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by arboles 27 days ago
> Providing a Torrent for this amount of data is not easy whatsoever. We are currently working on creating a Torrent that includes all data, but this may take a few weeks.

What do they mean by this? I understand that it would be a download on the order of 26TiB (if we extrapolate from the recent 200k^2 download, which is a ~1TiB torrent[1]). If bandwidth costs are the issue (certainly it's an issue) they could throttle their seeding speed and let the swarm seed it. That's what bittorrent is for.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/2b2t_Uncensored/comments/1tefffd/in...

2 comments

https://github.com/2b2tplace/1m_release has it at 24TB for overworldx2+end+nether
to my understanding, the 2b2t map has a size of 80 terabytes.
They didn't scrape the entire map. A minecraft map is 30 million blocks^2
Technically you only need to scrape the generated chunks.
They scraped everything in that one million squared blocks area.