Well. So far the only thing i know of is, that a team of programmers/coders made Denmark in Minecraft based on the Danish Geodata Agency (
LINK)
So in the near future we might see a fullsized world inside Minecraft, however if encountering round objects, it'd be hard.
Even the amount of data required for making a small country as Denmark is about 1 Terabyte of Harddrive space. Thats.. Quite a large amount of data for a country. The whole world would be… approximately ( approx world size 510 000 000 km2 / 42 915 km2 ) 11 883.95 Terabyte. (Correct my calculations if im wrong).
But 11 thousands of Terabytes for the world is pretty large if you were going to store it down in your appartment (Hopefully you're not)
But Yeah. Im not sure if Minecraft would crash, trying to load such enormous data, or if you'd need several thousands of servers connecting the places to create a "smooth" visual experience.
As a previous comment says it'd be better to join a team which are currently making such projects, instead of starting all over.
I can host!! If anyone wants that? I have loads of space? :D/> just give me the server to run, mods, plugins, and how much ram you want and I wouldn't mind hosting, I would also love to help, has anyone got a map for this? :o/>
Let's go with 11,000 TB as a semi-accurate estimate of the space required. (That's approximately 10.74 petabytes, if I remember my progression correctly.) Let's say for simplicity's sake that, for such a large purchase, you'd be able to purchase a 6TB hard drive (spinning disk!) for 200 USD. Of course, you wouldn't dare use simple RAID1 or even RAID6. You'd need RAIDZ, probably RAIDZ3, to avoid any bit corruption and to minimize the hassle of having one out of several thousand drives needing replacement immediately to maintain uptime. A bit of math later, and you'd end up with roughly 2,754 6TB drives in RAIDZ3, totaling 16,524 TB of total drive capacity, ~11,000 TB of usable space, and 5,524 TB of "wasted" space (used for the RAIDZ redundancy). Deduping would have a somewhat significant effect on the space required. Looking at our earlier estimate of price, you'd be paying over half a million (550,800) USD just for the drives. Ignore the cost of whatever ungodly beast of a storage controller setup you'd need to deploy 2,700 drives, and you're still looking at half a million dollars. For a Minecraft world.
Sure, these estimates are a card house, but the only way this price can go is up. I did not account for any equipment besides hard drives (storage controllers, servers, and power usage all play a role in an enormously increased cost) or personnel (how many technicians are you paying five or six figures annually to maintain your system?) or the cost of the physical location; you might even need a dedicated datacenter for that much equipment.
TL;DR: Way too much money, this thing is completely unfeasible. It's nice to think about, even to map, say, a neighborhood on a 1:1 scale, but even a city would be prohibitively expensive for very little gain.
