NPC name is random characters - messing up death messages

[sudokou]

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[Badbird5907]

Looks like a citizens thing and out of my control,

Two potential solutions (that both include modifying your death messages plugin):

1. Ask the author of your death messages plugin to add citizens support (pseudo code below)
2. Ask the author of the death messages plugin to add AntiCombatLog as a softdepend and use CombatLogKillEvent (the UUID is supplied so they would need to call Bukkit.getOfflinePlayer(event.getPlayer()).getName()

Pseudo code for first solution:

    @EventHandler
    public void onKill(PlayerDeathEvent event) {
        if (event.getEntity().hasMetadata("NPC")) {
            String name = CitizensAPI.getNPCRegistry().getNPC(event.getEntity()).getName();
            //handle name here
        }
    }