Guest room = A+
Floating water is always fun.

To those who love minecraft: GET ON HIS DEVLOG NOW AND VOTE FOR INFINITE MAPS

oh my god infinite maps that sounds amazing

And lagsplodarific. Let's hope that if he makes it, it can be toggled.

uh

not really

it'd be regularly sized maps. actually smaller ones. it'd just take up more ram to hold the inactive chunks of map data. if you don't walk anywhere, you won't take up any extra RAM and it'd be exactly the same as normal gameplay.

It doesn't seem very hard to grief then. All a person would have to do is go into as many segments as possible, and eventually the server would run out of RAM and break in some way. It could even happen inadvertently. Plus, no reason not to, there are going to be people who want the old way, so why not just let people choose?

You can't choose if the option is not present (forgive me if I'm reading your comment wrong), so why not at least make the code for it? Read your earlier comment. Yeah, I agree, there should definitely be an option for it.

If this were implemented, my server would have approximately 1.2 GB of RAM to play with (could get rid of the extra servers). I think we would be good.

Anyway, I thought the idea was you'd take inactive chunks of map and put them in swap or even on HDD, not RAM. Move, and it would dump the old portion of map to disk and generate or load the next portion. The extra RAM would be in holding loading or saving map data while it's being transferred one way or the other.

Now if only I had enough money to buy this -.-

If he does add infinite maps, I will honestly buy another two copies.

Just because.

I like the idea of generating large landmasses and the possibility of NPC villages and monster towns(or possibly dungeons), but for memory saving, perhaps the option to set a maximum radius, making it either a continent surrounded by uncrossable water/seas/oceans, or simply a province surrounded by an uncrossable wall to rival even the Great Wall of China.


Cartographers, unite!

Word of Notch:
When you start the game, only the area nearest to the player is generated. When you move closer to the edge of this, more map is generated, and the areas you move away from gets saved to disc. Only areas near the player gets updated, so trees won’t grow far away from you, and farms will stop working.
Saved games would grow larger and larger over time. Hard drives are pretty big, so it’s probably not going to be a problem.

One way a person could grief it would be by going on a generating rampage, either going on a very long hike, or by flying around with h4x and eat up memory.

which would take up :woop woop woop: a few megabytes of space every time they generated a new chunk

also:

oh man if he made infinitely deep maps

infinite
floating
islands

I think "RAM/HDD-Griefing" could be easily halted by requiring an OP to cross map borders before it will generate a new section.

God damn grif that's a sexy idea.