World reload causes worlds in location variables to not work correctly until restart

[ghost]

this has been a bug in Skript for a while, it would be nice if it would get fixed.
example:
you go to a world which isn't the main world, but an additional world created by world management plugins like Multiverse-Core or some other
you use !set {spawn} to location of player
then you unload and load back that world and do !teleport player to {spawn}, it will teleport to that location, but in the main server's world, not the one in which you set it
it can be fixed if you use !set world of {spawn} to "%world of {spawn}%" parsed as a world or if you restart the server it also gets fixed
it would be nice if it wouldn't break with world reloads, because I reload worlds for world resetting

[TheLimeGlass]

Putting this here for reference. I talked about this in #1020 but this is not a duplicate issue. It's been known in the Skript community for awhile. It's mainly the users issue but it would be nice to have a feature to get rid of those un-used world variables.

The main problem (And I think Njol knew this) is that the world could have been unloaded (in your case) or deleted by mistake and so then the user goes to re-add the world. When they re-add the world, they realize the world variables were deleted and they're like wtf? I think Njol did this so that he could keep the users data. No one wants to have all their data reset to then have to re-add it all again.

A option to clean the variable database would be nice though, which is highlighted in the other issue I just referenced.

In your case I suggest setting local variables of the location if you unload/load the world constantly. You can do so by using the location function

#The world type returns the main default world if not set, Not the string of the world, I did that for representation only.
#Remember Yaw and Pitch are of 360 degrees, anything inputted that is above 360 will loop again from 0 degrees
#(Yaw and Pitch) and World are optional.

location(x: number, y: number, z: number, w: world = "world", yaw: number = 0, pitch: number = 0)

Example usage:

set {_location} to location(50, 100, 0, player's world, yaw of player, pitch of player)
set {_location} to location(50, 100, 0, world "ExampleWorld")
set {_location} to location(50, 100, 0) #Will be the default world of the server

You can also check out an addon I made to handle the main problems that Skript has with worlds https://github.com/TheLimeGlass/skript-world

Source code of this internal function if interested: https://github.com/bensku/Skript/blob/8e17c858f6f3ee11942390675b94f0dd07b11103/src/main/java/ch/njol/skript/classes/data/DefaultFunctions.java#L305-L320

[TheBentoBox]

Thanks for the detailed info @TheLimeGlass. I agree it would be nice to fix this, but I imagine it only affects most users pretty rarely.

[Whimsyturtle]

From #341: Worlds that are not loaded before Skript is initialized cannot be accessed properly

[TheLimeGlass]

Yup

[TPGamesNL]

When #4408 is merged, this issue will be fixed with #3971 (comment)