Virtual Display Entities

Display entities are some of Minecraft's most powerful entities since they allow the rendering of arbitrary models (with a client resource pack). If you're wanting to add new server-side content it's likely you'll want to use custom models. Virtual entities mesh perfectly with display entities as they aren't persistent and there is no need for them to exist in the 'real' world, as well as the ability for virtual entities to have per-player specific data.

Arcade provides 4 classes, an abstract SimpleVirtualDisplay and then the subclasses SimpleVirtualBlockDisplay, SimpleVirtualItemDisplay, and SimpleVirtualTextDisplay, which represent block, item, and text displays respectively. They work very similarly to our previous example:

val attachment: VirtualEntityAttachment = // ...
val text = attachment.attach(::SimpleVirtualTextDisplay)
text.setText(Component.literal("Example text!"))