From http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunk_format
TerrainPopulated: 1 or not present (true/false) indicate whether the terrain in this chunk was populated with special things. (Ores, special blocks, trees, dungeons, flowers, waterfalls, etc.) If set to zero then Minecraft will regenerate these features in the blocks that already exist.
Sometimes people want to “repopulate” their worlds, i.e. set the TerrainPopulated
property to False
for all chunks of their world, in order to regenerate the special things mentioned above. MCEdit, a Minecraft world editor with a graphical user interface can do this. However, there is a more straight-forward solution to this task, especially if you are running a remote Minecraft server on a headless machine.
MCEdit is backed by pymclevel, a Python library for reading and modifying Minecraft worlds. It has been created by David Rio Vierra (kudos!) and is in development since 2010. Its documentation is rather weak, but its API is not too difficult to understand. I could rather quickly come up with a small Python application that reads a world, iterates through all chunks, resets the TerrainPopulated
property for all of them, and saves the world back to disk. This is the code, which I just tested for our own world, but it should very well work for yours, too:
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Copyright 2014 Jan-Philip Gehrcke (http://gehrcke.de) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. """ """ Re-populate a minecraft world. That is, set the TerrainPopulated property to False for all chunks in a world. From http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Chunk_format: TerrainPopulated: 1 or not present (true/false) indicate whether the terrain in this chunk was populated with special things. (Ores, special blocks, trees, dungeons, flowers, waterfalls, etc.) If set to zero then Minecraft will regenerate these features in the blocks that already exist. Based on the notes in https://github.com/mcedit/pymclevel/blob/master/mclevel.py and on the repop method used in https://github.com/mcedit/mcedit/blob/master/editortools/chunk.py Usage: repop.py path/to/world/directory A world directory is a single directory containing at least one file named level.dat. """ import os import sys import time import logging logging.basicConfig( format='%(asctime)s,%(msecs)-6.1f - %(module)s:%(levelname)s: %(message)s', datefmt='%H:%M:%S') log = logging.getLogger() log.setLevel(logging.INFO) install_note = """ $ virtualenv pyvenv $ source pyvenv/bin/activate $ pip install cython numpy pyyaml $ pip install git+git://github.com/mcedit/pymclevel.git """ try: from pymclevel import mclevel except ImportError: sys.exit("Cannot import pymclevel. Consider setting it up via %s" % install_note) usage = "%s path/to/world/directory" % os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]) if not len(sys.argv) == 2: sys.exit("One argument is required. Usage: %s" % usage) world_directory = sys.argv[1] if not os.path.isdir(world_directory): sys.exit("Not a directory: %s" % world_directory) log.info(("Attempting to read world. This scans the directory " "for chunks. Might take a while.")) world = mclevel.fromFile(world_directory) log.info("Get chunk positions iterator.") chunk_positions = world.allChunks log.info("Iterate through chunks, set TerrainPopulated=0 for all of them.") t0 = time.time() for idx, (x, z) in enumerate(chunk_positions): if (idx + 1) % 1000 == 0: log.info("Processed %s chunks." % (idx + 1)) # Retrieve an AnvilChunk object. This object will load and # decompress the chunk as needed, and remember whether it # needs to be saved or relighted. chunk = world.getChunk(x, z) chunk.TerrainPopulated = False # The above sets `chunk.dirty` which is processed during # `saveInPlace()` below. Leads to `saveChunk(cx, cz, data)`. duration = time.time() - t0 chunks_per_sec = (idx + 1) / duration log.info("Total number of modified chunks: %s." % (idx+1)) log.info("Duration: %.2f s. Chunks per second: %.2f." % ( duration, chunks_per_sec)) # Save the level.dat and any chunks that have been marked for # writing to disk. This also compresses any chunks marked for # recompression. log.info("Save modified world to disk (might take a moment).") world.saveInPlace() log.info("Exiting.")
I called it repop.py
, and this is how it executes:
$ python repop.py schaumwelt 23:55:08,262.2 - materials:INFO: Loading block info from <open file 'pymclevel/minecraft.yaml', mode 'r' at 0x21546f0> 23:55:09,22.4 - materials:INFO: Loading block info from <open file 'pymclevel/classic.yaml', mode 'r' at 0x21546f0> 23:55:09,118.4 - materials:INFO: Loading block info from <open file 'pymclevel/indev.yaml', mode 'r' at 0x2154660> 23:55:09,233.3 - materials:INFO: Loading block info from <open file 'pymclevel/pocket.yaml', mode 'r' at 0x21546f0> 23:55:09,628.0 - repop:INFO: Attempting to read world. This scans the directory for chunks. Might take a while. 23:55:09,628.2 - mclevel:INFO: Identifying schaumwelt 23:55:09,628.5 - mclevel:INFO: Detected Infdev level.dat 23:55:09,728.0 - infiniteworld:INFO: Found dimension DIM1 23:55:09,728.5 - infiniteworld:INFO: Found dimension DIM-1 23:55:09,728.9 - infiniteworld:INFO: Found dimension DIM-17 23:55:09,729.2 - repop:INFO: Get chunk positions iterator. 23:55:09,729.3 - infiniteworld:INFO: Scanning for regions... 23:55:09,745.4 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.0.4.mca with 731/807 sectors used and 598 chunks present [...] 23:55:10,672.4 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.-2.-1.mca with 1324/1418 sectors used and 1024 chunks present 23:55:10,674.2 - repop:INFO: Iterate through chunks, set TerrainPopulated=0 for all of them. 23:55:12,70.1 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.-2.1.mca with 2/2 sectors used and 0 chunks present [...] 23:55:16,51.1 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.-2.3.mca with 2/2 sectors used and 0 chunks present 23:55:16,559.9 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.3.3.mca with 2/2 sectors used and 0 chunks present 23:55:18,69.6 - repop:INFO: Processed 1000 chunks. 23:55:18,958.6 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.-4.2.mca with 2/2 sectors used and 0 chunks present 23:55:21,334.1 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.2.-3.mca with 2/2 sectors used and 0 chunks present 23:55:26,524.2 - repop:INFO: Processed 2000 chunks. 23:55:35,573.8 - repop:INFO: Processed 3000 chunks. 23:55:44,324.8 - repop:INFO: Processed 4000 chunks. [...] 00:00:18,820.3 - repop:INFO: Processed 35000 chunks. 00:00:28,940.9 - repop:INFO: Processed 36000 chunks. 00:00:38,30.5 - repop:INFO: Processed 37000 chunks. 00:00:41,787.5 - repop:INFO: Total number of modified chunks: 37426. 00:00:41,788.0 - repop:INFO: Duration: 331.11 s. Chunks per second: 113.03. 00:00:41,788.2 - repop:INFO: Save modified world to disk (might take a moment). 00:00:41,815.3 - infiniteworld:INFO: Saved 0 chunks (dim 1) 00:00:41,842.6 - infiniteworld:INFO: Saved 0 chunks (dim -1) 00:00:41,870.5 - infiniteworld:INFO: Saved 0 chunks (dim -17) 00:00:43,857.3 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.0.4.mca with 720/720 sectors used and 589 chunks present [...]00:00:44,723.8 - regionfile:INFO: Found region file r.-2.-1.mca with 1310/1310 sectors used and 1014 chunks present 00:01:13,807.5 - infiniteworld:INFO: Saved 37426 chunks (dim 0) 00:01:13,808.0 - repop:INFO: Exiting.
Hope that helps.
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