Entities Format

Byte Order

entities.dat is stored in Little Endian byte order.

Parsing Entities

Part 1 (Getting the NBT with the Entities and TileEntities)

Name	Size (in bytes)	Description
Magic	4	The magic number used to identify the entities file. Always 0x454E5400 or ENT
Version	4	The version of the entities format. Always 1
NBT Compound Size	4	The length of the NBT Compound in bytes
NBT Compound	Variable	The NBT Compound holding the Entities and TileEntities

Part 2 (Getting Entities and TileEntities Data)

Entities

Tag Name	Tag Type	Description
Entities	ListTag of CompoundTags	List of all the entities in the world. Each CompoundTag is an Entity.

TileEntites

Tag Name	Tag Type	Description
TileEntities	ListTag of CompoundTags	List of all the tile entities in the world. Each CompoundTag is a Tile Entity.