The size of the worlds?

[Smebb]

For those complaining there is nothing to do or want to know how big the worlds are:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705790715
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705790731
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705790741
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=705790751

I don't know the exact stud dimensions of the worlds, but yeah...

It took me five and a half hours to uncover a whole randomly generated world map on the back of a dragon. It'll probably take me 5 times that to explore it. Then it's just a guess at how long me, my daughter and my wife will be building and shaping it how we want it. :)

[Nate]

WOW! well done.

[Alcom (I'm trans, lol!)]

Why a dragon? The small plane is like twice as fast!

[Smebb]

Originally posted by Alcom Isst:

Why a dragon? The small plane is like twice as fast!

Which would you rather listen to for a long time?

Also, there's the oceans and caves to explore too!

[Percival]

Awesome!!

[nichter85]

Hey everybody!
For every one curious about the actual world size, I asked Prof. Dr. Brick from the Geography Department of Bricksburg University (and he must know it for sure ). Here is his answer:

One stud in "world view" (scale 4) represents a regular base plate (32x32 studs) in the game. The world is square and has an edge length of 500 studs in "world view" - this means it's got 500x500 base plates in the game. Which is an amazing 16 000x16 000 studs, adding up to 256 Million single studs! (a quarter billion studs!)

* How big would that be in "real life"?

One stud is 8mm wide. If you wanted to rebuild a whole world with real bricks, it would take up a square with 128m side length (16 384 square metres).

* How big is the lego worlds' world for minifigs, considering the scale?

I think a reasonable scale is that 5 bricks on top of each other (48mm) are equal to 2 metres. Considering a minifig with hair is about 42mm in size, their body size would be 1.75m.
The lego railway gauge is 37.5mm, which would correspond to 1.56m (which happens to be about as much as the russian broad gauge).

So if we pretend the lego scale is 1:41(2/3),

this would mean, a lego world has a side length of 5.33 kilometres (3.31 miles), and encompasses an area of 28.44 km^2 (or 10.95 sq miles).

So a lego world is nearly 30 square kilometres (or 11 square miles) in size, which I guess is really BIG for a minifig. Just imagine how long it would take to build a city, which covers the whole world?

And how many minifigs would live in there? If your city had the population density of Inner Paris, (21 289 / km^2), your city population would add up to 605 544. You would have to build hundreds of thousands of flats to facilitate them. Even in multiplayer mode this would be a lot of work and take ages!

[PaulFireKernel]

:O

[RedstoneParadox]

Originally posted by nichter85:

Hey everybody!

* How big would that be in "real life"?

One stud is 8mm wide. If you wanted to rebuild a whole world with real bricks, it would take up a square with 128m side length (16 384 square metres).

Could we get something in real life to compare that to please?

[Dralthex]

That means you could fill a city world with an half of Manhattan at minifig scale.
Or land 60 decent golf fields.
A full water-world would be like... 24000 side-by-side olympic pools xD

[Aloan]

I go a simpler way: the classic 4x2 brick is 1 meter in length (4 studs) and 50cm in width (2studs) - height-wise I round up 3 stacked bricks as 1 meter... (to make it simple) - remember that a minifig is a shortie fellow... almost a dwarf!!!

[Dralthex]

At a rough guess, it's also 80x larger than this madness : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXr-2dhXNiM
Plus underground. Plus skies.
Yup. BIG LEGO.

[RedstoneParadox]

Originally posted by TonyZinn:

That means you could fill a city world with an half of Manhattan at minifig scale.
Or land 60 decent golf fields.
A full water-world would be like... 24000 side-by-side olympic pools xD

That's actually pretty tiny.

[Dralthex]

Originally posted by ninjago00:

That's actually pretty tiny.

Well, what is tiny?
In the case of a city at density of NY or Tokyo you would build a place for 1 000 000 minifigs, easy...

[RedstoneParadox]

Originally posted by TonyZinn:

Originally posted by ninjago00:

That's actually pretty tiny.

Well, what is tiny?
In the case of a city at density of NY or Tokyo you would build a place for 1 000 000 minifigs, easy...

And your city takes up the entire world.

[jal11180]

I think that the math is off on the sizes of the LEGO World Maps. I think that getting a bunch of different colored LEGO, making a sort of ruler from them, then putting it on the edge of a LEGO World Map, would get a far more accurate size of a LEGO World Map. You just get 16 different colors of LEGO, make a unit of sorts for them, then copy and paste them as often as is needed, with making sure that they line up perfectly, then you count the beginning of the little colored LEGO lines that you made, then you take the times that the beginning LEGO piece repeats, then multiply that by 16, then multiply the sum total of that, then you multiply said total together, and there you have your square area in LEGO Studs. Finally, one other thing that the equations also omitted is that a LEGO Minifigure, or a 2x4 Brick or Plate, is about the equivalent of 6 feet, so it would take 8 2x4 Bricks, 8 2x4 Plates, or around 8 Minifigures, to be the edge of a 32x32 Baseplate.

[jal11180]

Originally posted by RedstoneParadox:

Originally posted by TonyZinn:

Well, what is tiny?
In the case of a city at density of NY or Tokyo you would build a place for 1 000 000 minifigs, easy...

And your city takes up the entire world.

So, basically, LEGO SimCity, hmm?