When a book dies, I noticed that the world (database and directory) still exist. If you have tried several worlds, this takes up space. I am guessing that these are safe to delete, even if the book exists as it will just regenerate.
So.. I have 5 mystcraft worlds that I want to keep. How do I delete the worlds without deleting the ones I want to keep? I have the books renamed so they're not like Age 46 or anything anymore. I have one named Diamond Tendrils, another named Dense Ore Cave, Autum Skylands, etc. Problem is, they're not saved under those names in the save files.Yes, you can delete them yourself and it won't harm anything. Mystcraft itself does not delete ages automatically at this point in time.
I can understand why they have not implemented auto-delete, as you would have to check every book in game to verify that no book to that age exists (basically, foreign key checking similar to a database parent-child delete scheme). Compound that with there is no book, but there is a chunk loader/player entity in the world (i.e. a quarry, active or inactive).
But, I am sure that world removal could also be made easier....
I can see mystcraft being on a server full of people taking up a lot of backup space that you never know what is actually in use. Maybe an external tool that could do the FK check and display worlds without parent keys?
Unfortunately, it is a debug block...non-cheaters would not have access to this.If you happen to have a link modifier around, it can tell you the dimension number of named ages.
The larger downside is that it is not very user friendly at all.
I can see the original descriptive book being the key though.
Maybe when it is destroyed, the world gets destroyed...all linking books are returned to just being normal books. The problem is player entities in the world. I would be pissed if someone killed my quarry world...a quarry is a lot of diamond to build...then the ender pearls for my tesseracts... not a happy camper.
Unfortunately, it is a debug block...non-cheaters would not have access to this.