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[Java] More commands work relative to your dimension

A new snapshot gave us the ability to define custom dimensions in a .json file, which is great!

However, with this change, server owners and mapmakers would be given a lot more power over their maps if certain global commands (like /gamerule and /time) had the potential to be dimension-specific. That way, it would be really easy to have mob griefing or spawning turned off in some dimensions but not others. Additionally, I would love to be able to set it to nighttime in one custom dimension without having the sun cycle in all my others be affected.

Example: '/execute in <dimension> run gamerule mobGriefing false' will only set the gamerule in whatever dimension you specified. And by running '/execute in <dimension> run gamerule mobGriefing' you could therefore query whatever the value of the mobGriefing gamerule is in any given dimension.

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    I think in most cases you want it to be global.
    If you turn off mob griefing while being in the overworld, you also want it to be turned off in the nether.

    However, with either a new command like /dimensionrule or a new parameter like /gamerule <rule> <value> [<context>] where context is either global or dimension, this could work.

    Also some commands like /worldborder are already sort-of dimension-specific but only work propely in the overworld (see https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-121997)

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    Yip, and I'd like weather to be tied uniquely to dimensions too. I want a stormy world where thunderstorms are more frequent and I can achieve that in some ways with a data pack, but it means that if someone is in the stormy world, then every world becomes stormy, which is not what I want! Nor does it make sense.