Paper-Old/patches/server/0345-Don-t-tick-dead-players.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aikar <aikar@aikar.co>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 17:16:48 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Don't tick dead players

Causes sync chunk loads and who knows what all else.
This is safe because Spectators are skipped in unloaded chunks too in vanilla.

diff --git a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java
index e28b4976341157b8dbc7245ee91024fd1e025b09..285a9badc1a8b6582b808f0d474bcd22821e2c71 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ public class ServerPlayer extends Player {
 
     public void doTick() {
         try {
-            if (!this.isSpectator() || !this.touchingUnloadedChunk()) {
+            if (valid && !this.isSpectator() || !this.touchingUnloadedChunk()) { // Paper - don't tick dead players that are not in the world currently (pending respawn)
                 super.tick();
             }