Chunk Copying

[Cosmology27]

So what I'm wanting to do is copy whole chunks from one world, and put them into a different world. So if I've created cool things in different worlds, I can copy them all into the same world and put them where I want.
Anyone know how I might go about this? Thanks for the help

 

[Dragonsama]

Mcedit

 

[Yusunoha]

So what I'm wanting to do is copy whole chunks from one world, and put them into a different world. So if I've created cool things in different worlds, I can copy them all into the same world and put them where I want.
Anyone know how I might go about this? Thanks for the help

well, if you want an ingame solution to this... I believe AE adds a block that allows you to take whole chunks, store them on disks, and place them somewhere else again

 

[Juanitierno]

well, if you want an ingame solution to this... I believe AE adds a block that allows you to take whole chunks, store them on disks, and place them somewhere else again

I assume hes wanting to do it cross-worlds. Like after a server restart.

 

[b0bst3r]

You can still do it across worlds with AE/Mystcraft, this should in theory work:

Make spatial copy of chunks
Take to Mystcraft world
Change Overworld to new/old/whatever
Take spatial stuff back to new world and restore

In theory... never tried it.

 

[Cosmology27]

That is an interesting idea! I'll have to try that out if I can't figure out chunk copying in MCedit.

 

[Physicist]

Regarding AE spatial storage, you don't actually copy the chunks... you cut and paste, never copy.

If you place the spatial chunks in a different place, you swap the new area you marked and the area in the cell. I believe you have to make a new cell if you don't have an empty area to place the full chunks into.

You cannot rotate the stored area; north will still be north.

Remember (or write out) the pylon positioning for your copied area; it must be identical to how it was when you cut the original area.

Using additional pylons to outline the area decreases energy cost for storing a given area.

Also, there were concerns I only vaguely remember regarding tile entities and block metadata, and also some sort of blacklist. Test extensively.

(Source: Asking many questions of AlgorithmX2 in IRC, not personal experience.)

 

[kittle]

depending on the size of the stuff you made, you may be able to just copy the .mca file from your old world to the new one. A .mca file is much more than 1 chunk -- im guessing 16x16 or 32x32 chunks.
Simple, no extra mods needed, but you wont be able to relocate stuff to a new position.