Minecraft chunk format - Revision history

Effect2: Reordering versions to be in temporal order

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2019-09-17T06:16:30Z

Effect2: More description, taking "chunk" to refer to (as Gamepedia has it) the storage structure as opposed to just the concept or practice

2019-08-18T23:08:56Z

More description, taking "chunk" to refer to (as Gamepedia has it) the storage structure as opposed to just the concept or practice

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Dan Tobias: Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Game data files }} '''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [..."

2019-08-16T02:14:32Z

Created page with "{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Game data files }} '''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [..."

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'''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Anvil format]] and the [[Minecraft Region format]]. This and other Minecraft formats are extensively documented in the [https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/ Minecraft Gamepedia wiki].

A chunk expresses the content of a 16×256×16 region. They are stored using the [[Minecraft NBT format]].

== Links ==
* [https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunk_format Minecraft Gamepedia wiki page]

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-|extension={{ext|dat}} ([[Minecraft Alpha level format|Alpha]]), {{ext|mca}} ([[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]]), {{ext|mcr}} ([[Minecraft Region format|Region]])
+|extension={{ext|dat}} ([[Minecraft Alpha level format|Alpha]]), {{ext|mcr}} ([[Minecraft Region format|Region]]), {{ext|mca}} ([[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]])
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-'''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Anvil format]] and the [[Minecraft Region format]]. Minecraft "chunks" are, at a high level, 16x256x16 (16x128x16 before the [[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]] format was adopted) groups of blocks (voxels) into which the game world is split in storage and some game functionality. Storing chunks is the largest task of any overall Minecraft savegame storage system. "Chunk format", as opposed to a "chunk" in the generic sense, is here<!--And in Gamepedia, so far as I can tell--> used to refer to a specific implementation of chunk storage as a structure within [[Minecraft NBT format|NBT]] files; this is to the exclusion of the [[Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format|Bedrock Edition format]], etc. which store data in terms of chunks but do it in different ways.
+'''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Region format]] and the [[Minecraft Anvil format]]. Minecraft "chunks" are, at a high level, 16x256x16 (16x128x16 before the [[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]] format was adopted) groups of blocks (voxels) into which the game world is split in storage and some game functionality. Storing chunks is the largest task of any overall Minecraft savegame storage system. "Chunk format", as opposed to a "chunk" in the generic sense, is here<!--And in Gamepedia, so far as I can tell--> used to refer to a specific implementation of chunk storage as a structure within [[Minecraft NBT format|NBT]] files; this is to the exclusion of the [[Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format|Bedrock Edition format]], etc. which store data in terms of chunks but do it in different ways.
 Chunks can take up the entire NBT file, in the case of the Alpha format (in which case, whether the chunk "is in" the file or "is" the file is only a question of wording); or they may be 1024 (in a geometric group of 32*32 called a "region") to a file, in the case of the Anvil and Region formats. Their overall internal structure is largely the same between the three, except that the Anvil format stores per-block data (which includes actual block type as well as e.g. lighting) in 16*16*16 "sections". Whether split up into NBTs individually or by regions, these are then stored in the filesystem proper (within a system of subdirectories, in the case of the Alpha format).

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 '''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Anvil format]] and the [[Minecraft Region format]]. Minecraft "chunks" are, at a high level, 16x256x16 (16x128x16 before the [[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]] format was adopted) groups of blocks (voxels) into which the game world is split in storage and some game functionality. Storing chunks is the largest task of any overall Minecraft savegame storage system. "Chunk format", as opposed to a "chunk" in the generic sense, is here<!--And in Gamepedia, so far as I can tell--> used to refer to a specific implementation of chunk storage as a structure within [[Minecraft NBT format|NBT]] files; this is to the exclusion of the [[Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format|Bedrock Edition format]], etc. which store data in terms of chunks but do it in different ways.
-Chunks can take up the entire NBT file, in the case of the Alpha format (in which case, whether the chunk is "in" the file or "is" the file is only a question of wording); or they may be 1024 (in a geometric group of 32*32 called a "region") to a file, in the case of the Anvil and Region formats. Their overall internal structure is largely the same between the three, except that the Anvil format stores per-block data (which includes actual block type as well as e.g. lighting) in 16*16*16 "sections". Whether split up into NBTs individually or by regions, these are then stored in the filesystem proper (within a system of subdirectories, in the case of the Alpha format).
+Chunks can take up the entire NBT file, in the case of the Alpha format (in which case, whether the chunk "is in" the file or "is" the file is only a question of wording); or they may be 1024 (in a geometric group of 32*32 called a "region") to a file, in the case of the Anvil and Region formats. Their overall internal structure is largely the same between the three, except that the Anvil format stores per-block data (which includes actual block type as well as e.g. lighting) in 16*16*16 "sections". Whether split up into NBTs individually or by regions, these are then stored in the filesystem proper (within a system of subdirectories, in the case of the Alpha format).
 == Links ==

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 |extension={{ext|dat}} ([[Minecraft Alpha level format|Alpha]]), {{ext|mca}} ([[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]]), {{ext|mcr}} ([[Minecraft Region format|Region]])
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-'''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Anvil format]] and the [[Minecraft Region format]]. Minecraft "chunks" are, at a high level, 16x256x64 (16x128x64 before the [[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]] format was adopted) groups of blocks (voxels) into which the game world is split in storage and some game functionality. Storing chunks is the largest task of any overall Minecraft savegame storage system. "Chunk format", as opposed to a "chunk" in the generic sense, is here<!--And in Gamepedia, so far as I can tell--> used to refer to a specific implementation of chunk storage as a structure within [[Minecraft NBT format|NBT]] files; this is to the exclusion of the [[Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format|Bedrock Edition format]], etc. which store data in terms of chunks but do it in different ways.
+'''Minecraft chunk format''' is a data format used in the Minecraft game, as part of level formats such as the [[Minecraft Anvil format]] and the [[Minecraft Region format]]. Minecraft "chunks" are, at a high level, 16x256x16 (16x128x16 before the [[Minecraft Anvil format|Anvil]] format was adopted) groups of blocks (voxels) into which the game world is split in storage and some game functionality. Storing chunks is the largest task of any overall Minecraft savegame storage system. "Chunk format", as opposed to a "chunk" in the generic sense, is here<!--And in Gamepedia, so far as I can tell--> used to refer to a specific implementation of chunk storage as a structure within [[Minecraft NBT format|NBT]] files; this is to the exclusion of the [[Minecraft Bedrock Edition level format|Bedrock Edition format]], etc. which store data in terms of chunks but do it in different ways.
 Chunks can take up the entire NBT file, in the case of the Alpha format (in which case, whether the chunk is "in" the file or "is" the file is only a question of wording); or they may be 1024 (in a geometric group of 32*32 called a "region") to a file, in the case of the Anvil and Region formats. Their overall internal structure is largely the same between the three, except that the Anvil format stores per-block data (which includes actual block type as well as e.g. lighting) in 16*16*16 "sections". Whether split up into NBTs individually or by regions, these are then stored in the filesystem proper (within a system of subdirectories, in the case of the Alpha format).