VoidSentryUltimate

VoidSentryUltimate is a schema-driven binary serializer for Roblox Luau, optimized for low overhead. LuauVS.luau provides the portable Luau subset for non-roblox environments.

The library is intentionally validation-free. It does not check values, lengths, integer ranges, buffer capacity, or schema compatibility before reading or writing. The sender and receiver must use the same schema at both ends.

Basic workflow

1. Build a schema from nodes in VoidSentryUltimate.Types.
2. Serialize a matching value into a buffer.
3. Send or store that buffer.
4. Deserialize it with the same schema.

local VoidSentryUltimate = require(path.to.VoidSentryUltimate)
local Types = VoidSentryUltimate.Types

local PlayerState = Types.Schema {
	Health = Types.UInt,
	Name = Types.String8,
	Position = Types.Vector,
}

local encoded = PlayerState.Serialize {
	Health = 100,
	Name = "Builder",
	Position = Vector3.new(4, 8, 15),
}

local decoded = PlayerState.Deserialize(encoded)
print(decoded.Name, decoded.Health)

Schemas are executable serialization nodes, not metadata embedded in the output. Buffers contain only the bytes selected by the schema, so there is no type tag or self-description to recover a missing schema.

Choose a module

• Use VoidSentryUltimate.luau in Roblox. Its Wally package is elentium/voidsentryultimate@1.1.2. It includes Roblox datatypes, instance references, and serializable instances.
• Use LuauVS.luau for pure Luau. Its Wally package is elentium/voidsentryultimateluau@1.1.2. It includes scalar, string, buffer, collection, optional, packed-boolean, and vector nodes, but no Roblox-only types.

Important constraints

• Invalid values can truncate, wrap, fail inside buffer operations, or produce unreadable data.
• Variable-length values include a length prefix; fixed variants do not.
• The initial serialization scratch buffer is 1,000,000 bytes. Use SetWriteBufferSize from the API when you need a different limit.

Continue with Installation, then Schemas and the Type catalog. Measured throughput and a Sera comparison are in Benchmarks.