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  2title = "WorldEdit Commands"
  3date = 2018-07-11
  4updated = 2018-07-11
  5[taxonomies]
  6category = ["games"]
  7tags = ["minecraft", "worldedit", "tips"]
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  9
 10[WorldEdit](https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/worldedit) is an extremely powerful tool for modifying entire worlds within [Minecraft](https://minecraft.net), which can be used as either a mod for your single-player worlds or as a plugin for your [Bukkit](https://getbukkit.org/) servers.
 11
 12This command guide was written for Minecraft 1.12.1, version [6.1.7.3](https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/worldedit/files/2460562), but should work for newer versions too. All WorldEdit commands can be used with a double slash (`//`) so they don't conlict with built-in commands. This means you can get a list of all commands with `//help`. Let's explore different categories!
 13
 14Movement
 15--------
 16
 17In order to edit a world properly you need to learn how to move in said world properly. There are several straightforward commands that let you move:
 18
 19* `//ascend` goes up one floor.
 20* `//descend` goes down one floor.
 21* `//thru` let's you pass through walls.
 22* `//jumpto` to go wherever you are looking.
 23
 24Information
 25-----------
 26
 27Knowing your world properly is as important as knowing how to move within it, and will also let you change the information in said world if you need to.
 28
 29* `//biomelist` shows all known biomes.
 30* `//biomeinfo` shows the current biome.
 31* `//setbiome` lets you change the biome.
 32
 33Blocks
 34------
 35
 36You can act over all blocks in a radius around you with quite a few commands. Some won't actually act over the entire range you specify, so 100 is often a good number.
 37
 38### Filling
 39
 40You can fill pools with `//fill water 100` or caves with `//fillr water 100`, both of which act below your feet.
 41
 42### Fixing
 43
 44If the water or lava is buggy use `//fixwater 100` or `//fixlava 100` respectively.
 45
 46Some creeper removed the snow or the grass? Fear not, you can use `//snow 10` or `//grass 10`.
 47
 48### Emptying
 49
 50You can empty a pool completely with `//drain 100`, remove the snow with `//thaw 10`, and remove fire with `//ex 10`.
 51
 52### Removing
 53
 54You can remove blocks above and below you in some area with the `//removeabove N` and `//removebelow N`. You probably want to set a limit though, or you could fall off the world with `//removebelow 1 10` for radius and depth. You can also remove near blocks with `//removenear block 10`.
 55
 56### Shapes
 57
 58Making a cylinder (or circle) can be done with through `//cyl stone 10`, a third argument for the height. The radius can be comma-separated to make a ellipses instead, such as `//cyl stone 5,10`.
 59
 60Spheres are done with `//sphere stone 5`. This will build one right at your center, so you can raise it to be on your feet with `//sphere stone 5 yes`. Similar to cylinders, you can comma separate the radius `x,y,z`.
 61
 62Pyramids can be done with `//pyramic stone 5`.
 63
 64All these commands can be prefixed with "h" to make them hollow. For instance, `//hsphere stone 10`.
 65
 66Regions
 67-------
 68
 69### Basics
 70
 71Operating over an entire region is really important, and the first thing you need to work comfortably with them is a tool to make selections. The default wooden-axe tool can be obtained with `//wand`, but you must be near the blocks to select. You can use a different tool, like a golden axe, to use as your "far wand" (wand usable over distance). Once you have one in your hand type `//farwand` to use it as your "far wand". You can select the two corners of your region with left and right click. If you have selected the wrong tool, use `//none` to clear it.
 72
 73If there are no blocks but you want to use your current position as a corner, use `//pos1` or 2.
 74
 75If you made a region too small, you can enlarge it with `//expand 10 up`, or `//expand vert` for the entire vertical range, etc., or make it smaller with `//contract 10 up` etc., or `//inset` it to contract in both directions. You can use short-names for the cardinal directions (NSEW).
 76
 77Finally, if you want to move your selection, you can `//shift 1 north` it to wherever you need.
 78
 79### Information
 80
 81You can get the `//size` of the selection or even `//count torch` in some area. If you want to count all blocks, get their distribution `//distr`.
 82
 83### Filling
 84
 85With a region selected, you can `//set` it to be any block! For instance, you can use `//set air` to clear it entirely. You can use more than one block evenly by separting them with a comma `//set stone,dirt`, or with a custom chance `//set 20%stone,80%dirt`.
 86
 87You can use `//replace from to` instead if you don't want to override all blocks in your selection.
 88
 89You can make an hollow set with `//faces`, and if you just want the walls, use `//walls`.
 90
 91### Cleaning
 92
 93If someone destroyed your wonderful snow landscape, fear not, you can use `//overlay snow` over it (although for this you actually have `//snow N` and its opposite `//thaw`).
 94
 95If you set some rough area, you can always `//smooth` it, even more than one time with `//smooth 3`. You can get your dirt and stone back with `//naturalize` and put some plants with `//flora` or `//forest`, both of which support a density or even the type for the trees. If you already have the dirt use `//green` instead. If you want some pumpkins, with `//pumpkins`.
 96
 97### Moving
 98
 99You can repeat an entire selection many times by stacking them with `//stack N DIR`. This is extremely useful to make things like corridors or elevators. For instance, you can make a small section of the corridor, select it entirely, and then repeat it 10 times with `//stack 10 north`. Or you can make the elevator and then `//stack 10 up`. If you need to also copy the air use `//stackair`.
100
101Finally, if you don't need to repeat it and simply move it just a bit towards the right direction, you can use `//move N`. The default direction is "me" (towards where you are facing) but you can set one with `//move 1 up` for example.
102
103### Selecting
104
105You can not only select cuboids. You can also select different shapes, or even just points:
106
107* `//sel cuboid` is the default.
108* `//sel extend` expands the default.
109* `//sel poly` first point with left click and right click to add new points.
110* `//sel ellipsoid` first point to select the center and right click to select the different radius.
111* `//sel sphere` first point to select the center and one more right click for the radius.
112* `//sel cyl` for cylinders, first click being the center.
113* `//sel convex` for convex shapes. This one is extremely useful for `//curve`.
114
115Brushes
116-------
117
118Brushes are a way to paint in 3D without first bothering about making a selection, and there are spherical and cylinder brushes with e.g. `//brush sphere stone 2`, or the shorter form `//br s stone`. For cylinder, one must use `cyl` instead `sphere`.
119
120There also exists a brush to smooth the terrain which can be enabled on the current item with `//br smooth`, which can be used with right-click like any other brush.
121
122Clipboard
123---------
124
125Finally, you can copy and cut things around like you would do with normal text with `//copy` and `//cut`. The copy is issued from wherever you issue the command, so when you use `//paste`, remember that if you were 4 blocks apart when copying, it will be 4 blocks apart when pasting.
126
127The contents of the clipboard can be flipped to wherever you are looking via `//flip`, and can be rotated via the `//rotate 90` command (in degrees).
128
129To remove the copy use `//clearclipboard`.