Quote from: leafiness0 on January 06, 2012, 02:27:44 pm

I personally don't see any problems with it - in fact, it's pretty much required for the game to work at all. To regenerate maps all you have to do is overwrite the existing appears anyways, since none of the data is stored within the program anyways (except maybe the current map to a buffer)

Yes, but then the program will be huge (except if someone finds the agorithm to create maps) and if the program is huge, quitting it with writeback allowed takes hours.
This is why I thought about this. Never need to unarchive anything (except when you save the game).

And with your method, saving also requires to save the whole map (so it takes ages too), while my method doesn't need to unarchive anything, except the little savegame with items and such, and the area you are in.
Personally, I have zStart, so even writeback is fast, but for those with 83+, optimization is needed on this.

Mojang released the source, and you can find all the algorithms in there which would reduce size over using predefined maps.

Also, archiving and unarchiving is a reasonable sacrifice for having persistent saving. You only need to archive appvars once per map change anyways, and you don't have to write back to the program at all.

Actually, you could transfer the map in RAM to an appvar in archive, so changes would be persistent. Keep in mind that we also need to save object data as well (furnaces, workbench, etc.)

Here guys, I compiled all the recipes for you. This is pulled from the source code so it should all be right.

Lantern: 5 wood, 10 slime, 4 glass
Oven: 15 stone
Furnace: 20 stone
Workbench: 20 wood
Chest: 20 wood
Anvil: 5 iron ingots
Iron ingot: 4 iron ore, 1 coal
Gold ingot: 4 gold ore, 1 coal
Glass: 4 sand, 1 coal
Bread: 4 wheat

Wooden:
Sword: 5 wood
Axe: 5 wood
Hoe: 5 wood
Pickaxe: 5 wood
Shovel: 5 wood

Stone:
Sword: 5 wood, 5 stone
Axe: 5 wood, 5 stone
Hoe: 5 wood, 5 stone
Pickaxe: 5 wood, 5 stone
Shovel: 5 wood, 5 stone

Iron:
Sword: 5 wood, 5 iron ingot
Axe: 5 wood, 5 iron ingot
Hoe: 5 wood, 5 iron ingot
Pickaxe: 5 wood, 5 iron ingot
Shovel: 5 wood, 5 iron ingot

Gold:
Sword: 5 wood, 5 gold ingots
Axe: 5 wood, 5 gold ingots
Hoe: 5 wood, 5 gold ingots
Pickaxe: 5 wood, 5 gold ingots
Shovel: 5 wood, 5 gold ingots

Diamond:
Sword: 5 wood, 50 gem
Axe: 5 wood, 50 gem
Hoe: 5 wood, 50 gem
Pickaxe: 5 wood, 50 gem
Shovel: 5 wood, 50 gem

So I've played this game for about 30 minutes, and it looks like a really massive undertaking. The maps are procedurally generated, and I've looked up the algorithm to no avail. You'll also have to figure out all the possible item combinations.

Yeah, Halo 4's being made by 343 Studios or something like that. The trailer shows him firing his new overpowered magnum with explosive bullets.

I only use one dispgraphrr. I guess my code is pretty fast at that, but remember I'm also using Full.

The trick is to code so bad, the calculator gets fooled into thinking your code is super optimized Runer-style, so it ends up running your code super-fast.