Spigot still maintains some partial implementation of "tick skipping", a
practice in which the MinecraftServer.currentTick field is updated not
by an increment of one per actual tick, but instead set to
System.currentTimeMillis() / 50. This behaviour means that the tracked
tick may "skip" a tick value in case a previous tick took more than the
expected 50ms.
To compensate for this in important paths, spigot/craftbukkit
implements "wall-time". Instead of incrementing/decrementing ticks on
block entities/entities by one for each call to their tick() method,
they instead increment/decrement important values, like
an ItemEntity's age or pickupDelay, by the difference of
`currentTick - lastTick`, where `lastTick` is the value of
`currentTick` during the last tick() call.
These "fixes" however do not play nicely with minecraft's simulation
distance as entities/block entities implementing the above behaviour
would "catch up" their values when moving from a non-ticking chunk to a
ticking one as their `lastTick` value remains stuck on the last tick in
a ticking chunk and hence lead to a large "catch up" once ticked again.
Paper completely removes the "tick skipping" behaviour (See patch
"Further-improve-server-tick-loop"), making the above precautions
completely unnecessary, which also rids paper of the previous described
incompatibility with non-ticking chunks.
Upstream has released updates that appear to apply and compile correctly.
This update has not been tested by PaperMC and as with ANY update, please do your own testing
Bukkit Changes:
3a3bea52 SPIGOT-7829: Increase maximum outgoing plugin message size to match Vanilla intention
5cd1c8cb SPIGOT-7831: Add CreatureSpawnEvent.SpawnReason#POTION_EFFECT
a8e278f0 SPIGOT-7827: Sync EntityPortalEvent with PlayerPortalEvent since non-players can now create portals
53729d12 Remove spurious ApiStatus.Internal annotation
b9f57486 SPIGOT-7799, PR-1039: Expose explosion world interaction in EntityExplodeEvent and BlockExplodeEvent
7983b966 PR-1029: Trial changing a small number of inner enums to classes/interfaces to better support custom values
CraftBukkit Changes:
403accd56 SPIGOT-7831: Add CreatureSpawnEvent.SpawnReason#POTION_EFFECT
812761660 Increase outdated build delay
bed1e3ff6 SPIGOT-7827: Sync EntityPortalEvent with PlayerPortalEvent since non-players can now create portals
2444c8b23 SPIGOT-7823: Suspicious sand and gravel material are not marked as having gravity correctly
aceddcd0b SPIGOT-7820: Enum changes - duplicate method name
a0d2d6a84 SPIGOT-7813: Material#isInteractable() always returns false
8fd64b091 SPIGOT-7806: Handle both loot and inventory item drop behaviour in PlayerDeathEvent
a4ee40b74 SPIGOT-7799, PR-1436: Expose explosion world interaction in EntityExplodeEvent and BlockExplodeEvent
082aa51c5 PR-1424: Trial changing a small number of inner enums to classes/interfaces to better support custom values
66e78a96b SPIGOT-7815: Consider EntityDamageEvent status for Wolf armor damage
Spigot Changes:
5bbef5ad SPIGOT-7834: Modify max value for generic.max_absorption
