Looking for Entity ID in log files

[WaywardWarlord]

Hello all -

 

I am playing a modded game with my family and we have lost one of our mounts. We are trying to find the specific entity ID in the logs, but we don't know where these are kept. 

 

We have also been trying to find it with the /entity find command but we haven't been able to get that to work. Does anyone know how this command works?

 

Any help appreciated 

Edited August 3 by WaywardWarlord

[Rainbow Fresh]

/entity find only checks loaded chunks and obviously only returns existing entities. If your mount truly disappeared into the ether, nothing is going to help. And iirc it is a known bug that sometime, when the planets align juuuuust right, mounts can be deleted from the game on chunk unloading. So it is possible your mount is *gone* gone. No reading IDs from the log would help. And even knowing the ID would not help because you'd need the position. Which you'd have to find by manually snooping through the savefile's database looking for the entity entry for that ID and finding it's in-world coordinates, which map differently than the in-game displayed coordinates (in-game is centered around the middle of the map being 0|0 while true coordinates are based on the... bottom-left corner? Top-left? either way, on a 1mil x 1mil world your 0|0 world spawn would be 500.000|500.000).

That said, I don't know if there is anything logged anywhere that actually would tell you the ID of the entity in any discernable form.

For the future, considering you probably did not do that this time around? You should acquire an elk medallion. You can put that onto a mount (elk and most modded mounts support it) to truly claim the mount as yours, making its "last known" position have its own map marker much like your player marker. That way you can always find where it's *supposed* to be to discern if it was eaten by the savefile spaghetti or not. Cause even if the entity vanishes, the marker will still be there.

Edited Tuesday at 06:45 AM by Rainbow Fresh

[Professor Dragon]

To add to the excellent (although regrettable from your elk ownership viewpoint) answer from @Rainbow Fresh, the workaround is to switch into Creative (/gm Creative), gift yourself an elk and supplies, and switch back to Survival mode (/gm Survival).

Professor Dragon.