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Please make a utility which can add sea plants into the old-version chunks (Java Edition)

The Update Aquatic is fantastic! But it's really sad that worlds that are from an older version won't have these beautiful sea plants in a really vast area because 'the chunks are already generated'. It's a pity to just abandon the old saves for exploring the new seas.

Could it be possible that we can have a temporary button or something like that to add sea plants into the 'old seas'?

Perhaps it won't be very difficult to make? Just check if it's a water block in the ocean biome which has a solid block below and no solid block above, and then randomly plant seagrass or kelp in it; it's acceptable even if the process takes a long time. :)

By the way, I do believe that Mojang could do better in maintaining consistency between two versions. A lot of players in Minecraft play a specific world in Minecraft for versions, and that's why there are so many creative survival machine ideas in the community. This will make a long-lasting benefit.

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• July 21, 2018 01:32
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  • July 06, 2018 15:11
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  This kind of thing has never been done before (as best as I know) and probably will never be done. Old generation should be left alone.....

  Instead, perhaps you can think of it as a project you can do yourself! Install a conduit so you can breathe underwater, collect a bunch of kelp from a newly generated ocean, and start planting it; you can use bonemeal to spawn in seagrass, too. It will probably take a while but it should look pretty good afterwards!

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  • July 08, 2018 03:40
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  @MacchuPicchu96 The project would be considerably huge... I'd rather take it as a last resort. I think perhaps the reason why Mojang has never done this kind of thing before is that after re-generating a whole chunk, the consistency of the terrain is difficult to preserve. But this time we won't have these problems; it should be relatively much easier!

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  • August 01, 2018 18:49
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  Hao Hao Fu remember, kelp grows from 1 block!

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  • October 29, 2019 00:48
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  This doesn't really need to be done for Java, as there are already world editors that can do it for you. However, there is no world editor for Bedrock, and the same problem persists. You can selectively choose to regenerate chunks around your build with MCedit.

  If anything, there should be a way to regenerate those chunks in bedrock edition.

   

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  Old generation should be left alone is your opinion. Mine is that we should have more control over worlds because it gets frustrating having to switch worlds or move everything very far whenever a new update comes out.