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+# slimeball
+
+Slime world parsing in Rust
+
+Slimeball is a library providing helpers for loading and storing Minecraft worlds saved in the
+[Slime world format](https://hypixel.net/threads/dev-blog-5-storing-your-skyblock-island.2190753/).
+
+Anvil is historically a [very bloated format](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Chunk_format#Block_format), storing
+lots of data that is unnecessary for short-lived minigame servers. The Slime world format is similar, but contains much
+less world generation-related data and compresses much better (uses zstd).
+
+This library is intended for use in [crawlspace](https://github.com/xoogware/crawlspace), but a
+converter to prune and convert Anvil worlds to Slime is also being developed here.