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Next up in Cuchaz's exciting and highly technical mods for Minecraft is Tall Worlds Mod.
The goal is simple: Raise the height cap on the world from 256 blocks to about 16 million blocks, but do it without adding too much lag. Turns out that's pretty challenging to do, but I love a good challenge.
The first step to raising the height cap on worlds is to break up the world into pieces vertically and only load the vertical pieces when players are actually near them. Of course, Minecraft's chunk system does exactly this to break up the world horizontally, but the vertical size of the world is fixed at 256 blocks. Tall Worlds Mod breaks up Minecraft's world in the vertical dimension as well using an idea called cubic chunks.
Here's an early video of the cubic chunk loading system in action, the main component of Tall Worlds Mod.
Of course, players can't travel very quickly in the horizontal directions, so chunk loading doesn't have to be very fast there. But what about players in free fall? How fast can a cubic chunk system load chunks when players are moving very quickly? Here's the answer to that:
Ok, enough with the introductions. There are a few things you need to know about Tall Worlds Mod before you play it.
This Is Not A Forge Mod!
If you try to make Forge load this mod, it will be confused and probably get very mad at you.
Instead, you need a completely new mod loader called Magic Mojo Mod Loader, or M3L for short. Why do we need yet another mod loader? Good question. Read the answer here.
Tall Worlds Mod uses a lot of brand new Minecraft modding technology. You can read more about that in the official release blog post if you're interested.
Tall Worlds Mod is a highly experimental mod.
It could do bad things to your Minecraft worlds.
It probably won't though. I try to be very careful, but there's always a chance some random crash could eat your world. Always make backups of any world data you actually care about. Especially when trying random crazy mods off the internet.
Now that all the warnings are out of the way, go build something really tall in your new bigger worlds! =D
If you want to stay up to date about releases and updates, follow me on Twitter: @cuchaz
Also, The newest version of Tall Worlds Mod is 1.8.3-0.3.1 beta
The goal is simple: Raise the height cap on the world from 256 blocks to about 16 million blocks, but do it without adding too much lag. Turns out that's pretty challenging to do, but I love a good challenge.
The first step to raising the height cap on worlds is to break up the world into pieces vertically and only load the vertical pieces when players are actually near them. Of course, Minecraft's chunk system does exactly this to break up the world horizontally, but the vertical size of the world is fixed at 256 blocks. Tall Worlds Mod breaks up Minecraft's world in the vertical dimension as well using an idea called cubic chunks.
Here's an early video of the cubic chunk loading system in action, the main component of Tall Worlds Mod.
Of course, players can't travel very quickly in the horizontal directions, so chunk loading doesn't have to be very fast there. But what about players in free fall? How fast can a cubic chunk system load chunks when players are moving very quickly? Here's the answer to that:
Ok, enough with the introductions. There are a few things you need to know about Tall Worlds Mod before you play it.
This Is Not A Forge Mod!
If you try to make Forge load this mod, it will be confused and probably get very mad at you.
Instead, you need a completely new mod loader called Magic Mojo Mod Loader, or M3L for short. Why do we need yet another mod loader? Good question. Read the answer here.
Tall Worlds Mod uses a lot of brand new Minecraft modding technology. You can read more about that in the official release blog post if you're interested.
Tall Worlds Mod is a highly experimental mod.
It could do bad things to your Minecraft worlds.
It probably won't though. I try to be very careful, but there's always a chance some random crash could eat your world. Always make backups of any world data you actually care about. Especially when trying random crazy mods off the internet.
Now that all the warnings are out of the way, go build something really tall in your new bigger worlds! =D
If you want to stay up to date about releases and updates, follow me on Twitter: @cuchaz
Also, The newest version of Tall Worlds Mod is 1.8.3-0.3.1 beta
| Credit | Razaekel, Barteks2x |
| Progress | 25% complete |
| Game Version | Minecraft 1.8 |
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github.com/TallWorlds/CubicChunks