Minecraft World Packager

Github action to automatically prepare a minecraft world for release.

Usage

This github action uses mcwpack and needs an additional yaml config file inside the repository.

Inputs

Input	Optional	Description
source	required	The world directory to compress
target	required	The target zip file
config	defaults to mcwpack.yaml	The mcwpack config file
version	defaults to latest	The version of mcwpack to install

Outputs

archive - Path to the archive containing the compressed world

Config

Default mcwpack.yaml:

# Level name (supports minecraft color codes)
name: null
# Directory name inside the archive
dirname: null
# Additional files to pack inside the archive (only when using the zip option)
# extra_files:
#   - Readme.md
#   - source: ./../anywhere/server.properties
#     target: server/server.properties
# Resourcepack directory (or zip archive)
resourcepack: null
# Reset player data in level.dat
reset_player: true
# Archive all non-archived datapacks
zip_datapacks: true
# Remove empty chunks from the world
clean_chunks: true
# Ignored blocks when cleaning chunks (default: minecraft:air)
# The following will delete chunks that only contain air or stone
# ignored_blocks:
#   - minecraft:air
#   - minecraft:stone
# Filter accepted scores (using glob patterns)
# accepted_scores:
# Filter accepted objectives (using glob patterns)
# accepted_objectives:
# Filter accepted file entries (using glob patterns)
accepted_entries:
  - data/*.dat
  - datapacks/*
  - poi/*.mca
  - region/*.mca
  - entities/*.mca
  - icon.png
  - level.dat

Examples

⚠️ Most of these examples will require the contents read and write permissions.

Automatically create a release. Uses softprops/action-gh-release:

name: Release
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Package
        id: package
        uses: aksiome/minecraft-package@master
        with:
          source: path/to/my_world
          target: my_compressed_world.zip
      - name: Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          files: ${{ steps.package.outputs.archive }}

Upload output as an artifact. Uses actions/upload-artifact:

name: Build
on: push
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - name: Package
        id: package
        uses: aksiome/minecraft-package@master
        with:
          source: path/to/my_world
          target: my_compressed_world.zip
      - name: Upload artifact
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: My World
          path: ${{ steps.package.outputs.archive }}