World Regeneration Design Adjustment

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@Kal-El

If I go to a chunk and remove 100 gleam. After 4 hours (the new time) with no one entering the chunk the gleam will regenerate over a period of 24 hours.

Correct

@Kal-El

If I go to a chunk and chisel the rocks 3 deep over a 10 x 10 area, I will have affected 300 blocks. So after 4 hours of no one crossing the chunk, the regen will take between 24 and 114 hours. And if anyone crosses the chunk then it will restart the 4 hour clock and then start the regen.

Correct

@Kal-El

If I build with 500 blocks on a chunk and allow my beacon to expire. After 4 hours, the regenerations starts and will take between 24 and 114 hours. If someone enters the chunk, it will stop regenerating, wait 4 hours and start again.

The first bit is correct, and if someone enters the chunk then the regeneration will stop, but it will start as soon as they have travelled a short distance away.

@Kal-El

Assuming I made the correct interpretation, I am not sure this really addresses some of the issues in particular with chiseling and other gathering activities that are close to an active build. If they are not now regenerating due to the 13 hours of activity are they really going to be clear for the proposed over 24 hours it will take now (4 hours plus the time for the blocks)?

In the current build someone travelling within 4 chunks of a given chunk would tag that as visited and pause regeneration for at least 8 hours, maybe more. Now they have to travel within 2 chunks and regeneration will resume ten seconds after they leave that range. This should massively influence regeneration near to active players and settlements.

@Kal-El

Assuming only half of my digging was on one chunk, I removed (16x8x4) 512 blocks. So this will take maybe 48 hours now to regenerate. I was probably better off under the old regeneration time.

In that exact case it will take longer to regenerate than currently. I can’t imagine that all the clay is restricted to those two chunks though, surely there will be clay next to them which you can mine whilst the rest regenerates. Also I would imagine that your digging doesn’t fit to exactly two chunks (unless you bring up the builder mode and dig up to the edges) in which case you’re more likely to be covering four or even six chunks which would bring the time down.
Either way we’re trying to balance various factors against each other, and one complaint we’ve heard is that a day after a beacon expires a whole massive build is gone, that’s something that we’re trying to improve and that is competing with your case. We can always adjust the figures if this proves a problem, but my feeling is that this covers the vast majority of cases well.