I only want to point out one thing, and it is that the nether has actually the same world size as the overworld.
Once you pass the “overworld’s barrier” in the nether’s side, all exit portals are generated in the nearest overworld location within bounds. There are gold farm designs that abuse this mechanic for morbid rates.
Ghost3603 on
This is absolutely incredible. I always had a feeling that the giant fossils and the very existence of ghasts (being a result of deep sea gigantism) and the existence of basalt deltas meant that ice (or at the very least water) had to have been here at some point. You’ve found the words to express that theory beautifully. For that, I thank you.
The one thing I don’t agree with is The End being an asteroid belt, simply because the rings of the outer end islands orbit the main one (and this doesn’t really work with a ring system. This actually makes me sad because I used to envision the End as a ring system around the overworld, but alas.
Mathelete73 on
But hey, that’s just a theory…
TackleEnvironmental6 on
Another thing supporting this idea is basalt itself. As you said, it forms when rapidly cooled, but in the game it’s formed when lava, soul sand, and blue ice meet. Meaning, not only did WATER exist, but the planet would’ve been cold enough for ICE to exist, and compact into possibly glacier like formations to make densely packed blue ice. For all we know, the Nether was originally an ice planet like Neptune
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Now I really wanted more dimensions
I only want to point out one thing, and it is that the nether has actually the same world size as the overworld.
Once you pass the “overworld’s barrier” in the nether’s side, all exit portals are generated in the nearest overworld location within bounds. There are gold farm designs that abuse this mechanic for morbid rates.
This is absolutely incredible. I always had a feeling that the giant fossils and the very existence of ghasts (being a result of deep sea gigantism) and the existence of basalt deltas meant that ice (or at the very least water) had to have been here at some point. You’ve found the words to express that theory beautifully. For that, I thank you.
The one thing I don’t agree with is The End being an asteroid belt, simply because the rings of the outer end islands orbit the main one (and this doesn’t really work with a ring system. This actually makes me sad because I used to envision the End as a ring system around the overworld, but alas.
But hey, that’s just a theory…
Another thing supporting this idea is basalt itself. As you said, it forms when rapidly cooled, but in the game it’s formed when lava, soul sand, and blue ice meet. Meaning, not only did WATER exist, but the planet would’ve been cold enough for ICE to exist, and compact into possibly glacier like formations to make densely packed blue ice. For all we know, the Nether was originally an ice planet like Neptune