NPc's from citizens dissapearing once you get away from them.

[anthony114669]

Describe the bug

i dunno if this is a confirmed bug, but just in case ill attach the video to shows the issue.
basically when i create a multimple npcs with citizens plugin all of them with the same skins they dissapear once you away from them. this is happening not with all npcs just with them with the same skin (i think so).

To Reproduce

install citizens
create multiple npcs and set the same skin for them.
take away fomr them far once they dissapear, come back and they will be invisible now.

Expected behaviour

npcs with same skins not being invisibles once you take away from them far and then come back.

Screenshots / Videos

problemscitiznesnpc.mp4

Server Version and Plugins

Server Version

git-Paper-196(MC:1.20.1)

Geyser Version

version: 2.2.2-SNAPSHOT

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Version

1.20.71

Geyser Dump

No response

Geyser Version

version: 2.2.2-SNAPSHOT

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Device/Version

1.20.72

Additional Context

No response

[otDan]

actually to provide more info this does not seem to be citizens related only, we also have our own npcs without using citizens and that behaviour appears from time to time on the server

[onebeastchris]

Please provide specific replication steps, specifically:

• what client/server render & view distance does this occur on?
• how far away does one have to go (and come back) to get these invisible entities?
• does this only affect specific entities, or all of them?
• which server type/version is this on?

I've seen a couple more reports on entities going invisible, but have not been able to reproduce this .

[MrPowerGamerBR]

I'm also having a similar issue with my own NPCs, where what I was doing is the following:

• Spawn the NPC on world xyz, the NPC is a bit far from the player, to be exact, the player is at -69 105 -86, and the player is at -120 115 -75
• Teleport the player to the world xyz

For some reason the NPC is invisible, the same issue does not happen for Minecraft: Java Edition clients. I thought that maybe it was because the NPC was spawned in a unloaded chunk but if that was the case, it would not happen for a Java Edition client.

What I also noticed is that if I teleport the player to the new world BEFORE spawning the NPC, it works fine.

I need to debug more about this issue, because this may be happening with other kinds of entities. The server is running my own Paper fork, Minecraft: Java Edition 1.21.3, using Geyser 8b232d7.