cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2933013

Minecraft Indev version had a feature called “isometric screenshots” which took an isometric screenshot of your world. Because the world wasn’t infinite at that time, it took the screenshots easily. It still can be done in modern minecraft hovewer, with some plugins.

          • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            19·
            11 months ago

            What? It runs on a PC the pc is bound to the laws of physics, something being infinite inside a PC would require infinite storage space, do you have that?

              • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                16·
                11 months ago

                No. Literally not. You can theoretically generate a infinite amount of “world” but you will never be able to save it, open it or run it, because running a infinite code, needs infinite RAM, disk space and CPU Power and Energy. Its literally impossible.

                • thenofootcanman@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  6·
                  11 months ago

                  Games don’t load the entire world onto disk at once. So as long as you save however that world was seeded, the only variables you need to worry about are whatever permenant interactions the users has had with the world.

                  • CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                    15·
                    11 months ago

                    Uh no. Otherwise you don’t have a infinite world. Its not a world, its a mathematical key to generate a world. And when you interact in every chunk, it needs to be saved, in a infinite World that would be hypothetically possible, in a real world it isn’t.

                    (also from what i know a seed is making a very accurate world, at the center, the further you go out from it however, the higher is the probability of it becoming different with each generation)

                    (btw Minecraft saves every chunk that was ever generated)

        • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          41·
          11 months ago

          Because this is how normal people refer to the current world generation. It’s not infinite, but it’s near enough from our perspective that it may as well be.

    • Dr. Bluefall@toast.oooEnglish
      21·
      11 months ago

      Technically, yes. However, for all intents and purposes, Minecraft worlds are functionally infinite.