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The NBT-format ("Named Binary Tags") is used in almost all minecraft save formats. This pages collects documentation for NBT-format changes and NBT-tags added by the LOTR-mod. For documentation to the vanilla NBT-tags see the official minecraft wiki.

Introduction to the NBT-format[]

The NBT-format is used to store minecraft worlds and with this to store all blocks, entities, and the player itself. "Named Binary" means that NBT-tags consist of two things: a name and a value that belongs to the name. In addition, a NBT-tag has a data-type following the java data-type that will be used to save this value. Each data-type has a specific range the value must be in. For a full list of data types with descriptions, view the minecraft wiki page linked above.

Data Type Short form (as used on this page) Range / Validity
Byte [b] Valid values are between -128 and 127, inclusive. This may not be a decimal number.
Boolean * [bool] Identical to the Byte data type, except the only valid values are 1 and 0. The text true may be substituted for the 1, and false may be used instead of 0.
Short [sh] Valid values are between -32768 and 32767, inclusive. This may not be a decimal number.
Int [int] Valid values are between -231 and 231-1, inclusive. This may not be a decimal number.
Long [l] Valid values are between -263 and 263-1, inclusive. This may not be a decimal number.
Float [fl] Valid finite values are between (2-2-23)·2127 and the negative of that number, inclusive. This may be a decimal number.
Double [d] Valid finite values are between (2-2-52)·21023 and the negative of that number, inclusive. This may be a decimal number.
String [str] This is literal text, which must be surrounded by double quotes. It may contain escape sequences to indicate certain characters. May contain no characters.
List [list] An array of tags of the same data type. The index of a child tag serves to identify that tag in the list. May have a zero length.
Compound {} A collection of tags of potentially differing type. A short piece of text followed by a colon serves to identify child tags within the collection. May have a zero size.

* This data type is included here for convenience. Minecraft does not distinguish between the Byte and the Boolean types in NBT tags.

Usage in the Game[]

NBT-tags can be used in some commands to specify a item, mob, block or player. Further information on that can be found here for entities (and here for NPC inventory), here for blocks and tileentities, and here for items. When a command accepts NBT-tags as argument, the argument must be in curly brackets:

/setblock ~ ~-1 ~ lotr:tile.hobbitOven 0 destroy {Items:[{Count:64,Slot:10,id:364}]}
This command will set a hobbit Oven below the command source (the player or command block that ran the command) containing a stack of cooked steak in the second "cooked"-slot. The items contained in the oven are written in the itemstack format.
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