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Do they have some sort of Minecraft version control system? Can people work on a local copy and then merge their changes into the main branch?

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I've spliced chunks together using sh, dd, and xxd before to resurrect my gf-at-the-time's wolf.

I've also been meaning to play psuedo-multiplayer with my friends by us each claiming a region in a seed. Each region being 32x32 chunks and saved to a separate file (.mca), you can just drop their latest region into your world folder to see what they've been up to, or play on LAN and send it back after.

This first one entertains me greatly; how'd that go? Sounds like a pain!

It certainly would be possible, though I am not sure how they are doing it. More likely there is a server constantly running and backing up data, that people can join and make edits in real-time.

EDIT:

After looking at the website a bit more, it appears that there is a sort of VCS that is managed by the admins. Users make changes and send them to the admins, and if they are OK then they get merged into the main world.

Minecraft is a real time multiplayer game. People build together collaboratively. Think Google Docs, not VCS.

nonetheless, it’s also a game that can be run on customized servers and has the capability to import objects and run scripts during gameplay, so you certainly can merge changes in a patch kind of way.

bukkit tools worked kinda like this where you could rollback chunks

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