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/EntityPlayer.java b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/EntityPlayer.java
index 8c91e44252366445ad393221825ec9c2591a9490..dace185f5945d05abdb6fa2be361dcb0c6e3d84a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/EntityPlayer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/EntityPlayer.java
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ public class EntityPlayer extends EntityHuman implements ICrafting {
 
     public void playerTick() {
         try {
-            if (!this.isSpectator() || this.world.isLoaded(this.getChunkCoordinates())) {
+            if (valid && !this.isSpectator() || this.world.isLoaded(this.getChunkCoordinates())) { // Paper - don't tick dead players that are not in the world currently (pending respawn)
                 super.tick();
             }