does the 2.1 release convert old sqlite lod files into the newer more compressed/smaller versions?
Just a quick question cause i heard it on the youtube trailer but i feel like i heard a completely contrasting thing a minute later
would i need to do anything to make it convert? or is the only option deleting and regenerating the lods?
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Note: This will only affect new worlds, old databases will be migrated to the new format, but have to be manually vacuumed to shrink their file size. yeah how do you manually vacuum them? what does that... mean?
honestly same here i have a similar problem i asked about in https://discord.com/channels/881614130614767666/1249282104366207066 but haven't gotten a response so far
Before doing the following make sure DH has finished migrating, otherwise you'll have to do them all again.
To vacuum a sqlite database:
1. Download DB Browser
2. open the DH .sqlite file (you may have to do this for each dimension/level) in DB Browser
3. go to the "execute" tab in DB Browser
4. run the command
vacuum
5. wait until your disk usage drops back down to 0. On a slow machine or HDD this may take a long time.1. How do you know when it finished migrating?
2. How do know if it is in the process of migrating? (I know it says f3 to check progress but what do I look at specifically)
3. Since I logged out a couple hours since after I says it started the migrating process, will I have to restart the whole process if it didn't finish? Idk if it even started to begin with.
4. This is just a suggestion but would be helpful if there was a video/tutorial that explains this a bit more/shows what to do
The fourth one is just because I have a better understanding of stuff visually since I struggle a bit when things are just text (you don't have to do it if you want)
Sorry if I didn't explain that super well I'm not great at that either
I wrote a more in-depth guide here:
https://discord.com/channels/881614130614767666/1035937460334624858/1249368065658060810
alright i followed the steps but the LODs that i loaded before haven't reappeared
am i going to have to go over every chunk again?
ive just decided to go over every chunk again but now some lods are just constantly vanishing and reappearing
What if I don't want to mess with migrating, do I just delete the lod folder and DistantHorizons.toml file?
Yup
Is the toml file the same as the sqlite file? I just deleted the old files and let it load again with dh 2.1
I think it’s worked but I’ve got no way to know if the file size has reduced since the lods hadn’t finished generating previously on the older version
no
I’m cooked
the toml is a toml, json is json, txt is txt, sqlite is sqlite
Where is the toml file for a specific world?
There isn't one
I mean, sometimes there is
but IDK what it does
For me it was always just an empty file
How did you know to delete it then?
I had opened it, seen it is empty, and deleted it because it was empty
you can open it in any text editor
That’s crazy bro just going around deleting files you don’t recognise 💀
i mean if it worked though
I mean, it was empty...
It wasn't storing anything, so it couldn't have been any important,
but I didn't delete it to fix anything, I just found it while moving my server lods to a different MC instance, and deleted it in the process
Oh wait hang on you aren’t even the guy who said you did it
yes, I'm not him
i just vacuumed my files and theyre the same size, does that mean they were already the smaller size format of 2.1?
ok i just vacuumed my nether LODs and it went from 450,000KB to 429,000KB... success?
ok going to do the end now at 0.99GB
and now... 0.98
did i do this right?
If the migration was done. Then yes that means they were already as small as they’re going to be.
the migration of the overworld files i think were generated with DH 2.1 because i deleted the sqlite and regenerated but the end and nether i converted using your vacuum method in faq
but the file sizes only reduced 20mb and 10mb
i mean they werent fully generated i guess? idk if i actually did it right to be honest didnt the video say something like 3x less space
im gonna send pictures of the steps i took tell me if it looks right
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To be exact, you can't convert the lods using vacuum, you can remove old format using vacuum, to convert old lods, I guess, enter that dimention and wait until the migration finishes
only then do the vacuum
oh wait what
wait what do you mean by migration exactly?
wait wait wait ok i think i get it tbf
so
1. download DH 2.1
2. generate LODs
3. vacuum old LOD format
4. now left with DH 2.1 format (which takes less space)
yes, but I would change the wording in point 2 from
generate to let DH convert old lods to new lods, because generation is reserved for generation from nothingso to do that would i have to turn my cpu load up and disable distant gen and just check periodically with f3?
i feel like i sound really stupid rn icl
You can check migration progress in the F3 menu, if you don't see a deleting or migrating row then you're good.what exactly are we looking for in the f3 menu? where would it be vaguely? im not seeing anything but ive not migrated my end dimension lods so it cant have been done