User:Malgalad/Links research
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Items[edit]
Items links in-game are presented in special encoded formatting: [&AgEBWgAA]. It is constructed from the two parts: AgEBWgAA contains information and [& ] is needed to distinguish normal text and links. The AgEBWgAA is a w:Base64 encoded string, decoding it gives you another string with mainly unprintable characters. Then this string is converted into it's numeric representation, according to w:ASCII character table: 2 1 1 90 0 0 in decimal or 0x02 0x01 0x01 0x5a 0x00 0x00 in w:hexademical radix. We will work in decimal radix since it is more human-friendly.
Normal items[edit]
2 Q B1 B2 0 F, where:
- 2 const.
- type of the subsequent link, 2 is used for item links.
- Q 1 byte, 0..255
- quantity of the item, usually 1.
- B1, B2 1 byte each, 0..255
- 2 bytes representing ID of the item. Bytes are written in w:little endian numbering, i.e. the least significant byte value is at the lowest address.
- B1 is the lowest address, and it takes values from 0 to 255
- B2 is the second address, and it's value should be multiplied by 256, i.e. 0 10 means 0+10*256=2560
- Together they can form any number from 0+0*256=0 to 255+255*256=65535, which is the actual item ID.
- 0 F 1 byte each, 0..255
- and empty byte and flag byte, that will be described later.
Example[edit]
Lets take our old friend [&AgEBWgAA], since we already decrypted it in 2 1 1 90 0 0. Here we have:
- 2
- means this is the item link
- 1
- means that this is only one item
- 1 90
- means that the item ID is 1+90*256=23041 (which is Fine Salvage Kit)
- 0 0
- means that the flag byte is unused.