Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-2603:9000:DD0C:8F00:6DAB:A5EE:8F57:2F7-20200127063201

Basically the title.

I'll get right to the point; I dream of having a dungeon full of captured orcs and bandits. Unfortunately, coming and going from my base would eventually cause my prisoners to despawn. This quite obviously unacceptable. How else shall I feel like a true governor of my land if I cannot keep a few invaders locked up for sentimental reasons?

In normal minecraft, you would circumvent this with nametags. However, as I learned in a post from 2016, nametags do not work on NPCs (orcs, rangers, hobbits, etc.).

Is there any possible way to keep an NPC from the horrible fate of despawning? Did they change the properties of nametags so that they do work since what I read from 2016?

I'm thankful in advance for any answers. 