latitude

[Sparkle Kitti]

Is x - 0 essentially the equator? Does that mean it's the warmest latitude?

[Philtre]

The climates cycle between equatorial and arctic in the N-S direction, with the interval between cycles set by the options you selected at world gen (defaults to 50 thousand blocks, IIRC, so a looooong way). So if you spawn in a temperate region (the default) and head south, it will get warmer, then colder, then warmer again, then colder again, etc, until you hit the world border. Starting from a temperate spawn on standard settings, expect to walk for a couple of real-world hours before you hit an equatorial region.

[Streetwind]

No, x=0 is the world spawn.

It usually ends up around 47.5° north in worlds with standard settings (i.e. using the "temperate" starting climate setting).

You can find out your current latitude by entering /wgen pos latitude into the chat window.

[Maelstrom]

13 hours ago, Philtre said:

 Starting from a temperate spawn on standard settings, expect to walk for a couple of real-world hours before you hit an equatorial region.

Watched a streamer journey to world border, took him something like 50 IRL hours to make the journey.  The polar regions are.... interesting.

[Aledark]

Equator would be basically half your interpolation. For example for us on AuraFury world was created in 1.13 in august 2020 and its 50k. Now in 1.14 or 1.15+ they switched pole-interpolation to 100k.

We begin to enter the south hemisphere at 25k south of world spawn 0,x,0 until 50k south then you go back into a north hemisphere. So north hemisphere is technically 0,x,-25k...if you go further north...then suddenly your in south hemisphere again.

when you do /wgen pos climate it also tells your which hemisphere your on (only avail for admins) since there's a / in front

Basically if you have a 1 mill by 1 mill world. at -500k north and 500k south are the world borders(not exactly but close) and the N and South hemisphere repeat themselves over and over. When your in south hemisphere seasons are inverse from north hemisphere.

[Streetwind]

7 hours ago, Aledark said:

when you do /wgen pos climate it also tells your which hemisphere your on (only avail for admins) since there's a / in front

Small distinction: commands with a slash are not admin commands but rather server side commands. Many server side commands require admin permissions, but not all of them do. For example, /whenwillitstopraining is available to all players.

I'm not sure about the /wgen pos commands, but chances are, if it only prints info it might not require elevated permissions.

[Philtre]

10 hours ago, Streetwind said:

For example, /whenwillitstopraining is available to all players.

I absolutely love that this command exists.