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I hadn't played Minecraft since the Halloween update until recently. When I first started playing, a boat was pretty useless. You might run into a body of water and it would look rather large only to be a very tiny Lake. When I came back I was so thrilled to see rivers and even giant oceans. I LOVE playing on this current version, I really enjoy exploring these massive seas and finding new areas to discover, find materials, and bring them back to my base after a long voyage. Maybe if they go on with this, they'll allow a toggle option to allow larger oceans. Maybe they could also change how it defines an ocean similar to how it defines elevation. It'd first make the entire ocean surface, then flood the world, and then start placing continents and smaller islands, and then focusing on lakes/ponds afterwhich. I won't complain until they implement it, because 16,000x16,000 is about 15 times larger than any map I really play on x). However, I really hope they don't revert back to an ocean being 100x100 blocks.

I think an ocean size of 1.6 should still happen in 1.7, but only be extremely rare. As in once or twice per seed.

But on the other hand, these are highly zoomed out pictures. Jeb says that several of those oceans in the 1.7 view are some 3k blocks large. So perhaps it won't be that bad at all.

On a side note, I hope they turn down the number of generated ponds- there's too many of them.