WorldEdit Mod 1.12.2/1.11.2 for Minecraft provide a fantastic tool for the players who love construction and repair in significant scale work. As you know (or perhaps you do not know), WorldEdit is a tool with a great and magical ability in construction, change and a feature that it can solve the problem in a localized area in the game. How to Edit Your Minecraft World In-Game and On-the-Fly with WorldEdit Jason Fitzpatrick @jasonfitzpatric December 7, 2014, 6:00pm EDT While the primary allure of Minecraft is building there are some tasks that are quite tedious and practically beg for a copy and paste button. NBTExplorer is a low-level graphical NBT data editor originally based on NBTedit.The key difference is NBTExplorer's full support for Minecraft.mcr/.mca region files, a directory-tree interface for easily exploring multiple worlds, and support for the latest NBT standard. The World Edit Tools Mod adds a wand to the game which can be used to more effeciently edit the world in-game. Blocks can be selected and cloned, expanded and deleted. It’s incredibly simple to use but offers a very advanced way for builders to improve their building efficiency.
For an independent game with no storyline, no tutorial, and graphics that make Windows 95 look slick, Minecraft has developed an amazing following. Who could have ever predicted that shuffling virtual cubes around could be so fun and so full of possibilities? And if, somehow, you find yourself running out of ideas for your virtual world, many clever folks have come up with tools to improve, extend, and just plain cheat. While there are dozens of such tools out there, not all of them are Linux friendly. Of those, several seem to do the same job. We decided to run through all the Minecraft utilities for Linux we could get our hands on, several from each category, to find out what works and what’s better left to the Creepers.
Note: While there are many fine Minecraft utilities for Windows that may work through Wine or other such tools, this article focuses on those which are specifically listed as supporting Linux. Additionally, this will not cover in-game mods, though we’d be happy to provide such a review if there is reader interest.
Mappers/Viewers
Tectonicus
Tectonicus offers several impressive features, most notably the high-detail zoomable rendering and integration with Google Maps. With setup it can work with your server to show player location on the map in near real time, allowing you a virtual window into your world.
WorldEdit CUI adds a special Client User Interface (CUI) to the WorldEdit tool. For those who don’t already know, WorldEdit is a popular in-game map editor for Minecraft. MCreator is a good tool to learn Minecraft computer programming and to learn basic concepts of software programming. Design your mods using forms, wizards, tooltips and other elements of the interface that ease development of your mod idea.
Be warned though. With all the detail and layers of zoomability, the initial rendering of the map is sloooooooowwwwww. On the Core 2 Duo test machine used for this article, it took almost 30 minutes for a fairly small map.
Minecraft X-Ray
A fine example of software that does one thing and does it well. Minecraft X-Ray lets you fly around, over and under your world. The particularly useful feature is that you can use the function keys to specify certain block types to highlight. These blocks will pulse with light, making it extremely easy to spot their locations.
Map Editors
MCEdit
While MCEdit’s interface takes some getting used to, it is undoubtedly a very useful map editor. It includes brushes for manual edits as well as 3D region selection for fills and clones. As a bonus, MCEdit also lets you edit a few of the properties of your world such as player location and spawn point.
To run MCEdit, you may need to also install PyGame and OpenGL bindings for Python. Ubuntu users can do this from the Software Center or from the command line with
Unfortunately, MCEdit seems to be the only full featured map editor for Linux that supports the current map format (McRegion). If any readers are aware of another functional editor, please let us know in the comments!
Skinning
Novaskin
This is a web-based skin editor for Minecraft. Not only can you draw your own as needed, but it also includes a library of skins already made by other users. Everything from zombie suits to Star Trek uniforms is already there and can be used in your own game.
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SkinEdit
Where Novaskin is the fancy new web skinner, SkinEdit is the tried-and-true local editor. You’re given a grid with pixel space for all body textures, and whatever you paint is immediately apparent on the comically running preview person.
SkinEdit hasn’t been updated in a while, but (so far) Minecraft’s skin system doesn’t seem to have changed in the mean time.
Player/Inventory Editors
InvGrid
This is a simple, no-nonsense approach to inventory control. Each toolbar and inventory slot is accounted for and you can set the value of each as you wish. The other tabs of the program allow you to define scripts and set game properties such as time of day and player position.
MCPlayerEdit
MCPlayerEdit, a console application, can do many of the same things the best GUI applications can do, and a bit more. With this application you can set bookmarked locations, change time of day, warp between zones, and of course edit your inventory.
Bonus – Minecraft Structure Planner
Ever start a new project, then realize partway through that it’s going to take a LOT more work than you expected? If so, you’ll probably appreciate the value in the Minecraft Structure Generator. This handy little tool does just what it says – it helps you plan out structures and keeps track of all the materials you’ll need to build it. It’s even got prebuilt templates for things like suspension bridges, domes, and mazes.
Conclusion
What we’ve included here is only a handful of the applications available to enhance this already great game. Combining several of them can let players accomplish amazing things. If you think we’ve missed any of the best utilities, or just want to show off some of your creations, sound off in the comments.
Ebooks
While the primary allure of Minecraft is building there are some tasks that are quite tedious and practically beg for a copy and paste button. WorldEdit is that button (and so much more). Read on as we show you how to supercharge your building with an in-game editor that gives you editing tools that turn your Minecraft world into a canvas.
Why Use WorldEdit?
You can always edit your Minecraft map (construction and destruction is the basic premise of the game after all), but the basic in-game tools make big edits extremely time consuming. Moving an entire mountain or digging a channel between oceans could take weeks of real-time effort. Today, we’re taking a look at in-game mods that give you god-like building powers which turn mountain moving into a simple project.
Why do you want to use this tutorial? Because some things in Minecraft are just too agonizingly tedious to deal with the old fashioned way, especially when there’s a better way.
Take for example the way water behaves in Minecraft. In the real world if you have a pond next to a river and you want to link the two then you simply dig a channel between the two bodies of water and physics does the rest (assuming the bodies of water are on an even elevation, the water just flows between the two and levels off).
In Minecraft all sorts of weird things happen in the same scenario. If your channel is more than a few blocks long, for example, the water from the pond will water fall into the channel, the water from the river will waterfall into the channel, but the two bodies of water will not level themselves and merge together like real bodies of water.
An in-game editing suite allows you to quickly correct annoying quirks like this and so much more. Look at the lead image of this tutorial for an example of another task that would be insanely tedious. In the screenshot we’ve encased a tall cottage in a giant hollow ellipsoid of glass. The amount of time it would take to get that perfectly right by hand (calculating it, mapping out the layers needed, and then placing all the glass blocks) would likely take days. By using a simple one line command we were able to create the shape in a matter of seconds (and just as quickly remove it once we’d snapped the picture).
With that in mind, let’s take a look at how we can add editing tools to Minecraft that allow us to spend way more time building and having fun, and less time doing tedious tasks like trying to level and fill a canal.
Installing WorldEdit
WorldEdit comes in several flavors. You can install it via Forge for Minecraft 1.6.4. and you can install it via LiteLoader or Forge for Minecraft 1.7.2 and 1.7.10. Installation is as easy as putting the appropriate litemod or jar file in your instance or server’s /mods/ folder.
In light of that, rather than go over the process again (as the process is the same as any other mods) we’d encourage you to grab the right file for your Minecraft version number and then follow along with our Minecraft modding tutorial here.
Using WorldEdit
Once you’ve added World Edit to your single player game or to your server, it’s time to get your hands dirty. Before we do however, let us assure you that WorldEdit is going to take a little bit of study to really master. It’s likely the most complex mod you’ve used to date, and it’s significantly more powerful (and command loaded) than your typical Minecraft building experience.
There’s a huge amount going on under the hood of WorldEdit and you can use it for so many different tasks. We don’t have the space here to look at everything it can do, but we can take a peek at the tasks that new World Edit users want to jump right into using.
Copying and Pasting
Let’s look at a very simple use case to get our feet wet. Remember the pair of Mooshroom Islands we found in our AMIDST tutorial? Let’s say we had the crazy idea to build a giant bridge between them in order to unite the Mooshroom herds. Anyone who has played any amount of Minecraft knows exactly how tedious building a bridge, especially a detailed one, over the span of hundreds of blocks of water would be.
Wouldn’t it be nice to just copy and paste a chunk of the bridge like we’re using the Clone Stamp tool in Photoshop? With WorldEdit, we can easily do that. Here’s our starter segment, we built the first chunk of the bridge so we can clone it and reuse it.
The next step is to activate one of the more simple tools found in WorldEdit: the wand. The wand allows us to select physical spaces by choosing the corners of the space (the upper-right and the lower-left) we wish to edit.
Press “T” to pull the in-game console up and type “//wand”. You’ll find yourself holding a wooden axe (aka the wand) with onscreen instructions telling you to left-click on the first corner and right-click on the second corner. They call them “pos” (short for position), but it’s easier to think of it in terms of corners of a rectangular or cube-shaped selection.
Once you have the object selected then it’s time to copy it. Now, before we actually copy it you need to understand one important thing about the copy/paste function in WorldEdit. When you copy something WorldEdit, it remembers the orientation of your body to the object. So if you copy a house you’re standing on top of, when you paste that house it will appear under your body just like you were positioned when you were standing on it during the copying process.
In order to make life much easier, take the time to look at the object you’re working with and select a position that would make it easiest to quickly paste and work with it. In the case of a copying a bridge, the smart thing to do is to stand on the bridge one segment back from the segment you wish to copy. This way you can stand on the existing bridge and drop in segment after segment all while keeping things neatly aligned.
Use the “//copy” and the “//paste” commands to proceed. If you screw up a paste don’t panic, you can undo it with the “//undo” command.
Here’s what our bridge looks like with a few sections pasted:
With no more than a minute or so additional effort, here’s what it looks like stretched all the way to the other island. We’re a little concerned the Mooshrooms don’t actually get the concept of the bridge, but we’re sure they’ll pick up on it eventually.
Before we leave our bridge building tutorial, we want to emphasize that there’s an even better way to do what we just did. The point of copy and pasting all those bridge segments was to get you comfortable using the tools and lining the pieces up. In the future you can use the //stack command to quickly build a bridge, wall, or other repeating shape as long as you want.
Fixing Water and Lava
Remember our earlier example of what a pain water can be in Minecraft? It just doesn’t behave the way water is supposed to behave according to the laws of physics. Rather than waste an hour or more trying to get Minecraft water to do what Minecraft water should do, you can simply use WorldEdit to mend your streams and pools.
Just like we described earlier, the water is misbehaving. We dug a channel from a small pond on ol’ Mooshroom Island to the ocean and the water on both sides turned into little baby waterfalls and failed to meet in the middle. We all know that’s not how water works, not one bit. Thankfully there’s a command set in World Edit to fix it.
The magical command we crave is “//fixwater [radius]”; the lava equivalent is “//fixlava”. To execute the command, go to the body of water or lava you wish to repair and stand on the shore. This means standing right on the edge of a block that is level with the surface of the water; standing up too high or too low will create unintended results.
While standing right on the shore of your unruly body of water, pull the console command down and enter the fixwater command with the [radius] portion roughly the distance you want to fix the water. Don’t worry if you go a little too far, the water won’t flood up over the opposite shore it will stay in the depression you’re attempting to repair. One tiny command that takes two seconds to type, and you have yourself a proper channel.
The powerful commands in WorldEdit can also be used for some good old fashioned slap-dash anarchy too. Dying to know what happens when you //fixwater outside the regular bounds of the shoreline?
Behold. Here’s the magnificent mess you can create if you use the //fixwater command on a waterfall.
Whatever the radius you specify is, the water shoots out like a table and pours down (this is the reason the //undo command exists).
While we’re talking about the hassles of dealing with liquids in Minecraft, let’s not overlook the //drain command. Let’s say you build a channel and then decide you want to empty all the water out of the connected pond–no problem.
Build a wall of blocks separating the large body of water (the ocean) from the small body of water (the pond) and just stand on the shore of the pond (away from the larger body of water if one is present). Type “//drain” and with zero effort the whole pond will be dry as a bone.
Best Mac For Editing
While we prefer to edit our world maps while we’re in the game, there’s something to be said for the speed and efficiency of using an external map editor to really tear into a map and do some serious editing. Armed with WorldEdit you can rapidly modify your world with out getting a wrist injury or spending hours hauling buckets of water.
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