Originally posted by jonnin:

it depends on how it is implemented, but there appears to be no reason to save the fact that something used to exist at a position and no longer does. That implies that removing stuff should decrease the save size. Seems like it would take a very large # of removals to affect it by much, though.

I guess I could try next time start a new world where I just leave everything standing. Not too worried at moment with file size but I see it jump quite a bit when I create new base -

Like not even many building parts but just doing the basic leveling of ground, raising some walls, and my world.db almost doubles.

Started out ~19mb and now I'm over 60mb with very little of this new world I started explored yet. Think my last game where I abandoned around iron age, my file size was ~100mb.

How big does the world file get if you really explore lot of the world?