"EditorStructureManager.createFromClipboardItem" always returns an empty structure

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I'm trying to read blocks from a clipboard, and the only way I know that doesn't involve placing the blocks in the world is by creating a structure. However, after copying the contents from the active selection, despite the clipboard having a size and writing to the world properly, the structure created from it has nothing.

Version: 1.21.70

[dacowan]

There is no createClipboardItem function.
There is a createFromClipboardItem - this function takes the current clipboard contents and creates a structure in the structure database containing whatever was in the clipboard.
It returns an EditorStructure object (which is not well named because it's not a structure, it's just the structure metadata (like ID and tags)).

There's not yet an easy way to directly read blocks from a structure or clipboard item, I'm afraid. Best I can suggest is that you hide a scratch area in your map (usually underground, around the spawn location) and paste the clipboard item into it. Then you can read the blocks from the map.

I have on my backlog to make editor clipboard items fully read/write - I just haven't gotten to it yet.

[SIsilicon]

Yes I meant createFromClipboardItem, whoops

There's not yet an easy way to directly read blocks from a structure

EditorStructures contain a structure property, and that property has methods to read and write block permutations. But the issue I have is that the Structure in question is always a size of 0 0 0.