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Item despawn limit option

Why not choose a time limit option for your items to despawn if someone wants 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, minutes or 10 minutes or even 30 seconds and set to never despawn so players can find items they have lost or missed instead of only 5 minutes of time. It's either a cheat or game option. I would like it to be a game option.

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    Yes, like /gamerule itemDespawn <Ticks> or <t:Seconds>

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    Is this in the right category?

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    I feel this show be a gamerule option, just like entity cramming. Input would be an integer indicating the number of minutes with 0 being no despawn.

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    Love this idea, so many people could benefit from this. The default predictable limits of computer performance aren't applicable to everyone's computers, so some people need entities to despawn faster or longer depending on their situations. Redstone pros might want to minimize lag and want entity despawn to be faster (or maybe they want it to be longer depending on what they are trying to make) and survival players definitely want entity despawn to take way longer in order to give us time to find our stuff again, instead of having to race to the chunk and set render distance to 2 on the way to the death location just to make sure we can get as much time as possible to relocate our stuff while we are actually in the chunk. 

    I think that as well as frequently used options like you said like 1-10 or 30 minutes, the player should be able to enter a time length of how long they want items to be there (Maybe they want it to be an hour, or even 2? what if you died on an amplified world and half of your stuff fell on the top of the cliff and the rest at the bottom of a super long fall? that would require a lot of time to retrieve!). This is a variable that could definitely easily be adjusted and I think we should have the ability to change it in order to ensure the best out of gameplay.

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    This is the 3rd time in one day that I have lost extremely important items that have despawned right in front of me because it took me 5mins and about 2secs to find my inventory. So I keep find my thing just to see ALL my hard work vanish as I arrive. Like dude come on, its an infn world, really!

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    I agree with this statement i lost all my diamonds and im usally the farmer meanig i never mine so i am upset pls fix this asap

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    It shouldn't be a cheat option. Items in outside of Minecraft doesn't despawn magically.

    The option should be to enable despawning items after a period of time. The default should be, items doesn't despawn.