Minecraft Quick Facts

About Quick Facts Tables

Format Type Identifier

MINECRAFT

Reader/Writer

Both

Licensing Level

Professional and above

Dependencies

None

Dataset Type

Reader: File

Writer: Folder

Feature Type

<source_dataset_filename>

Typical File Extensions

.mca.dat

Automated Translation Support

Yes

User-Defined Attributes

No

Coordinate System Support

No

Generic Color Support

No

Spatial Index

Never

Schema Required

Not Applicable

Transaction Support

No

Geometry Type Attribute

minecraft_type

Encoding Support No

 

Geometry Support

Geometry

Supported?

 

Geometry

Supported?

aggregate no

 

point

no

circles

no

 

point cloud

yes

circular arc

no

 

polygon

no

donut polygon

no

 

raster

no

elliptical arc

no

 

solid

no

ellipses

no

 

surface

no

line

no

 

text

no

none

no

 

z values

no

Point Cloud Component Data Type Notes
x Int 32  
y Int 32  
z Int 32  
blockID UInt16

Defines the block type at this point.

See http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Data_values/Block_IDs.

Defaults to 1.

blockData UInt8

Defines additional block information.

See http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Data_values#Data.

Defaults to 0.