diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index ad67955..0728338 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,8 @@ target
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+
+
+# Added by cargo
+
+/target
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index 0000000..fc027c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
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diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0a705bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
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+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2024"
+description = "Opinionated Minecraft server supervisor engine built primarily for RustyMine"
+readme = "README.md"
+homepage = "https://mineguard.h3cx.dev"
+repository = "https://github.com/H3ct0r55/MineGuard"
+license = "MIT"
+# publish set to false during development
+publish = false
+
+[dependencies]
+thiserror = "2.0.17"
+tokio = { version = "1.48.0", features = ["process", "rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tokio-stream = "0.1.17"
diff --git a/src/config.rs b/src/config.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..349f2a0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+use std::fmt::{self, Display};
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum MinecraftType {
+    Vanilla,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct Version {
+    pub major: u32,
+    pub minor: u32,
+    pub patch: u32,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub struct Snapshot {
+    pub year: u32,
+    pub week: u32,
+    pub build: char,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub enum MinecraftVersion {
+    Release(Version),
+    Snapshot(Snapshot),
+}
+
+impl Display for Version {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}.{}.{}", self.major, self.minor, self.patch)
+    }
+}
+
+impl Display for Snapshot {
+    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
+        write!(f, "{}w{:02}{}", self.year, self.week, self.build)
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38bcd7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+use thiserror::Error;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Error)]
+pub enum Error {
+    #[error("Undefined error")]
+    Generic,
+}
+
+type Result<T> = std::result::Result<T, Error>;
diff --git a/src/instance.rs b/src/instance.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..12835b3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/instance.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+use std::path::PathBuf;
+
+use crate::config::MinecraftVersion;
+
+pub struct InstanceData {
+    pub root_dir: PathBuf,
+    pub jar_path: PathBuf,
+    pub version: MinecraftVersion,
+}
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..213d6ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pub mod config;
+pub mod error;
+pub mod instance;