Paper/Spigot-API-Patches/0226-Expose-the-Entity-Counter-to-allow-plugins-to-use-va.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MeFisto94 <MeFisto94@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:41:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Expose the Entity Counter to allow plugins to use valid and
 non-conflicting Entity Ids


diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
index ac43afbf6230a481ab8cffbb3bc91b716316c00d..931ffa38faab86445a5d63364a47cb653ca3d4ed 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
@@ -116,5 +116,13 @@ public interface UnsafeValues {
      * @return the translation key
      */
     String getTranslationKey(org.bukkit.entity.EntityType type);
+
+    /**
+     * Creates and returns the next EntityId available.
+     * <p>
+     * Use this when sending custom packets, so that there are no collisions on the client or server.
+     */
+    public int nextEntityId();
+
     // Paper end
 }