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Paste a WorldEdit structure without erasing surrounding blocks with air

Applies to: WorldEdit; match the linked maintainer documentation to your installed platform and release.
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A schematic often contains empty space around its walls. A normal paste can place that air over existing terrain. Choose the paste behaviour from the clipboard documentation, then test it beside a few expendable blocks that represent your destination.

Commands beginning with a slash are player chat commands. Use them in game with the required role; check console support before adapting them for the hosting panel.

Work through the change

  1. Inspect the schematic bounds and identify whether interior air is essential to rooms, tunnels or redstone. Ignoring all air can preserve unwanted terrain inside the building.
  2. Prepare a small test floor with a column outside the structure and another inside it. Copy or load the same clipboard you plan to use in production.
  3. Use the documented ignore-air paste option, //paste -a, for the trial. Keep your position fixed so a changed anchor cannot disguise the effect of the flag.
  4. Compare the test columns and the interior. If you need a hollow interior, clear only a deliberately selected destination area after making a recoverable copy of that area.

Check the result

The outside test column should remain where the clipboard contained air. Solid clipboard blocks can still replace existing blocks, so this option does not protect every part of the destination. Walk through doors and inspect underground spaces before accepting the result.

Keep a separate test for water and other non-air materials. Ignore-air applies to air; it does not turn a paste into a general non-destructive merge. Check a doorway at floor level where retained terrain is easiest to overlook during a roof-level inspection.

Recover or stop safely

Undo the trial and check the undo result before preparing a fresh selection. If the destination contains player containers, stop and make a world checkpoint; a visual copy alone may miss ownership or plugin records.

For the broader setup, read Use WorldEdit selections, limits and undo safely. Check the installed plugin version before applying syntax from the official WorldEdit documentation.

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