For instance, if we wanted to check whether the list (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) contained the number nine, we would have to look at the first element (one), then the second, all the way until the 9th. To check if a value is there, a naive approach would go from the beginning to the end of the list, searching for the data. Let’s compare it to a simple list of values. The purpose of the binary search tree is to speed up lookups. This continues until either a node with the same value is found, or until there is no child left to examine - the algorithm reached the end of the tree. Similarly, if the data is larger, it the search moves on to the right child. If the data is less, it moves on to the left child, and performs the same operation there. If the data it’s looking for is equal to that of the root, the search ends there. In order to find the data in the tree, a program would first examine the very first node of the BST, called the root. Conventionally, left children always have a value that is below (or comes before) the value of the node whose child they are (their parent), and right children have a bigger value. The children are generally classified as right and left. Each node can have up to two children (sub-nodes), and each of those can have up to two children, etc. In a BST, the nodes are organized in a simple way. A BST is made up of nodes, objects that actually hold the pieces of data that the tree itself organizes. For instance, as an example, I’ll be using a BST that holds integers. Binary Search trees (and B-Trees in general) operate on data that can be ordered consistently, the simplest example being numbers. The B-Tree is a generalization of a Binary Search Tree, or BST for short. Before I go into what I managed to determine from the code, we may first take a look at one thing that we already know about the world format - it is a B-Tree.
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This section will contain information on how to retrieve a value from a BTreeDB5 database. The only thing in FORMATs.md on this subject was: One key piece of information was missing from it - how the BTreeDB5 was organized beyond its header. This file proved very helpful, though slightly incomplete. Py-starbound, nicely enough, actually has a file named FORMATS.md. Neither of these was in a language that I felt comfortable using for my project, so there was only one solution - to figure out the formats that they used, and try one more time to write my own. The next links in my search results were py-starbound, and its friend, by the same author, go-starbound. Instead, a very similar BTreeDB5 was what greeted me at the beginning of the file. According to the website, I was supposed to see: I tried to follow the outline with my own implementation, but things weren’t working. Looking up “starbound file formats” led me immediately here. There wasn’t a really clear idea in my head as to what I was going to do, but I wanted to start writing something and see what happens. After playing a few hours of Starbound, I decided that I wanted to mess around with its file format, perhaps make a save manager/swapper, or something.