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removed "biome" and "live map" sections from the running doc

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biomes are no longer relevant, it's handled automatically.

Also rendering a live map is not a problem these days, with the retry
code it rarely causes issues.
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Andrew Brown
2012-03-03 00:07:36 -05:00
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@@ -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_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
<http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/76063-minecraft-biome-extractor-add-biome-support-to-your-mapper/page__st__140__gopid__8431028#entry8431028>`_,
or `here on GitHub
<https://github.com/overviewer/minecraft-biome-extractor>`_.
.. _Minecraft Biome Extractor: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=80902