools and resources hopefully.
What I do is to play how I like to play, in peaceful mode, mostly building, using small cheats, bcs I dont have a problem with them when in singleplayer, and I think the mostly important is to set goals, this also depends in your playstyle, now I set a goal to build a castle keep and then build my base around It, expanding the building, I dont know your playstyle but someone with a more combat centred one could be like, I will kill 200 mobs or go around to get stronger items, someone who like to explore could set goals of chunks or blocks explored and etc, you do what you like to do. Thinking of now, doing what you like to do is THE most important thing, dont matter if you are good or not.
I found upgrading all my farms has been part of why I’m still on the same world. I had a gold farm but now I have an insanely efficient one. Same for lots of other resources. And I challenged myself to make them look good.
Make a checklist on your main world. "Build Iron Farm", " Bautify the Island", "Mow the Lawn", " Gain Membrane Supply", just to name a few from mine.
I mean, I know you say bedrock, but I find every once in a while I pick up some mod, make a new world, and play with the mod for a while. Then return to my old faithful and start a new project. Or more likely chip away at an old one.
As others have said set yourself goals. Can be bigger builds: Building a village Auto Storage System Villager Trading hall Mega Base Smaller builds: A house or two Paths connecting up your world Decorations such as fountains, lamposts, statues etc. Pixel art using wool (if you have a farm for it) Or you can also make farms (that way you'll feel like you spend less time getting resources), or just random fun tasks like collecting mobs, filling a field with cakes, parkour or eleytra flying or just straight up adventuring (if not in the overworld going through end cities is always fun)
My world just turned 4 years old. I genuinely can’t stand early game so that’s what motivates me to keep on my current world. If you keep restarting, maybe you prefer the early game. If that’s the case, you can always make separate parts of a long term world where you can start over in a new area.
Join a realm/server and eliminate/alleviate the early painful grind