Persistent Regions

[BenLewis-Seequent]

Definition: persistent region - a set of blocks locations that are saved with the world with additional information

Both vanilla minecraft and some mods/plugins have a concept of a region. In vanilla, structures are basically defined as a region(There bounding box is defined as a list of 6 ints). Plugins like WorldGuard and AutoReferee(used for race for wool games) define regions which determine the permission the player has in that particular area.

My idea is to expose these regions in MCEdit so a user can see where these regions are or possibly be able to edit them.

Features:

[?]-possibly

• Allow custom regions to be loaded by a similar mechanism as filters to allow support for mod/plugin regions
• Create API to allow filters to create a region
• Be able to show/hide a particular region type
• View information about a particular region
• [?]Edit region information/position
• [?]Protected regions(regions in which MCEdit isn't allowed to alter)

[TrazLander]

Guess this qualifies at making things more mod-friendly. I also like that you brought up AutoRef!

Barely related, but I asked @texelelf at one point if he could include showing the selected chunk's nbt in his nbt edit filter. He looked into it and I believe he said there was some troublesome issues within mcedit that were preventing it.

[BenLewis-Seequent]

The thing that made me think of this idea was this issue #53 about a WorldGuard filter and how it would maybe make it easy if the user could see the regions.

All of the structure data minecraft saves isn't in the chunk format but in the data/ folder.

[gsand]

I think my explanation was wrong, this is exactly what I meant in much better words