Ethan C

This still occurs in 1.21.70

Even when using a behavior pack to make the ender pearls not despawn, they will forget their owner when the world is reloaded.

Tyvm for this suggestion! Making a behavior pack for personal use until this is either fixed or deemed a parity thing they don’t wanna parity lol.

A possible solution is add this component to the ender_pearl’s entities files:

  "minecraft:tick_world": {
    "radius": 2,
    "never_despawn": true
  }