# Objective
Fixes#14511.
`despawn` allows you to remove entities from the world. However, if the
entity does not exist, it emits a warning. This may not be intended
behavior for many users who have use cases where they need to call
`despawn` regardless of if the entity actually exists (see the issue),
or don't care in general if the entity already doesn't exist.
(Also trying to gauge interest on if this feature makes sense, I'd
personally love to have it, but I could see arguments that this might be
a footgun. Just trying to help here 😄 If there's no contention I could
also implement this for `despawn_recursive` and `despawn_descendants` in
the same PR)
## Solution
Add `try_despawn`, `try_despawn_recursive` and
`try_despawn_descendants`.
Modify `World::despawn_with_caller` to also take in a `warn` boolean
argument, which is then considered when logging the warning. Set
`log_warning` to `true` in the case of `despawn`, and `false` in the
case of `try_despawn`.
## Testing
Ran `cargo run -p ci` on macOS, it seemed fine.
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