Do you think now we can calculate an accurate sized Teyvat and Moon with this update?

I am not nearly that smart, and I have not te time to think about it, but now that we can see Teyvat from the moon is it possible to calculate the size of the planet, Moon and their distance? I didn't even checked if the planet shows parts of the map in Genshin exploitable map

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DungeonEnvy2026-01-16 00:07

No, because the scale we have for any of the in-game map stuff is not accurate

EndlessTimeTheErebjs2026-01-16 00:08

But we have a metric system to calculate the map, I think From that we can see the size on the image of the planet

Killer_Klee2026-01-16 01:41

Maps meters are not lore accurate.

EndlessTimeTheErebjs2026-01-16 01:42

What makes it not lore accurate then

Killer_Klee2026-01-16 01:47

Because the numbers do not add up. Guili Plains to Liyue Harbor is about 100 miles according to the lore, but nothing like that on the map.

EndlessTimeTheErebjs2026-01-16 01:48

When are actually sizes ever talked about during lore?

Killer_Klee2026-01-16 01:51

The number I told you was from the Guoba event, where they talked how the Guili refugees moved to place that would become Liyue Harbour.

EndlessTimeTheErebjs2026-01-16 01:52

Do you think it's possible getting a more lore accurate scaling using that number?

Killer_Klee2026-01-16 01:57

Not really. Gameplay, lore and art do not necessarily follow same scale. They all talk different languages and serve different purposes.

MamuTwo2026-01-16 03:58

Lorewise, people without access to teleportation travel between nations, both to and fro, in less than a day, so idk man.

Also the court of fontaine, the chasm, and the big jelly tree in the desert I forgot the name of all seem map-scale in the image and not "lore-scale", so

Probably throw out those lines about "hundreds of km" as exaggerations/embellishments

AdvertisingFlashy6372026-01-16 21:15

Well obviously? Would it be good gameplay if you had to walk 100 actual miles? Or cross an even bigger desert? What about the size of the game? It would be in terabytes

MamuTwo2026-01-16 03:57

I don't think so. We don't know how far the moon is from teyvat, and there's this effect where you can see more or less of a sphere depending on your distance from it. Since we don't know that visibility factor, we could come up with a range but nothing overly specific.

There could be something to be done with the shadows cast by rapid elevation changes such as in the chasm, but idk.

One could try using very scientific methods but I doubt the devs put that enough care into making things super-accurate to life for that to work.

If I had to take a wild guess based on the distances between recognizable landmarks and what little I remember from geometry class, I'd say Teyvat has a circumference of between 100km and 600km. I have not checked if the scale of visible landmarks matches the map.

Fun fact, if we scale this up 100x like the lore guy suggested, we get scales around that of Earth. The problem with that is that the visible landmarks very obviously do not match that kind of scaling.