WorldEdit

WorldEdit is an easy-to-use in-game world editor for Minecraft, supporting both single player and multiplayer, that lets you:

• Change thousands of blocks in an area at once by selecting regions.
• Use over 100 functions to modify the world or remove problems.
• Remove large chunks of land as you wish.
• Sculpt the world and build mountains with brushes.
• Fix annoyances such as broken water, missing snow, raging fires, and more.

Remember that WorldEdit is open source.

Installation

WorldEdit works on both single player and multiplayer and is supported on a number of platforms.

For	With platform	How to install
Single player	Single Player Commands	SPC installation
Single player	Single Player Console	Console installation
Multiplayer	Bukkit	Bukkit installation
Multiplayer	Spout	Spout installation
Multiplayer	MinecraftEdu	MinecraftEdu installation
Multiplayer	Canary	Supported by a third-party
Multiplayer	hMod	No longer supported (see legacy instructions)

Upgrading from a previous version? See the upgrade notes.

Usage

• Quick start
• Video tutorials
• List of commands
• Permissions (multiplayer only)
• Printable reference sheet

Introduction

• Features
  • Sessions
  • History
  • Block support (using mods? please read!)
  • Item support

Regions

• Selection
  • Selecting cuboids
  • Adjusting the selection
  • Selection information
• Region operations
  • Setting blocks
  • Replacing blocks
  • Building walls
  • Overlaying
  • Stacking
  • Moving
  • Smoothing
  • Naturalizing
  • Deforming regions

Clipboard

• Clipboard
  • Copying and Cutting
  • Pasting
  • Rotating
  • Flipping
  • Loading and saving

Generation

• Generation
  • Cylinders and circles
  • Spheres
  • Pyramids
  • Forests
  • Pumpkin patches
  • Arbitrary shapes (generation with mathematics)

Utilities

• Utilities
  • Filling pits
  • Draining pools
  • Fixing pools
  • Editing nearby blocks
  • Simulating snowfall
  • Thawing areas
  • Simulating grass growth
  • Removing mobs
  • Extinguishing fires
• Chunk tools
  • Chunk information
  • List chunks
  • Delete chunks
• Super pickaxe
• Tools
  • Tree generation tool
  • Floating tree removal tool
  • Block replacer tool
  • Long range building tool
  • Long range wand tool
  • Data value cycler tool
  • Block info tool
  • Flood fill tool
• Brush tools (build from far away)
  • Sphere brush
  • Cylinder brush
  • Clipboard brush
  • Smooth brush
• Getting around

Restoring from backups

• Snapshots
  • Configuring snapshots
  • Restoring

Other topics

• Overview of Permissions
• Scripting
  • Bundled scripts
    • maze.js - Maze generator
    • draw.js - Image to cloth
    • quickshot.js - Note blocks from chat
    • roof.js - Builds a roof over a region
  • Writing scripts
• Specifying block data
  • Patterns
• Masks
• Tree types

Support

Need help with WorldEdit?

• Recommended: You can ask fellow users and developers your questions on IRC.
• If necessary, you can also contact sk89q via Twitter.
• To see the list of changes between versions, view our changelog.
• To request features or report bugs, use our issue tracker.
• View one of the many video tutorials

Development

Want to help develop WorldEdit? See our development page.

See our API page for discussion of the API and links to Javadocs.