Players sometimes seem to visually dissapear or not appear while riding a horse.
However they can be physically visible somewhere else, and they can even be pushed!
Yet they cant be hurt.
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Players sometimes seem to visually dissapear or not appear while riding a horse.
However they can be physically visible somewhere else, and they can even be pushed!
Yet they cant be hurt.
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Minecraft 1.9.1, Minecraft 1.9.2
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So the fact you dont see players riding horses is "as intended" according to the explenation below????
This has nothing to do with player being invisible, as also mobs riding other mobs dont turn invisible, yet players on horses do.
duplicate explenation: "Mobs riding other mobs overwrite they're ai, all mobs on a stack control the behaviour"
surely, this has been linked to the wrong same issue....