I suspect its because of the bad title and thumbnail. When I was researching for some info on minecraft's worldgen, I saw this video and immediately ignored it because it's title/thumbnail made it seem like some basic video with very simple information and no actual in-depth details.
what the hell??? this production quality is absolutely INSANE!!! I dont say this often but this definitely needs millions of views. You are definitely going places!
While watching this I thought “This guy sounds very passionate about this and really explains well the topic, reminds me of my Uni days” and notice that you were actually one of my University professors, amazing video !
I feel like if you have some sort of ship mods installed (for building larger ships) they are definitely fun, but with only the vanilla boats I can see why they changed it
This documentary is insanely well made . As a Computer Science Student, it’s crazy to see so many familiar (mostly simple) concepts mushed together, somehow resulting in THE game of my early teens. I have to point out: The World Generation Pipeline was explained very well. It’s a complex topic but you managed to break it up into simple steps, painting a coherent image. The stack-graphic definitely helped! I hope you get the recognition you deserve. Have a nice day!
Thank you for this incredibly well-done video! I’ve always been fascinated with how Minecraft was built. This video gives me the best glimpse into that I’ve ever seen. I’d love to see something like this but at at code walkthrough level. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much, this is incredibly kind! It's a shame that Mojang doesn't really allow for their source code to be posted online! For instance, there are a lot of tools to decompile Minecraft, but you can't publish the decompiled source code!
@@AlanZucconi thanks for your reply! It’s an honor :). I know, it is a bummer it is closed source. It’d be awesome to see the code, or some form of it. But either way, thank you for your reply and content!
@@redthetrollge7319 it's true! Although there are many other games that generate infinite worlds! It's not that difficult to do. The real challenge is to make them interesting and playable!
You answered questions that answered other questions I didn't know enough to ask. This documentary is so thorough, and you break things down in a clear and orderly way. Inspiring and entertaining. I'm fascinated by Minecraft, and I have enjoyed playing it these last 8+ years.
Thank you so much!!! It was a lot of hard work, but I think it was worth it! If you want, I also made a documentary about Conway's Game of Life which you might also enjoy!
This is really top tier quality. I remember subscribing for the Game of Life documentary and do not regret at all the decision. Production quality is really amazing.
Pre 1.18 terrain just has a certain unique feel to it. It's bumpy and coarse, but also gradual and smooth at the same time. 1.18+ terrain is much more smooth and realistic, which was probably a good change, but it definately got rid of that unique feel.
@@plebisMaximus beta terrain was wild and unexpected, release terrain became a lil bit more boring but it definitely had a feeling to it. 1.18 feels like an improve to post release terrain and while it does offer more opportunity than beta terrain, its not as unique as beta, but its one of the few things I commend Mojang for doing because it is committing to a new vision rather than trying to appease both sides.
This was an amazing video. After trying to wrap my head around the world generation for my own project and failing to, I found this video and it was extremely helpful.
You should not say things like that which makes it sound that you don't think he deserves it by saying that he deserves it but you say it in a way that makes it looks like you mean that he doesn't mean it.
This was awesome ! A year or two back I spent a few weeks on an infinite-world generation project as the concept had always fascinated me, but I ended up getting overwhelmed by just all the layers of systems needed to consistently create a compelling result. I read up a bit on minecraft, but most of what was published was either hypertechnical to the point of being difficult to parse, or was so high level it provided nothing. This video was fantastic at bridging the two concepts!
Thank you Chris! This was exactly my problem. The videos were either too simple, or too technical! I had to actually decompile Minecraft to see how it worked! Took a long time, but I'm very glad I had the chance to do it!
It's just sad how such a video can go unnoticed for more than a year. I hope you will finally get the attention you deserve, it must be frustrating trying endlessly to optimize but still not getting the expected views
It does! 😅 Another documentary of mine got over 700K views. It seems a lot is in the hand of the algorithm! And I don't post content regularly enough to please it! 😅 Out of curiosity, how did you find the video!
Damn this video is underrated as hell. It's the best and most professional minecraft documentary I've ever seen, better than any large youtubers. I have no idea why youtube hasn't recommended it to me earlier. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Unfortunate youtube works that way.. I've also watched Geosquare's cactus video after this, it's pretty insane what the community is doing nowadays Also I havent expected you to respond within minutes for a comment on a year old video haha
Thank you so much! 🙏 I made two other documentaries: one about "Creatures", and one about Conway's Game of Life. I'm working right now on another documentary about the emergence of emergent behaviours!
Got this recommended. One of the best videos I have seen in a while on TH-cam. Extensively researched, Well editted, Great Storytelling and very well done editting, this fits the definition of The Perfect Video.
Wow. This made me even more amazed as to how minecraft was made after seeing its beautiful yet complex algorithm to generate worlds. The maths behind it all is crazy. I hope this finds its place in the youtube algorithm, because this is a really well made documentary. I subscribed and I hope to see you reach your deserved amount of fame.
Thank you so much for such a kind comment! ♥️ It took about one year to make the video, but unfortunately TH-cam prefers creators who publish regularly! 🥲 Anyway, I made two other documentaries which are in a similar style, in case you are interested!
@@AlanZucconi Oh I will listen to them. I love youtubers that prioritizes quality over quantity. It's unfortunate that youtube doesn't favor youtubers like you, such as Lemmino which makes truly incredible work of production and with deep knowledge about the topic he makes a video about. I wish you theb est of luck on youtube :)
Minecraft's world generation is a topic I love to learn about. 1.18 terrain generation is really amazing, althought there are things I dont like as microbiome or "misplaced biomes" and I really want to understand why it's so hard to fix
Wow. Just wow. I already loved Minecraft, and enjoyed the deeper parts of it via AntVenom...but I still had no idea just HOW complex this game was/is. I was worried coming into this video that it'd all go over my head, but you explained everything in an understandable and digestible manner, giving me a hunger to learn more. Well done. You've definitely more than earned a sub.
I found this video while randomly scrolling on TH-cam. And found it absolutely amazing. I don't know how it doesn't have millions of views but your production quality is outstanding. Keep up the good work. 👍👍
Thank you so much! 🙏 I think my problem is that the way I make content doesn't please the algorithm enough! 🥲 But in case you're interested, I have a few more documentaries on my channel!
Oh whoa, thank you so much!!! 👏 I've discovered Minecraft during the first lockdown, and it really helped me to cope with the loneliness and isolation at the time! Since then, it has grown to be one of my favourite game! Making this documentary took over one year, but I had so much fun making it! ✨ I'm glad you enjoyed it as well!
Absolutely incredible!! Thank YOU for answering these questions many have regarding Minecraft’s simple yet complex world Gen engine! You deserve 1 million views for this!
I really wish they still had the "realistic sized" oceans. It made the world feel like there were different continents and really made each place feel like a new land. Now each ocean just feels like a large lake and the everywhere starts feeling the same very quickly.
This was legit interesting from start to finish. Explained simple enough, yet giving enough information to go on to perhaps make something yourself. Great work!
Mojang should use this to onboard new employees. Onboarding at most software jobs is "read this terribly written document that hasn't been kept up to date" or "read the code and figure it out"
Amazing documentary! Very detailed, gave me a lot of insights. I would love some more in-depth information how structures and decorations work, after the world is generated. Like villages, mineshafts, mansions etc. Sadly not a lot of video's that I can find.
Thank you! Yeah, I really wanted to talk a bit more about the structures. The problem is that there are SO MANY and they are so different! 😅 Couldn't fit them all in a single video!
This was a masterclass of an informative video! The production is amazing and never lacked on the visual diagrams and music. This is the type of video I feel the need to say thank you for
I’ve always wondered how Minecraft generates. I used to think it generated as you walk closer to a new chunk, but since you can type in command to find certain biomes or use a map to find a woodland mansion, I began to think everything must be pre generated. That idea also just made no sense knowing seeds exist. But since the worlds are infinite I wondered how the game would generate something infinite. I have no knowledge of code so this was interesting to me.
I hope this video helped! ☺️ Yes, Minecraft indeed generates new chunks as you walk into unexplored areas. But what goes into those chunks is already predetermined by the world seed! Minecraft worlds are fully deterministic, meaning that from the seed you can recreate all of their features. Some things, like the position of woodland mansions and stronghold can be calculated easily without computing the full map!
@@AlanZucconi Interesting, I intend to also go and watch your other documentaries when I find the time, about to do computer science at uni so it's handy stuff :)
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:05 💎 *Introduction to Minecraft world generation* - Minecraft's vast world generation. - The concept of procedurally generated worlds. - The role of randomness and seeds in Minecraft's world generation. 03:03 🎲 *The significance of seeds in Minecraft* - The use of seeds to initialize terrain generation. - The deterministic nature of Minecraft worlds based on seeds. - The immense number of unique worlds created by seeds. 04:30 ⚔️ *Procedural generation in early games* - The history of procedural world generation in video games. - The influence of games like "Rogue" on Minecraft. - Overview of how "Rogue" generated dungeon layouts. 08:15 🌍 *Expanding Minecraft's world size* - Minecraft's initial world size limitations. - The introduction of infinite worlds through chunk-based generation. - Explaining the size and restrictions of Minecraft worlds. 10:25 🏞️ *Biome generation in Minecraft* - The introduction of biomes in Minecraft. - The role of noise maps in biome determination. - How temperature and rainfall affect biome distribution. 12:45 🌊 *Changes in world generation in Minecraft updates* - Changes to world generation in Minecraft updates. - Impact on servers like 2b2t. - The longevity of Minecraft's world generation algorithm. 14:39 🎮 *Technical aspects of Minecraft world generation* - Technical details of Minecraft's world generation process. - Layers and stacks involved in generating the world. - The role of noise maps in creating variation. 19:36 🌐 *Creating Minecraft's biome map* - The critical role of the biome map in world generation. - How different layers contribute to biome distribution. - The use of noise maps and scaling layers in refining details. 23:24 ❄️ *Climate and biome variation in Minecraft* - How temperature and climate layers determine biomes. - The introduction of hilly variants to add variety. - The role of white noise and transitional layers in world generation. 25:27 🌟 *Special biomes in Minecraft* - The generation of rare and special biomes in Minecraft. - The influence of climate layers on special biomes. - Examples of special biomes and their significance. 25:57 🌳 *Minecraft Biome Generation* - Biomes like bamboo jungles and sunflower plains are created as patches within larger regions. - Additional layers determine the probability of certain biomes, such as bamboo jungles and mushroom islands. 27:26 🏞️ *River Generation in Minecraft* - Rivers in Minecraft are generated separately from the main terrain. - The River Layer detects potential river locations and smooths them to create rivers. 28:25 🌊 *Ocean Temperature Stack* - The Ocean Temperature stack adds variety to ocean biomes using Perlin noise. - Perlin noise creates smooth, visually pleasing maps by interpolating random values. 30:28 ⛰️ *Terrain Generation in Minecraft* - Minecraft uses fractal Brownian motion noise to generate terrain height maps. - The terrain height is calculated column by column from top to bottom. 33:13 🌲 *Terrain Height and Biome Interaction* - Biomes affect terrain height in Minecraft, preventing unrealistic combinations. - Depth and scale parameters of biomes determine their average height and variation. 35:09 🏰 *Strongholds and World Generation* - Strongholds are critical structures in Minecraft, necessary to access The End dimension. - They are strategically placed in the world generation and prioritized over other features. 36:39 🌄 *Minecraft 1.18 Terrain Generation* - Minecraft 1.18 introduces a new terrain generator with taller mountains and 3D biomes. - Biomes are now linked to a 3D climate map, affecting terrain and underground caves. 39:30 🌍 *Minecraft 1.18 Climate-Based World Generation* - Minecraft 1.18 uses a 3D climate map with parameters like temperature and humidity. - Biomes are determined based on climate parameters, resulting in more diverse landscapes. 41:10 🌐 *Minecraft Community and Research* - Minecraft's community actively conducts research and challenges in world generation. - The game's complexity emerges from simple mechanics, making it appealing to players. Made with HARPA AI
This documentary was fascinating, beautiful and really relaxing to watch. The production quality is outstanding, the examples are breathtaking, and his voice is really pleasant to listen to. And I learned a LOT about noise maps and procedural generation. Thank you!
Thank you so much, it means a lot! I don't post often enough to please the algorithm! Btw, I have a few other documentaries on my channel, which I hope you might like!
One of the few videos ive watched over 3 times. Your amazing alan. This is my 4th time watching this, i was reminded of you by the new video by a creator with 7m views which used a clip from here
Hey! Thank you so much for the kind message! 🙏 And I'm very glad you've found my video (again!). Although I wished they had put a link to my video or something haha!
Unfortunately you can't publish the original source code! 😭 But there are a lot of tools to decompile it! I've playing with them a lot while doing the research for this video!
I did not think mathematics, random fractal and noise maps, and randomness could be so beautiful to make a grown man cry. But it did. It made me cry. Thanks for this experience.
So glad this video popped up in my recommended feed! This is an insanely thorough breakdown of world gen in Minecraft. I learned more in the first 15 minutes of this video than I'd ever known about procedural generation before! Plus, the subtitles are user-defined and accurate, which is huge for me specifically. Definitely earned my like and subscription!
I think this is the best quality video I have ever seen about Minecraft. I had some knowledge about world generation before but this was awesome. And the production? Simply wow. I hope the algorithm keeps pushing it to other people's main page. BTW, I suscribed! :)
Thank you so much for the kind words! I've been recently blessed by the algorithm and I'm currently working on a new documentary! But in the meantime, I have a few more videos with a similar style on my channel! I hope you'll enjoy them as well!
@@SigEnderman you're welcome! 🤗 It took over one year of work to put this together! And if you enjoyed it, I have a few other documentaries on my channel!
i think from the comments i saw that the thumbnails was the problem for the low view count,im guessing it had been changed cz its a very unique thumbnail definitely made me look twice!! really good quality and i see you have replied to alot of the comments which is really uncommon ! great job man
Thanks! I took over 100 pages of notes, it was hard to decide what to include! The reality is that the position of other structures is often just a nasty equation! 😅 But it's interesting to see how buildings are generated by joining together different pieces!
Yeah no doubt! I've been working with the recently released and still very experimental procedural content generation tool in Unreal. The sheer scope of what is possible to achieve with tools like this is insane and the required equations to make it work even more so! Seeing a detailed breakdown of how a quintessential game handles procedural generation to this scale was definitely enlightening not just as to what can be taken into consideration but also the pitfalls along the way. Our little R&D team in the studio is currently gobbling up this video to see what we can take away from it and to what extend we can apply the knowledge of it to PCG in various projects 😁
as someone with very little coding/comp sci knowledge, i found this documentary to be really accessible and interesting!! the step-by-step breakdown of each “coding layer” during world generation was especially captivating. kudos!! :)
i dont know much about coding but this was such a fun video to listen to! the way you speak is very engaging and made it as easy to understand as possible, and i appreciate that! thank you for posting this video i am so happy i found it :)!!
Thank you for this superb documentary, Alan! I've always had an interest in how Minecraft generates its worlds, but I've found other documentaries either lacking in detail or focusing too much on one specific part. This had a perfect balance of detail and simplicity.
this video is incredible! i can’t believe you managed to explain it so clearly! minecraft is fascinating, and from now on i’ll see the seed map in a whole new light.
im usually not very into coding, but i was looking 4 something to fall asleep to and this video seemed good, turns out you explained it so beautifully and with such passion i ended up watching this instead of sleeping. new sub dude! i rlly can hear the passion in your voice and its refreshing
As someone that has been working with minecraft code and mods for probably 6 years, I have learned a lot from this video. World gen was something that was always so scary to me that I never touched it. This video completely cured me of that fear
@@AlanZucconi Now that is dedication I can very much respect! Hats off to you. I hope you didn't have to look trough too much spaghetti code. There is already a surprising amount of pasta in this video x)
im playing minecraft watching this video, and the creeper at 4:12 scared the shit out of me. great video, have been chipping away at my procedural game knowledge for a while and this is another great addition to the vault.
Sorry about that! 😅 But glad you enjoyed the video! Btw, on my blog I posted a long tutorial on how to create Minecraft plugins! You might find that interesting!
I wish I would see this video a year ago. As a Minecraft Java Edition player and a programmer, I **never** found this information anywhere! This video really deserves more views, as it (probably) involved so much research and digging for information. I would also like to mention that in reality implementing that into a real code is a completely different story. To sum it up: A REALLY REALLY GREAT VIDEO!
Thank you so much! 🙏 Yes, it took more than a year to do the video! I had to decompile and recompile Minecraft for several weeks! I'm glad TH-cam is finally giving this video some exposure!
Thank you so much!!! Yeah, is great to see TH-cam finally giving this video some well-deserved exposure! ✨ I'm already working on the next documentary!
Was very shocked to see that a channel with only 14k subscribers and a video with ~140k views could produce content of such high quality. Video was not too difficult to understand and this channel is probably going to blow up in the future.
Thank you so much! 🙏 I've made a few other documentaries, including one with over 700k views. But I don't make enough content to please The Algorithm, so unfortunately my channel doesn't get the exposure I'd like to get! 🥲
The fact that the oversimplification warning came on the screen every 5 seconds, just shows how complicated this is. Even things that seem simple at first glance like this actually can be complex and hard to put in a 45 minute video. I didn’t realize it was this complicated to just make a Minecraft world procedurally generate.
Ohhh, I had to simplify SO! MANY! THINGS! And I know that without that warning, I would have been flooded with messages! 😅 I also like when other channels do it. For instance, when videos about science are showing diagrams of atoms and solar systems and say in the corner "not to scale". Or when the same videos are clearly labelling as CGI all rendering of planets, cells and atoms.
Thank you! I am making more stuff like this RIGHT NOW! 😎 The next two documentaries will be about understanding hyperspace, and the emergence of emergent behaviours! Also, I have a few other documentaries on my channel which I hope you'll like!
That was amazing! It’s so interesting to learn more about the games you love, for me this is both technical and lore info on games. For Minecraft the technical information on how worlds are made, kind of are lore
20 seconds in and i'm hooked! this video is great! 5 minutes in and the editing is crazy! i can't believe there's more 40 minutes of this video, the quality is off the charts!
Aww, thank you so much! I wish I had a chance to make more videos like this! But it took over one year! 😅 So is very difficult to make more than 1-2 documentaries a year!
I do not really subscrie to a lot of people neither like them or appreciate them at all, but this is hugely underrated & fascinating! Thank you for sharing such amazing information & answering questions probably everyone had at once, you earned a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! It took a long time to make, so I'm really glad you enjoyed it! In case it helps, I have a few more documentaries on my channel. And I'm working on a new one as we speak...
The fact this has only 12k views is criminal, this is the most extensive explanation of minecraft world gen to date. And it's up to date !
I KNOW RIGHT? 🥲
Haha well, feel free to share it with your fellow Minecraft friends!
I suspect its because of the bad title and thumbnail. When I was researching for some info on minecraft's worldgen, I saw this video and immediately ignored it because it's title/thumbnail made it seem like some basic video with very simple information and no actual in-depth details.
Can't wait to have it really popular in the next 2 years!
@@questwalkerkoi guess he changed it because it is claiming for attention now 😅
He now has 12k subs!
The production quality of this documentary is superb.
Thank you so much for this!
why did you donate robux?
@@configdotiniit isnt robux it real money
@@configdotini LOL
@@ZentioArts bro didn’t get the joke
what the hell??? this production quality is absolutely INSANE!!! I dont say this often but this definitely needs millions of views. You are definitely going places!
Thank you so much!!! 🙏
TH-cam doesn't really appreciate me posting a new documentary a year! 🥲 So it doesn't often get my work featured!
ngl just recently started playing but new abt the farlands but that was it, this video helps me out alot with minecrafts history!!!
It is million now❤
da
While watching this I thought “This guy sounds very passionate about this and really explains well the topic, reminds me of my Uni days” and notice that you were actually one of my University professors, amazing video !
Aww thank you so much, it means a lot! 🙏 And if I remember correctly, you had one of the top submissions for the Snake AI that year! 🐍👏
@@AlanZucconithe fact that you recognize him shows you actually care about students
@@markfuckerturd5165 Aww, this was super kind for you to say! ❤
Whaaaaaaaaa your prof? This is incredible!
Being prof is incredible
I liked the big oceans. They made the world feel believable.
I knoooow!!!
I feel like if you have some sort of ship mods installed (for building larger ships) they are definitely fun, but with only the vanilla boats I can see why they changed it
@@justonedeveloper I wish they exposed some parameters to let players decide how the world generates.
Nothing says believable like being attacked by shadow monsters in an alternate dimension while fighting a dragon using exploding beds
@@the_uggh what are you talking about? That literally how most of my Mondays go. 🤯
This documentary is insanely well made . As a Computer Science Student, it’s crazy to see so many familiar (mostly simple) concepts mushed together, somehow resulting in THE game of my early teens.
I have to point out: The World Generation Pipeline was explained very well. It’s a complex topic but you managed to break it up into simple steps, painting a coherent image. The stack-graphic definitely helped!
I hope you get the recognition you deserve. Have a nice day!
Thank you so much! I actually use some of the visuals I made for this documentary with my students as well!
As a huge MC nerd & OG, I must say; This is absurdly underrated
Thanks!!!
@@AlanZucconi My Pleasure :D
idk man i stopped playing Minecraft a year ago and switched over to terraria
@@aaaaaaaaaaa.a Go try Vintage Story
lmao same
The fact that this only has 92k views is crazy, your production quality is among the highest on TH-cam. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much!!! 🙏🙏🙏
Fun fact: a week ago it only had 35K views.
I have been blessed by the The Algorithm, incidentally on my birthday!
@@AlanZucconiThe Video seems to be reaching more and more people!
Im also one of the ones that just had seen the video
@@King-me Welcome! 😊
Thank you for this incredibly well-done video! I’ve always been fascinated with how Minecraft was built. This video gives me the best glimpse into that I’ve ever seen. I’d love to see something like this but at at code walkthrough level. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much, this is incredibly kind! It's a shame that Mojang doesn't really allow for their source code to be posted online! For instance, there are a lot of tools to decompile Minecraft, but you can't publish the decompiled source code!
@@AlanZucconi thanks for your reply! It’s an honor :). I know, it is a bummer it is closed source. It’d be awesome to see the code, or some form of it. But either way, thank you for your reply and content!
how does this video not have millions of views? the information, quality and editing is insane
I KNOW RIGHT!
@@AlanZucconiit's kinda cool how every minecraft world you generate is different and unique from others and so much more.
@@redthetrollge7319 it's true! Although there are many other games that generate infinite worlds! It's not that difficult to do. The real challenge is to make them interesting and playable!
It has!!!
Now it has.
You answered questions that answered other questions I didn't know enough to ask. This documentary is so thorough, and you break things down in a clear and orderly way. Inspiring and entertaining. I'm fascinated by Minecraft, and I have enjoyed playing it these last 8+ years.
Thank you so much!!!
It was a lot of hard work, but I think it was worth it!
If you want, I also made a documentary about Conway's Game of Life which you might also enjoy!
no fucking way you share the same last name as me i didn't even know that was possible
This is really top tier quality.
I remember subscribing for the Game of Life documentary and do not regret at all the decision.
Production quality is really amazing.
Thank you so much! It's just me doing all the work, which is why is taking SO long! 🥲
Pre 1.18 terrain just has a certain unique feel to it. It's bumpy and coarse, but also gradual and smooth at the same time. 1.18+ terrain is much more smooth and realistic, which was probably a good change, but it definately got rid of that unique feel.
No
Beta terrain will forever be king for me. Most likely exclusively because of nostalgia, but still. It just feels good to play with.
1.18 terrain is garbage, it is LESS realistic than the old one - mountains that are hundreds of meters tall being everywhere isn't realistic
@@plebisMaximus beta terrain was wild and unexpected, release terrain became a lil bit more boring but it definitely had a feeling to it. 1.18 feels like an improve to post release terrain and while it does offer more opportunity than beta terrain, its not as unique as beta, but its one of the few things I commend Mojang for doing because it is committing to a new vision rather than trying to appease both sides.
@@shadesoftimeth ere are not mountains everywhere.
Go touch grass blocks
This was an amazing video. After trying to wrap my head around the world generation for my own project and failing to, I found this video and it was extremely helpful.
@@ro0t3ntry Thank you *so* much!!! It means a lot! 🙏
It should be illegal how underrated this video is. Props to you ❤
Arrest the Algorithm! 🚨
At least it's still getting recommended 👌
@@AlanZucconi Hi Alan can I know what song Is playing in the beginning, apps like shazam can't figure that out because of your beautiful voice. xD
@@1Life4Passion Thanks! 😊 That's the official Minecraft OST!
You should not say things like that which makes it sound that you don't think he deserves it by saying that he deserves it but you say it in a way that makes it looks like you mean that he doesn't mean it.
This was awesome ! A year or two back I spent a few weeks on an infinite-world generation project as the concept had always fascinated me, but I ended up getting overwhelmed by just all the layers of systems needed to consistently create a compelling result. I read up a bit on minecraft, but most of what was published was either hypertechnical to the point of being difficult to parse, or was so high level it provided nothing. This video was fantastic at bridging the two concepts!
Thank you Chris! This was exactly my problem. The videos were either too simple, or too technical! I had to actually decompile Minecraft to see how it worked! Took a long time, but I'm very glad I had the chance to do it!
It's just sad how such a video can go unnoticed for more than a year. I hope you will finally get the attention you deserve, it must be frustrating trying endlessly to optimize but still not getting the expected views
It does! 😅 Another documentary of mine got over 700K views. It seems a lot is in the hand of the algorithm! And I don't post content regularly enough to please it! 😅 Out of curiosity, how did you find the video!
@@AlanZucconi It was on my main page, which is probably a good sign :D Keep it up!
@@ertelmisegi Me too just today
I saw it on my main page too today. And it's great.
@@nochimmerkeineAhnung thanks! I'm glad TH-cam if finally giving the video some attention!
This is such a high quality documentary, you deserve more subscribers not gonna lie. Good luck and very good content 👍
Thank you so much!!!
Yeah, I'm hoping the documentary will get some more visibility at some point!
Damn this video is underrated as hell. It's the best and most professional minecraft documentary I've ever seen, better than any large youtubers. I have no idea why youtube hasn't recommended it to me earlier. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Aww, thank you so much it means a lot!!! I don't post enough to please the algorithm!
Unfortunate youtube works that way.. I've also watched Geosquare's cactus video after this, it's pretty insane what the community is doing nowadays
Also I havent expected you to respond within minutes for a comment on a year old video haha
@@pas1033 I wish I had more comments than I can reply to! 😂
Please make more stuff like this !
Thank you so much! 🙏
I made two other documentaries: one about "Creatures", and one about Conway's Game of Life.
I'm working right now on another documentary about the emergence of emergent behaviours!
Got this recommended. One of the best videos I have seen in a while on TH-cam. Extensively researched, Well editted, Great Storytelling and very well done editting, this fits the definition of The Perfect Video.
Aww thanks, too kind!!!
Wow. This made me even more amazed as to how minecraft was made after seeing its beautiful yet complex algorithm to generate worlds. The maths behind it all is crazy. I hope this finds its place in the youtube algorithm, because this is a really well made documentary. I subscribed and I hope to see you reach your deserved amount of fame.
Thank you so much for such a kind comment! ♥️ It took about one year to make the video, but unfortunately TH-cam prefers creators who publish regularly! 🥲 Anyway, I made two other documentaries which are in a similar style, in case you are interested!
@@AlanZucconi Oh I will listen to them. I love youtubers that prioritizes quality over quantity. It's unfortunate that youtube doesn't favor youtubers like you, such as Lemmino which makes truly incredible work of production and with deep knowledge about the topic he makes a video about. I wish you theb est of luck on youtube :)
9:19 this part right here was the highlight for me
truly eye-opening, great video!
Thanks! That's possibly my favourite segment!
And it took so long to make it! 😅
Minecraft's world generation is a topic I love to learn about.
1.18 terrain generation is really amazing, althought there are things I dont like as microbiome or "misplaced biomes" and I really want to understand why it's so hard to fix
Wow. Just wow. I already loved Minecraft, and enjoyed the deeper parts of it via AntVenom...but I still had no idea just HOW complex this game was/is. I was worried coming into this video that it'd all go over my head, but you explained everything in an understandable and digestible manner, giving me a hunger to learn more. Well done. You've definitely more than earned a sub.
Thank you so much! ⛏️
this documentary is fantastic, totally looking forward for a sequel on 1.18!
The content is surprisingly still accurate for 1.20 as well!
Thanks for all the detail! It's rare to see so long, and still constantly interesting videos on TH-cam.
Thank you! It was a lot of work, but I had so much fun making it!
I found this video while randomly scrolling on TH-cam. And found it absolutely amazing. I don't know how it doesn't have millions of views but your production quality is outstanding. Keep up the good work. 👍👍
Thank you so much! 🙏 I think my problem is that the way I make content doesn't please the algorithm enough! 🥲 But in case you're interested, I have a few more documentaries on my channel!
As a former physicist and minecraft lover. I just have to thank you for the sweet explaination you gave us.
Now I love this game even more.
Oh whoa, thank you so much!!! 👏 I've discovered Minecraft during the first lockdown, and it really helped me to cope with the loneliness and isolation at the time! Since then, it has grown to be one of my favourite game! Making this documentary took over one year, but I had so much fun making it! ✨ I'm glad you enjoyed it as well!
Absolutely incredible!! Thank YOU for answering these questions many have regarding Minecraft’s simple yet complex world Gen engine! You deserve 1 million views for this!
Thank you so much!
I'm so glad that this incredible video popped up in my recommendations feed! It deserves wayyyy more views...
Thanks! I've recently been blessed by The Algorithm!
I really wish they still had the "realistic sized" oceans. It made the world feel like there were different continents and really made each place feel like a new land. Now each ocean just feels like a large lake and the everywhere starts feeling the same very quickly.
Totally agree!!
Yes
Ocean Update II when?
@@redpanda1765 I can't wait!
This was legit interesting from start to finish. Explained simple enough, yet giving enough information to go on to perhaps make something yourself. Great work!
Thank you so much! 🙏
I have a few other documentaries on my channel, and I'm working on a new one as we speak!
Thanks!, This was really informative, I had no idea so much went on underneath the seams in Minecraft!
Ohhh! Thank you so much!! 🙏 Yeah, as a game developer myself I find Minecraft so fascinating!
Mojang should use this to onboard new employees. Onboarding at most software jobs is "read this terribly written document that hasn't been kept up to date" or "read the code and figure it out"
Too kind! I'd be very curious to know how the hiring process works at Mojang!
Amazing documentary! Very detailed, gave me a lot of insights. I would love some more in-depth information how structures and decorations work, after the world is generated. Like villages, mineshafts, mansions etc. Sadly not a lot of video's that I can find.
Thank you! Yeah, I really wanted to talk a bit more about the structures. The problem is that there are SO MANY and they are so different! 😅 Couldn't fit them all in a single video!
The explanation at 10:00 blew my mind. The zoom out was insane.. what a great way to make the point
@@koopa9815 thank you! Really glad you enjoyed it!
This was a masterclass of an informative video! The production is amazing and never lacked on the visual diagrams and music. This is the type of video I feel the need to say thank you for
You're too kind!! I have a few more videos like this one on my channel in case you're interested!
"that was not the most effective way to explain it" after explaining it in literally one sentence 😭
@@OGProcess 😅
@@AlanZucconi@OGProcess Most efficient vs most effective?
I’ve always wondered how Minecraft generates. I used to think it generated as you walk closer to a new chunk, but since you can type in command to find certain biomes or use a map to find a woodland mansion, I began to think everything must be pre generated. That idea also just made no sense knowing seeds exist. But since the worlds are infinite I wondered how the game would generate something infinite. I have no knowledge of code so this was interesting to me.
I hope this video helped! ☺️
Yes, Minecraft indeed generates new chunks as you walk into unexplored areas. But what goes into those chunks is already predetermined by the world seed! Minecraft worlds are fully deterministic, meaning that from the seed you can recreate all of their features. Some things, like the position of woodland mansions and stronghold can be calculated easily without computing the full map!
I love how happy he sounds
How can you not be, when talking about Minecraft!? ❤️
Awesome vid man. It had everything. Throwing that reference back to rogue was really the icing for me. 11/10
I remember playing Rogue with my friends when I was a child! So many good memories!
This is the best and most in-depth video I have seen on this topic, the visuals are just superb across the board!
Thank you so much! 🙏
It took several months to put it all togehter!
@@AlanZucconi I am not surprised, can't wait to see what's next!
@@Bryzerse I'm working on a documentary about the emergence of emergent behaviours!
@@AlanZucconi Interesting, I intend to also go and watch your other documentaries when I find the time, about to do computer science at uni so it's handy stuff :)
Here from corridor! Cool video!
@@s0me0ne123 glad you've found me! ☺️ I have a few more documentaries which I hope you'll enjoy!
The video is slowly but surely pushed towards the right people. It was a lot of fun to watch!
Thank you do much! It's great to see TH-cam giving this video some visibility!
I came here from Corridor's Scale of Minecraft video. Awesome explanation!
Thank you so much!!! I have a few other documentaries in a similar style which I hope you'll find interesting!
Congrats on reaching 1.6M views. We want more documentaries like this cause I really like how well and simply you explained it.
@@TanishqSaini-g7n thank you so much! 😊 I'm working on more content, but unfortunately it takes a very long time to make videos like this! 😅
Hey man please keep making stuff! Absolutely loved this, you should be at 100x the subscribers you're at now!
Thank you so much, this is very kind! 🙏
I'm working on a new documentary as we speak!!!
@@AlanZucconi Amazing, cant wait (:
I've watched this before but corridor made me want to watch it again. Great video 🦥
@@deiv1229 glad you've found me again! ☺️
This could have gone onto the official channel instead….. truly amazing
Aww this is so kind!!! I guess Minecraft prefers to keep a lot of this knowledge secret! 😛
Beta 1.7 was the best terrain. So unique structures.
I'm so glad your channel got recommended to me! Your blog posts taught me everything I know about inverse kinematics!
Aww, thank you so much for the kind message! I'm so glad the blog helped! I put so much love into that series! 🦾
a good microphone is really important for making first impressions, especially when starting out
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:05 💎 *Introduction to Minecraft world generation*
- Minecraft's vast world generation.
- The concept of procedurally generated worlds.
- The role of randomness and seeds in Minecraft's world generation.
03:03 🎲 *The significance of seeds in Minecraft*
- The use of seeds to initialize terrain generation.
- The deterministic nature of Minecraft worlds based on seeds.
- The immense number of unique worlds created by seeds.
04:30 ⚔️ *Procedural generation in early games*
- The history of procedural world generation in video games.
- The influence of games like "Rogue" on Minecraft.
- Overview of how "Rogue" generated dungeon layouts.
08:15 🌍 *Expanding Minecraft's world size*
- Minecraft's initial world size limitations.
- The introduction of infinite worlds through chunk-based generation.
- Explaining the size and restrictions of Minecraft worlds.
10:25 🏞️ *Biome generation in Minecraft*
- The introduction of biomes in Minecraft.
- The role of noise maps in biome determination.
- How temperature and rainfall affect biome distribution.
12:45 🌊 *Changes in world generation in Minecraft updates*
- Changes to world generation in Minecraft updates.
- Impact on servers like 2b2t.
- The longevity of Minecraft's world generation algorithm.
14:39 🎮 *Technical aspects of Minecraft world generation*
- Technical details of Minecraft's world generation process.
- Layers and stacks involved in generating the world.
- The role of noise maps in creating variation.
19:36 🌐 *Creating Minecraft's biome map*
- The critical role of the biome map in world generation.
- How different layers contribute to biome distribution.
- The use of noise maps and scaling layers in refining details.
23:24 ❄️ *Climate and biome variation in Minecraft*
- How temperature and climate layers determine biomes.
- The introduction of hilly variants to add variety.
- The role of white noise and transitional layers in world generation.
25:27 🌟 *Special biomes in Minecraft*
- The generation of rare and special biomes in Minecraft.
- The influence of climate layers on special biomes.
- Examples of special biomes and their significance.
25:57 🌳 *Minecraft Biome Generation*
- Biomes like bamboo jungles and sunflower plains are created as patches within larger regions.
- Additional layers determine the probability of certain biomes, such as bamboo jungles and mushroom islands.
27:26 🏞️ *River Generation in Minecraft*
- Rivers in Minecraft are generated separately from the main terrain.
- The River Layer detects potential river locations and smooths them to create rivers.
28:25 🌊 *Ocean Temperature Stack*
- The Ocean Temperature stack adds variety to ocean biomes using Perlin noise.
- Perlin noise creates smooth, visually pleasing maps by interpolating random values.
30:28 ⛰️ *Terrain Generation in Minecraft*
- Minecraft uses fractal Brownian motion noise to generate terrain height maps.
- The terrain height is calculated column by column from top to bottom.
33:13 🌲 *Terrain Height and Biome Interaction*
- Biomes affect terrain height in Minecraft, preventing unrealistic combinations.
- Depth and scale parameters of biomes determine their average height and variation.
35:09 🏰 *Strongholds and World Generation*
- Strongholds are critical structures in Minecraft, necessary to access The End dimension.
- They are strategically placed in the world generation and prioritized over other features.
36:39 🌄 *Minecraft 1.18 Terrain Generation*
- Minecraft 1.18 introduces a new terrain generator with taller mountains and 3D biomes.
- Biomes are now linked to a 3D climate map, affecting terrain and underground caves.
39:30 🌍 *Minecraft 1.18 Climate-Based World Generation*
- Minecraft 1.18 uses a 3D climate map with parameters like temperature and humidity.
- Biomes are determined based on climate parameters, resulting in more diverse landscapes.
41:10 🌐 *Minecraft Community and Research*
- Minecraft's community actively conducts research and challenges in world generation.
- The game's complexity emerges from simple mechanics, making it appealing to players.
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It's a sin this only have 100k views, such an extensive work!!!!
Thanks! It only had 30K views last week! Glad it's finally getting some steam!
this was a very cool video
i also love your enthusiasm in your voice over
its contagious and definitely added to the retention imo
Thank you for the kind words!
This documentary was fascinating, beautiful and really relaxing to watch. The production quality is outstanding, the examples are breathtaking, and his voice is really pleasant to listen to. And I learned a LOT about noise maps and procedural generation. Thank you!
@@djenning90 thank YOU for watching it all, and for taking the time to leave such a nice comment! 🙏
damn.. the production quality of this video is beyond amazing.. Your channel is so underrated right now, 15k Sub is nothing for this level of quality.
Thank you so much, it means a lot! I don't post often enough to please the algorithm! Btw, I have a few other documentaries on my channel, which I hope you might like!
This is so good! Get ready for this to blow up as a student resource video. ❤
It's been really nice to see the video getting some more exposure this week!!!
Came from corridor :)
You found me! 😎
Same
While not exactly uninteresting, 15:10 of historical context is a bit much. Things get real interesting after that :)
Well, glad you liked the second part of the video! 😊
One of the few videos ive watched over 3 times. Your amazing alan. This is my 4th time watching this, i was reminded of you by the new video by a creator with 7m views which used a clip from here
Hey! Thank you so much for the kind message! 🙏 And I'm very glad you've found my video (again!). Although I wished they had put a link to my video or something haha!
came here from wren's video in corridor crew about the scale of minecraft, awesome video and explanation dude!
@@elmingggg thank you so much! If you liked this one, I have a few more documentaries on my channel you'll probably like!
Was hoping for actual source but ok :(
Unfortunately you can't publish the original source code! 😭
But there are a lot of tools to decompile it!
I've playing with them a lot while doing the research for this video!
I did not think mathematics, random fractal and noise maps, and randomness could be so beautiful to make a grown man cry. But it did. It made me cry. Thanks for this experience.
Thank you for sharing this with me! Totally made my day! 😭
Haha came for the zoom out, and was not disappointed. Great videos, man :)
I had so much fun making that! 🗺
Seems like this documentary really blew up the last week or two, you deserve it!
I KNOW RIGHT? TH-cam is so random sometimes!
So glad this video popped up in my recommended feed! This is an insanely thorough breakdown of world gen in Minecraft. I learned more in the first 15 minutes of this video than I'd ever known about procedural generation before! Plus, the subtitles are user-defined and accurate, which is huge for me specifically. Definitely earned my like and subscription!
So glad this video popped up in your recommendation feed as well! ☺️
I think this is the best quality video I have ever seen about Minecraft. I had some knowledge about world generation before but this was awesome. And the production? Simply wow. I hope the algorithm keeps pushing it to other people's main page. BTW, I suscribed! :)
Thank you so much for the kind words! I've been recently blessed by the algorithm and I'm currently working on a new documentary! But in the meantime, I have a few more videos with a similar style on my channel! I hope you'll enjoy them as well!
This video was the only one that actually satisfied all my interests. Thank you for putting so much effort into this!
@@SigEnderman you're welcome! 🤗 It took over one year of work to put this together! And if you enjoyed it, I have a few other documentaries on my channel!
This video was made insanely well, I'm impressed it still has so little views.
Great work mate.
Thank you so much! It's slowly getting some more attention!
i think from the comments i saw that the thumbnails was the problem for the low view count,im guessing it had been changed cz its a very unique thumbnail definitely made me look twice!! really good quality and i see you have replied to alot of the comments which is really uncommon ! great job man
Thanks! ☺️ Yes, I played a bit with the thumbnail! Pleasing the algorithm is not easy! 🫠
And yes! I try to reply to *all* comments! ✨
This is an amazing video and very high quality. The fact that something that seems so simple but is so extensive is amazing!
Thank you so much! It's what I like about games like Minecraft. They're so incredibly complex, once you peer through their apparent simplicity!
I'd absolutely love to see a breakdown of the other structures etc. The stuff skipped over in this doc.
Great stuff!! Very educational!
Thanks! I took over 100 pages of notes, it was hard to decide what to include! The reality is that the position of other structures is often just a nasty equation! 😅 But it's interesting to see how buildings are generated by joining together different pieces!
Yeah no doubt! I've been working with the recently released and still very experimental procedural content generation tool in Unreal. The sheer scope of what is possible to achieve with tools like this is insane and the required equations to make it work even more so! Seeing a detailed breakdown of how a quintessential game handles procedural generation to this scale was definitely enlightening not just as to what can be taken into consideration but also the pitfalls along the way.
Our little R&D team in the studio is currently gobbling up this video to see what we can take away from it and to what extend we can apply the knowledge of it to PCG in various projects 😁
@@Glidikil that's awesome to hear! ✨
Seems like your second most popular, your most popular video sure did inspire me to make my own implementation of Game of Life!
Ohhh! This is awesome! Feel free to share it!
as someone with very little coding/comp sci knowledge, i found this documentary to be really accessible and interesting!! the step-by-step breakdown of each “coding layer” during world generation was especially captivating. kudos!! :)
Thank you so much! It was a lot of work!
Thanks!
Thank you so much Niko!!! 🙏
i dont know much about coding but this was such a fun video to listen to! the way you speak is very engaging and made it as easy to understand as possible, and i appreciate that! thank you for posting this video i am so happy i found it :)!!
Thank you so much! I'm working on some more content, I hope you'll enjoy that as well!
Thank you for this superb documentary, Alan! I've always had an interest in how Minecraft generates its worlds, but I've found other documentaries either lacking in detail or focusing too much on one specific part. This had a perfect balance of detail and simplicity.
You're welcome! It took over one year to make this documentary, so I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
I applaud your effort! They say that perfection is the enemy of completion, but it seems that one year has been enough for you achieve both.
this video is incredible! i can’t believe you managed to explain it so clearly! minecraft is fascinating, and from now on i’ll see the seed map in a whole new light.
Aww thank you, it's great to hear this! ☺
4:13, right here I was playing minecraft while watching this and now I have to change my pants.
💥
I haven't sat down this long for a youtube video in a very long time. Amazing documentary.
Thank you so much! 🙏
I have a few other documentaries on my channel which I hope you'll enjoy!
this was stunning. your visuals and script writing are stellar, my friend!
Thank you so much!!!
@@AlanZucconi I see you going far if you choose to continue :) I’m happy to be here along the way!
@@m-yday aww, this is so kind for you to say! 🙏 I'm working on my next documentary as we speak!
@@AlanZucconi looking forward to it :)
im usually not very into coding, but i was looking 4 something to fall asleep to and this video seemed good, turns out you explained it so beautifully and with such passion i ended up watching this instead of sleeping. new sub dude! i rlly can hear the passion in your voice and its refreshing
Aww, thank you so much this totally made my day! ☺️ I have a few more documentaries on my channel that o hope you'll enjoy!
@@AlanZucconi I'll give them a watch, tysm !
As someone that has been working with minecraft code and mods for probably 6 years, I have learned a lot from this video. World gen was something that was always so scary to me that I never touched it. This video completely cured me of that fear
Thanks! I actually played with the decompiled source code for several months while doing research for this video!
@@AlanZucconi Now that is dedication I can very much respect! Hats off to you.
I hope you didn't have to look trough too much spaghetti code. There is already a surprising amount of pasta in this video x)
im playing minecraft watching this video, and the creeper at 4:12 scared the shit out of me. great video, have been chipping away at my procedural game knowledge for a while and this is another great addition to the vault.
Sorry about that! 😅
But glad you enjoyed the video!
Btw, on my blog I posted a long tutorial on how to create Minecraft plugins! You might find that interesting!
I wish I would see this video a year ago. As a Minecraft Java Edition player and a programmer, I **never** found this information anywhere! This video really deserves more views, as it (probably) involved so much research and digging for information. I would also like to mention that in reality implementing that into a real code is a completely different story.
To sum it up: A REALLY REALLY GREAT VIDEO!
Thank you so much! 🙏 Yes, it took more than a year to do the video! I had to decompile and recompile Minecraft for several weeks! I'm glad TH-cam is finally giving this video some exposure!
top tier content, your channel WILL blow up!
keep it up
Thank you so much! 💥
happy to see this video finally getting the support it deserves. keep it up man good job 👍
Thank you so much!!! Yeah, is great to see TH-cam finally giving this video some well-deserved exposure! ✨ I'm already working on the next documentary!
This video just showed up in my feed as I was winding down for bed. Amazing video bro, I got to know so much. I even dreamt about your video!!
@@jananpatel9030 that's such a kind message! ☺️👏 I hope you had a nice dream haha!
Top 10 videos of all time! I hope the algorithm may bless you.
Thank you so much!!!
I can't believe I only got recommended this today. This is so well made, and explained it very well! Keep up the amazing work. ❤
Thank you so much! I've been blessed by The Algorithm this week!
Was very shocked to see that a channel with only 14k subscribers and a video with ~140k views could produce content of such high quality. Video was not too difficult to understand and this channel is probably going to blow up in the future.
Thank you so much! 🙏 I've made a few other documentaries, including one with over 700k views. But I don't make enough content to please The Algorithm, so unfortunately my channel doesn't get the exposure I'd like to get! 🥲
The fact that the oversimplification warning came on the screen every 5 seconds, just shows how complicated this is. Even things that seem simple at first glance like this actually can be complex and hard to put in a 45 minute video. I didn’t realize it was this complicated to just make a Minecraft world procedurally generate.
Ohhh, I had to simplify SO! MANY! THINGS! And I know that without that warning, I would have been flooded with messages! 😅 I also like when other channels do it. For instance, when videos about science are showing diagrams of atoms and solar systems and say in the corner "not to scale". Or when the same videos are clearly labelling as CGI all rendering of planets, cells and atoms.
Amazing documentary. You earned yourself a sub
this is such a cool video, you gotta make more stuff like this!
Thank you! I am making more stuff like this RIGHT NOW! 😎 The next two documentaries will be about understanding hyperspace, and the emergence of emergent behaviours!
Also, I have a few other documentaries on my channel which I hope you'll like!
That was amazing! It’s so interesting to learn more about the games you love, for me this is both technical and lore info on games. For Minecraft the technical information on how worlds are made, kind of are lore
Thanks! A lot of love went into the making of this documentary!
20 seconds in and i'm hooked!
this video is great!
5 minutes in and the editing is crazy! i can't believe there's more 40 minutes of this video, the quality is off the charts!
Aww, thank you so much! I wish I had a chance to make more videos like this! But it took over one year! 😅 So is very difficult to make more than 1-2 documentaries a year!
@@AlanZucconi Your videos are the definition of quality over quantity!
@@PotedePepes too kind! 🙏
This video was way better than I expected, good job man!
This comment was way better than expected! 😎
@@AlanZucconi My man liked and replied to my comment a year after the video. Respect king, you earned a sub
@@dragonbeast1159 I'm looking forward to the day when I will have so many comments I cannot respond to them all! 🤣
I do not really subscrie to a lot of people neither like them or appreciate them at all, but this is hugely underrated & fascinating! Thank you for sharing such amazing information & answering questions probably everyone had at once, you earned a new subscriber!
Thank you so much! It took a long time to make, so I'm really glad you enjoyed it!
In case it helps, I have a few more documentaries on my channel. And I'm working on a new one as we speak...
@@AlanZucconi Would love to watch em’ all, I’mma stay tuned!