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Dynamic Chunk Height

(I am not a 100% sure if this post belongs to this topic, but it has a lot to do with the structure of a world.)

I think chunks should have a a value/property that defines their height in what I like to call "16 block units." This value could change according to usage and save a lot of memory! (It would also allow a max world height of 4096 blocks, if the chunk's height value was 8-bits in size.)

How does this value get changed, you might ask!

Of course, this would be dependent of the way Mojang implemented it, but this is my idea of it:
1. A block gets placed at a certain height.
2. If the Y-coordinate of the new block being placed is higher than ChunkHeight * 16, the value will be set to NewBlockY / 16 + 1.
3. Some reallocation happens.

To avoid lag, the value could also be locked and only be changeable using a command.

Emil Karlsson shared this idea.

• July 14, 2019 18:32
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  NearCrayon53865 commented

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  • June 08, 2020 15:55
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  Exactly what I was looking for when I found this site now, for the first time. Height limit is currently 256 blocks?

  I cannot even imagine what 4096 blocks would do, but a whole new dimension to travel in?

  I want that. As aeroplanes became for humans, altitude with that magnitude and the tools to use that plane in a decent way, maybe with a spider addon. It would take some time to get used to it, if our brains even allow it. I guess they do.

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  Jadetonic commented

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  • October 04, 2020 03:46
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  With a slightly higher height limit, I think we would be able to build even greater creations and it gives a whole lot of room to work with!