Describe some use-cases for replacing tags with identifier

Created on 2 April 2025, about 1 month ago

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help me understand the module better. One of the features described here is replacing tags with an identifier based on a prefix.

First I want to make sure I'm understanding correctly. My interpretation is: for example, if our identifier is "foo" and we set a prefix of "yarp", then all tags that start with "yarp" will be completely replaced with "foo".

If I'm interpreting that wrong, I'd appreciate if anyone could correct me.

Regardless though, would anyone also be able to describe one or more typical use-cases for this feature? I'm trying to wrap my brain around why and when we would want this behavior, but I can't think of anything.

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🇺🇸United States brockfanning
I believe I have a better understanding of this, after watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZPORuW1J_Q&list=PLigU0kVoiQFkvmN97VMvvG...

The point here is to prevent the total number of tags for a path to go up past 127. When the total number of tags goes past 127, the items in this setting will be "merged" into a single tag, thereby reducing the total number to keep it less than 127. So the items here should be items that very infrequently get purged. For example, if you rarely change blocks, maybe block-related items could be put here.

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