While players don’t often try and exhaust the game’s world-generation capacity, some have embarked on that journey and have only come back more confused as to how big a Minecraft Bedrock Edition world can really get.
How Big is a Minecraft Bedrock World?
To put it simply, Minecraft’s world generation system is, in essence, capable of creating an infinitely large world, and is limited only by a player’s system hardware constraints. A Minecraft Bedrock world stretches for nearly sixty million meters in each direction, when measured in real-world terms.
Players could, in theory, continue exploring any given world for as long as they wished; inevitably, however, there would come a point in which their system would not be able to handle the memory required to continue exploring such a large world. This cannot take place in reality due to the world border that is put in place, prohibiting players from exceeding a set limit.
Through alteration of Minecraft’s code, players have been able to reach theoretical distances where the world’s coordinate readout reached infinity, even though Minecraft is not truly capable of creating an infinite world.
Minecraft Bedrock, along with the Pocket and Education editions of the game, is limited by the Far Lands, which are a generation error that created large barriers of land that were impossible to get through by ordinary means. Minecraft: Java Edition has fixed this issue, however, since its version 1.8 beta.
The world generation in Minecraft Bedrock Edition is not technically infinite, but players will, in essence, never run out of space to play the game and indulge in all of its features to their heart’s content.
Published: Mar 16, 2022 12:35 pm