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Minecraft saves a lot of data in a file called level.dat. What can I use to edit this? When I try to open it in Notepad++ all I get is a bunch of random symbols... æ&$+¿[w.ÜŠÖÄŸ¶…9É2þ

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I don't know what you are looking to do with level.dat, but to edit a map, you could use MCEdit. To edit your inventory there is also InvEdit. – Djorak Aug 9 '11 at 12:43

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Minecraft's data files are in a proprietary file format called NBT (named binary tag).

The best general-purpose NBT editor I know of is the appropriately named NBTedit.

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