Originally posted by Weaver:

Originally posted by walentaz:

Technically - they could develop an algorithm to update world for new version. Seed is just sequence used in generation algorithm. Technically they could make an algorithm - that scans existing player assets in existing world, then generates new world of the same seed and transfers player assets over. After all, the world depends not only on your seed, but also on generation algorithm. If they change algorithm for existing biomes - you would get two different worlds with the same seed.

Fact that devs didn't address this yet makes believe the don't plan on any compatibility "regenerating world" for future updates. That just terrible approach for such an expansive world. By time final biome drops - most people will have no will left to go over thru everything yet again. Looking from another angle - why bother when you already sold like 10M copies?

That's like saying "oh just put all the sand on a beach back with every grain exactly where it was. Also add all this new sand as well though. And don't take up any more space or change anything at all in the slightest". You seem to fundamentally misunderstand how proc gen works.

That is literally how generating seed based world works, lol. If you share seed to your friend and he generates world from it - it will be the same to the single grain of sand, lol.

So unless they change generation algorithm for current biomes, it would be all the same which then leave us with copy/paste of players structures - which is not that difficult as technically mods already do smth similar.