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Render distance in Minecraft Realms for 1.18

From what I have seen on the internet, the render distance in Realms is locked to 10-12 chunks to lower the load on servers. While this render distance is currently playable on 1.17, it will greatly take away from the new massive caves and mountain ranges.

The new update is rumored to increase the height of the Minecraft world by 64 blocks. To compensate for this there will likely be an upgrade to the servers to compensate for the additional memory requirement. It would also make sense to, in this upgrade acquire the required hardware to allow for, change of the maximum render distance to 20-24 chunks so the players can appreciate the grandeur of the new mountain ranges and caves instead of seeing a blue or black backdrop. As it currently stands in realms a player can only see about 200 meters in front of them. More people will switch from Realms to Third-party server hosts to appreciate the update and the work of the developers, which doesn't seem right. I have a small group of friends that really enjoy our realms service but with the 1.18 update we have decided to get a third party hosted server only so we can change the render distance.

Thank you for your time and I hope to continue being a subscriber to the Realms service in the future.

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    Very much, I did not realise this until I downloaded the world on opened it locally. If the bedrock edition can run smoothly with 70+ chunk rendering it's outrageous we cannot increase the chunk rendering past 12 chunks on realms.

    I am researching alternatives like hosting my own server, I bet for £10 (realms price) I can get at least 20 chunks to render without a lag.

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    The render distance is pathetic, I was happy to hand over 10$ for the convenience of having a 24/7 server only to find out how limited the view distance is. Not acceptable, immediately canceled. 

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    I play on Xbox Series X and I'm already disappointed that there is no next gen update yet, but in a normal world I can take advantage of the 28 chunks on the console and it is very frustrating that I can only see 12 chunks on realms!  

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    i hate the fog! kills the game entirely and I wished they would let us, the player, decide our render distance 

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    Možná by nebylo špatné, kdyby se načtené kousky ukládaly do paměti PC a pak by se znovu načetly nebo o nějaký blok doplnily. většina PC už dnes má minimálně 8 GB RAM , spíše ale 16 GB takže by se tam svět mohl vesele načíst. Je to proveditelné a jednoduché. Navíc jelikož by kousky byly uloženy v paměti RAM nedocházelo by k takovému zatížení cloudu. Při přihlášení by hráč viděl 10 kousků a jak by se pohyboval stáhly by se další a potom by jich mohl vidět 20...

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    So I'm on an xobox series s, me and my friends were playing on a world with max chunks for xbox (10). I made a sky base like 230 blocks ups and could see very far. We updated the world to realms which supposedly is at 10 chuncks and I can't even see the ground. When I look down at night it's sky, I can't look down to jump in water and it just looks lame. Is it actually at 10??

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    podrian aumentar la distancia de renderizado a 16-20 chunks en los realms? la 1.18 trae paisajes magnificos que se cortan a la mitad por la poca carga de chunks...

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    I also need to say that the render distance isn't enjoyable at all. 8-10 Chunks is way to short, seems like the server a very limited. It would be great to give the players the options to pay a little bit extra to get more performance. Before 1.18 the render distance was acceptable but something messed that up. I really like the concept of the realms, but the render distance should be at 20 or something like that. We don't need 96 chunks like in the local saves, but more then 10. I understand that because of the bigger caves more blocks need to be rendered. But on the other hand there is a lot of air that is relative easy to render.

    I don't think that an Xbox One or Series X/S or the other devices arent capable to do more then 10 chunks, a solution has to be found. I also don't believe that the servers struggle with more then 10 chunks. I mean my other computer is running on an very old gtx580 and this is capable to do more then 20.

    Unfortunately I have to say that the fun of the game really isn't that great with this problem. Exploring is kind of horrible and not even my whole island is visible and it only has a size of 150x150 blocks.

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    As someone who plays on 32 blocks render distance in SP it's galling to have the visual aspect of the game ruined by such a low render distance. Third party options are looking much more appealing right now.

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    Horrible render cap. If I had known about this limitation I would not have purchased the subscription. Cancelled already

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    Agreed, I would even pay an extra dollar or two a month for this option. I just uploaded a beautiful map to realms and the render cap genuinely ruins the experience. We planned to live in a valley next to two huge mountains, but now you can't even see the mountains. Very disappointed.

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    Mojang finally raised realm render distance from 12 to 20 chunks.