How Does Minecraft Generate Worlds?

[@ZENITH_System_3]

There is a little man in your computer that creates the world

[@SlivGames]

Lol

[@steamsleeper]

A gnome perhaps

[@jameswesten2018]

Better question is how does chunkbase know where every structure, village,etc is in every world. Its rarely wrong

[@noahclaycameron]

@@steamsleeperNah, it's just me, and I'm not a gnome

[@veirvena2062]

​@jameswesten2018 he kinda explains that in stage one at 3:38. I can't say how it exactly works, because I don't know, but I imagine they reverse engineer this concept to predict what should be there before you can even manually check

[@eliplayz22]

I’ve always been fascinated by Minecraft’s terrain generation, how you could get literally any landform and biome that’s in the game and you could never know until you try. Even if you type in a seed you find on the web (which I’ve done and just searching for one is fun enough that I’d recommend it to anyone), you still don’t know what you are getting beyond the seed’s description on those sites say

[@Planetmango48]

Yes.

[@pinkie723]

Dude omg! Literally the seed that I almost always use for my creative worlds is a seed I found online. WAY back in version 1.3 I looked up seeds and found the seed "Temple" with the description being that there's a giant sand arch. I almost never paid attention to the sand arch and it doesn't even generate anymore in newer version, but the spot that I did like had a big cliff next to a pond and with a ravine close by. I didn't realise until a lot more recently, but in the desert past the sand arch was actually a desert temple, fitting given the seed. In modern versions though (and I usually play on Bedrock) there's still a nice area with a smaller cliff, but past that is a plains village, and I built my entire current creative world on top of this village. And a little ways away from that plains village is a mesa biome, even if I rarely go there. But it does just show your point though that seeds are so large and have so much in them that even a preset seed that's being shared for one particular landmark can have ALL sorts of other interesting things in any given direction. The "main" landmark of my seed literally doesn't even generate anymore, but there's still so many interesting things to find

[@ducksongfans]

my seed is wonderful and its crazy knowing im the only one to use it, seeing as i play on 1.13 its pretty much solidified that way

[@oldnotobsolete.2925]

This absolutely deserved to be a 30 minute vid, if not more! Such an interesting subject but unfortunately this was such a whirlwind tour that I'm left none the wiser.

[@goldogemania6760]

this is a quick dive series lol, im sure a longer more in depth video about this will come out eventually but this series is supposed to be a quick look

[@oldnotobsolete.2925]

@@goldogemania6760 Ah, got it. In my haste I missed that!

[@magicprison]

Minecraft probably has the single weirdest terrain generation of any game

[@FunFactManiac]

But also the most beautiful.

[@VoltisArt]

Most games don't have terrain generation, the world is just made by the designers and that's where you play. Yeah, there are a few other sandbox games out there, but they're exceptions and most games are really linear in design and play, no matter how sprawling the world is made to look. That kind of depth is mostly illusion in most games. Even with procedural dungeon crawlers like Diablo, each entire level or dungeon is built about the way just one structure like a monument or trial chamber is made in MC. Preexisting rooms and hallways stuffed together in semi-randomized formations with hard-coded particular goals. The equivalent would be a mansion in every single dark forest, or every desert no matter how small or big, having exactly one temple. If you've played before, you know everything to expect, even if you can't anticipate where it is. There's good reason this game is up there in historic popularity with the likes of Tetris. All that "weirdness" (I'm definitely agreeing there, but it's good weird) creates an immersive world that supports many kinds of play and players.

[@VoltisArt]

I didn't even get into mods or mini games, which can transform this thing into completely new experiences. Even if Mojang goes away, Minecraft will outlive us all, in one form or another.

[@SavageSalmon]

When I first played Minecraft I thought Mojang built all the worlds by hand, not sure how I thought that was even possible.

[@Ok-_-719]

I watched a tedtalk type of show of a guy (I’m assuming a Mojang employee, idk though) explaining this exact same topic, and this video is a pure refreshment of everything that I have heard from that same dude

[@TheStegosaurus_]

Reinventing Minecraft world generation by Henrik Kniberg. ibxtoycat has him as source in the bottom-left for almost all of the clips.

[@TheStegosaurus_]

Reinventing Minecraft world generation by Henrik Kniberg. ibxtoycat has him as source in the bottom-left for almost all of the clips.

[@kl--k]

Perlin noise my beloved

[@jameswesten2018]

Next video: how does Toycat generate KZbin content?

[@jetsflyingoffatrain4338]

0:35 the tumble music fading into the pumpkin pastures[?] theme was really smooth oml

[@thatperson8126]

Wow! Such an informative video! I am so happy I watched this 3 times to understand it’s true meaning in this world

[@squidmaster964]

Wow this was a great video! Perfect balance between being both in depth and concise, and there was a lot I learned!

[@simonwillover4175]

Yeah. It just remembers 18.4 quintillion seeds, each with terabytes of information!

[@PraisetheFluffyTail]

As far I know Perlin Noise is also involved in Generative AI like Stable Diffusion, the noise maps really do "magic"

[@pillybaul]

How is chunk base such a great resource for providing where all the spawns for every seed and what not?

[@MrMasterGamer0]

5:00 Erosion being Tibet -> Netherlands is so funny to me

[@DavidSolimano]

Minecraft but there's no air (I think there's actually a Java mod where the whole world is a cave)

[@wariowario9739]

I was looking for a mod like that

[@DavidSolimano]

@@wariowario9739 iirc it's called FTB Stoneblock, has its own kind of dungeons and, I think, nether caves and end caves instead of dimensions? It's been a while.

[@nefraus2gaming185]

Nice work on this one Mr. 🐈 Informative and fun to listen to

[@dominickl48]

Great video btw. January isn't slowing you down. Nicee.

[@snowmaske]

My favorite number is 641. I sometimes put it in the seed text field to generate my worlds. it's pretty cool

[@Trackmasters48]

Dude, I love your videos and I would love to see more

[@bro1275]

How does it store the generated chunks and for example blocks you've placed down?

[@SystemCodeX403]

I just had a crazy idea what would happen if I could or someone could change the terrain somehow where u get to control how it generates new chunks would it also show that generated chunk on the same seed if someone was to get the same seed? Actually I’m curious now.

[@Craze64712]

I love how you used the console edition minigame music at the beginning 😃

[@smaII-a]

Very cool video

[@GalaxVerse]

Yes and this is how someone created Terralith mod which is way better than current Noise Mojang is using.

[@theominouspigeon]

wowie zowie

[@GalaxVerse]

You forgot to Explain Farlands, World borders or Java and Bedrock's Stripe lands which is related and import to this video.

[@Diamondsword85_RS]

ok but my question is how do you get from seed to world

[@nothing_inside9922]

seed changes the perlin noise (it shapes the terrain)

[@nothing_inside9922]

it says that in the video at 3:39

[@benstevens5407]

'You have to see a butterfly in there and if you don't you are actually a serial killer.' Me: ...

[@takenname8053]

Love how Minecraft has the random terrain generation.

[@IamWinix]

Hi

[@matthewbarabas3052]

i notice you are using java edition. is bedrock getting too buggy?

[@qqqqqq-r9k]

cool

[@Planetmango48]

Cool.

[@drk7016]

generated by wave function collapse algorithm, quantum mechanics, physics

[@Gavin_M.]

What is the weirdness you can see in the biome generating table?

[@nothing_inside9922]

it makes the biomes generate weirdly. for example a desert next to a jungle. normally between them there should be savanna

[@TheStickCollector]

Basically noise

[@Catlord98765]

I think pumpkin seeds are best

[@TassosStavropoulos]

It's me. I write all the seeds. No need to thank me.

[@danthiel8623]

hehe

[@Agatonga]

There is a little woman in your computer that creates her own world

[@callummacey983]

but I still have spots where there is bedrock at level 5 and they still haven't fixed it

[@kyleochoa9004]

What a dumb question! Obviously it's magic.

[@dusk-amethyst]

Hi

[@ZenithSolsticeYT]

“First” -👶🏻

[@radio_marco]

...in other words it's just a bunch of math.

[@Grimziez]

Its because a Minecraft builder builds it

[@jcstrikesagain684]

Henrik

[@SocalDisneyDaughter]

1 like = 1 push ☠️

[@jameswesten2018]

These bot comments Are EVERYWHERE, and it gets thousands of likes every time too. It can't keep getting away with it!!

[@wetburntbagel]

@@jameswesten2018I don’t think they’re bots, I think they are just dumb

[@misspat7555]

Outro joke reminded me of how my late husband always tried to toss things to me; man never did learn I couldn’t catch! 🥲 Bittersweet, personally an 8/10, and my personal opinion is all that ever counts here! ❤️‍🩹