This is the script for my video, “How To Completely Destroy A Minecraft World” Uploaded September 10, 2024

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Int A minecraft world is 60,000,000 by 60,000,000 blocks... {Cinematic montage} 

This is a feat that will likely never even be attempted- something that is so ridiculous on paper that even the idea of performing a task as great as this is seemingly impossible…

And that leaves the question of how exactly are we going to go about this task of mining out an entire minecraft world, {every last mountain, village and ocean} {what methods could we use?}, {how many resources will it take?}, {how many diamonds, iron, gold and redstone will you need to accomplish this task?} {How many of these things are even in your minecraft world?} and Is this even possible to get to this point, let alone within a reasonable amount of time?

1 Like many others, it is a task that can be done using many methods, in which I will be presenting the easiest, and most practical three in this video… First, we could just manually mine out the world using maybe a few million pickaxes over the span of maybe a few billion to trillion years, reducing our world to an effectively infinite plain of bedrock, we could even use certain glitches or machines to break the bedrock itself, reducing the world to literally nothing., as an extension, this process could possibly be automated by using some sort of AI mining bot, which do exist in this day and age, and are relatively easy to run, this could reduce the time needed to accomplish this task by an extreme factor. Another route we could go on is to construct some sort of redstone megastructure or even quarry miner which do exist- to literally eat away at the world little by little, until there's nothing left. The third option which could possibly be by far, the most effective method as well as the most time consuming option, I will be explaining in detail towards the end of the video. But before we get into any of these methods, we need to actually know… exactly what it is, we are mining out…  

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2 To even begin to calculate the time required, let alone the resources needed for any of the options on this list, we need to know about how many blocks are actually inside a minecraft world, how many trees, mountains and biomes will you even have to mine out?

 At first, calculating this may seem trivially easy as you could just multiply the length width and height of of your world, as you would with any other solid rectangular prism… but the thing is, minecraft isn't just a solid block, there are billions of caves, ravines and structures- as well an entire sky spreading over the top half of every single minecraft world, a minecraft world is unbelievably complex, most don't think about it but this world of code, a world that can be summed up to but an unthinkably long string of zeros and ones is more complex and alive than you could even fathom, breathing with life and always in perpetual motion. This fact makes the second thing we need to know, the amount of blocks we can mine per second almost impossible to figure out as the variety of blocks that appear in a minecraft world is almost impossible to account for, and sometimes, we may not even be mining blocks.. You can't really mine water. To overcomplicate things even more, i'm going to introduce the third factor in this ever growing equation, how long it would take to gather the resources necessary to accomplish this task, how many pickaxes, axes and other tools or resources would you need, and what farms would you need to get said resources.

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3 To begin with this, we need to know a one of minecraft's most basic facts, the fact that a minecraft world is composed of trillions upon trillions of little sections known as “chunks'' ; these “chunks” are 16x16x384 areas of land that are all stitched together to make up what is your minecraft world, and when encoded, these chunks are divided up into 24 even smaller sub chunks which are 16x16x16 areas of land,  knowing the exact amount, and which blocks averagely occur in these chunks is the first step in calculating the first of our three metrics…  

Now, to get this data, we need to use a file called the .mca file located within the worlds region folder which contains the binary code representing actual blocks inside each section, to efficiently extract this data, I developed a Java script that decodes all the binary data from each .mca file into the region, chunk, chunk section, and finally block data found within the chunk… and after importing all the files, i figured out that my script, simply didn't work, but after what was way too much time and some code borrowed from blu cubed I finally got it to work, and after importing all the region data from a test minecraft world, I got an average number of, around 33,000 blocks per chunk, not including air, with the top three most common blocks being deepslate, stone and finally water, now all we have to do is scale this data up to the size of a whole minecraft world containing around fourteen trillion chunks, and after plugging in all the numbers, we can now expect roughly four hundred quadrillion blocks to exist in an average minecraft world depending on the seed. Now that we have this basic number, I compiled a list of the time it takes to break every type of block with an efficiency 5 pickaxe, ax, or shovel taken off the minecraft wiki into a spreadsheet, with the already existing values of a chunks composition, I got a final value of around 3.8 billion years to mine out an entire minecraft world, and this isn't even including the about a billion other factors that could influence this. This task alone is not a goal any human could achieve in not even in tens of millions of lifetimes…, if you woke up this morning, got a cup of coffee, and sat down at your PC to begin this task, you the sun would likely expand to the point where it becomes too hot for life to even exist on earth before you’re finished, you won't even be half way through this task when the earth's oceans will boil away leaving an endless landscape of nothing whilst most of your minecraft world remains untouched, the entire presumed existence of modern humans is only around 250,000 years and the time needed to complete this, even with most lowball of estimates possible is 15 thousand times longer than the existence of modern man…, and again this isn't even accounting for transportation, resource gathering and let me say again, the other about a billion factors that could just make this number even higher. It was at a point long before where we have gotten now that this tutorial has become a thought experiment. There is really no way to mine out your minecraft world using any conventional mining method within a reasonable amount of time… if at all. But let's take this idea to its limit. I want an actual figure of how long it would take so let's continue…

 Although I cant account for every possible action that could influence this number, we could at least try and round some numbers up a little bit to account for seed variation and human error… 

{resource gathering}

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4 A regular diamond pickaxe is able to mine 1562 blocks before breaking, and with an unbreaking 3 pickaxe, we can bump that number up to around ~6000 blocks, using this estimate, it would take about 6 unbreaking 3 diamond pickaxes to mine out 1 chunk, and applying this to the scale of a whole minecraft world would equal around eighty four trillion pickaxes, or two hundred and fifty three trillion diamonds, you may now notice a problem with this… There actually aren't even enough diamonds in a minecraft world to make this many pickaxes…- if we use a very, very generous estimate of a chunk having an average of around 12 diamonds, there is only enough diamonds to make 4 diamond pickaxes per chunk... Even if we use mending, which, (keep in mind)- would add a ton of time to the project, it is very safe to say that you won't even get halfway done with the job before running out of diamonds, let alone the fact that it would probably take you as much time to actually get the diamonds needed as it would to mine out the world itself. And this is if we used even the most efficient mining methods, which would also entail the player actually mining out a part of the world itself… The more you think about it, the more the idea of this just becomes a lost cause, forever will the idea of total and complete annihilation remain outside the realm of possibility within our minecraft worlds. But maybe there's some sort of renewable, easily farmable resource that we could use to make our pickaxes out of, without sacrificing  too much of the efficiency and ease of using a diamond pickaxe, a resource gathered using a farm that can be set up in just a couple minutes and at almost any location… of course what im talking about is Iron! Considering that gold,(another resource that can be easily farmed) is only renewably obtainable on the java version of minecraft because of minecraft bedrock’s lack of a nether roof, as well as the fact that gold tools of any kind break so quickly that it would be almost counter intuitive to have to bring 300 pickaxes for just one minecraft chunk, im picking iron as our main material because it doesn't lose much of the efficiency you would find using a gold or diamond pickaxe, and also mainly because it is very easily farmable which also eliminates some of the challenges with resource transportation, as iron farms could quickly be set up in villages as you pass through the world, slowly eating it up… Ok, an iron pickaxe can mine an average of ~1000 blocks assuming that you have unbreaking three. With this assumption we can safely say that you will need around 33 pickaxes for an average minecraft chunk and about four hundred and fifty trillion pickaxes to mine out your entire minecraft world, which is around one point three quadrillion pieces of iron and around nine hundred trillion sticks… It is almost as if this is an even more of an impossible task than obtaining the diamonds… [AD BREAK]  Although this number may seem ridiculous, we can actually achieve it in a somewhat reasonable amount of time, at least faster than the time it would take to mine out the world itself, as there are iron farm designs that can get up to 1,000,000 iron ingots per hour which makes this task about a million times easier, bringing the time you need to wait, just to get the iron to around one hundred and fifty four thousand years, for just the iron… this doesn't even include the enchantment books, sticks and XP that would take BILLIONS of years to get. Oh, and what about storage, or the anvils needed to enchant all the pickaxes. The time needed to get all the chests required to store that many items is at least a few, I don't know, BILLIONS of extra years… Oh yeah, I mentioned bedrock at the beginning of this video. With current glitches, you can mine out about 1 piece of bedrock per 10 or so seconds, which adds another 3 or so billion years to this timeline… I think most people would agree that this video started getting ridiculous a long time ago… and I don't want to leave you off with a statement like, oh it's impossible. I guess it will NEVER happen. Goodbye. I just wasted 12 minutes of your time! I think it's safe to say that we need to at least approach this another way.

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5 I have just concluded to you that it would take you billions of years to mine out even a fraction of a minecraft world by hand. There is just… so much of it, it would take decades, just to walk across it and lifetimes to even get to fully explore it and get to know its landscape, with little thought, it almost seems as if this task is impossible, no matter how much time you have because of basic resource limitations built within the bounds of minecraft and also built within the bounds of our biology… but that may not actually be the case because technically “WE” don't necessarily have to mine out this space… we can use automation. If you've explored the minecraft side of youtube, specifically, the survival lets play or the hardcore side of minecraft youtube, you’ve probably seen one of these: {autominer} a quarry machine, probably  plastered on some bright, flashy, annoying thumbnail with a basic blob skin next to it…, but anyways, With these machines, the task of mining out millions of blocks- a task that would take a ridiculous amount of time, can be shrunk down into just a couple slime blocks, pieces of tnt and maybe a few hours of your time, with all of this time being spent to actually build the machine itself... I'm going to suggest we go on a similar route as this.

6 Now, there are many designs and iterations of this machine we could go with, with all of them having their own upsides as well as some very noticeable downsides, and rather than wasting your time, taking you through a bunch of different designs that will ultimately be ineffective, failing to overcome basic limitations such as naturally spawning oceans and lava pools, and the fact that a block of TNT can only fall 77 blocks before exploding- no, this one design can counteract almost all of these limitations, what i'm talking about is the honey block quarry machine, a design thought up and poorly named by player, Ilmango- This design takes advantage of some clever tricks with honey blocks, and a tnt duplicator to mine out what is usually, a relatively small area. But we're going to make some modifications to it that extends its range up to the scale of a whole minecraft world, mining it out, layer by layer. With this machine, you can completely mine out your entire minecraft world in a somewhat reasonable amount of time, at least better than 3 billion years. With a little bit of clever human engineering, complete self annihilation has become feasible… And from some testing, I've learned that one of these machines can max out at around 1 block per second in flying speeds, taking about 2 years to cover 1 layer of a minecraft world. We can now multiply this by 320, which is the area in depth where blocks can generate going into the negatives and positives combined, making the total amount of time to complete the project around 640 years, which is manageable… And with only a few hundred of these machines running at the same time, this task could be done in as little as only two years of constant running!  It may seem like we’ve actually found a way to completely destroy a minecraft world in just a few years, have we actually done it?! This would be the case if we didn't have a few detrimental problems with this plan… First, resources…, it would take around 1.5 billion blocks to build this machine.. The time spent to gather the resources and let alone build the actual machine, even with the most efficient honey block and slime farms is in the hundreds of thousands of years… second, for this idea to even work at all, we have to assume that the entire minecraft world has to be loaded at the same time, on a piece of hardware that can handle hundreds of millions of explosions, all happening at the same time over the span of two whole years…, which is obviously very unrealistic as most modern computing systems can only load up to 32 chunks of simulation distance going out from around the player, and even with almost alien levels of technology the amount of computing resources to simply load this amount of space alone is more than you could even fathom. This factor alone completely eliminates the idea of you practically doing this in a real minecraft world without some sort of extremely optimized supercomputer… Third, in a minecraft world there are naturally spawning blocks that just simply just can't be blown up by TNT, nor can be moved by the in-built water sweepers or any other clever machines you may come up with, what i'm talking about is blocks like obsidian, end portal frames, and every other indestructible block that would just completely break the machine without being manually removed by the player which intern would bring up previous issues like the player even having to mine blocks at all. Maybe we could employ some sort of mining bot to mine out all the obsidian, but that would still require the same amount and probably even more computing resources… We are back to square one… it seems like a minecraft world is actually impossible to destroy…, and just for reference I’ve spent literal months looking on the internet for any sort of mechanism that could possibly accomplish this task in even a few million years and at this point, and by now,  the search seems hopeless. Is it actually impossible to do this?... again, no

There is actually  one more method of completely destroying your minecraft world, and no, this time it won't involve an insane amount of pickaxes, it won't require you to spend eons building machines nor will it require tons of math, this last method- in fact, requires no effort at all…  and yet, it will require by far- the most amount of time. 

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7 There is one final way to completely destroy your minecraft world, and it is to wait, although it may seem like an unlikely way to dismantle your minecraft world… it may actually be the only way… now let's say that you decide to turn on your computer, ipad, or whatever other device you're using to run minecraft (it doesn't really matter), plug it in, open a random minecraft world, maybe play in it a little bit, maybe build a small house, place your laptop on a random desk and never touch it again, leaving your minecraft world open to run indefinitely. Back to the real world, eventually, your house gets abandoned for some reason, but somehow, your open laptop is still on, getting power through an error made by the electric company or even solar panels you still have laying on your roof. This state is held for hundreds of thousands of years as your laptop, still open and running minecraft, still has power, and is still running the exact same minecraft world. Eventually, in an extremely unlikely event that will take place in an arbitrarily long time into the future, a light appears in the sky. The trail of an earth destroying asteroid headed straight towards our planet. Despite this, your computer is still, somehow, completely intact as the celestial rock inevitably impacts earth, catapulting your laptop into the deep vacuum of space to drift for the rest of eternity. Under these circumstances, and with enough time, I can safely say, that your minecraft world will eventually fall into an unstoppable period of destruction, your world will circum to events that are almost unstoppable in nature- even with player intervention, eventually and inevitably rendering your entire world almost empty, and thus, unplayable…, no, this inevitable decay isn't because of some hardware error, or your world file somehow being corrupted, the actual hardware of your system and the world file will remain completely intact, instead, the actual minecraft world itself will eventually self destruct… one aspect at a time, although it may take an, again, unfathomable amount of time, a period of time that makes any of the lengths of time previously mentioned in this video seem like but a second, but i can assure you that every last tree, plant, and piece of wood and wooden structure in your world will be the first to go,... this is through natural minecraft processes, things like lightning strikes and other events that can cause natural fires in your minecraft world which will slowly take out every last surface block of wood in existence, it is by this time when the first surface layers of your world itself will also begin to decompose, as there are ways that mobs like skeletons and snow golems are able to attack creepers causing them to blow up, causing just a few blocks in the immediate vicinity of the explosion to be destroyed. Although these events i just described may seem insignificant in nature, at least when comparing them to the scale of a minecraft world, over a long enough period of time, this process will cause your minecraft world to be slowly eaten away- this will eventually be accelerated by lightning strikes, as it is common knowledge that when lightning strikes a creeper, it will become charged, almost doubling the amount of space it will effect. And as time passes, you will also begin to notice that all peaceful mobs like cows, chickens and pigs will eventually go extinct, either through explosion damage from creepers, or even things like the fall damage that most passive mobs will regularly experience as they traverse your minecraft world. Villages will also begin to disappear, as we all know, an iron golem is effectively useless at protecting villagers against even the most weak opponents, and without player intervention, every last villager will quickly die out as villages repeatedly get raided by zombies, and slowly die off… as the years go on, your minecraft world will slowly be eaten away, little by little, as skeletons, again, get randomly hit by mobs, get aggressive and shoot a random creeper, causing it to blow up. Another thing with this process is that the nether and in some cases, the end will also slowly get eaten away, as in a regular minecraft world, there are structures like ruined portals and on very rare occasions, completed end portals, and of course, ruined portals alone cannot be completed because of the way they naturally  generate, but what if a random portal, somewhere around the world were to be placed right next to a lava pool, next to a source of water blocked by some dirt or sand… in this case, an enderman could hypothetically pick up a random sand block, and complete the nether portal. After this, the portal could be struck by lightning, officially connecting the overworld to the nether, making it possible for creepers to pass through, and slowly destroy the nether, and maybe even end, as well, and oh yeah… completely destroying your minecraft world requires the end and also nether to be dismantled as well, which would add an arbitrarily long amount of time to the previous two methods. 

8 Although this process alone won't completely destroy your minecraft world as there will always be blocks that simply can't be picked up by endermen, can’t be destroyed by creepers, or even blocks covered by lava or water, But what if we were to combine these three strategies, because with little help from the player, quarry machines or maybe even a set of mildly advanced bots, this task can be accomplished. I mean we might as well. We’ve gone this far, and I think i've made it abundantly clear that this task is not achievable within a lifetime, no matter what clever trick you pull off, and maybe not even achievable until the inevitable heat death of our universe in some cases, but maybe through some futuristic technology- the you can be preserved to live up to this feat, I mean, every single option on our list is only again feasible through an insane amount of computing power- that of which is currently alien to us- and it isn't much of a stretch from the point we have gotten to now to assume that there is a way to preserve the human body, a way to allow someone to live up to this feat, and maybe even a way to automate it…

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9 Maybe you’ve caught it by now… this whole video I've been talking about the destruction of a minecraft world and how it's impossible, yet inevitable in some ways… but I've referenced many parallels to our real world throughout the video… Because when you really think about it, the destruction of a minecraft world and the destruction of our real world are one in the same if you really want to stretch the idea… No, I'm not making the argument that minecraft even remotely resembles our real world nor is this going to devolve into a lecture about climate change or saving the planet, all i'm trying to say is that the nature of the two concepts are fundamentally, very similar as by waiting, both worlds will inevitably self-destruct, and by automation or some sort of advanced technology, we can even slightly speed up that inevitable doom, accelerate the impending slide towards absolute entropy. Nonetheless, the main point I've been trying to sneak into your head is that total self annihilation is almost impossible to achieve within a reasonable amount of time. Even in the real world we can destroy ourselves of course, but we can't literally destroy everything, … can't literally destroy our world, no matter how many atomic bombs or CO2 we have… But given enough time, it will happen whether we like it or not. With this I'm not trying to indoctrinate you into some idea or belief system, but am merely pointing out how ultimately out of control we are of our circumstances in the grand scheme of things… We like to pretend that were in control of our reality for brief periods of time, we like to pretend we can make a change, we like the idea that we know everything, the inherent idea that we as a species can notably manipulate any aspect of our immediate environment, the idea that we have a free will over reality, this is probably what makes the thought of complete and total annihilation seem interesting to us, this “idea” i've been describing can really just be simplified as the idea of having control over things, this idea is somehow interesting enough to our minds that you would sit and watch a full 20 minute video about even doing it in a silly little block game, without even consciously knowing it…

10 It is now that you begin your journey. you step into the vessel that you will spend the rest of time in to begin your long slumber. You load up the first ever internally omnipresent minecraft world, put yourself in a safe location, and the waiting begins. Through some sort of mining bot you've devised to automate the hard part for you, your world will slowly get chipped away. One block after another. This is whilst you, the one that has for some reason dedicated their entire reality to this task is floating through the cosmos with the motivation to fulfill your one and only goal of complete and total self annihilation. 

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It is after what could be septillions of years. What could be a period of time that may not be feasible to put into words, you finally wake up, the bots have completed their task, but not quite yet… you are given the opportunity to mine the final block. This is something that you have predetermined before even stepping into your vessel and setting the bots off on their task. This final block will represent the pinnacle of achievement, the ultimate achievement of complete and total annihilation. Afterall, this opportunity is, maybe, what is the rarest and most unobtainable opportunity in the history of humanity. You switch to your pickaxe, And as you mine your final block. The final block amongst the trillions that once existed in this once thriving world. You will ultimately become the first and last person to complete the task that may seem ridiculous, the task that has once been described as seemingly impossible… but after enough time, in the extreme amount of space that exists within your minecraft world, and with enough effort, it will eventually happen. 

Out  Ultimately, the completion of this task will extinguish the last residual memory of what was once there, once everywhere.  And maybe even the last residual memory of you. You close your eyes as you mine the final block, and after what is less than a second… It's over… This meaningless task is finally complete, in the brief following moments you may quickly begin to wonder, what was really the point of all of this? Why have I dedicated billions of years to a task that is fundamentally worthless, meaningless yet so meaningful in the grand scheme of things? This has ultimately been a complete waste of time. You will ponder on these thoughts for what is the rest of eternity, as you have reached the point where nothing interesting, nothing new, could, or ever will happen. In the outside world you will begin to relinquish your mind of any thought, even the most obligatory of thoughts that may briefly append into your reality will slowly and inevitably fade away as your body turns to dust, your ship getting hurled into the gravitational grip of a nearby black hole. The story is over… everything is over. You have accomplished your goal of what is nothing. Now, it’s time to go, and get up, as you have finally reached the end of the story of minecraft…

{And thus, reached the end of time}

{Thanks for watching!}

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