Co-authored-by: MD <1917406+mdcfe@users.noreply.github.com>
This PR makes use of Paper's item serialization to serialize items into base64 allowing for all items to be properly stored without needing to manual write in special cases for every complex item. There is a config option to disable using this new serialization and use the legacy ItemDB serializer since the new serializer removes the ability to manually edit/read kits.
Defaults to not enabled
Note: The new serializer places an @ sign in front of items serialized by the new format in order to quickly determine what is serialized by the new serializer and also to retain backward compatibility with the old serializer.
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This PR itself does nothing on its own but creates the underlying backbone I need to make a less hacky solution in #3963 lmfao.
This PR creates a provider which uses NBT on 1.8.8-1.13 to mimic the exact structure of a PersistentDataContainer on 1.14+ which will allow us make any possible upgrades (which don't die from the lack of DFU on >1.13) work as expected. Additionally, this does not use reflection on modern Minecraft versions and thus will not need to be maintained/updated on MC version updates.
In the future, we will need to find a way to store data on tile entities (signs namely) so that we are able to store UUIDs on signs for future plans, but for now ItemStacks work to fix our spawner issues.
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