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Ability to Save and Load Data With Scripts

It would be nice if there was a way to save and load data that isn't related to something already in the game. Use cases include:

 

-Creating a Bloodmoon type event (Or any in-game event) and then storing the amount of time left so that reloading the world doesn't reset the countdown.

-Creating a seasons mod/plugin and storing the current season and the time left in that season.

-Adding pollution via scripts and storing how much pollution is in the world.

-Creating a land protection plugin and storing the data for claims.

-Config files.

-Creating a factions plugin and storing the faction data.

-And many more that the community could come up with.

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    One more use case:

    - A map mod with an ability to save coordinates as waypoints.

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    This is critical to the success of server development teams and projects. I wish this had more votes and got more attention, because it would open a lot of doors for server owners to manage their communities better.

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    This is like needed for so many creations that would come of it!

    File cache support is needed 100%

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    It should be possible to attach any data to any object, be it a block/block entity, a mob, an item, the player, the dimension or the world..  That we can't do so is highly limiting.

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    Wow! This would be built-in modding! Modding will be much less confusing than now with all the different modloaders!

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    +1 This is Crucial to any form of proper mod beyond just adding blocks and items

     
     
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    I definitely agree that this should be possible, but I have to say that there is an inconvenient way of doing it currently.

    It is possible to save info to entities. As such, you can save the info to all players in the world.

    However, this is extremely inefficient and difficult to do well. It also doesn't work well for storing large amounts of data (such as factions, that's a lot of data to be stored and managed on every single player).

    So we do need the ability to save info through other means.

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    TheLazyCowboy1

    It is possible to save info to entities

    I've already read about this in general.
    So, for my understanding, would you just save serialized JSON as a tag?

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    Um, I'm not entirely sure how it works, I just know how to do it. Actually, I'm not sure if it even works for this, but I'm pretty sure it does.

    But yes, I believe it effectively stores tags in the players json.

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    This is already possible, you can put the display name of a scoreboard objective to any string including serialized JSON. The ID of the scoreboard objective will always stay the same so you can always access it.