What's the best way to shrink the world size?
In hindsight, I picked a server plan that doesn't have enough storage. As a result I am running out of storage. Does anyone have a suggestion for shrinking my world size that is safe and effective? I just want to mainly remove unused chunks, I'm willing to do it by hand if needed with a tool of some kind. Paper 1.21.1
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Just set the world border smaller so that other players can't load more chunks or buy more storage
Yep
You can use a tool like mcaselector to find and remove unused chunks to reduce the space. you can especially use this to trim chunks outside your worldborder.
shrinking the worldborder will NOT automatically remove already generated areas outside your new worldborder.
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Mcaselector is the way to go
i will do that, thanks guys
linear region file format
try linear paper
it compresses the world to like half the size without removing anything
Do know that linear world format loads chunks faster and has it's own downsides so please consider the downsides before switching. @Schroedes