Minecraft plugin NBTAPI

🔌 About NBT-API

NBT-API (Item-NBT-API) is a Minecraft plugin library that lets developers read, write and attach NBT tags to items, entities and tile entities without using NMS. The project exposes a stable wrapper for working with NBT across server versions and provides utilities to serialize and persist NBT data.

🎯 Purpose

Provide a developer-facing API for manipulating Named Binary Tag (NBT) data so plugin authors can store metadata, custom item data, entity tags or tile-entity data without directly depending on server internals.

⚙️ Features

• Read and write NBT for items, entities and tile entities.
• Create and modify nested NBT compounds and primitive tag types.
• Utilities to store NBT as text or in other containers.
• Support for serializing NBT into files or as strings for storage in YAML/JSON/SQL/Redis.
• Aims to provide a stable abstraction layer across server version changes.

🧩 Who It Is For

• Plugin developers needing reliable NBT access without writing NMS.
• Servers that require custom item metadata or persistent entity/tile data managed by plugins.

🏗️ Example Use Cases

• Attach custom metadata to an item stack that persists across saves.
• Store extra properties on entities (for example custom identifiers) without changing server code.
• Serialize item or block NBT into a database or configuration file for later restoration.

⚙️ Installation

📥 Setup

• Download the official plugin JAR and/or include the API as a dependency in your build system.
• Place the plugin JAR into the server plugins/ directory (if using the plugin build) or add the API as a compile/runtime dependency for your plugin.
• Restart the server and check the server console to confirm the library/plugin loaded correctly.

🧠 Technical Notes

• The project is published and maintained on GitHub and is distributed under the MIT license.
• Official sources identify support for Bukkit/Spigot/Paper server environments.
• The library includes modules for direct use in plugin projects and a plugin module for server use.

🤝 When This Plugin Is Useful

If you need reliable, version-tolerant access to NBT for items, entities or tile entities without touching NMS, NBT-API provides a focused library that simplifies reading, writing and persisting that data for plugin developers.