Since #975 the where the particle duration is interpreted as duration for the particle rendering i game tics and not particle age, then the particle max will be set to -1 for marker particles.

Solution: duration can be set to Integer.MIN to support negative values. A negative value is interpreted as non-expiring spawn of the particle and the particle duration (max age) will be the absolute value.

Resolved with commit: 33c739b

Part of effort to resolve #813 .