❓ Why my npcs keep disappearing?

#Spawn protection

If your NPCs are close to the spawn point of your server, they are likely affected by spawn protection, as they are considered entities and are prevented from spawning. To fix that follow the steps below:

1. Open the server.properties from the main directory of your server.
2. Change the spawn-protection= 16 to 0 in order to disable the protection.
3. Restart your server.

#The world was not loaded yet

If instead they are gone after every restart, and only in one world, check your console for this line:

There was an attempt to add a npc with an invalid world: "your_world"

An NPC is placed in a world by name. If that world is not loaded at the moment PhoenixLobby starts, the location is skipped and the NPC is not placed — the file is untouched, so nothing is lost, it simply is not in the world.

This normally means a world manager such as Multiverse is loading that world after the plugin. Two ways out:

• Run /plobby reload once the world is up, which places every NPC again.
• Load the world earlier, by listing it in your world manager so it is loaded at startup rather than on demand.

#The player is too far away

NPCs and their effects stop being drawn past the Npc Despawn Range in Editor > Settings, which is 15 blocks by default. If they appear as players walk up to them and vanish as they walk away, that is the range doing its job — raise it if your lobby needs them visible from further off.