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Switch data increase

While playing on my Minecraft world on a the switch it eventually told me that I had used up too much data and would no longer be able to save, even tho I have a micro sd with 64 gb of space on it. I looking up that the switch only allows 2 gb per account, I think we should increase the amount of data or at the very least let us choose how much data we’d like the game to use.

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    then your world is too big, not sure if Minecraft's devs can do anything about that

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    same but i would like switch online to not be here

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    Nintendo has a 2GB per game per account limit. Minecraft devs need only apply for an exception.

    If they didn’t want this to become an issue, why have “unlimited worlds” in the first place? It’s rather frustrating!

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    Apply for the exception with Nintendo. It has been years since Minecraft has been on Switch and there is still a 2 GB limit for save data. Just do it already. Thank you for your time.

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    I've been playing Minecraft for about over 6 months now and I've already hit this limit. Please work with Nintendo to increase save file limit. Even a 1 gigabyte will help. The issue frequently happens when I purchase a map from the store and I can't even use the template. Minecraft is an expansive game. The save file should be too.

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    They should add world sizes again so that they can prevent this! This never happened on the Console Edition!

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    I started a new world just over a week ago, have 1 world and no additional resource packs beyond the default. I have had 2 friends pop into my world but that’s it. In data management it’s says Minecraft is taking up 1.4 GB. Does this happen when you get a realm? Or is that their “solution” to this issue?

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    Myself and my daughter use this game on multiple devices so it's taken forever to see this, but the sheer amount of worlds and mods in the store, to buy it and THEN find out your app is at its limit is ridiculous! PLEASE, I love this game so much I have it on everything, I had it back before it had tutorial videos or anyone knew what to do with it... I bought the memory card to have room for this, to find out it can't use it anyway... smh.

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    It is now October 2025 and we are still having this problem! My child is now crying because they deleted literally all of their worlds in the hopes they could create one with an addon that is 374MB and it's still not allowing citing not enough space...

    While viewing the game in data management:

    • We have 23.5 GB of free space in system memory (so plenty)
    • We have 213 GB of free space on the microSD card (enough for more than 100 installs of Minecraft)
    • 455 MB allocated to "Software" on system memory
    • 1.0 GB allocated to "Update Data" on system memory
    • 161 MB allocated to "Update Data" on Micro SD

    With the game itself (version 1.21.113 of Bedrock on the Nintendo Switch) taking up 1.6 GB of space and Nintendo limiting it to only 2 GB, are you seriously making it so we can only have ~400 MB left for addons, worlds, save data, etc.??? Like I said earlier, even with zero worlds, we can't even create a world that uses a 374 MB addon since we have 360 MB of space left. This is absurd.

    Either optimize your game files, increase the size limit globally, or allow us to determine how much space we want to allocate to Minecraft.

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    Relaly even on switch 2 no data increse still 2 gb

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    Same here bro I only have four worlds and one is very special to me. It is my survival world. Since Minecraft has so many things to take up storage with region files and entity stuff it is over 500 mb and the other three are just 3 mb all. And I cannot even download 100 MB items from the marketplace. It has gotten so bad to the point where it takes my Minecraft 30 minutes to load and drops frames every once in awhile to zero for 3 seconds