Minecraft – Changing Minecraft entity rendering distance

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I've noticed that, on some various servers I play on, entities are not rendered even if I am a short distance away, like ~40 blocks. Other servers I play on seem to be capable of rendering entities at enormous distances. I don't believe it's a server performance thing, as some of the more higher-performance networks I've been on, like Hypixel, have this short render distance as well.

Is there a way to edit this distance? It'd improve various aspects of my gameplay.

possibly related: yesterday, when setting up a small Spigot server on my computer, I noticed "view-distance" (or a similar name) in the server.properties file. Is this the entity render distance? It most likely isn't the regular render distance, because that's easily changeable on clientside from player to player.

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On spigot, it's depending on the entity-tracing-range in spigot.yml, but if you're using OptiFine, the it could be multiplied by a number depending on your settings.

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Minecraft checking entity positions

To test if entities are at the same location, you can use the r argument to test for a radius of 0:

execute @e[type=Bat,name=Coord1] ~ ~ ~ testfor @e[r=0,type=Bat,name=Coord2]

You can use dy, dx and dz to test for an entity inside a cuboid relative to another entity. For example:

execute @e[type=ArmorStand] ~ ~ ~ /say @a[dx=6,dy=5,dz=3]

Would say players in this area (and 5 upwards):

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To test for entities in the positive Z direction, you probably want a region that looks something like this:

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You can make this bigger, although it will get laggier the larger the area to be checked is.

We need to check both negative and positive X from the entity (it is not at one of the corners of the region). To do this, we could use two separate testfor commands. One for +Z +X, and one for +Z -Z.

We can also use the coordinates in the execute command to have a different starting point, like this:

execute @e[type=ArmorStand] ~-7 ~ ~ /say @a[dx=14,dy=5,dz=10]

So we go -7 in the x direction, and then search a 17 by 5 by 10 region starting from there:

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Applying this to your bat situation:

execute @e[type=Bat,name=Coord1] ~-7 ~-7 ~ testfor @e[dx=14,dy=14,dz=10,type=Bat,name=Coord2]

Should detect bats in the positive x direction. You'll need to create a command for each negative and positive in each axis. For example, for positive z:

execute @e[type=Bat,name=Coord1] ~ ~-7 ~-7 testfor @e[dx=10,dy=14,dz=14,type=Bat,name=Coord2]

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