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MC-212661

Nether and End dimension folders still use their old names

The folder corresponding to the Nether is called DIM-1 and the End DIM1, despite this not making much sense:

  • Numerical dimension IDs were deprecated in 1.13, over three years ago (17w47a)

  • It is not immediately obvious what these folders actually correspond to without prior knowledge

  • Dimensions now use namespaced IDs literally everywhere else

  • 1.16 custom dimensions do not use folder names like these

These folders should be renamed to something more intuitive and less reliant on ancient, deprecated formats, for example "the_nether" and "the_end", or even "dimensions/minecraft/the_nether" and "dimensions/minecraft/the_end" for consistency with data pack dimensions since they have no right not to be.

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Wouldn't it make "legacy" worlds unplayable in newer versions then? For sure, they must be converted in this case, but there could be a problem with servers offering both multi-version client support and those who just want to update their servers without creating new worlds.

muzikbike

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flattening-remnants

21w03a, 1.16.5, 1.18.2 Pre-release 1, 1.19, 24w10a

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