From 9d36f9094d690a9741401ce382be57aa7660ebea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Steinborn <git@steinborn.me>
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 07:19:22 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fall back to wrapping the name in a component. Should fix
 #349 for real.

---
 .../util/VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer.java       | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/protocol/util/VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer.java b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/protocol/util/VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer.java
index 043286f87..6a971a414 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/protocol/util/VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/com/velocitypowered/proxy/protocol/util/VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer.java
@@ -57,9 +57,17 @@ public class VelocityLegacyHoverEventSerializer implements LegacyHoverEventSeria
       Decoder<Component, String, ? extends RuntimeException> componentDecoder) throws IOException {
     String snbt = PlainComponentSerializer.plain().serialize(input);
     CompoundBinaryTag item = TagStringIO.get().asCompound(snbt);
+
+    Component name;
+    try {
+      name = componentDecoder.decode(item.getString("name"));
+    } catch (Exception e) {
+      name = TextComponent.of(item.getString("name"));
+    }
+
     return new ShowEntity(Key.of(item.getString("type")),
         UUID.fromString(item.getString("id")),
-        componentDecoder.decode(item.getString("name")));
+        name);
   }
 
   @Override