General Information

Minecraft Earth stores buildplates as base64 encoded json files. EarthBuildplateEditor uses the file extensions .plate and .plate64 to represent unencoded json data and base64 encoded data respectively.

At the root of this Json file we have 3 tags:

An entities tag which holds a list of all active entities on the plate a format_version tag which stores the format version. However, with Minecraft Earth no longer being updated the likelihood of this number being updated is very low and so it might as well be referred to as a constant. Finally, there is a sub_chunks tag which holds the subchunks that compose the buildplate.