Pre 1.6 map needs wild grass regenration/population

Please help. I have a pre 1.6 map that has a 2048x2048 border. Obviously it's missing any tall grass, except for the sparse patches where bonemeal has been used.

What I'd really like to do is regenerate the entire map, with the same seed, so tall grass can be added. Something akin to worldedit and //regen. Is there any way to do this with mcedit/script/addon/jar/whatever making sure user structures are not damaged? I'd even settle for something to randomly add the tall grass based on distance, percentage or biome.

I realize i may have to take the server down and use a lot of CPU cycles to achieve this. This doesn't bother me.

I've searched a bit and have not found any sufficient information regarding this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

 

I have a map from 1.3 and we have tons of tall grass everywhere. The trick is you need to grow a few unnaturally and then it should spread. You don't need to regenerate anything.

 

Seems I may have a pre-baked solution. http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/fi...re-grow-long-grass-and-dead-bushes-860.19728/ and also http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/ed...take-control-of-your-servers-grass-818.19561/

I'll report back with results.

PS: ichingpow: This is not the case on my server. Bonemeal has been used, but the tall grass does not traverse/grow/regrow. I'll have to assume this is an addon/mod specific to your server.

edit: fixed url's

 

Hmmm weird. I'm pretty sure its not a plugin I use. Anyways...

 

LongGrass (http://forums.bukkit.org/threads/fi...re-grow-long-grass-and-dead-bushes-860.19728/) works/worked like a charm.

I even compared it on several biomes vs doing '//regen' and the results were nearly identical for populating my map with 1.6 grass.

edit: grammar