onPlayerDropItem - wait till item hits/nears the floor?

Hey guys - I use the onPlayerDropItem event and the item is eventually removed and a mob is spawned in the items location. My problem is waiting until the item is finished dropping to do all this (it looks better this way). Right now I use a separate thread that sleeps for a bit, obviously I would like to go away from using that.

Any ideas?

 

I also need this.

 

the suggestion that was made on a few other threads of this exact same subject was to make a scheduler that would constantly get the items velocity and when it reaches 0 get it's position.

 

Use a scheduled task.

 

@fullwall yes, but that only thing I'm looking for as well is what to do in the scheduler? how do I check if there are enemies? do I use the block.getEntities()? If so this will not work for his purpose, because he wants to get the item itself, and it could land anywhere

 

Pass the Item Entity to the scheduled task. Work on the entity in the task.