Let EntityItems alive

Hi.

EntityItems (dropped Items) are only 6000 ticks(=5 minutes) alive.
I wanted to prevent my ItemEntity of beeing killed.
So I tried this code:

Code:java

net.minecraft.server.EntityItem entityItem = (net.minecraft.server.EntityItem)((org.bukkit.craftbukkit.entity.CraftEntity)entity).getHandle();
entityItem.b = 20;

It's repeated every few ticks.
The first five minutes it's working, but then the item is flickering.
Any idea?

 

Probably because the counter also ran client side, where it died naturally. Try sending an entity killed and entity spawned every few minutes to trick the client...

 

I was already aware of this option (works for me fine). Anyway I hoped, that it would work in somekind of this way better. Thank you all the same Afforess.

However... For the users, who will watch this, here's the code:

Code:java

EntityItem entityItem = (EntityItem)((org.bukkit.craftbukkit.entity.CraftEntity)entity).getHandle();
if(entityItem.b >= 5000)//if it lived more than 5000 ticks(250 seconds)
{
       Entity newEntity = entity.getWorld().dropItem(entity.getLocation(), new ItemStack(Material.SLIME_BALL,1));  //can be every item ofcourse
       entityItem.die();
       this.entity = newEntity; //just to save it in a variable
}