PaperMC/patches/api/0212-Expose-the-Entity-Counter-to-allow-plugins-to-use-va.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MeFisto94 <MeFisto94@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 01:41:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Expose the Entity Counter to allow plugins to use valid and
 non-conflicting Entity Ids


diff --git a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
index 30d869a7c4bba79b4c05de7860b31c14f47b341a..241cb853476ea35dad73d0234b2d030e9af23476 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/bukkit/UnsafeValues.java
@@ -157,5 +157,12 @@ public interface UnsafeValues {
     byte[] serializeItem(ItemStack item);
 
     ItemStack deserializeItem(byte[] data);
+
+    /**
+     * Creates and returns the next EntityId available.
+     * <p>
+     * Use this when sending custom packets, so that there are no collisions on the client or server.
+     */
+    public int nextEntityId();
     // Paper end
 }