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primal folio Jul 6, 2025, 6:57 AM

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how to make sure that existing mobs wont despawn

narrow sedgeBOT Jul 6, 2025, 6:57 AM

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primal folio how to make sure that existing mobs wont despawn

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primal folio Jul 6, 2025, 6:57 AM

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zombie villagers

tame tartan Jul 6, 2025, 7:13 AM

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If you set PersistanceRequired to true on any mob, it won't despawn

primal folio Jul 6, 2025, 7:14 AM

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how

tame tartan Jul 6, 2025, 7:15 AM

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You'll need the /data command: https://datapack.wiki/wiki/command/data

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/data - Datapack Wiki

The data command is used to modify and fetch NBT data of blocks, entities and storages.

primal folio Jul 6, 2025, 10:03 AM

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execute as @e run data merge entity @s {PersistenceRequired:1b}
execute as @e run data merge entity @s {PersistenceRequired:1}

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i tried both

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it doesnt owrk

rich robin Jul 6, 2025, 11:13 AM

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it should work

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are you sure it doesnt

primal folio Jul 7, 2025, 7:16 AM

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yes

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they are gone

zenith current Jul 7, 2025, 12:21 PM

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could you perhaps be a little more specfic and give an example of a mob that despawned?

Because the above (if no red-text is in the output) should have achieved the no-despawning. This does not prevent zombies and skeletons from burning and enderman from dying/teleporting when it rains.

Are you using a modded client? Are you using mods? Both could very well cause the above to be ignored.

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