Rework Natural Mob Tracking
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Description
I think the solution is to change how the "natural" mobs are tracked. Just having a NATURAL spawn reason shouldn't be good enough. Instead, some other flag on "non-natural" mobs should be set, and only mobs without that flag should be counted.
For context:
https://github.com/PaperMC/Paper/issues/8283
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the referenced Paper issue 8283 and locating the existing natural-mob tracking implementation. The issue does not name files, tests, or a concrete completion condition; clarify the flag semantics and expected behavior before implementation can begin.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend, game-dev
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100