A second world/realm/dimension (though I think portal biomes are already called realms, might have to change that) would basically be a similar version of the already existing survival multiplayer mode. This will be a compromise for those who do and don't want a reset. Those who do want to restart can go to the second world, while players who don't want a reset can stay (though they can also go to the new world to try it out)
There could be no difference at all to the new and original mode, named World 1 and World 2, or they can have their own portal patterns and stuff (different biomes for 50:-100, 0:0, 100:100, 0:-50, etc) and this could give them custom names (or not, if you decide to keep "World 1" and "World 2")
Maybe there could be more, or custom ones with one specific biome being the entire 32000 chunks (or less if that's too much space)
Second world
Sun, 2023-01-01 01:30
Pingu
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Coordinate range is -32000..32000 so it's 64000 chunks and that's only one dimension. Because there are two of them (north-south and east-west) you have to square that number: you have 64000*64000 = 4096000000 chunks for the entire world.
As you may know, one chunk contains 16*16*128 blocks and each blocks are encoded as 3 bytes: type, subtype+flags, lighting level.
Thus, it takes roughly 400,000,000,000,000 bytes to describe the whole GSMP world, that is 400 TB (terabytes). Compare that with the capacity of an average size HDD/SDD available to buy today!
With clever tricks, the developers if PoC can lower this number to be only a fraction of that big one, but it's not easy to give an accurate estimate of how large is the size of the world data, actually stored.
Reset? What have I been missing? Are they going to reset the entire game!?! What about my village it's over 2 years old!
They will not reset. It is just that some players want a reset due to some glitches
I've payed all my pocket money to play Planetcraft in windows marketplace. If they reset the game that's a serious breach of the legal contract between users of the game and the company that handles the data. (Solverlabs in this case.)