Minecraft – How to make persistent variables in WorldEdit CraftScripting

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When experimenting in Minecraft I usually create a large flat area to work on using WorldEdit.

However, this usually results in a crash or big freeze.

I'm going to make a script that can take a large clear-out job and split it into lots of smaller ones and give the game time to recover. It doesn't look too hard to make this, but if I have to re-type the command and the arguments each time its going to be a hassle.

I need a variable that can persist past the execution of the script so I can do a "/next" type thing to go to the next job.

I've had a look through the api reference, but I can't see anything regarding preferences or settings or something I can use.

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I suggest you don't even use world edit, Making a bukkit plugin from scratch is very easy and very fun.

Bukkit's API has very usful block-editing tools, this peice of code here will place a block of stone(b.setTypeId(1);) above every player's head whenever they move.

    public void onPlayerMove(PlayerMoveEvent evt) {

    Location loc = evt.getPlayer().getLocation();

    World w = loc.getWorld();

    loc.setY(loc.getY()-1);
    Block b = w.getBlockAt(loc);
    if(!b.isEmpty())
    {
    b.setTypeId(1);
    }}

And as for the anti-crashing, just make the plugin run on a separate thread from the main server, this way if your plugin "crashes" the server won't respond any diffrently until the plugin has finished calculating and will finish at quicker speed.

You can do this using block probability patterns.

Most places you'd normally enter a single block type in WorldEdit, you can instead enter one of these which will give you a random distribution of blocks instead of just one kind. You can specify which blocks and how often they should show up.

As an example, if you were to select a zone and enter the following command you'd end up with something like the following screenshot:

//replace grass,dirt 50%cloth:red,50%cloth:white

Pattern distribution example

Note that you cannot specify a probability pattern for the blocks you are going to replace - only for what you will replace them with.

So to get dungeony walls...

Assuming you already have the stone brick walls laid out, you just want a brush that replaces some of the stone bricks with mossy or cracked stone bricks. The below commands will give you a brush with a radius of 5 that exclusively targets stone brick (all kinds, including mossy and cracked) and replaces it with 70% regular stone brick (stonebrick:0), 10% mossy stone brick (stonebrick:1) and 20% cracked stone brick (stonebrick:2).

/brush sphere 70%stonebrick:0,10%stonebrick:1,20%stonebrick:2 5

/mask stonebrick

Just tweak the probabilities until you get an effect you like. You might want to make certain areas more mossy, or certain areas less mossy and more cracked, so play with it a bit.

Further documentation on commands used here:

Utility commands describes //replace
Brush commands describes /brush
Tool commands describes /mask

Minecraft – Why don’t I have permission to use WorldEdit

Due to the nature of worldedit, worldedit requires you to specify permissions, either the build in, or by using a permissions plugin

Worldedit uses the WEPIF (WorldEdit Permissions Interoperability Framework) to handle permissions.

If you're not using a permissions plugin, the easiest way is using Flat file permissions which allows you to simply give yourself all permissions by editing two files in the root of your server (same location as bukkit itself):

perms_groups.txt

admins:*

perms_users.txt

sk89q:admins:*

(replace sk89q with your username)

There's a list of permissions, on the Worldedit Wiki which can help you if you want to further specify permissions

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Minecraft – Random Stone Brick Replacement with Worldedit in Minecraft

You can do this using block probability patterns.

So to get dungeony walls...

Minecraft – Why don’t I have permission to use WorldEdit

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