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author Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
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-Basics
-======
-
-When you connect to a server you get a `Bot` object back.  You can connect with
-`(clojurecraft.core/connect {:name "hostname" :port INT})`.
-
-Once you've got a bot you can query it for data about its world and tell it to
-perform actions.
-
-Transactions
-============
-
-There are two main types of data you'll want to observe with your bots: chunks and
-entities.  A `World` object contains two maps: one of entities and one of chunks.
-
-Each of these maps is a ref, and each of the entries in each map is also a ref.  This
-may seem excessive -- why not simply make each map a ref *or* each entry a ref?
-
-### Top-Level Refs
-
-The maps themselves clearly need to be refs so that multiple bots sharing the same
-world can update them safely.
-
-### Entry Refs
-
-To understand the reason for making each entity a ref consider a bot with the
-following goal:
-
-"Find all the hostile mobs.  Pick the one with the lowest health and attack it."
-
-Now imagine that during the process of picking a mob to kill the bot received an
-update about one of the peaceful entities.
-
-If the entries of the map were not themselves refs the bot would *have* to
-synchronize on the entire map.  This peaceful entity update would cause a retry of
-the transaction even though the bot doesn't care about peaceful entities at all!
-
-Making each entity its own ref means we can do the following:
-
-* Inside of a dosync:
-  * Find all the hostile mobs.
-  * `ensure` on all of them.
-  * Perform our calculations.
-
-This lets us ignore updates to peaceful mobs, but retry when a hostile mob is updated
-(perhaps someone else has killed one).  Keeping the "find mobs" step inside the
-dosync ensures that if a mob despawns we will be looking at an accurate list the next
-time we retry.
-
-Note that if a new hostile mob is spawned it will not cause a retry.  If you are
-performing an action that needs perfectly accurate data you can always synchronize
-on the maps themselves, but be aware that this will probably not be very performant.
-
-### Entity Despawns
-
-This also reveals the reason for the `:despawned` entry in an `Entity` object: if we
-simply removed the entity from the map when it despawned any transactions depending
-on that entity wouldn't be restarted.  Setting the `:despawned` value on an entity
-modifies it and triggers appropriate retries.
-
-Actions
-=======
-
-Actions are functions that take a `Bot` object and some arguments and handle writing
-the packets to make the bot perform the action.
-
-### move
-
-`(clojurecraft.actions/move bot x y z)`
-
-The `move` action adjusts the location of the bot.  This lets it move around the
-world.
-
-Right now you can't really use the `y` argument.  Use `clojurecraft.actions/jump`
-instead.
-
-This action is fairly low level.  Expect to see some fun path-finding
-algorithms/libraries in the future that will remove the need to call this directly.
-
-### jump
-
-`(clojurecraft.actions/jump bot)`
-
-Tells the bot to jump, if possible.
-
-Events
-======
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+Actions
+=======
+
+Actions are functions that take a ``Bot`` object and some arguments and handle
+writing the packets to make the bot perform the action.
+
+jump
+----
+
+``(clojurecraft.actions/jump bot)``
+
+Tells the bot to jump, if possible.
+
+move
+----
+
+``(clojurecraft.actions/move bot x y z)``
+
+The ``move`` action adjusts the location of the bot.  This lets it move around the
+world.
+
+Right now you can't really use the ``y`` argument.  Use ``clojurecraft.actions/jump``
+instead.
+
+This action is fairly low level.  Expect to see some fun path-finding
+algorithms/libraries in the future that will remove the need to call this directly.
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+Basic Concepts
+==============
+
+When you connect to a server you get a ``Bot`` object back.  You can connect with
+``(clojurecraft.core/connect {:name "hostname" :port INT} "username")``.
+
+Once you've got a bot you can query it for data about its world and tell it to
+perform actions.
+
+
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+Events
+======
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@@ -15,7 +15,11 @@
    :maxdepth: 2
 
    quickstart
+   basics
    datastructures
+   transactions
+   actions
+   events
 
 
 Indices and tables
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+Transactions
+============
+
+There are two main types of data you'll want to observe with your bots: chunks and
+entities.  A ``World`` object contains two maps: one of entities and one of chunks.
+
+Each of these maps is a ref, and each of the entries in each map is also a ref.  This
+may seem excessive -- why not simply make each map a ref *or* each entry a ref?
+
+Top-Level Refs
+--------------
+
+The maps themselves clearly need to be refs so that multiple bots sharing the same
+world can update them safely.
+
+Entry Refs
+----------
+
+To understand the reason for making each entity a ref consider a bot with the
+following goal:
+
+"Find all the hostile mobs.  Pick the one with the lowest health and attack it."
+
+Now imagine that during the process of picking a mob to kill the bot received an
+update about one of the peaceful entities.
+
+If the entries of the map were not themselves refs the bot would *have* to
+synchronize on the entire map.  This peaceful entity update would cause a retry of
+the transaction even though the bot doesn't care about peaceful entities at all!
+
+Making each entity its own ref means we can do the following:
+
+* Inside of a dosync:
+    * Find all the hostile mobs.
+    * ``ensure`` on all of them.
+    * Perform our calculations.
+
+This lets us ignore updates to peaceful mobs, but retry when a hostile mob is updated
+(perhaps someone else has killed one).  Keeping the "find mobs" step inside the
+dosync ensures that if a mob despawns we will be looking at an accurate list the next
+time we retry.
+
+Note that if a new hostile mob is spawned it will not cause a retry.  If you are
+performing an action that needs perfectly accurate data you can always synchronize
+on the maps themselves, but be aware that this will probably not be very performant.
+
+Entity Despawns
+---------------
+
+This also reveals the reason for the ``:despawned`` entry in an ``Entity`` object: if
+we simply removed the entity from the map when it despawned any transactions
+depending on that entity wouldn't be restarted.  Setting the ``:despawned`` value on
+an entity modifies it and triggers appropriate retries.
+
+