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[FrustratedMonky]

Guess this gets to my other point.

By the time you are 'compatible' then you have implemented everything needed to also be a 'drop-in' but data file formats might need a conversion.

So convert from Minecraft data files to Pumpkin data files. Then it could drop in.

[nickitolas → FrustratedMonky]

If you need to separately convert files yourself, then it is by definition not drop in

[FrustratedMonky → nickitolas]

Didn't really mean 'myself'. But if Pumpkin detects an existing world, and does the conversion to their own format. Then it is drop-in.

Even if they supply a tool, isn't it drop-in.

Otherwise I'd so no software in existence is really drop-in. Most of them have some update that has to happen.