From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noah van der Aa <ndvdaa@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 23:01:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Respect despawn rate in item merge check


diff --git a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/world/entity/item/ItemEntity.java b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/world/entity/item/ItemEntity.java
index f63502307fce7d3721b368d81af5a121b7dd9744..f09db211f6f789ced85f7bf716428cd04bb41378 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/world/entity/item/ItemEntity.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/world/entity/item/ItemEntity.java
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ public class ItemEntity extends Entity {
     private boolean isMergable() {
         ItemStack itemstack = this.getItem();
 
-        return this.isAlive() && this.pickupDelay != 32767 && this.age != -32768 && this.age < 6000 && itemstack.getCount() < itemstack.getMaxStackSize();
+        return this.isAlive() && this.pickupDelay != 32767 && this.age != -32768 && this.age < this.getDespawnRate() && itemstack.getCount() < itemstack.getMaxStackSize(); // Paper - respect despawn rate in pickup check.
     }
 
     private void tryToMerge(ItemEntity other) {