entities despawning

[quasi echo]

When does it despawn

[austere prism]

when restarting the server i think

i'm not actually sure but read this #1449975064094048337 message

maybe ask buddelbubi about the entity issue

[quasi echo]

Yeah i also had same thing but idk is it fixed

[austere prism]

i'll test it now

okay

hologram entity disappears when restarting the server

[austere prism]

i'm using the latest build

[tiny sigil]

Self coded? Or from my Hologram plugin?

[austere prism]

yours

[tiny sigil]

Try /save-all

Idk

[austere prism]

doesn't work unforunately

[quasi echo]

hey

i solved this after hours of thinking

use isPersistent function on your entity class

and set it to true

[austere prism]

oh okay

shouldn't this be implemented on the servers side at some point instead of all plugins?

[quasi echo]

idk, maybe

it can implemented on customentity interface

[austere prism]

yeah cause normal entities despawn

[quasi echo]

idk about normal entities but proably there is a problem if it isn't implemented yet

[austere prism]

no i meant like normal entities are supposed to despawn

anyway

thanks

[quasi echo]

they are

atleast some of them

[austere prism]

yeah

[austere prism]

erm

it doesn't work...

i checked if the entity is persistent and restarted the server but it still disappears

i also changed the hologram plugin to set the entities persistency to true

[quasi echo]

it worked on me

weird

[austere prism]

yeah idk

i even set the holograms despawnable property to false

[green kraken]

custom entity isPersistent is already there, by default any entity that is not persistent will despawn, this is Bedrock behavior to optimize the server.
if you create a custom entity and want it to be persistent you have to set it
vanilla entities that is persistent as example are NPCs, villagers and few others

but if you setup a custom entity that extend Human, then in that case aside of isPersistent tag you also need to reload the skin data on init, as these entities are not mobs oriented as others, they will act like players

[austere prism]

oh

so you're saying implement it like buddlebubis npc plugin?

[green kraken]

if you dont need to have it like human, npc would work
you only use human type if you need to load data from players, like skin, etc..

[austere prism]

it still despawns when persistent though?

holograms extend entity not entityhuman

[green kraken]

paste your code here

[austere prism]

it's not my plugin, it's buddelbubis

but i changed persistence here:

        CompoundTag tag = Entity.getDefaultNBT(position);
        ListTag<StringTag> linesTag = new ListTag<>(lines.stream().map(StringTag::new).toList());
        tag.putList(EntityHologram.LINES, linesTag);
        EntityHologram hologram = new EntityHologram(position.getChunk(), tag);
        hologram.setNameTag(identifier);
        hologram.setPersistent(true);
        hologram.spawnToAll();
        return hologram;
    }```

i also made a command to check if nearby entities are persistent to validate this

[green kraken]

I dont know the code of Buddel`s plugin, better him to guide you here then, but regarding the persistance, you can try to add setPersistent on init, test if it works

[austere prism]

alr

[arctic oar]

did it work? @austere prism

[quasi echo]

You may need to set persistent in definition tho