Looking for a program to convert a 1.12.2 server world to 1.8.8
I'm doing something probably not worth doing but I'm insane so I'm doing it anyways. I have a 1.12.2 world from a now dead server and I'd like to backport it to 1.8.8. It was originally brought forward from 1.8.8, but I want to take it back.
It mostly works, but if I warp to the main hub the sever crashes, and every time I join back it immediately crashes.
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You can't downgrade worlds. Has never been supported by Mojang
I think a lot of the framework exists to convert the world, but it's fucking Python and of course doesn't work
https://github.com/mitchts/nbt-converter
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It's possible, but time consuming because it probably would require a custom tool
you can try using chunker, unsure if it lets you go back versions though
https://chunker.app/
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chunker only goes back to 1.13, not any lower :/
Chunker works "sometimes" and it isn't guaranteed to not corrupt your map.
You might be able to make a script for it via chatgpt
Just keep in mind that chatgpt tends to forget edgecases
Like removing new blocks/entities
:Think2:
Chunker was able to do it
I had to pack it into multiple zips but it worked
Although a lot of the items are just gone so I guess they will need to be replaced
This is what's left, I need something that lets me batch remove these in a bunch of files
I just used find all, I could use it to remove recipe book and generic.whatever, but there appears to be no batch way to remove base 0 or the 2/1 entries folders without hitting something else. I tried in MC, and it gave an error in console but it fixed it itself in the file