I do not browse the CraftBukkit Plugins, this may not even exist. Too many people have been losing stuff from CLag the second they drop it. All Minecraft items will automatically remove after five minutes. Why not try to see if there is a plugin to make that time from five minutes to like 30 seconds or a minute. Also, if there is no substitute, maybe consider making it so Minecarts are not removed with ground items.
How does it even help? like you said stuff despawns after 5 mins. they should just remove it and make every one happy
Every 5 minutes, there's a good few hundred items, lets say 200. Now let's imagine we turned up the time to 10 minutes. That's a possible 400 items. Most of the items deleted are things from automated farms that clog up, chickens, auto-mob farms that noone is picking up, and then there's the few items from a player who died or accidentally dropped an item. The reason we even got CLag was because when they manually removed the items, there'd be tens of thousands of items/entities.
The command itself causes some lag too, as it checks for entities in every single loaded chunk. Increasing the time too much would be an issue. Plus, that would kind of make it worse on kids who die, as they'd only have 30 seconds to get back to where they were if their items are still there. Not to mention, it would make auto-mob farms almost completely worthless.
Not if hoppers were renabled. But seriously, CLAG needs removing, if not tweaking, maybe 2 warnings at 1minute and 10 seconds. Also, people need to stop drop trading.
I don't think it should be removed, when donors get to the point where thy have absolutely no use for cobble or redstone and stuff, (inclding me) we just drop most of our kits on the floor. If every donor drops 4 stacks of cobble (kit) then there is 1000's of cobble blocks sitting on the ground. I don't know if ts possible, but instead of clag, maybe have something that clears any items from the ground, 60 seconds after they have been dropped. I don't know if this is too hard to code or if there is a plugin for it, but that would work better.
There is a warning at 1 min before it clears your items, Why don't you just wait till it says that the entities have been remove then you can cut down tees, trade etc without it removing the items and giving you plenty of time for the saplings to drop and the trade to be completed. Even if you trade before or after the one min warning you can always trade in a chest then you have no chance of loosing the items..