Respawns vs Despawns - What's the difference?
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(respawn)
To reappear at its spawn point.
(video games, of a character) To re-enter play after being killed.
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(despawn)
(video games, ergative) (of an entity in the game world) To be instantaneously destroyed or removed.
* A mob will immediately despawn if ever there is no player within 128 blocks of it.
* The helicopter despawned shortly after take-off, leaving the player in an unexpected free fall.
* The game despawns the enemies after you kill them 15 times or so.
As verbs the difference between respawns and despawns
is that respawns is third-person singular of respawn while despawns is third-person singular of despawn.respawns
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