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diff --git a/patches/api/0371-Added-byte-array-serialization-deserialization-for-P.patch b/patches/api/0371-Added-byte-array-serialization-deserialization-for-P.patch
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+From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Nex <[email protected]>
+Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:28:08 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH] Added byte array serialization/deserialization for
+ PersistentDataContainers
+
+
+diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/persistence/PersistentDataContainer.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/persistence/PersistentDataContainer.java
+index 18fc4f1c7151bfdeed32a52cf5050a76ebc391d6..decf3b1949d4653a9fb01684b93ff91048137076 100644
+--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/persistence/PersistentDataContainer.java
++++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/persistence/PersistentDataContainer.java
+@@ -184,4 +184,39 @@ public interface PersistentDataContainer {
+      */
+     @NotNull
+     PersistentDataAdapterContext getAdapterContext();
++
++    // Paper start - byte array serialization
++    /**
++     * Serialize this {@link PersistentDataContainer} instance to a
++     * byte array.
++     *
++     * @return a binary representation of this container
++     * @throws java.io.IOException if we fail to write this container to a byte array
++     */
++    byte @NotNull [] serializeToBytes() throws java.io.IOException;
++
++    /**
++     * Read values from a serialised byte array into this
++     * {@link PersistentDataContainer} instance.
++     *
++     * @param bytes the byte array to read from
++     * @param clear if true, this {@link PersistentDataContainer} instance
++     *              will be cleared before reading
++     * @throws java.io.IOException if the byte array has an invalid format
++     */
++    void readFromBytes(byte @NotNull [] bytes, boolean clear) throws java.io.IOException;
++
++    /**
++     * Read values from a serialised byte array into this
++     * {@link PersistentDataContainer} instance.
++     * This method has the same effect as
++     * <code>PersistentDataContainer#readFromBytes(bytes, true)</code>
++     *
++     * @param bytes the byte array to read from
++     * @throws java.io.IOException if the byte array has an invalid format
++     */
++    default void readFromBytes(final byte @NotNull [] bytes) throws java.io.IOException {
++        this.readFromBytes(bytes, true);
++    }
++    // Paper end - byte array serialization
+ }