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Set higher render distance for Realms (Java)

It would be great if we could set a higher render distance on realms. Right now it is at 12 chunks, which feels limiting. When building bigger things that are a bit spread around the world, it feels very limiting. For example the base of your friends not being shown, or a bigger city. It would be great to see more to get a better feeling of orientation, and for exploration with 1.18, to be able to actually see more of the mountain ranges.

I realise that it would be more demanding for the servers, but then what about giving players more distance when there are fewer players on? Or maybe add a new price tier for realms with more render distance? Alot of this is offered by third parties, so it would be great if realms could have the same.

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    Was setting up a new realm for friends today and was honestly shocked at the render distance. We've played on Realms before (different owner) in 1.16/1.17 and liked it, but now... well, maybe it's the different terrain, maybe they have genuinely changed it, but it really took me aback at how poor it was. I don't expect 20 chunk render distances, but I actually went in and did direct comparisons between Realms and Single Player, same seed, same location (slightly different generation quirks) and I would honestly estimate the current Realms render distance at 8 or 9 chunks, which strikes me as unacceptable really.

    I guess it's lucky that this is technically my free trial, as we may well just get a third party server at this point.

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    THAT IS THE BEST
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    yea i just brought a 90 day  realm subscription, but was very disappointed when i can't even see the ground when imma top a mountain.  

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    Totally agre! 

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    Im very annoyed by the lack of visibility that the locked rendering distance creates.

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    I'm now learning how to host a server SMH. My brother bought a gaming PC because I told him JAVA is better, we setup a realm today... whats the point of 1.18 if you cant even see the ground or anything really from the new heights... so lame. 

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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...

    (‎Perhaps it would not be bad if the loaded pieces were stored in the PC memory and then reloaded or added some kind of block. most PCs today have at least 8 GB of RAM, but rather 16 GB so the world could happily load there. It's doable and simple. Moreover, since the pieces would be stored in RAM, there would be no such load on the cloud. When logging in, the player would see 10 pieces and as he moved, others would be downloaded and then he could see 20...‎) - translated by admin

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    Yeah, it's brutally low, especially for 5 people playing together with very very powerful computers. We'd like to set the render distance to whatever we want. Microsoft bought Minecraft, not Apple! Let us decide what's best for us!

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    I had no idea render was limited to 12 chunks in java realms. If I had known that I would have stayed paying for a regular server. What are they thinking?

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    I would really enjoy it if Mojang could let us increase the render distance on Realms.

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    It's been over 3 years since this post, Minecraft Bedrock has gone from 12 to 25 render distance. But Java is still stuck on 12. Is there going to be any progress made on this at some point? 12 units is so limiting and only Bedrock is getting increases.

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    It honestly feels like Im on a build from like 10 years ago with the terrible render distance. Will not be using realms in future and will host on external server provider that gives options for this kinda stuff

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     Chunks should be at least 25 or so; 12 is too few and not enough.

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    PLease! At least offer higher tier realms where you can pay for more render distance. I'm building a castle and I can't even see the ground from the top :(

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    If it was purely for performance reasons, then maybe it could become dynamic? Sure, with 11 players online then limit it to 12 chunks. But with 1 or 2 or 3 players, especially if they are all near each other, then why not render distance increasing for them?

    Or maybe some of this processing can be pushed to the clients, and the server take on more the role of a synchroniser?

    But honestly, with every passing year this limitation gets sillier. Hardware has become more powerful since this distance was set. And there have been many opportunities for performance to be optimised. For the most popular game in the world to have this neglected for so long, the excuses are running out. It makes me question my Realms subscription, when it means that I cannot fully appreciate a core part of the game that is open-world exploration and construction.

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    How about give us the choice at least to increase it on our own Realm, and allow us to accept any performance consequences of that (which we might find preferable to a low render distance). The value being so low is frustrating, but so is denying us even the choice to control it.

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    They really need to fix the render distance I just bought a subscription for a round for me and my friends and I'm just completely baffled at the render distance I can't even see that far and when I build big structures I can't even see the whole entire thing really makes me want to just cancel my subscription and go back to using mods to play with my friends, really hope this problem can be fixed or at least let us have control of render distance because that's absurd you're selling us a part of the game but taking away features That are in the base game even if you don't pay for a subscription