Strongholds coming to Minecraft Pocket Edition, infinite worlds not really infinite

It's now May, which means that Pocket Edition 0.9.0 should be right around the corner. However, recently it is becoming more and more likely that the update will arrive in June. But on the bright side, Jeb said today that he is working on implementing strongholds into MCPE 0.9.0. He said on his Twitter account earlier today:
Today I bought some colorful socks. Tomorrow I will finally begin porting strongholds to MC:PE! [..] Strongholds will be hard to find, since there wont be any Eye of Enders, but they'll be there somewhere =)

So at least for now, without Eye of Enders, it will be far trickier to find strongholds. In another tweet, Jeb revealed that the limit for Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.9.0 world size is smaller than we all hoped for:
[...] I don't have the numbers here, but on PC the range is -30M to +30M, on MCPE it will be closer to -10k to +10k

In other words, Minecraft Pocket Edition's world limit will be over 29 million times smaller than PC Edition. Pocket Edition 'infinite' worlds will be limited to an area of about 400,000,000 blocks. Of course that's a huge increase over the existing 512 block limit, but still not on par with PC Edition.

Minecraft Pocket Edition 0.9.0 is estimated by Jeb to arrive this month, but at the current pace of development we estimate it will arrive sometime in June. See the source link for the original tweet.

Source: Twitter

Comments

  1. Juan Carlos SanchezMay 1, 2014 at 10:45 AM

    Dude you made a mistake, it's till June not July,
    And why do we want 30m by 30m if it's not like we will use the whole land, but I'm fine with the 10k by 10k worlds
    The sizes I wished would be
    Legacy: 256 x 256 (old terrain gen.)
    Tiny: 256 x 256 (New Gen)
    Small: 500x500
    Medium: 1000x1000
    Large: 5000 x 5000
    Huge: 10000x 10000
    And Infinite: 30000000x30000000

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  2. Lol"not as par as PC". But seriously I'm so happy anyways :D

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  3. Oh wait never mind xD

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  4. #1 Mcpe News Source!May 1, 2014 at 11:11 AM

    What about the beta?

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  5. It won't have the end portal frame, right?

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  6. Well, it hasn't come out yet. Assuming that there is about two weeks between the first beta and the release, right now we are looking at a late May - June release.

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  7. Correct, we meant June. And I'm not saying that I will ever fully use 10Kx10K worlds, but it's still disappointing considering the developers made it seem it would be PC-level infinite worlds.

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  8. #1 Mcpe News Source!May 1, 2014 at 2:12 PM

    Ok it hasn't come out yet. I was just wondering if you could confirm its coming out in the next couple of weeks. Thanks!

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  9. What's the point if there is no end portal? And I thought the Infinite would be generating whenever a steve moved... But I'm still excited!

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  10. Ok I just read that Tommasso Checchi said that 10,000x10,000 is just the default world option, but there will be an option to make it TRULY infinite. Go to Tommasso's twitter to comfirm

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  11. Yeah, they had always had us thinking that the worlds would be PC-sized. :(

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  12. It does but there has to be a limit even on PC version because it is impossible to make the something infinite. The only thing that is truly infinite is the real life universe.

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  13. Juan Carlos SanchezMay 3, 2014 at 1:16 AM

    Yet Tommaso said that that will be in 0.9.1 since there is no more time left and for now people will have to play on infinite worlds.

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  14. Juan Carlos SanchezMay 3, 2014 at 1:18 AM

    At least we have the strong hold ready for a future update that brings The End. Also if they already added silverfish, we have where to hunt them down.

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  15. At some point they should stop adding features and put the features in a future update... Not that I'm against strongholds or anything, I'm just getting impatient.

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  16. We honestly have no clue, we are just guessing based on how long it's taking.

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  17. Yes, you would need a infinitely large computer to hold a infinite world. Having a infinite thing would fill the infinite universe, and that would be a paradox... Something filling infinite space.

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  18. I have an Ipod 4th gen, does this mean that with all these updates I wont be able to update mcpe or will I still be able to update the game but have to lower graphic settings to keep playing lag free?

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  19. Everything will work, except infinite worlds will have lag. In the future, direct all questions to our Minecraft Q&A.

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  20. Will our old worlds become infinite or our new ones or both? Because i currently have a lot of diamonds and iron in my world in minecraftPE,it took me a very long time to find diamonds, and i have worked so hard on my world, i even created a monorail transport and i want my world to have the same terrain generation as of 0.9.0. Please answer.
    -Kai

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  21. You will be able to make it "infinite", but the new terrain generation (villages, new biomes, strongholds, etc.) will not be in the world if you make it infinite. It will still use the old terrain generation. To get the new biomes and structures, you will have to make a new world. Don't worry, you will have a button to change gamemodes, which means you can pretty much recreate your world on creative and turn it to survival.

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  22. Will minecraft 0.9.0 work on my IPod 6th generation?
    Please answer.

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  23. Tommaso said that infinite worlds could be only up to 110,000 x 110,000.Any further than that will cause the game to crash easily.Small worlds are larger than XBOX worlds by a chunk or so.not sure about other sizes.also the 10k x 10k is actually now confirmed the default size of new worlds

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  24. Should be able to

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  25. I suggest around mid may to late may, they already fixed most bugs and only left with a few things like larger worlds

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  26. I was dreading the infinite worlds thing, because I like small worlds so you can know the place extremely well. 512x512 about the size of one block (real world, block as in buildings), which is easy to remember in real life too. Same with MC.

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  27. You will be able to choose the world size...

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  28. Has Jeb ever say when the nethers going to come out? Because you need blaze powder for eyes of the ender.

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  29. I WAS dreading.

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  30. To Be Technical, You Wouldn't have to have a infinite computer disk space, the game would only load what it needs to load, until it runs out of space.

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  31. The Stronghold End portal is dysfunctional. I know it sucks

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