Author: Andi Nuruljihad

Minecraft is famous for its enormous world—in fact, a Minecraft map is more than 8 times bigger than Earth! It would take a ridiculous amount of memory to load the entire map at once, so Minecraft doesn’t. Instead, to keep the gaming experience playable, even on lower-end rigs, Minecraft loads its map in bits and pieces called “chunks.” How exactly does the chunk loading system work, and how big is a chunk in Minecraft? Read on to find out. What is a Chunk? As we touched upon earlier, Minecraft divides its massive world into smaller blocks of data called “chunks.”…

The pig is a common mob that inhabits most grass biomes. It’s a great source of food—the pork chops it drops when killed heal 3 hearts when eaten raw and 8 hearts when cooked. For this reason, it’s useful to have a ton of pigs that you can quickly farm for pork chops, but having tons of pigs will require you to know how to breed pigs in Minecraft. Luckily, pigs are easy to find and even easier to breed. With a whole farm of pigs at the ready, you’ll always have food for your excursions into the great, blocky…