Get unloaded entity or prevent entity from unloading

[Nani1234567890]

Help! I don’t know how to do this!

[kaydogz]

For custom entities, you can override canDespawn. For vanilla entities, you can use the LivingSpawnEvent.AllowDespawn hook.

[DavidM]

You cannot prevent a single entity from unloading. You can only prevent the chunk it is in from unloading, which will in turn prevent the entity from unloading.

[Nani1234567890]

When I go to far away it unloads and the chunk is still loaded and with the canDespawn set to false. Is there a way to get a list of unloaded entities?

Edited May 13, 2020 by Nani1234567890

[DavidM]

  On 5/13/2020 at 5:54 AM, Nani1234567890 said:

Is there a way to get a list of unloaded entities?

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There is no way without loading the chunks.

What are you trying to achieve?

Edited May 13, 2020 by DavidM

[Nani1234567890]

I have this method to get entities Id from uuid and it loops through the loaded entity list. But when the unload they are removed from the loaded entity list and the id return is not correct.

[DavidM]

What are you trying to do from a user's perspective? This is becoming the xy problem.

If an entity is unloaded then you should not get it from UUID. Remember: unloaded entities do not exist! You cannot interact  with them.

Edited May 13, 2020 by DavidM

[Nani1234567890]

I have not done anything yet I’m just testing it with printing of the entity is there