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+# WorldEditAdditions Schematic File Format
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+- **Current version:** v1-DRAFT
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+This file format specification describes the format of WorldEditAdditions schematic files. The words `MUST`, `MAY`, `SHALL`, `MUST NOT`, etc that are used in this document are defined as in [RFC 2119](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt).
+
+Explanations and descriptions have both a technical description and a formal BNF description. Where the two differ, the formal BNF will always take precedence.
+
+## Purpose
+The WorldEditAdditions Schematic file format is designed to store schematics of structures in the Minetest world in an efficient text-based format. It is also designed to store just the changes from one copy of the world to another (deltas).
+
+The rationale behind this format are as follows:
+
+1. No other Minetest schematic format is capable of optionally storing changesets.
+2. The WorldEdit format (alternative A) is space-inefficient.
+3. No simple text-based format exists for storing Minetest schematics at this time, so the best of the authors' knowledge.
+
+
+## File extension
+The file extension for WorldEditAdditions Schematic files MUST be `.weaschem`. Implementers SHOULD NOT choose to also parse files without this file extension.
+
+### Compression
+WorldEditAdditions Schematics MAY be gzip-compressed. In such cases, the file extension MUST be `.weaschem.gz`. Implementers MUST transparently decompress them and parse them as normal.
+
+## Terms
+> Minetest
+
+The voxel-based sandbox building game [Minetest](https://minetest.net/).
+
+> Deltas
+
+The differences between a given region of the world at a given time and the same region some time later.
+
+> BNF
+
+[Backus-Naur form](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus%E2%80%93Naur_form). Used to formally describe the file format.
+
+> JSON Schema
+
+The description of the format of a JSON object. See also: <https://json-schema.org/>. 
+
+> `\n`
+
+Stands for the ASCII character new line U+0A. Wherever this symbol appears, substitute with this character.
+
+## Overview
+The format can be divided into 4 sequential parts:
+
+1. **Magic bytes:** The string `WEASCHEM\n` is always the beginning of the file.
+2. **Header:** Contains metadata about the schematic.
+3. **ID map:** The map of node ids to their respective node names.
+4. **Data tables:** The actual data itself.
+
+As an example:
+
+```
+WEASCHEM
+<json_header_here>
+<id_map_here>
+<data_table_data>
+<data_table_param1>
+```
+
+....where text in the form `<abc>` are placeholders. More formally:
+
+```bnf
+<weaschem> ::= <magic_bytes> <header> <nl> <id_map> <nl> <data_table_list>
+
+<nl> ::= "\n"
+
+<magic_bytes> ::= WEASCHEM <nl>
+
+<data_table_list> ::= <data_table>
+	| <data_table> <nl> <data_table_list>
+```
+
+The non-terminal tokens `<header>`, `<id_map>`, and `<data_table>` are defined below.
+
+## Header
+The header of the file contains all the metadata about the schematic required to restore it into the world. The header is defined as a JSON object on a single line, followed by a new line (`\n`):
+
+```
+{"foo":"bar"}\n
+```
+
+This JSON object follows the following JSON schema:
+
+```json
+{
+	"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+	"$id": "TODO: FILL THIS OUT",
+	"title": "Header",
+	"description": "The header that contains the schematic's metadata.",
+	"type": "object",
+	"properties": {
+		"name": {
+			"description": "The human-readable display name of the schematic.",
+			"type": "string"
+		},
+		"description": {
+			"description": "A short description of the schematic.",
+			"type": "string"
+		},
+		"pos1": {
+			"description": "Position 1 of the defined region that this schematic takes up. MAY be in object space, or MAY be in world space.",
+			"type": "object"
+		},
+		"pos2": {
+			"description": "Position 2 of the defined region that this schematic takes up. MAY be in object space, or MAY be in world space, but whatever space its in it MUST match pos1.",
+			"type": "object"
+		},
+		"type": {
+			"description": "The type of schematic this is. Valid values: full, delta.",
+			"type": "string"
+		},
+		"generator": {
+			"description": "The name and version of the software that generated this schematic.",
+			"type": "string"
+		}
+	},
+	"required": [ "name", "pos1", "pos2", "type", "generator" ],
+}
+```
+
+A specific example of a header JSON object is noted below. This example is pretty-printed for convenience, but in the real file format it is stored compacted - i.e. all on one line with no pretty-printed whitespace.
+
+```json
+{
+	"name": "A castle",
+	"description": "A grand fairy tale-style castle with multiple towers.",
+	"pos1": { "x": 450, "y": 11, "z": 2301 },
+	"pos2": { "x": 1026, "y": 11, "z": 3017 },
+	"type": "full",
+	"generator": "WorldEditAdditions v1.14"
+}
+```
+
+
+### Positioning
+TODO: Describe schematic pos1/pos2 positioning here.
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