Removing all Entities on the Ground every 5 Seconds

Hey, I am looking to erase all of the dropped tiles on the ground every five seconds. I have my scheduler ready, I just need to actually erase them from the server. What do I do?

 

MineStein

Use a repeatingScheduler with a 300 tick delay; Loop through all the entities in a world, check if they are an instance of Item and cast them, then check if the (Item)isOnGround and call the remove method.

 

DoctorDark Like this?

It is not working.

Code:java

Bukkit.getServer().getScheduler().scheduleSyncRepeatingTask(this, new Runnable() {
public void run() {
 
for (Entity e : Bukkit.getServer().getWorld("world").getEntities()) {
if (e.getType().equals(EntityType.DROPPED_ITEM)) {
e.remove();
} else {
return;
}
}
 
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};
 
BarAPI.setMessage(barMessages[random.nextInt(barMessages.length)]);
}
},0 , 100);
}

 

Check the loaded chunks before

 

LCastr0 How do I check the loaded chunks?

 

Since I'm not home, I'm not completly sure, but something like
Bukkit.getWorlds().getLoadedChunks()
Do a for loop with this method and then do another for loop for all the entities in that chunk. Oh, and also, you could check if it's a dropped item using
entity instanceof Item

 

LCastr0 Ok, thanks! I will try it, I have never had to handle chunks before.

 

Good luck, and tell me if you do it. I'm leaving now, but will be back tomorrow's afternoon (my time); PM me if you need anything, or just Tahg me here and i'll answer tomorrow

 

LCastr0 Awesome! It worked!

 

MineStein nah, all you need to do is removing that

Code:java

else
{
    return;
}

the rest of the code was perfectly fine

 

It's better to check the chunks though.

 

LCastr0 what is your reasoning behind this though, it would be more exact to loop over all entities of all worlds, and Entity#remove should not trigger a chunk load either

 

Well I think it's safer to check the loaded chunks.

 

LCastr0 still lacking the reasoning . If chunks are unloaded the entities are despawned anyway, so world.getEntities() should work perfectly fibe

 

Well I prefer to do my way, but thanks for teaching me this too

 

For anyone viewing this thread for a solution, here it is

Code:java

for (Chunk chunks : Bukkit.getServer().getWorld("world").getLoadedChunks()) {
                    for (Entity entitiesInChunks : chunks.getEntities()) {
                        if (entitiesInChunks instanceof Item) {
                            entitiesInChunks.remove();
                        }
                    }
                }