Minecraft – How to prevent Minecraft from disconnecting me when I’m AFK

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On Minecraft, I have a good AFK machine set up, it's all lit up and covered so I don't die while in it. But there is a problem with it:

When I go AFK, I'd say about half of the time I come back and the screen says "Disconnected" or "Timed Out". This defeats the purpose of an AFK machine, because none of my things load whilst I'm disconnected.

I was wondering if there is a way to eliminate or at least reduce the amount of times that I get logged out while AFK?

NOTE In this situation where I go AFK I am on a multiplayer server.

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Assuming you are getting kicked automatically because the server set a "Max AFK time before kick" , this should be relatively easy to solve.

Simply place a trapdoor in front of you and close/open it at the same time as you press F11.

F11 toggles fullscreen, and if you exit fullscreen while holding a key Minecraft will for some reason not detect that you released the key. So basically you're gonna be constantly opening and closing a trapdoor and therefore you will not be kicked.

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As @Unionhawk said, your mobs are almost certainly de-spawning. This means they vanish from the world forever, like footprints in the sand. But as time goes by new mobs spawn, such is the circle of life.

In order to have a proper 'zoo' of mobs, you need to stop them de-spawning. In the case of Zombies, (as @MrLemon pointed out) simply throwing an item at them and letting them pick it up is enough to keep them spawned. However this only works for Zombies.

Thankfully, as of 1.6.1, there is an item designed to both name mobs and keep them spawned for good - the name tag. Name tags can be found naturally within chests that spawn in dungeons or (as of 1.7.2) by fishing.

If you're in creative you can pull one straight from the creative inventory, and if you have access to console commands (i.e. you allowed them in map options when creating the map) you can use this command:

/give <player> 421 <amount>

Where <player> is replaced with your minecraft name and <amount> is replaced by the number of items you want. For example I would type:

/give Pharap 421 1

which would give me a single name tag.

Alternatively (as pointed out by @SaintWacko) you can avoid specifying your name by typing this instead:

/give @p 421 1

Also note that an enderman is the only mob naturally capable of teleporting, thus even after naming one it is still capable of escaping. Also note that name tags do not stop mobs from dying, so try not to suffocate them or set any on fire.

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