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minecraft is huge with more than 100
million players 19 million PC downloads
and 54 million units sold
minecraft is one of the biggest video
games and the planet but those numbers
are just the start
in 2011 minecraft a 241 million logins
per month in 2014 Microsoft bought the
game for 2.5 billion dollars and today
those players have played more than 2
billion hours on the Xbox 360 alone in a
24 hour span the game has had as many as
16 thousand downloads and 350,000
dollars of in-game purchases and in
January of this year developer Nathan
Adams tweeted that more than nine
hundred and ninety-eight thousand people
were playing at once and that was not a
peak play time so how does the game fit
all these Steve's Enderman and cows well
according to several users the entire
minecraft overworld has enough volume
for one quintillion 48 quadrillion 576
trillion square meter blocks and the
maximum theoretical surface area is 4
billion 96 million square kilometres
which is about 8 times greater than
Earth's and if you wanted to explore all
of it one user calculated that it would
take about three trillion hours or about
4.4 million average human lifespans
another user calculated that the game
can generate 18 quintillion possible
worlds one brave minecraft who named
kurt j mac even decided to try and walk
to the edge of his world so far he has
walked more than nine hundred nineteen
thousand five hundred ninety-two miles
and his current pace it will only take
him another twenty-one years to get
there which is great because he has
already raised over two hundred sixty
nine thousand dollars with his minecraft
charity walks so beyond incredibly long
walks and running from creepers what do
players do in the world this large build
megastructures of course one user built
the Tower of Babel with over seven
million blocks of 90,000 lights another
built a track eight miles long the half
hour drive in the Minecraft heart the
Danish Gaea data agency even created the
entire country of Denmark on a
one-to-one scale it has four trillion
blocks takes up a terabyte of data and
is one of Minecraft
12 World Records of course if you want
to know just how big minecraft really is
all you have to know is that in 2014
minecraft was a number two search term
for all of you - beating out Beyonce
Taylor Swift and even frozen like we
said minecraft is huge oh and don't
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