There is no delay with smaller than 1 tick "wait for" times about skript

[TheBentoBox]

Out of curiosity, could you try doing "wait for 0.04 seconds" and see if it rounds down to 0?

[TheBentoBox]

You're right about what the issue is. I think it's impossible for Skript (or any plugin) to do anything in smaller increments than 1/20th of a second. Minecraft doesn't process things quicker than that, so you can't make it do anything quicker than that.

[bensku]

As far as I know, Skript runs even delayed tasks in main thread. Minecraft is not thread safe, excluding the chat, and with Spigot even that is not thread safe.

I will see if I can make it report clear error, though.

[TheBentoBox]

Currently, we are still able to write something like wait 0.5 ticks, which there probably should be as it's impossible. Recommend that, when given a timespan in ticks, the provided amount is run through a ceil, with a warning (not error) provided. Something like Warning: you can only wait a whole number of ticks. Rounding up to %ceil(ticks)%. Obvious pseudocode there within the %'s but you get the idea.

Tagging as enhancement because this isn't exactly a bug, but a better error would be an improvement (and rounding up will prevent crashes if people have a big loop with wait 0.5 ticks expecting there to be some sort of delay between iterations).