Ender Pearl Rework

Once the pack is active, pearls stop flying as entities. Using one carries the player a short way ahead, halting at the first solid block, and particles trail behind for a couple of seconds after the jump. Because the distance is short and the player is only lightly tracked afterward, pearls cannot serve for long escapes or to cross an entire base. Stasis chambers stop working as a result, since they depend on thrown pearls that no longer exist.

The pack was written for servers, where its authors have seen pearls become too useful in survival multiplayer, letting players vanish from fights unnoticed or reach distant places instantly. Some larger servers have turned pearls off altogether, and this pack offers a lower-intensity alternative. The code only runs when a pearl is used, so its effect on performance is small, and the datapack can be enabled or disabled without restarting the world or server. Endermite spawning from pearls still works.

Servers need the pack, since it is a datapack that runs there, while players may add it for extra features. The default teleport distance is set by a command and corresponds to a value of 40, which is roughly 20 blocks. The value can be changed for each player, which leaves room for other datapacks to work alongside it, and the value resets at the end of the tick.