Minecraft plugin FastAsyncWorldEdit

🔌 About FastAsyncWorldEdit

FastAsyncWorldEdit is a Minecraft plugin designed to perform large and frequent world edits asynchronously to avoid blocking the server. It is a high-performance fork of WorldEdit that focuses on memory and CPU improvements, safer multi-user editing, and additional editor features useful to builders, mapmakers, and network administrators.

🎯 Purpose

The plugin's core purpose is to let server staff and developers perform very large edits (schematics, mass replacements, region fills, copy/paste) and to provide persistent history, rollback, and clipboard services while minimising impact on server tick performance.

⚙️ Features

• Asynchronous edit processing with multiple placement modes (blocks, chunk placement, world/CFI) to reduce main-thread load.
• Large-edit support and safeguards for multi-player servers (per-player limits for entities, tiles, memory, changes, iterations, regions, inventory).
• Clipboard web integration and multi-server/cross-server clipboards.
• Unlimited per-world undo/redo history, inspection and rollback tools for searching and restoring changes.
• Extended WorldEdit-compatible API surface and asynchronous wrappers for common operations.
• Many additional brushes, tools, masks, pattern syntaxes, transforms, and schematic formats (including repair for partially corrupt schematics).
• Visualization, targeting modes, scroll actions, biome mixing, in-game world painting, image importing and schematic visualization features.
• Logging controls (configurable compression and buffering) and a bypass option for unlogged fast edits.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Server administrators and moderators who perform large builds or manage creative/creative-like areas.
• Mapmakers and builders who need to paste, transform, and manage very large schematics.
• Network operators that require safe, high-throughput editing across multiple backend servers.
• Developers who need WorldEdit-compatible API behavior but want asynchronous, non-blocking operations.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Pastes and transforms a very large schematic without causing major tick lag to players online.
• Searches recent history and performs a targeted rollback after an accidental large change.
• Uses persistent clipboards to share builds between servers or team members.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin jar from a trustworthy release page (Modrinth or the plugin resource page).
• Place the jar into your server's plugins/ folder.
• Restart the server and check console logs to confirm the plugin loads correctly.

📦 Dependencies

• FAWE integrates with protection plugins; known supported integrations include WorldGuard and PlotSquared (listed as supported integration, not required core dependencies).

🧠 Technical Notes

• FAWE maintains API compatibility with WorldEdit and adds asynchronous wrappers so many WorldEdit plugins work with FAWE's asynchronous operations.
• Officially supported server platforms include Bukkit/Spigot/Paper/Purpur. Confirm exact compatibility with your server build before deploying.
• Releases and compatibility notes cover modern Minecraft versions (multiple 1.16.5+ and 1.20/1.21 series are listed by the project); check the release you download for exact supported versions.
• The project is published under the GPL-3.0-only license.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you routinely perform large-scale editing, run creative or large-builder servers, or need WorldEdit API behaviour without blocking the main server thread, FastAsyncWorldEdit provides asynchronous operations, enhanced tooling, and rollback/history features that reduce edit-related interruptions and make large edits safer on live servers.