[Tee]

Righto - so I'm in the middle of rebuilding my storage vault, and I have 288 DC's that previously had signs stating their contents. The realm is also my "ark" for the moment, as it's the only realm I'm not wiping and contains all my valuable villagers (x5) and 3-4 of each animal type that I own, plus a few sheep colour variants. Total number of entities is currently around 75.

I would dearly love to use item frames instead of signs to denote the contents of the chests. That is 288 item frames though. I don't know what effect (if any) that would have on the server or client.

Questions for anyone who might know, or ideally Rokkr/Intelli. Are item frames:
1) included in the 100 mob/realm cap? (suspect not)
2) terribad for server lag?
3) terribad for client lag?

I realise that item frames aren't currently protected - that's not an issue as the vault is fully secured. Also I play on a fairly high-end rig so client lag isn't much of a concern. I'm really most worried about whether using item frames will despawn my mobs, and whether it will cause noticeable/significant server lag.

Cheers

[Piewarrior27]

A while ago there were a bunch of items frames that despawned in astro's realms. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with the mob cap or not, but item frames count as entities, so it may mean that they are counted as mobs. It may have also just been a glitch or something, I'm not sure, but item frames sure are weird things. =P

[Exabyte I]

Don't use item frames.... I had a vault too i made recently after i finished putting 305 items frames down on all the DCs most of them despawned.

[ColdF3ar]

Considering the fact that you can currently exploit the item out of the frame as well as the fact that minerealm and Item frames seem to be always incompatible with the despawnings just go for signs. Signs are cheaper and more descriptive anyways.

[Keyhen]

Considering the fact that you can currently exploit the item out of the frame as well as the fact that minerealm and Item frames seem to be always incompatible with the despawnings just go for signs. Signs are cheaper and more descriptive anyways.

Agreed. Item frames are entities and will despawn like mobs if you put too many around.