DigStats Reader

Library for reading Minecraft's NBT data.

Example Usage

use BadMushroom\DigStatsReader;

$filePath = '/Full/Path/To/level.dat';
$reader = DigStatsReader\TagReader::fromDatFile($filePath);

try {
    while (($tag = $reader->readTag()) !== null) {
        print_r($tag);
    }
} catch (\Exception $e) {
    print($e->getMessage());
}

Technical Notes

NBT (Named Binary Tag)

It is the file format used by Minecraft to store structured game data in a compact, efficient, and hierarchical manner. NBT is designed to handle the vast amounts of data Minecraft needs to track, such as player stats, world metadata, entity data, and block states.

TAG Data Format

Tag Type	Name	Length/Format	Notes
0	TAG_End	No data	Marks the end of a TAG_Compound.
1	TAG_Byte	1 byte	8-bit signed integer.
2	TAG_Short	2 bytes	16-bit signed integer.
3	TAG_Int	4 bytes	32-bit signed integer.
4	TAG_Long	8 bytes	64-bit signed integer.
5	TAG_Float	4 bytes	32-bit floating-point number.
6	TAG_Double	8 bytes	64-bit floating-point number.
7	TAG_Byte_Array	4 bytes (length) + length bytes	Array of bytes.
8	TAG_String	2 bytes (length) + length UTF-8 chars	UTF-8 string.
9	TAG_List	1 byte (type) + 4 bytes (length) + data	List of unnamed tags of the same type.
10	TAG_Compound	Series of named tags + TAG_End	Compound structure.
11	TAG_Int_Array	4 bytes (length) + length * 4 bytes	Array of 32-bit integers.
12	TAG_Long_Array	4 bytes (length) + length * 8 bytes	Array of 64-bit integers.