diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d9028a6..16943cf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -58,11 +58,12 @@ TODO
 
 ## Limitations
 
-This currently only supports lowercase text in the latin alphabet, and byte arrays.
+This currently only supports lowercase text in the latin alphabet without numbers or anything - however, using `cat2text::core`, you can convert anything to meows, as long as you can put it in integers - which, you can.
 
 ## TODO
 
+- Add more bases - any base option?
+  - Once this is done, set base 4 as aliases of this
 - Make `core::{cat_to_num, num_to_cat}` usage consistent with each other
 - Improve CLI
 - Add error handling
-- Do `AsRef` stuff
diff --git a/src/anybase.rs b/src/anybase.rs
index 61957ad..8448623 100644
--- a/src/anybase.rs
+++ b/src/anybase.rs
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ pub fn decode(text: String, base: u32, char_length: u32) -> String {
 }
 
 pub mod bytes {
-    use super::alphabet;
+    use crate::anybase::alphabet;
     use crate::core;
     /// Encodes from bytes into catspeak
     ///
diff --git a/src/base4.rs b/src/base4.rs
index 5f9625d..cddd51b 100644
--- a/src/base4.rs
+++ b/src/base4.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-use crate::anybase;
+use crate::core;
 
 pub fn alphabet() -> Vec<String> {
-    let mut tmp = anybase::alphabet();
-    tmp.truncate(4);
-    return tmp;
+    return vec!["meow", "mrrp", "mreow", "mrow"]
+        .into_iter()
+        .map(|a| a.to_string())
+        .collect();
 }
 
 /// How many words long a character is when translated to catspeak
@@ -11,16 +12,42 @@ pub fn char_length() -> u32 {
     return 3;
 }
 
-
 /// Encodes english text into base 4 catspeak
-///
+/// 
 /// ```
 /// use cat2text::base4::encode;
-///
+/// 
 /// assert_eq!("meow mreow mrrp; meow mrow meow meow mrow mrow mrrp mrrp mreow meow mrrp mrrp; meow meow mrow meow meow mrrp mrrp mrrp meow mrrp meow mrow", encode("i love cats".to_string()))
 /// ```
 pub fn encode(text: impl AsRef<str>) -> String {
-    return anybase::encode(text.as_ref().to_string(), 4, char_length());
+    let text = text.as_ref();
+    // makes it lowercase and split by spaces
+    let words: Vec<String> = text
+        .to_ascii_lowercase()
+        .split(" ")
+        .map(|item| return item.to_string())
+        .collect();
+    let mut words_as_bytes: Vec<Vec<u8>> = Vec::new();
+    for word in words {
+        // convert to bytes then subtract by 96
+        words_as_bytes.push(word.as_bytes().into_iter().map(|item| item - 96).collect());
+    }
+
+    let mut results: Vec<Vec<String>> = Vec::new();
+    for i in 0..words_as_bytes.len() {
+        results.push(Vec::new());
+        for j in 0..words_as_bytes[i].len() {
+            results[i].push(core::num_to_cat(
+                words_as_bytes[i][j] as u32,
+                alphabet(),
+                char_length(),
+            ));
+        }
+    }
+
+    let results: Vec<String> = results.into_iter().map(|item| item.join(" ")).collect();
+    let results = results.join("; ");
+    return results;
 }
 
 /// Decodes base 4 catspeak to english text
@@ -31,32 +58,70 @@ pub fn encode(text: impl AsRef<str>) -> String {
 /// assert_eq!("i love cats", decode("meow mreow mrrp; meow mrow meow meow mrow mrow mrrp mrrp mreow meow mrrp mrrp; meow meow mrow meow meow mrrp mrrp mrrp meow mrrp meow mrow".to_string()));
 /// ```
 pub fn decode(text: String) -> String {
-    return anybase::decode(text, 4, char_length())
+    let catspeak_words: Vec<String> = text
+        .split("; ")
+        .map(|item| item.to_string())
+        .collect();
+    let mut output: String = String::new();
+    for engl_word in catspeak_words {
+        let mut word = String::new();
+        for engl_letter in core::split_every_x(engl_word, 3) {
+            let char_num = core::cat_to_num(
+                engl_letter
+                    .split(" ")
+                    .map(|item| item.to_string())
+                    .collect(),
+                alphabet(),
+                char_length(),
+            );
+            word += String::from_utf8(vec![(char_num + 96) as u8])
+                .unwrap()
+                .as_str();
+        }
+        word += " ";
+        output += word.as_str();
+    }
+
+    return output.trim().to_string();
 }
 
+
 pub mod bytes {
-    use crate::anybase;
-    use super::char_length;
-    /// Encodes from bytes into catspeak
-    ///
-    /// ```
-    /// use cat2text::base4::bytes::encode;
-    ///
-    /// assert_eq!("meow meow mreow mrrp meow meow meow mrrp", encode(&[9, 1]));
-    /// ```
-    pub fn encode(bytes: impl AsRef<[u8]>) -> String {
-        anybase::bytes::encode(bytes, 4, char_length())
-    }
-
-    /// Decodes catspeak into bytes
-    ///
-    /// ```
-    /// use cat2text::base4::bytes::decode;
-    ///
-    /// assert_eq!(vec![9, 1], decode("meow meow mreow mrrp meow meow meow mrrp".to_string()));
-    /// ```
-    pub fn decode(text: String) -> Vec<u8> {
-        anybase::bytes::decode(text, 4, char_length())
+    use crate::core;
+    use crate::base4::alphabet;
+/// Encodes from bytes into catspeak
+/// 
+/// ```
+/// use cat2text::base4::bytes::encode;
+/// 
+/// assert_eq!("meow meow mreow mrrp meow meow meow mrrp", encode(&[9, 1]));
+/// ```
+pub fn encode(bytes: impl AsRef<[u8]>) -> String {
+    let mut output = String::new();
+    for byte in bytes.as_ref() {
+        output += core::num_to_cat(*byte as u32, alphabet(), 4).as_str();
+        output += " ";
     }
+    return output.trim().to_string();
 }
-// ..............d......4..............a.q..a....y..d..w...a............
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+
+/// Decodes catspeak into bytes
+///
+/// ```
+/// use cat2text::base4::bytes::decode;
+///
+/// assert_eq!(vec![9, 1], decode("meow meow mreow mrrp meow meow meow mrrp".to_string()));
+/// ```
+pub fn decode(text: String) -> Vec<u8> {
+    let mut output: Vec<u8> = Vec::new();
+    for byte in core::split_every_x(text.clone(), 4) {
+        output.push(core::cat_to_num(
+            byte.split(" ").map(|item| item.to_string()).collect(),
+            alphabet(),
+            4,
+        ) as u8);
+    }
+    return output;
+}
+
+}
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