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# .streamingBlock: Sector definitions and -variants

What are these files? What do they do?

## Summary

**Published:** Jan 07 2025 by [Sergey](mailto:undefined), heavily based on input by psiberx\
**Last documented edit:** Jan 08 2025 by [mana vortex](mailto:undefined)

This page contains information about [#streamingsector](#streamingsector "mention") and [#streamingblock](#streamingblock "mention") files

### Wait, this is not what I want!

* If you want to learn about [World Editing](/cyberpunk-2077-modding/modding-guides/world-editing.md), please check the corresponding section.
* Check [Switching between sector states](/cyberpunk-2077-modding/modding-guides/world-editing/archived-guides/switching-between-sector-states.md) for more information how to do that.
* You can add world data via ArchiveXL, check [World Editing](/cyberpunk-2077-modding/modding-guides/world-editing.md) -> [Archived: Merging World Additions via ArchiveXL](/cyberpunk-2077-modding/modding-guides/world-editing/archived-guides/adding-locations-and-structures-with-archivexl.md)

### Streamingblock

The game contains only 3 streamingblocks that gather more than 26300 sectors.\
We will focus on the main one and take a look at the first sector inside (`exterior_-18_3_-12_0`).

{% hint style="info" %}
When creating a mod with sectors, you will need to create your own block that will list your new sectors.
{% endhint %}

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This sector has 10 variants, in this case, each one is related to a quest state.

`numNodeRanges` indicate the number of node ranges the sector contains; it always corresponds to the number of variant + sector's default range (so here 10 variants + 1 default).

When opening a variant definition, we can find the range index (to find the right range inside the sector file). `rangeIndex` cannot be 0, 0 is used as sector's default range.

Variant's name is only used to identify the variant within the streamingblock.

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