Prefabs¶
Prefabs is a Volume of blocks meant to represented prefabricated areas within the world. You can save bits of the world, re-load them later, and include them with your mod.
They can also be used to clone sections of the world easily.
Documentation¶
You can find documentation here
Format¶
In case you want to create/use an external program that takes advantage of prefabs, here is the binary spec for the .pfb format:
V1¶
| Name | Type | Bytes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic Length | byte | 1 | The length of the magic header string (val: 6) |
| Magic | char | n | The characters for the magic. Should always be "PREFAB" |
| Version | byte | 1 | The version number. Currently 0 |
| Width | signed int32 | 4 | |
| Length | signed int32 | 4 | |
| Height | signed int32 | 4 | |
| CenterX | signed int32 | 4 | |
| CenterY | signed int32 | 4 | |
| CenterZ | signed int 32 | 4 | |
| Blocks[] | ushort array | 2 * width * length * height | The array of blocks. Coordinate determined by: z*width*length + y*width + x |