Mods / Fix Tamed Elk Despawn
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- WatermelonFrogy
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- Both
- Created:
- Sep 13th 2025 at 12:03 AM
- Last modified:
- Sep 14th 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Latest release (for Vintage Story 1.20.12, outdated):
NoTamedElkDespawn-1.0.1_1.20.12.zip 1-click install
Tamed elks in Vintage Story can sometimes cause server lag and spam error messages when the game repeatedly tries to despawn elks with messed up entity data. This mod fixes the issue by passing through empty despawn data when a tamed elk attempts to despawn, ensuring they stay safely in the world without triggering errors or performance problems.
(Saddlebag contents drop onto the group safely but can and will despawn like normal items)
Fully server-safe and compatible with other mods as long as they don't alter how entities despawn.
Simple, lightweight, and fully server side.
No more unnecessary despawn attempts, crashes, or lag spikes from your dead elks :)
| Mod Version | Mod Identifier | For Game version | Downloads | Released | Changelog | Download | 1-click mod install* |
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| 1.0.1 | notamedelkdespawn | 159 | Sep 13th 2025 at 4:56 PM | NoTamedElkDespawn-1.0.1_1.20.12.zip | 1-click install | ||
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Made it so tamed elks despawn safely instead of not at all which could cause client lag | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | notamedelkdespawn | 61 | Sep 13th 2025 at 12:03 AM | NoTamedElkDespawn-1.0.0_1.20.12.zip | 1-click install | ||
DO NOT USE, THIS VERSION IS BROKEN AND BUGGY. USE 1.0.1! | |||||||
@WatermelonFrogy the mod does work with 1.21.1 and the error still exists. I accidently teleported myself and my elk to 0,0,0 instead of ground level and fell to our death. The errors spam when I'm online, but with your mod, the errors stop as soon as I log out and your mod despawns the elks. Not sure how I can fix the error for myself when I'm logged in, though.
So this should actually work for 1.21.x but I'm unsure if its needed. IIRC shouldn't it be fixed?
NyxiePixelwyck
literally have been attempting to debug this for weeks on my server, finally figured it out and THEN i find this mod, good work, would love a copy for 1.21.1
That's crazy, cool you made a fix for it though.
Yes. If an elk dies while carrying saddlebags, there is a chance its Entity Data becomes corrupted. When the server later tries to despawn the elk, the Despawn Data pulls from this corrupted Entity Data and attempts to use it, which causes the server to throw constant errors. These errors spam the logs every tick the elk is loaded, dragging down overall server performance. This mod tries to fix the issue by replacing the corrupted Despawn Data with clean Despawn Data preventing the log spam and performance tank. I'm currently using it on Age of Seraphs and its completely fixed this issue for us, the issue isn't super common on single player worlds but its a huge problem on multiplayer. IIRC its fixed on 1.21 but we haven't updated yet
Verlia
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Wait, servers will attempt to despawn tamed elks? Even if it has a medallion?
I didn't know that O.o
instant download for the gigachad non ai art