How do I store one billion characters in a single item

[late sage]

I wanna store a billion (atleast a hundred million) characters of text inside a single item, without putting items inside items (unless you can put infinite items in that item then it’s ok)
And it has to work between rejoins.
And also be able to be transported between worlds using structure blocks like if I put it in a chest
And also no beta apis

This sounds so stupid

[pseudo walrus]

What are you trying to do exactly? 1 billion characters is a Gigabyte. There are potentially ways to store that much data in a world, but I don't think there's any chance you could do it in an item.

The biggest issues are that the game is probably going to crash trying to create a structure that big. Also this definitely wouldn't work in multiplayer.

[leaden fern]

For what purpose? There has to be a better way to design whatever you're trying to build, otherwise Minecraft may not be the right place for you to do this.

[floral spade]

why? 😭

[late sage]

I tried this with a book using the author as the data. It works but if I rejoin it only saves a certain amount of data and gets cut off.

[late sage]

I wanna make a structure save and load system. That Doesent use structures because they have limitations of size.

[floral spade]

I mean

Why the hell do u need a whole billion characters?!

[late sage]

I wanna save an upper bound of like a hundred million blocks

Or more

[floral spade]

wdym "upper bound"?

[late sage]

Like I mean that’s the most I wanna save

[floral spade]

oh

[floral spade]

and what do u want to save in these hundred million blocks?

[late sage]

Like an entire map, or something that could be like a thousand by a thousand blocks

Structure blocks can’t even do 100x100

[floral spade]

u know it's something around 1000 overworld chunks

just why do u need that much?

[late sage]

ik, I’ve already got a way to f ill that many blocks. I just need to save and load and duplicate now

[late sage]

I can’t be bothered to save multiple structures to transport my build

[floral spade]

so u need to save something like ur whole world and transport it to another?

[late sage]

Uhh well, not my entire world but atleast a 50 million blocks

I just need a way to store that data when it’s saved

Idrc if the game crashes

[floral spade]

just save ur world normal way

[floral spade]

u can't save that much

[late sage]

And I can’t copy that much to my clip board without my entire device exploding

[floral spade]

yeah

[late sage]

What about entities or a block?

Or chests in a chest in a chest in a chest

[floral spade]

brooo

[late sage]

Or files??

[floral spade]

first of all, u can't save the exact data of block, entity or anything

u can read and save only what the API gives

[late sage]

Ye I know that Doesent matter

[floral spade]

or use structures

[floral spade]

.

[late sage]

It would take too long and also I wanna make an addon

Can I save to a file? Is that possible?

[floral spade]

wdym "too long"? U just need to press the export button and that's all

[floral spade]

console.log + log files is ur only way

[late sage]

O

Good idea

Very good idea

I’ll try that

[floral spade]

but why? 😭

why not just press the damn button and get the whole world in one file

[late sage]

Structure blocks go up to 64 by world height by 64

Not even close to enough

[floral spade]

.

[floral spade]

Im not talking about structures

just export the world itself

[late sage]

I don’t want to export the world

[floral spade]

but what do u want

[late sage]

I wanna export something inside it to another world

That’s like massive

Like 50 million blocks massive

[floral spade]

one structure can save around 1.5 million blocks

oh wait

there is a limit by y also..

I don't remember it tho

[late sage]

Y has no limit, it can go bottom to top of the world

My pc is gonna crash if I console.warn 1 billion characters with the gui thing on

Better use log instead

Question: if I store a billion characters in the author of a book and put it in a bundle or something, will I get kicked for having it or dropping it?

[floral spade]

u will be exploded with ur own PC!

[floral spade]

I absolutely don't understand u then

I have to make like 32 structures to save all u need

and just export them

[late sage]

I’m on iPad actually

[floral spade]

it's not that much

[floral spade]

even worse

oh wait

u can't even export structures then...

[late sage]

It lets me store like 100 thousand blocks, haven’t tested any higher cos the save system is trash but imma make a new save system

[late sage]

Ye

You can’t

[floral spade]

well

u can't but

u still can export the world, can't you?

[late sage]

Not from within Minecraft. I do though have access to the files of com.mojang

(Contains packs, worlds etc)

And the console data I can access

[floral spade]

then just export it, import on a PC and export structures from it

[late sage]

Can’t be bothered

[floral spade]

HUUUHHH?!

[late sage]

I’d rather make an addon to do that

Then get on my pc

Even though it would take several days probably

[floral spade]

Bye bro

[pine sage]

Just use amulet api

[late sage]

wth is that

[timid crag]

What in the hell you are trying to place

[crimson magnet]

if you can install apps from the playstore, heres an app that i used for saving and loading structures between worlds, i dont remember if it has any limit, but its better than nothing:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.electricfoal.buildingsformcpe

there was a way to export these structures into other devices, too.

[fresh frost]

I think your the only one chance is item tags i haven't checked if they have a limit on quantity and i doubt there isn't one but i don't see any other ways

[late sage]

Assume I’m trying to place an area way to big for structure blocks

[late sage]

And I’m trying to make an addon, not do that

[neat jewel]

Is this limited to only block permutations, or there's entities/items as well?

[timid crag]

Concatenate structures then

The only way

[late sage]

So I’m meant to transfer 5000 structures between worlds individually?

[timid crag]

@late sage i was reading the chat, did you tried console.log the data as suggested up?

[late sage]

I’m sure it’ll work just need a way to import that

And idk if I can read .txt files

Even if it’s in the right folder

[timid crag]

You can build a script that slices the text and transform it to javascript object format

[late sage]

Huh?

[timid crag]

And you paste it on a .js file

[late sage]

Invalid syntax though

I want anyone to be able to understand it, if they have to write json, it going to be too hard.

[timid crag]

I mean..

[WARN] 82, 33, 34, stone
[WARN] 82, 33, 34, stone

To

export const structure = [
    { location: { x, y, z }, block: "" } 
]
`

[timid crag]

You want to people to save their own buildings?

[late sage]

Yea.

[timid crag]

Oh

[late sage]

I want my friend with no coding knowledge to be able to do it

Even having to save a file is pushing the limit

I could get them to paste it in a form. But pasting 5,000,000 characters is gonna crash the game as soon as it tries to render the text (ive got a pack that disables text limits and allows new lines and stuff)

[crimson magnet]

Why do you want it to be an addon?

[frail harbor]

@late sage Why don’t you just use 2 for loops to grab the 64x64 structures and then place them in order with an array then do the reverse to place them?

[late sage]

I need to be able to transfer large amounts of data between worlds. I’ve already got a saving mechanism that converts an area of any size into a string (including type, block states and if it’s waterlogged)