Despawn an entity after time

Hey! I have a kit that spawns a sheep for each player when activated. I want that sheep despawn after 40 ticks after it was spawned. How can i do it?

 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bukkit+scheduler

first link an than just remove the spawnend sheep after 40 ticks

 

No worried I tried that. The problem it is removing all of spawned sheep..... I'm not a bukkit noob no worries...

 

If you tried it you wouldn't have asked your question... Unless the actual question differs from the initial post.

 

If i do *name* = Bukkit.getWorld(........
and then another one of those sheep active(Spawn) before the 40 ticks it gets over ridden, so I want a unique id or something for each one.

 

HeavyMine13 Just schedule a task for each one...

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or one big task with a WeakHashMap<Sheep, Long> which removes Sheep as soon as the long value < System.currentTimeMillis()

Code:java

@Override
public void run()
{
    Iterator<Map.Entry<Sheep, Long>> it = map.entrySet().iterator();
    Map.Entry<Sheep, Long> entry;
    final long now = System.currentTimeMillis();
    while(it.hasNext())
    {
        entry = it.next();
        if(entry.getValue() < now)
        {
            entry.getKey().remove();
            it.remove();
        }
    }
}