This was a name from the Minecraft wiki. I will go ask why "Status Effect".

It's an effect that tells the status of an entity. Seems better than MobEffect or CreatureEffect to me. Effect is just very vague.

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It's an effect that tells the status of an entity. Seems better than MobEffect or CreatureEffect to me. Effect is just very vague.

I agree that Effect is very vague. But adding Status to it doesn't make it less vague. It doesn't mention it's the status of an entity, which is why I'm suggesting MobEffect/CreatureEffect/EntityEffect (or MobStatusEffect/CreatureStatusEffect/EntityStatusEffect if you prefer).

Mob is the Mojang name, which is why I'd vote for that, but Creature (or LivingEntity, but that's long) would be more precise since it applies to living entities.

I'm ok with MobEffect if we rename LivingEntity to Mob as mojang has.

if we rename LivingEntity to Mob as mojang has.

Mojang only calls non-player living entities mobs. I remember seeing an instanceof MobEntity right before an exception message with the word "mob" in it, so I think our current MobEntity class matches the Mojang name (apart from the Entity suffix).

I don't really see the point. Status effect is a common name for it, so I doubt anyone would be really confused. Effect is too short to mean much, MobEffect is slightly wrong, CreatureEffect doesn't correspond to our naming of entities.

Effect is too short to mean much

And how does adding Status help? By the definition of the word "effect", all effects modify some status. It would be like naming it ModifyingEffect.

Also, it's not true it doesn't mean anything. The command is named /effect and it's clear what it does. We have even shorter names like Item which on their own don't mean anything, yet are very clear.

Status effect is a common name for it

I've only heard players call it "effect". If you're saying it's a common name, then you mean it's a name commonly used by modders because of the MCP name, which we shouldn't care about, the same way we don't care about TileEntity.

StatusEffect is definitely not an MCP name. In fact I am glad to see that the MCP name hasn't been brought up once in this discussion (because it's not a good one). I am however referring to the official minecraft wiki, which names effects like that: https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Status_effect. Given that a lot of players get their information from the wiki, I think it is in fact fair to say that it is common.

well...whatever. I'm okay with MobEffect I guess just to go with the mojang name. But I also believe in the Menu change to align with mojang