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Add an Ability to Add Datapacks Upon Creating a World

Something that would save a lot of hassle with data packs, like making the world, getting out of said world, searching for the appdata folder, and dragging the datapack over to the world folder - why not make it so that you can add datapacks to the world folder as the world is generating? This would save a lot of time with digging around in files. It would also make it more convenient for datapack creators, as they can get all of the laggy functions done during the world generation - like making and spreading custom ores. Has anyone else thought of this as well, and is there any other detail that might be helpful? Let me know if so.

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    My idea for this is to have a datapacks folder in the game profile directory, and have a button that brings up a selection list on the More World Options screen (like the resource pack list). Bonus points for being able to disable the vanilla pack here too. This would copy them to the world folder, so that the main datapack folder can be updated without changing existing worlds.

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    On this note, I think it would be a really good idea to also add an integrated method for generating structures to datapacks, rather than having to jump through a load of hoops and have the structures potentially overwrite players' builds when adding the datapack.

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    This was added! Yeah