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World Size Trimming

Exploration is its own enemy. Exploring means generating new chunks that take up storage space in your device, and it means that the chunks you create will remain unchanged forever.

I propose that chunks that have been loaded for very little time don't become a permanent part of the world and are instead "de-generated". If you fly past a bunch of chunks in a matter of seconds, you won't care if it stays the same the next time you go to them (if you even ever visit them again!).

I believe the best approach to this would be to make it so that chunks near active chunks (with lots of loading time) get permanently generated, within a set distance of chunks, and any terrain beyond that starts to follow these rules, to avoid new structures generating too close to areas that have already been generated.

Also, any chunks that undergo player modification should become permanent (and make their surroundings permanent as well). I'm sure Mojang can figure a way to make this work perfectly.

MODS, PLEASE NOTE: I have made a suggestion that is SIMILAR to this, but NOT THE SAME. "Not generating chunks" is not the same as "reversing their generation" (the differences are subtle but can be major for technical players or to actually implement it). Please do not remove this post for repetitiveness.

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    This is actually an intresting idea, I can see a couple of issues that could result, if done incorrectly, this would need to be CAREFULLY implimented. I can also see how we could use it to exploit structures.

    The real problem with this is if we cause it to be permanent by interacting with blocks, most players dont use elytra, so exploring would become difficult for anyone who doesnt want to load acssessive chunks, this would also make mining or temporal farming and shelter no longer viable, unless you plan to use the area extensively. However that could allow for pathes to become saved and then predictable and unable to be edited I guess.

    This would be an incredibly difficult change to fine-tune.

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    There are multiple problems with this idea:

    • Each world has a seed, which generates new chunks with a lot of specificity. Only procedurally generated structures change with the same seed, and this is asking the whole world to be a procedurally generated structure, which would take up a lot more data than exploration already does.
    • I think that you actually care a lot more about chunks staying the same than you think. For example you might be lucky enough to find a woodland mansion in the early game but walk away, intending to come back later to raid it (because you aren't powerful enough yet), then find it's disappeared when you do come back, it's not that fun. And if you get even more technical, there would be more problems.
    • Strategic players could abuse this to generate rare structures. For example, you could sprint around a dark forest repeatedly until a woodland mansion appears. You could then do this repeatedly, filling your map with rare structures.
    • Maps wouldn't work. You might bring a map while your exploring uncharted areas, moving quickly, and then you come home. Suddenly, when you go through the area again, the map breaks, as the new terrain is entirely different from the old layout.