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@d to target all dead entities

The only entities you can target with 0 health are players (since @e can't target mobs with 0 health), so I believe there should be a way to target all dead entities.

To clear some things up, this targets entities that are still in death time but have not yet been deleted from the world.

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    What if we just made @e work with dead mobs?

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    @e with dead mobs would be counter-intuitive (it could pick up mobs after /kill'ing them, which doesn't make sense) and also would break current datapacks. I suggesting adding a selector argument, "include_dead" (true/false) that determines whether the selector would pick up dead entities. On @e, the default is false for compatibility purposes, and on @a and @p and @s the default is true. It would also be nice if the flag is_alive was added to predicates.

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    That could work as well. I don't really care which way it's implemented. I just would really prefer if we could target dead mobs.

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    ItZBlockBoyZ

    When a mob dies, whether through the kill command or other means, they don't disappear instantly. For a short amount of time, they turn red and fall over, before being deleted from the world. During this time, the entity is still there, but it cannot be targeted by any target selectors (unless it is a dead player, which can be targeted using @a). This post is asking for the ability to target mobs while they are in that stage of death. I don't think the original poster meant that he wanted the ability to target mobs that have already been deleted from the world, which is something I oppose and probably what you thought when you saw this.

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    To people who may be confused: this would target mobs that have died but haven't been removed from the world yet, ie when they are colored red right before they poof. This would be useful because it would allow us to differentiate between when a mob unloads and when it is actually killed, for example.

    Technically, @s can target dead mobs, but you would have to be executing as the dead entity already which isn't possible.

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    Dead mobs get unloaded when they die dont they. If they didnt, the game would have some lag issues

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    Or just take the existing @e and expand it with a [dead=true] to get the same effect

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    how would targeting dead mob be useful