Bugfixes

This release fixes some bugs and changes some stuff to make it more convenient.

Details:

• Updating the DataVersion in a Chunk did not update internally in a Section.
• Setting a BlockState in a Section that would cause a change in the bits used to save a BlockState did now increase the length of the BlockStates array correctly for DataVersion > 2526.
• Added a helper method to CompoundTag that returns an abstract Number.
• Added a lenient mode for the SNBTParser that ignores any characters after it is done parsing.
• Made the SNBTParser's cunstructor public and removed the static parse methods, in favor for easier access to simply parse an SNBT string.

Add support for little endian

This release adds support for little endian serialization / deserialization for Minecraft Bedrock Edition.

Details:

• Added support for little endian serialization / deserialization.
• NBTUtil now has helper functions to load / save NBT data with little endianness.
• Added load flag to only load raw data and skip dat avalidation in chunks.
• Fixed a bug where biome indexes were calculated incorrectly.
• Fixed a bug where the type of an empty ListTag was set incorrectly when casting.

Selective loading of data from MCA files

This release introduces selective loading from MCA files.

Details:

• LoadFlags can now be provided before loading an MCA file to only keep wanted data in memory. an MCAFile loaded using any LoadFlag other than ALL_DATA will only keep the specified data in memory and can therefore not be serialized anymore. See #49 .
• Performance improvements when reading NBT arrays, see #47 .
• Fixed typo when serializing Heightmaps.
• Updated gradle wrapper to 6.5.

Fix flushing NBTSerializer

Bug fix

Details:

• NBTSerializer did not flush GZIPOutputStream after writing tag data.

Even more bug fixes

As you guessed it, more bug fixes.

Details:

• Updated the Readme on how to integrate NBT using Gradle or Maven
• Fixed some old bugs from #36
• Made MCAUtil.newMCAFile(File) public
• When updating a Selection object, it is now checked whether some fields are null to avoid NPEs

More Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where the biome index was calculated incorrectly.

Details:

• Fixed a bug where the biome index was calculated incorrectly, which led to getBiomeAt and setBiomeAt methods return and set the wrong biomes.
• Added unit tests for the above fix.

Bug fixes

This release reintroduces some fixes from 4.1 that somehow got lost in 5.0.

Details:

• Fixed a bug where an exception was thrown when reading empty sections.
• Fixed a bug where setting biomes using setBiomes(int[]) would throw an exception with arrays having a length of 1024.
• Fixed a bug where adjusting the size of the block states array would still use the old format in 20w17a.
• Added missing JavaDoc back to Chunk, MCAFile and Section classes.

Serialization and deserialization overhaul

This release overhauls serialization and deserialization.

Details:

• Removed example custom tags and dropped support in serializers and deserializers.
• Packages are better organized now.
• Added an SNBT writer and parser.
• Added an IO package net.querz.io that is used for NBT and SNBT serlialization and deserialization.
• Updated Version to 5.0.
• Removed TagFactory, this is handled by the new serializers and deserializers now
• MCAFile: Fixed biome methods not working with new vertical biomes.
• MCAFile: Fixed BlockStates being saved differently in 20w17a.
• Fixed Unit-Tests accordingly.

Fix crash on empty Sections

This release handles an Exception thrown when trying to read from an empty Section in a Chunk.

Details:

• Fix Exception thrown when trying to read from an empty Section in Minecraft 1.14+, see #31
• Add automatic module name, see #32

Improve consistency and type safety

This release fixes some issues regarding consistency and type safety.

Details:

• All Tags now implement Comparable on their own to assure type safety
• ListTag and CompoundTag now always clear their values before deserialising data into them
• Tag#toString() and Tag#toTagString() are now final to force child classes to use the maxDepth parameter
• Passing null to #compareTo now throws a NullPointerException
• Calculation of the maximum depth is inverted to allow a custom maximum depth
• Updated the javadoc for proper use of the maximum depth
• Negative ListTag and StructTag sizes are corrected to 0
• Removed Tag#getEmptyValue()
• Added unit tests for all changes