An event for when an entity despawns?

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Greetings!

I’m quite new to Sponge and I’ve taken it upon myself to learn the API by creating some mock plugins. First thing I wanted to do was recreate the functionality of Citizens, since I felt it would be a good way to get familiar with the way Sponge deals with Entities and all that.

One of the first issues I’ve run into is that Entities ( including Human ones ) disappear if there isn’t a player close enough. I haven’t measured the range or anything, and I’m presuming this is common knowledge, not reporting a bug or anything here.

I was just wondering if there was an event in the API I’ve failed to notice that could help me handle this despawning behavior?

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Does DestructEntityEvent fire for that?

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No, I’ve just tested it, and it doesn’t appear to. When killing an entity it does, but when I fly away and the entity despawns, it doesn’t seem to ( I set up a logger to log when the event happens but it only triggered when I killed a mob ).

4

File a ticket on the SpongeAPI github then.