How To Change World Size In Minecraft

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Minecraft Interactive Experience

For size limits of the world in other editions, encounter Globe purlieus.

World size is an option to change the size of the finite worlds in New Nintendo 3DS Edition and Legacy Console Edition (specific to Xbox I Edition, PlayStation 4 Edition, and Nintendo Switch Edition). By default, worlds generate at the largest size bachelor in each edition.

Legacy Panel Edition [ ]

Large world type selected in the Globe Options menu.

In the finite worlds of Legacy Console Edition, the edge of the Overworld is surrounded by an endless sea of water preceded by an invisible bulwark. The outer 2 chunks of the usable world is normally a smoothen transition from the primary landmass/racket generation to the sea of water. The edge of the Nether is surrounded past a wall of boulder. The End is not affected by world size. Worlds are able to generate with any of the biomes and generated structures available in the electric current version. The tile on each border of the Overworld and Nether is inaccessible, so the effective area is 2 tiles less on both axes.

Afterwards a earth has been created, it tin be expanded to a larger size. Larger worlds cannot be reverted to a smaller size. In this procedure, there is an option to "Overwrite Earth Edges", disabled by default. The description of this option reads: "When enabled, the outer 32 tiles around the world edge are overwritten by newly generated tiles to brand the world size increase seamlessly. When disabled, the globe size increase volition leave all original tiles intact." Starting with a smaller world tin can be benign, equally one may cull to gradually aggrandize when an update makes changes to the world generation, and could therefore generate new chunks with new features.

Xbox 360 Edition, PlayStation 3 Edition, PlayStation Vita Edition, and Wii U Edition practise not have the option for world size. All worlds generated in these editions are Classic size, although it is possible to expand them if they are transferred to an edition that supports larger world sizes. More than villages, ocean monuments, and woodland mansions effort to generate in Archetype than in larger-sized worlds.

World size	Overworld area	Number of maps	Under area	Nether-Overworld ratio
Classic	864 × 864 blocks: 746,496 blocks 54 × 54 chunks: 2,916 chunks	one × 1 map: i map	288 × 288 blocks: 82,944 blocks xviii × 18 chunks: 324 chunks	ane:3	Yes	Yes	Aye
Modest	1024 × 1024 blocks: i,048,576 blocks 64 × 64 chunks: 4,096 chunks	i × ane map: 1 map	352 × 352 blocks: 123,904 blocks 22 × 22 chunks: 484 chunks	1:iii	Aye	Yes	Yes
Medium	3072 × 3072 blocks: 9,437,184 blocks 192 × 192 chunks: 36,864 chunks	3 × three maps: 9 maps	512 × 512 blocks: 262,144 blocks 32 × 32 chunks: one,024 chunks	one:6	Yep	Yep	Aye
Large	5120 × 5120 blocks: 26,214,400 blocks 320 × 320 chunks: 102,400 chunks	5 × 5 maps: 25 maps	640 × 640 blocks: 409,600 blocks xl × 40 chunks: ane,600 chunks	1:8	Yes	Yeah	No

New Nintendo 3DS Edition [ ]

The finite worlds of the New Nintendo 3DS Edition are based on the Quondam world blazon from Bedrock Edition. The edges of both the Overworld and Under are surrounded by an invisible barrier, and the ratio of the Under to the Overworld is one:3 regardless of globe size. It is not possible to change the size of a globe after information technology has been created.

Globe size	Overworld area	Number of maps	Nether area
Pocket-sized	672 × 672 blocks: 451,584 blocks 42 × 42 chunks: one,764 chunks	Unknown	224 × 224 blocks: 50,176 blocks fourteen × xiv chunks: 196 chunks
Medium	1344 × 1344 blocks: 1,806,336 blocks 84 × 84 chunks: seven,056 chunks	Unknown	448 × 448 blocks: 200,704 blocks 28 × 28 chunks: 784 chunks
Large	2016 × 2016 blocks: 4,064,256 blocks 126 × 126 chunks: xv,876 chunks	Unknown	672 × 672 blocks: 451,584 blocks 42 × 42 chunks: 1,764 chunks

History [ ]

Java Edition Classic
0.0.12a				The Classic level format has a fixed area of 256×256 and a top of 64. The area outside the map is inaccessible.
0.0.12a				It is non possible to build confronting bedrock surrounding the map.
0.0.14a				At some point, map size selection added with Pocket-size (128×128), Normal (256×256), and Huge (512×512) options. The game can load maps with other dimensions, but the dimensions of a map tin can be changed only past externally editing the world file.
?				At some bespeak, the outer tiles of the map tin can no longer be mined or built on, which reduces the constructive build area past 2 on each centrality similarly to Legacy Console Edition. However, mobs can still spawn on the outer tiles, and the area across them is now accessible.^{[ verify ]}
Java Edition Indev
0.31		20100106		Map shape added, which can alter the dimensions of a earth beyond the map size.
Java Edition Infdev
20100227-1				Map size and map shape finer removed as the Indev level format has been replaced with the Alpha level format, which has infinite worlds.
Legacy Console Edition
	CU1	1.0	1.0.1	Added Small, Medium, and Large earth types. Large worlds are currently not available on Nintendo Switch Edition.
	CU6	1.11	1.0.1	Added World Resize option to expand smaller-sized worlds into larger-sized ones.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0				Added Small, Medium and Large earth types.

Gallery [ ]

Classic world blazon selected in the World Options bill of fare in the legacy console edition.
Small world type selected in the World Options menu in the legacy panel edition.
Medium world blazon selected in the World Options menu in the legacy console edition.