Is it possible to remove animals from a Minecraft map?

Question

I recently opened a map which I thought was broken, because I could not load it anymore. I increased the memory for the Java VM to 8GB and now I can open it but it is impossible to play on this map, because there are thousands of cows! I think this is why the map could not be opened with 768 MB of memory for Java.

So my question is, if there is any tool with which I can remove those cows. I've heard of several tools to manipulate the landscape, your spawn point, etc. But I don't know if there are tools that let you remove and place animals without having the map opened. When I open the world I have like one frame every 5 seconds...

Can you recommend a tool with which I can remove animals or other entities from a Minecraft world?

Asked by Exa

Answer

if you are running a version before 1.2 you can use MCedit, select all (ctrl+a) and delete entities. be warned this will delete ALL mobs and dropped items.

Answered by legacy

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