diff --git a/docs/running.rst b/docs/running.rst index a09ece2..2790402 100644 --- a/docs/running.rst +++ b/docs/running.rst @@ -183,26 +183,8 @@ If you want or need to provide your own textures, you have several options: * Specify any terrain.png or texture pack you want with the :ref:`texture_pack` option. -Running on a Live Map -===================== -If you're running the Overviewer on a live server or a single player world -that's running, read this section. - -Minecraft doesn't really like it when other programs go snooping around in a -live world, so running Overviewer on a live world usually creates a few errors, -usually "corrupt chunk" errors. You *can* do this, but it's not a supported way -of running Overviewer. - -To get around this, you can copy your live world somewhere else, and render the -copied world instead. If you're already making backups of your world, you can -use the backups to make the render. Many people even use their backups to run -Overviewer on a different machine than the one running the Minecraft server. - -There used to be a few things to be careful about, but right now there's only -one important thing left. - -Preserving Modification Times ------------------------------ +If you copy your world before you render it +------------------------------------------- The important thing to be careful about when copying world files to another location is file modification times, which Overviewer uses to figure out what @@ -213,23 +195,3 @@ modification times intact, use ``cp -p``. For people who render from backups, GNU ``tar`` automatically handles modification times correctly. ``rsync -a --delete`` will handle this correctly as well. If you use some other tool, you'll have to figure out how to do this yourself. - -Biome Support -============= - -Minecraft Overviewer has support for using the biome info from the `Minecraft -Biome Extractor`_. If you run the biome extractor on your world, during the -next run Overviewer will automatically recognize the biome info and use it to -colorize your grass and leaves appropriately. This will only appear on updated -chunks, though; to colorize the entire world you will need to re-render from -scratch by using :option:`--forcerender` - -.. note:: - - as of Minecraft 1.8, you currently need to use a patched Biome Extractor - that can be found `here - `_, - or `here on GitHub - `_. - -.. _Minecraft Biome Extractor: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80902