I wanted to suggest the same thing. Since region files are technically a kind of archive file, it would make sense to have a chevron in the file tree like IntelliJ already does with archive files (see illustration below), except that here, the "files" correspond to the entries of the chunk table. Their name could be synthesized from the chunk position (e.g. 3,10.nbt for the chunk [3, 10]).

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