From a0c9f11af6804ef01f2d9f505ec326afb7a684cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nils Dagsson Moskopp <nils@dieweltistgarnichtso.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:46:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Log warning for non-serializable item entity fix

---
 mods/ENTITIES/mcl_item_entity/init.lua | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mods/ENTITIES/mcl_item_entity/init.lua b/mods/ENTITIES/mcl_item_entity/init.lua
index 6ed196d4..ba90848d 100644
--- a/mods/ENTITIES/mcl_item_entity/init.lua
+++ b/mods/ENTITIES/mcl_item_entity/init.lua
@@ -479,6 +479,13 @@ minetest.register_entity(":__builtin:item", {
 			local stack = ItemStack(self.itemstring)
 			stack:get_meta():from_table(nil)
 			self.itemstring = stack:to_string()
+			minetest.log(
+				"warning",
+				"Overlong item entity metadata removed: “" ..
+				self.itemstring ..
+				"” had serialized length of " ..
+				#data
+			)
 			return self:get_staticdata()
 		end
 		return data