I named a slime and gave it 1 point on the scoreboard and the it has "a4fcf315-725b-4808-979a-4a36c903d1da" on the scoreboard rather than its name.
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@unknown Think about this: 7 zombies named Steve would confuse everybody who looks at the scoreboard, and would probably break it. 🙂
It certainly wouldn't break it, the UUIDs would be used internally. It may be confusing, but that's the choice of the person who names them all Steve. And it would be better than the current long strings of random letters and digits.
No, UUID's aren't be used internally by scoreboards, see MC-50247
@unknown:
We decided against using UUIDs for players on scoreboards. Scoreboards are not meant to be long term storage of persistent data and having players lose their scoreboard progress after a name change should not have too much impact.
I think this should be reopened. It makes no sense that mobs display their UUID in the scoreboard, but use their name everywhere else.