How to save just a portion?

[Kueeny]

When the new update comes in I would like to transfer a town to a new generated world? How do I save that piece of land but not the whole (older) world?

[gavjenks]

Pretty sure this is impossible, at least if you use any weird things like RP miniblocks, etc. There are no plugins I am aware of capable of transfering miniblocks, or RP logic states, or CC programs, etc. etc. I have attempted to contact Eloraam (Rp programmer) about a way to copy and paste miniblocks more than once, but she has no good contact methods, really.

The basic structure, with a lot of damage, however, would be transferrable by any number of plugins. Voxelsniper, worldedit, MCEdit, etc.

[mochadog123]

Just make a new map, use that one, and still have the old map do you can copy and paste with world edit.

[Kueeny]

Will the copy stay on your clipboard when you exit the game and switch to your new world?

[Jay?]

I believe you need to save the structures as schematics or something like that.

Be aware that if it's a major version change, and block IDs change, that method won't work without some finagling.