Enderpearls should forget their owner when the player dies

Currently, when a player dies, any enderpearls which "belong" to the player, remain associated with that player.

This is a problem for minigames, as it means that for example: in a minigame, when a player dies and is teleported back to a starting location, an enderpearl of theirs may later land, bringing them back to their original location. This becomes especially problematic on large maps, where the original enderpearl may be in an unloaded chunk.

This issue has "always" been present, but has become more-obvious now that the DoImmediateRespawn rule exists, as this makes it more-likely for a player to respawn prior to their thrown enderpearl landing.

This issue could be mitigated by having enderpearls belong to a player's life, rather than to the player alone. ie, the association would be: [<player>, <number of deaths>], rather than <player>

As some players create "stasis chambers" to intentionally teleport far-away players using enderpearls, and an obvious use of such chambers would be to teleport players "back" to an area after they die, this should probable be controlled via a GameRule (eg: "KeepEnderpearlOwnerOnDeath"), defaulting to true, but allowing minigame creators to disable the rule.

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December 13, 2019 03:27
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I think that this is a good idea and maybe it instead should be keep player ender pearls after death which kills all ender pearls thrown by that player after they die.

September 14, 2020 19:10
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I don't see the problem. What's wrong with enderpearl stasis chambers, or unloaded chunk teleportation? These glitches require very specific conditions that most servers can not provide. And though they are technically an exploits, the devs have at least known about them for years, and have not removed them, meaning they don't cause much of a problem. They also can make very interesting and creative builds.

And if you don't like the exploit, then you can do 2 very simple things;

1. Don't play on servers that allow the exploit

2. Don't use the exploit

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Enderpearls should forget their owner when the player dies

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