2025

 Big numbers only have a place of logical ownership in a digital framework. 

New Flat world for 10 to the 12th

The chunk of mesa blocks is from my 2024 world. And the ocean world that is only 7 blocks of water deep and because Minecraft lowered the bedrock the surface of the water is at -39. That give me/us a lot more sky for building giant cities in. 

I've been moving regions around, sort of terraforming my worlds for a few years now. Here's a screenshot I took before I added a chunk of the 2015 city that has been moved now from one world to the next for a decade. 

clone and replace, clone, fill and repeat

We both agree that we find endless flat worlds to be a bummer. I'm hoping the ocean world is enough. The city and my million block rail from zero to 1,000,000 should make for very nice cliff continents. 

The mesa island, is only 4 region files, 2 x 2, or 1,024 blocks by 1,024 blocks. My 'M'- rail,  is 1,000 blocks wide by over a million, so, more of a continent than an island in scale. 

And the new world? This years world? 1,000 x 1,000,000 =1,000,000,000 

1,000,000 x 1,000,000 = a trillion? Yep 12 zeros. I don't imagine it is physically possible for one person to clone and or fill a trillion block area. Not even with structure blocks. Maybe with little robots made out of command blocks that clone and repeat until they run out of memory and crash. But, at 32,000 some blocks per jump. There's a block limit and the computer has a memory limit. So that leaves me with region files. And even with region files. 1,000,000 / 512 = 1953.123 (can't cut them in half), so 1,954 x 1,954 = 3,818,116 region files. Um.... I don't expect to ever complete this world. 

How is last year's 2,002,000 two million + 2,000 circumference with 50% needed a water wall to "hold" up water "standing" in virtual "air"... going? I'm completely done on 90% or one side, and 40 or 50% done on the other side, some very old water walls and some newly cloned. And I've gotten bored with this a couple of times. My one rule is "is it fun?" and the answer is no, not really. My plan is to copy all those region files and the city into the new water world and see how long that is still fun. 

Oh, I found this game made heart pond. Sort of an ode to Zelda perhaps? 

heart shaped pool

Took a screenshot before I built a hub there. I don't think I'll mess it up, it will just be more cluttered and distracting then. 

What have I been up to lately? Did a little gardening. 

area before, just adding the dirt in survival

area after, used up my collected seeds and added some posts

This is a gap, it seems years ago I missed one region file and when I found it I thought, "fun!" I'll build a tower and a garden and practice cloning stuff and fill it in. Then I got bored. It's at ~ 3 ~ the stone surface. The water is at ~ 62 ~ it's 512 blocks by two regions wide (1024  by 512 blocks )... hole lot of cloning. Pun? Whole/hole? Meh? The water walls run as one works on them. As I go along the edge I gather seeds and flowers and sometimes fish. If it's an entire region that I replaced, then sometimes meat, leather, and other drops. I compulsively collect the drops, and when I have a few chests full in my build hub, then I garden for a bit. It's relaxing, virtual seeds, no weeds, the only vermin are bats. 

Days later. "Needed" some contrast regions for my 10 to the 12th impossible goal. This flat world is a special one with layers, rather minimalistic of me. But, I think one could survive in this world, just be a bit bored unless they were in creative mode or like me, had every biome in other areas one could fetch color, plants to garden with, water in buckets and wool from. 

"Mush" flat world

hub where the edge of Mush meets the flat green

Here's the layers Shroom dirt, dirt, sand, bamboo, stone, then tan sandstone, ... I think it's tuff and then stone and that's it, but I haven't dug farther than the stone, because.. "is it fun?" -- no. Boring as all git out. And so, I'm using this world to build water walls and as filler in other worlds that are more colorful with caves and critters and better to mine in, but the cliffs leak lava and water. So. Yep that's the purpose for the purple mush world. To hold water and lava. If lava burns the bamboo layer the sand on top will drop down and put out the fire. So there ya go, filler! Lava and water blocked. That's what I've been doing in Minecraft lately. 

A screenshot from the Old  2015 world, can't move this area into the new world because I like the new stuff that is there in 2025 better. 

Tree shaped tower/house, pit of everything with floating lights and too many rails going all over the place.