BioMan : The Biome Manipulator !

BioMan is an easy-to-use in-game biome editor, you can easily change the biome data of your old maps by making a WorldEdit selection then typing a simple command.

This plugin does NOT alter the world structure, it will just change the biome data which affects the rain/snow/no-weather and the color of grass/leaves/water.

The plugin's name was found by one of my moderators, TenshiArakawa, and it refers to Bioman, the Super Sentai serie. If you don't know what Bioman is, here is a video of the intro :

Prerequisites

You need a recent build of craftbukkit (#2040+). All recent builds are downloadable here : http://dl.bukkit.org/downloads/craftbukkit/

You have to install the latest version of WorldEdit, because the selection is done by this plugin.

Install

The installation is quite simple : place BioMan.jar in your plugins directory and restart or reload your server.

How to Use

• Select a region with the WorldEdit selection tool (any type of selection is supported)
• [facultative] Contract the selection to the thinest possible in Y coord (will reduce execution time)
• [facultative] Do the "//bioman" command (aliases : "//bm", "/bm", "/bioman"). You will have the list of availables biomes.
• In order to change the biome of the selected region, type "//bioman biome_name" and send it.
• Alternate command : "//bioman replace biome1_name biome2_name" in order to replace a biome to another in the selection.
• A message confirms you the success by telling you how many coordinate's biome were changed.
• Changes are instantly visible for you, but not for the players around, they have to disconnect/reconnect to see the changes.

Permissions

The plugin uses the Permission's system of WorldEdit, so the supported permissions plugins are the same of WorldEdit. Permission node of the //bioman command : "bioman.command"

Of course, the player needs to have the worldedit's permission which allows him to perform a selection.

Coming soon ?

If I have the time, maybe I will code a tool for restore 1.7/1.8 biome locations, I need to investigate in old minecraft source in order to find the biome algorithm of each version...

Some comments

• If you set the Hell biome in normal world, you will be able to grow NetherWart in, but nether monster will spawn. You can easily fix this by enabling the "deny-spawn" flag of "__global__" normalworld's region, or of a subregion.
• Biome data is stored on the region files since 1.2 version thanks to the Anvil format. So changes will remain after any minecraft update !
• Biomes are located by X and Z coords, so it's useless to make bold selections

Changelog

Version 1.3

Added "/bm replace biome1 biome2" command.

Version 1.2

New : the changes are displayed instantly for the player who performs the command.

Version 1.1.2

Bug fix : chunks were load/unload so many times, so the command took too long time to perform with fat selections.

Version 1.1.1

Bug fix : unloaded chunks not affected by the command. The number of changed coords is more adapted.

Version 1.1

New command : "/bioman undo" => undoes the changes of the last command. Warning : two consecutives "undo" will revert the last changes and not revert the previous changes. The "undo" can be performed until a server reload/restart, not after.

Version 1.0

First version, logic, no ?

How can I show you that this plugin is usefull for me ?

You can post a kind comment below, don't hesitate to make suggests or remarks ;) If you encounter a bug, you can report it on the "Tickets" tab, after checking if that bug was not reported before.