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		MichaelCollins on Sept 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: It seems that the good times for online Minecraft ... It shouldn't matter anyway, because minecraft lazily generates chunks when the player visits them for the first time, and I assume minetest does to.

oynqr on Sept 9, 2022 [–]

Of course they do. This is about world size limits.

MichaelCollins on Sept 9, 2022 | [–]

Right, but neither will have large worlds if you explore little, and both will have large worlds if you explore a lot. The file size of the fully explored world doesn't seem relevant, because neither game fully generates the world.

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