[Question] How to follow entity indefinitely/until stopped about mineflayer-pathfinder HOT 7 CLOSED

In the setGoal function, you can assign a goal as dynamic to fix this.

const goal = new GoalFollow(entity, 0)
bot.pathfinder.setGoal(goal, true)

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This is a problem in mineflayer / prismarine-physics. The item entities movements should be updated by the client and it is not done atm. Can you open an issue in p-physics to request this new feature ? (its a bit more complicated than it sounds because the physic simulation should match exactly the server to not cause desync)

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Wait, is that an issue? I tried a similar script on my bot and it seemed to track the item entity fine.

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You can view the issue with p-viewer, only the first tick seems to be sent by the server (vanilla). Its the same with throwed potions, but i think arrows are updated. I saw that some time ago in 1.13, if someone can check what s going on also for other versions that would be great

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Oh, interesting. I didn't notice that before. Strange.
Wouldn't item drop physics triggered on entityMove events, though?

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Yeah it should, but the server only update the position once, so the event is called once.

https://github.com/PrismarineJS/prismarine-viewer/blob/master/lib/mineflayer.js#L82

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In the setGoal function, you can assign a goal as dynamic to fix this.

const goal = new GoalFollow(entity, 0)
bot.pathfinder.setGoal(goal, true)

Of course I missed something 🤦‍♂️ it works now, thank you very much.
Not sure what you mean @Karang, it fortunately doesn't seem to cause problems in this case.

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