Post Your Screenshots! 2nd!

[Nightstar]

Geometry is funny, but the end result is a bit less than that. On coming back to this with a little time to kill let’s have some math. It’s been a minute so I went for the source.

@lucadeltodecso

4608m sorry, typo above. 288 chunks (the odd number is a result of requiring the worlds to be evenly sized at all lods (maximum lod is lod 4, where each chunk is 256m across) which means the worlds have to be multiples of 512m across, but we also have 3x3 tilings of textures for many blocks, which requires the worlds to be multiples of 3 in size as well, which requires them to be multiplies of 1536m across, but we also wanted a 1km draw distance which to prevent issues of trying to see the same chunk in multiple places at the same time, requires at least 2km size, so the minimum world size is then 3072m across going up in multiplies of 1536m, and so we chose 4608m as a “nice” size since 3072 seemed too small.

So 576 plots * 576 plots = 331776 plots for a single layer on a (actually 4.6 km) home world.

2/3 of that is 382. Assuming the ratio is the same with all the requirements above this puts a small world at 3056m.

382 * 382 = 145924 plots then roughly for a single layer of a 3km world.

@lucadeltodecso

meteorite active area is 45m radius (also a 45m radius from any meteorite portal that is open so may be more than that if the meteorite becomes further activated by a player nearby)

the regen bomb will be disabled if the regen bomb radius intersects the active area radius(es), so if the regen bomb has a 30m radius, then roughly speaking 75m from the meteorite.

the meteorites should not spawn roughly within 4 chunks (64m) of a beaconed plot.

64m distance from a plot means you’re gonna need at least a circle with a 128m diameter absolute minimum. We need it divisible by 8 and need some room since we can’t make a perfect circle so let’s say 160m. 20 plots across, divided by 2 for radius gives us 10 and Pi * R squared is 314 plots bare minimum per spawn location.

So even if you made 20 generous spawn areas at 350 plots each you’re talking about freeing up about 7k plots.

I’d say to set out on this at planetary scale, it would be best to have at least 140k plots committed.

Portals will have to be at the edge of the spawn zones because if you try and put them at the center you’ld need a plot and then a ring with 2x the radius and meteors would spawn in a ring around it - making it not much better than a platform hunt as it is.