Originally Posted by
Luke132
when java saves a dat file it doesnt write it as "text" that we can read, it saves it as bytes (the strings are converted to bytes also) hence the unreadability, you have to change your saving to write to text instead of data using BufferedWriter, 90% of servers use text saving so just use another server as a reference. its easily c+p'able the only time consuming thing is adding all your servers variables to it
edit : a quick google search of "write java text file" and "write java data file" will show you the differences im talking about - yes i just searched it myself