Teyvat is such a small world compared to the real world

I’m currently playing the Easybreeze Holiday Resort event quest, and decided to go the the opposite of map to the farthest point to see how big Teyvat is. To measure, I currently have a step for the quest in Huha Hill, and standing at the farthest most part of the map to the east (which is the southern most point on Tsurumi Island) and it measures ≈19,000 m, which makes it 19 km (or about 12 miles). The city I live in covers 164 sq mi (424 sq km), so comparatively, Teyvat is very small compared to most real world cities. Has anyone else noticed this?

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D-S_122026-01-26 02:32

For the sake of gameplay, they have to shrink the world massively and not make it one-to-one. Otherwise, anyone wanting to explore the world just by going around will take hours or days just to move around a single region, even quests will take a long time to do in a one-to-one world. While teleport waypoints exist, as seen even in this subreddit, people love to just walk around the world and take it all in. That's next to impossible to do that same task in a similarly short amount of time if the world was life-sized.

It's the same reason why Minecraft isn't one-to-one as well. Their "mountains" are only several hundred meters but in real life they can be thousands of meters high. It's not a mistake, it's to make it so that the terrain can be more navigable from a player's point-of-view.

brokensaint912026-01-26 02:41

I understand that, but if we were to compare the world in reality, like maybe Teyvat isn’t a world, but an island to a much larger world not yet traversed.

D-S_122026-01-26 02:52

No one said the Teyvat world we saw in the Nod-Krai AQ has to follow the laws of physics on how planets or worlds form. Teyvat is often referred to as a continent because at the scale of the world itself, it is a continent based on how the world looks from above

Edit: This is a very old reference but I'd refer you to a [video](https://youtu.be/xUiDc6pOfxw) by EC Henry on a planet in Star Trek Voyager's intro. It's not new that people creating fictional worlds will break the laws of physics from time to time either for spectacle or convenience.

turnup4wat2026-01-26 03:30

Looks like you don't.

Sad-Bowl-83742026-01-26 02:35

Well yeah it’s a video game, everything is scaled. Same reason why Liyue Harbour’s population is like 50 people.

ahmadalhuraibi2026-01-26 02:56

real world isn't a video game.

starletprincecay2026-01-26 03:01

I mean... yeah. That's what video games do with their worlds. Video games aren't real life, so of course it's smaller than real life. What did you expect?

A_Forgotten_Guy2026-01-26 03:26

No shit Sherlock. It's a video game, it how it works

SubstantialYak65722026-01-26 03:53

Go and buy Flight Sim X, install the full game, then spend every minute of your play time streaming data for the whole world. When you've done that, stop and think... "How much mobile data would that use?".

There's a reason worlds in games aren't 40,000,000 km in size round the equator... ponder that for a while.

Worlds in games are snapshots, fragments of representation of the world in general, not everything is 100% literal, thankfully.