testserver/patches/server/0395-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 6f976946f742b4139b01dfa692a901b15f02a836..e4a5b89a12c52ccca4f72823e8d7a5d5a689ff16 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/minecraft/server/level/ServerPlayer.java
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@ 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();
             }