02-13-2012, 08:19 PM
You know, there's one thing to the "shitty minecraft format" that makes it much better than MCS's native format - incremental saving.
If you want to save a single chunk, with PAK, you need to overwrite the whole file. With MCR, you overwrite a small portion of the header and replace / append data to the file.
I've been working on supporting multiple world storage formats, right now it should be working (not yet commited because the change is a part of a huge code rewrite aimed at threading rewriting), the PAK files are fully supported (for backward compatibility) and I'm planning on adding the MCR files so that tools written for vanilla minecraft can work with MCS as well.
If you want to save a single chunk, with PAK, you need to overwrite the whole file. With MCR, you overwrite a small portion of the header and replace / append data to the file.
I've been working on supporting multiple world storage formats, right now it should be working (not yet commited because the change is a part of a huge code rewrite aimed at threading rewriting), the PAK files are fully supported (for backward compatibility) and I'm planning on adding the MCR files so that tools written for vanilla minecraft can work with MCS as well.