MapEditr: The Fastest Command-Line World Editor

[random_geek]

MapEditr is an external command-line world editor for Minetest. It shares much of the functionality of WorldEdit, but is significantly faster and can edit areas as large as an entire world. MapEditr is designed for server administrators, mod developers, and anyone else who wants to quickly edit large portions of Minetest maps.

Déjà vu? MapEditr is the successor to MapEdit (without the 'r'). Although the two are similar, MapEditr is faster, more advanced, and hopefully easier to use.

Features:

• 12 subcommands: set, replace, or modify nodes; copy areas; combine multiple worlds; replace items in chests and other nodes; selectively delete entities; delete mapblocks; and vacuum (shrink) map files.
• Target specific nodes or entities, include or exclude a given area, or do both or neither.
• Edit any size area (even the entire map, if you want).

Downloads, details, and full documentation are available in the GitHub repository. Feel free to ask questions, and please submit any bug reports on GitHub (or here, if you don't have a GitHub account).

GitHub: https://github.com/random-geek/MapEditr
License: MIT

[twoelk]

sounds pretty cool (havn't tested yet though)

looking at the replace/delete nodes functions, maybe being able to read from an input file might be useful. It might be easier to create a list of nodes to be manipulated in a file than typing every node name into a command line.
Thinking about that - how about using input files for coordinates as well.
Imagine defining several sets of coordinates that the tool works on in series like some batch command file.

[rubenwardy]

MapEditr sounds like a dating site for cartographers

Looks cool though

[DOOM_possum]

cool, it's good to focus on Map Editors, every now and then

[random_geek]

sounds pretty cool (havn't tested yet though)

looking at the replace/delete nodes functions, maybe being able to read from an input file might be useful. It might be easier to create a list of nodes to be manipulated in a file than typing every node name into a command line.
Thinking about that - how about using input files for coordinates as well.
Imagine defining several sets of coordinates that the tool works on in series like some batch command file.

That's an interesting thought, although I can see it getting complicated pretty fast. Maybe some sort of JSON or YAML type file would be needed?

MapEditr sounds like a dating site for cartographers

Looks cool though

Yeah, I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon of dropping random vowels from names. 😉

[DrFrankenstone]

<wrongheaded request deleted>

[c56]

<wrongheaded request deleted>

this makes forums so much less readable just make the text a spoiler with the title <wronghead request deleted >

[Hop1701]

Hello, Mapeditr does not work correctly with Maps from 5.50 or newer... no Zstd Compression.
No Errors, but newly generated (Zstd-compressed) Blocks could not be read by mapeditr and are simply missing.
It would be really nice if this could be updated.

[random_geek]

Hello, Mapeditr does not work correctly with Maps from 5.50 or newer... no Zstd Compression.
No Errors, but newly generated (Zstd-compressed) Blocks could not be read by mapeditr and are simply missing.
It would be really nice if this could be updated.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of the mapblock serialization version bump. I will add this to my list.

[random_geek]

Update: MapEditr v1.1.0 released! Now works with maps from Minetest 5.5.0 and later. Check the GitHub page for changes, downloads, etc.

[Mr. Rar]

I was able to prune my old world from 800MB to 30MB!
This program solved my problem: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28828

This software is the bomb!

[random_geek]

I was able to prune my old world from 800MB to 30MB!
This program solved my problem: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=28828

This software is the bomb!

Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful!

[Hop1701]

Thank you so much! I cant live without this great Tool anymore...
My Map - I am playing it since 2014 - has a large "Core Area" and some far away "Colonies", and i dont want to let it get bigger than 1,2GB or so.

[mtvisitor]

This command line tool (v1.1.0) which was written in Rust computer language is interesting. 🙂

I have installed in my laptop and I will try this tool (MapEditr) later.

Thank you very much for your help. 🤝

[jolpar]

Really impressed by this tool, thanks a lot !