Originally posted by bacon:

Originally posted by John:

And get those weird chunks loaded in like you have in Minecraft?, no thank you.

what? i mean a brand new seed, devs should just program the completed biomes to reach out to the edge of the world, just like they already do in the far east and west.

why leave empty biomes in the seed generation that wont be completed for years?

Because you don't just re-do the map generation every time you update the game. Your idea of removing them is just plain bad. The world seed is set, we don't need them tweaking it all the time. Plus if you just don't explore the unpopulated areas then they'll be populated when the update comes. If they removed them then your map wouldn't even have the new biomes and you'd have to start a new one to explore them anyway.

Basically, it's like this because the alternative is really really dumb.