The size of the Minecraft Planet

[Herrerarausaure]

Well, I was playing Minecraft yesterday and I thought about something: "If all the minecrafters ruled one of their worlds and were living on the same planet, what would its size be?". Well it's humongous.

Let's review what we know:
- Notch claims that a minecraft world is pretty much 8 times the size of the earth.
- Our good old planet has a surface area of 510,072,000 km².

So, a minecraft world has an area of 510,072,000 x 8, which is equal to 4,080,576,000 km².

Now, recently the minecraft community has hit the ten million players mark recently, and is still growing.
That means the minecraft planet is 10 million 4,080,576,000 km² worlds, so that is:
4.080576 x 10¹⁶

In usual form, that is 40,805,760,000,000,000km²
To give you an idea, that's the surface area of 80 million earths or 6,703 suns.

Gigantic. Huh?

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[Herrerarausaure]

The only thing is that if the minecrafters did live on the same planet, well:
1. They'd be pretty lonely. 8 Earths just for yourself... that sucks.
2. The gravity on the planet would turn every player into loving pancakes.
3. Asteroids the size of 8 Earths would fall every minutes. (The new players with new worlds)
4. Mountains would be pretty low and ultra rare.

[Demian]

That was just a guess from Notch. He posted more accurate info later somewhere.

[Tonkka]

Should probably try walking trough the whole minecraft world until it ends.

EDIT: I got to 93.2MB until i started lagging

[Mega-Bear]

80 million Earths?

I'm pretty sure I saw somewhere that it was waaay less than that, like only two or eight Earths.

[Skele]

Notch probably limited the overall size of the world based on the max, unsigned value of a 32-bit integer (4294967296).

[BlockoCrafter]

2. The gravity on the planet would turn every player into loving pancakes.

But there is no core.
Everything's still just as light as Earth.

Even if you count the Nether as the core, what if the stone blocks are very light, or the Nether blocks?

[Mega-Bear]

The only thing is that if the minecrafters did live on the same planet, well:
2. The gravity on the planet would turn every player into loving pancakes.

That depends on more factors than just how large the planet is.

[Extrude]

But there is no core.
Everything's still just as light as Earth.

Even if you count the Nether as the core, what if the stone blocks are very light, or the Nether blocks?

Considering you can carry ~1000 gold blocks with you at a time, I don't think weight is that important.

[Demian]

Should probably try walking trough the whole minecraft world until it ends.

EDIT: I got to 93.2MB until i started lagging

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[Kevdude]

http://farlandsorbust.com/

That's awesome. Someone should make a server where we do that

[Demian]

That's awesome. Someone should make a server where we do that

What part of +36 real life hours of walking in a straight line without pauses did you not understand?

[Tonkka]

I can make server! add me on steam.
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[Dr.Block]

http://farlandsorbust.com/

If I were doing that I would be scarred out of my loving mind of dying. I mean holy stuff.