Horses, donkeys, mules, and boats sometimes disappear after dismounting

Happened to me twice - 1.10, Windows 10, Optifine, seed=-7654182711137613304
1) swamp biome - ~3500 blocks from spawn - skeleton horse - XYZ=-3417 56 1267
2) plains biome - ~2000 blocks from spawn - normal horse - XYZ=1011 69 2000
In both cases was near large number of cows - could hear, but not visible, even using x-ray resource pack - reappeared after exiting and reloading world.

And again:
3) plains biome - near spawn! - normal horse - XYZ=-2 64 283

This happens to me consistently, but only after traveling long distances on the horse (roughly 1,000 blocks.) MC v1.10, Java runtime 1.8.0_66-b18, Windows 10 x64, no Optifine, pure vanilla. I can hear the entity's sound effects as well. Relogging corrects the bug.

Can confirm. It happens when you travel a long distance with the horse.

Happened to me yesterday, 1.10. Got off horse and it disappeared. Closed MC and reopened game and horse was there.

It apears too if you're doing it in local (even if i walk with it 10 meters)

Please see if 16w32a fixed this issue.

Same problem here.

The horse disappears after a long travel. Sometimes it happens as soon as you dismount it, sometimes after a few minutes.

Sometimes you can hear its sounds around. Just quit and relaunch MC and the horse is back.

However, I already lost forever two horses, even after quitting the game and launching it again. They were very strong and fast horses. 😞

MC 1.11.2 for MacOS here.

Still happens on 17w13b.

We experienced in our multiplayer map that more and more horses disappear. All of them were tamed. It didn't matter whether they had a saddle or armor on them. It didn't matter whether they were named or not (after they disappeared I also couldn't teleport them to me, since their names were not found as stated in the chat box). It happened while I was logged in, without having logged off at any point. It happened to horse babies as well as grown horses. It happened to those in small 8x4 double-height fence-walls as well as large 50x50 walled-in structures. It didn't matter whether I rode them or not.

I don't know whether it only happens at lower y-levels. (I am working at y-level 8).

The bug is still exists in Realms in 1.11.2. It is really annoying.
Happens regularly on Realms for me. Horse, donkey or mule disappears instantly when I dismount. Appears again after relog.

This bug still occurs for me on version 1.12

I confirm it for 1.12 too. Dismounting a horse has a chance to make the horse disappeared.

The only workaround is to disconnect from the server and reconnect. The horse is then visible again.

1.12 cannot be added anymore as it's outdated, added 1.12.2 instead. Please confirm that the bug still exists in 1.12.2.

Can confirm it still occurs in 1.12.2 and is perhaps somehow exacerbated at this point.

The glitch is now occurring every time I dismount off my horse. Quitting and re-entering my save file resolves the issue, at least until I have to ride and dismount it again.

Can also confirm it happens in 1.12.2. Constantly.

Just happened to me. Trapped him in a small, inescapable pen, built for a few minutes, came back and he was gone. But then... I heard him? I looked directly at the pen and he was certainly not there. Quit and reload: bam! There he is! The weirdest bug, especially if it happens and the horse isn't in a pen...

Can also confirm in 1.12.2 😞 Of all the ones I coulda lost, I lost my fastest horse... Wasn't on a server, just playing local. Disappeared the very second I dismounted. ._. Reloaded a couple times, but nada. :c I didn't know this was a bug, til now.

Only mod I have is OptiFine, can't see that causing it. Been using OptiFine for AGES.

Minecraft 1.12.2 has already been added to the affected versions. Also, OptiFine is a mod and not supported on this tracker.

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I found a temporary solution to the bug, the horse may not be visible but it is still there, if the entity is updated (like for example, by taking damage) it will instantly reappear, this can be done via damage potion, lava or suffocation (tp the horse between 2 blocks so that it takes 1 heart of damage)

Edit: I found a better solution!, if your horse dissapears just execute this command so that it takes less than 1 heart of damage: 

/execute @e[type=Horse,name=Insert_name_here] ~ ~ ~ /summon Arrow ~ ~2 ~ {damage:0.1,life:1199,Motion:[0.0,-0.1,0.0]}

This has been happening to me in 1.13.2.

I believe I have encountered the same problem in 1.13.2. When I'm mounting a donkey or horse in single-player survival and sprinting, if I quickly jump off the animal can go invisible or vanish completely.

My first encounter with this bug was when I was mounting a donkey near a roofed dark forest. I got off the donkey to place a bed and sleep because the sun went below the horizon, but after my character woke up the donkey disappeared. I disabled my texture pack-since the donkeys' and horses' textures were broken-to see if it would reappear; still couldn't find the donkey. I exited and relaunched the game, got the same result. Searched nearby trees and still couldn't find it, nor hear it, so I had to spawn another one in (I traveled far from my base to find this animal).

In my second encounter, I was mounting a horse and I was positioned between two cliffs. Just like with the donkey, I jumped off the horse while it was sprinting and it disappeared. By now, I switched my texture pack (one that didn't have broken horse and donkey textures). After tabbing out and exiting the game's window, then relaunching it, the horse reappeared with no further issue.

I have the Windows 10 Home operating system & had Java Version 8 Update 181 [build 1.8.0_181-b13] when this occurred. I have updated Java (now have Java Version 8 Update 191 [build 1.8.0_191-b12]) and will report back here if I encounter it again.

I logged into my world yesterday and all my farm animals were invisible and had no hit boxes, but I could still hear them. Five seconds later, when I looked away for a second and looked back at my animal pens, they were visible again. O.o

It happened again, and I lost my mule. I dismounted it on a mountain and it shifted away under it. I heard it for a little bit, but after tabbing out and relaunching Minecraft there was no noise. I think it fell into the void, poor thing. I'm gonna backup my world and attempt to record the bug, I'll give a link if I succeed. I'm a little frustrated because this glitch has made riding any animals in the game risky or inconvenient. I forgot to mention yesterday that I am using Optifine, I will launch the game without the mod to see if it's the possible cause.

Here is some footage as proof: https://youtu.be/74Bi7xncHtI

Disabling Optifine seems to have prevented the mounts from appearing invisible or vanishing, but they still briefly clip through the ground before returning to their former position.

As of 1.14.2, this bug still occurs. I've been playing singleplayer for a while, and this has happened twice within the last hour.

yop this is a thing.

For me, it seems to happen more often now with 1.14.2 than previous versions.

Same here.. Travelling along on your horse, dismount and it sometimes disappears..
If you walk about 100(ish) blocks away and come back again, the horse reappears..

1.14.2 with Optifine (not sure without).

I'm having this issue on realms, seems to be client based. I dis-mount my horse and it visually disappears but I can still hear it and my cousin (who is playing on the same realm) can see the horse just fine.

Playing latest release version 1.14.2

Forgot to mention, disconnecting and re-connecting to the realm fixes that instance of the glitch. It's easy for my PC, but for others it can take some time to rejoin.

I've managed to get this bug to occur less often by staying on the horse for a few seconds after a ride.  If I get off immediately, the horse disappears about 75% of the time.  Logging out of the game and back in fixes it.  Really annoying, still.  Still occurring in 1.14.3 RC1

A work-around for boats seems to be working for me - make sure you are not overlapping any solid blocks (dirt, sand, stone, etc.) - then stand on the boat and break it.

I've also had this happen twice now. (1.14 single player survival, Windows 10)

Having the same issue repeatedly.

This continues to be a problem in Java edition 1.14.2. If you save to main menu immediately then return to the world, the horse reappears. However, if you dismount and let the horse disappear, then go to bed, the horse is still missing on waking up - and from then, logging off and returning does not return the horse, effectively making it lost forever. 

Yeah this is still an issue with my horse as well. Last time I did it, I reloaded the world regularly as I do to get around this bug but I think my horse despawned.

Having the same issue almost every time now with boats. It actually seems to be getting worse.

Have experienced this problem several times with a horse, mule, and boat on the latest version 1.14.2 with no mods.

Experienced this problem with a tamed horse in 1.14.2. I dismounted it, took a second of suffocation damage due to blocks on either side of me, and the horse was gone. I could hear it neighing but could not see nor its hitbox. I had to exit the world and reload it for the horse to appear again.

confirmed for 1.14.2

Confirmed for Minecraft 1.14.3 Prelease 4

Confirmed for Minecraft 1.14.3 release (Love the new launcher btw)

Confirmed for 1.14.2. Windows 10.

Also confirmed for 1.14.3. Windows 10.

Edit - I can also confirm that this is a vanilla MC issue. I thought at first it might be to do with Optifine, but testing has revealed otherwise.

@unknown FYI Optifine and other mods are not supported on this tracker.

5 minutes ago the same thing, my horse fell down on water, I automatically dismount and disappear 😞

Edit: 1.14.2 on Mac OSX

Bug still present on 1.14.3 on Mac OSX.

Bug present on LAN Mode too (I can't see my horse but the other player can, and when the other player mount on my invisible horse, I see the player glitching in the air without moving. Same thing happening when the other player has the bug).

With boats, in 1.14.3, this is now occurring about 5 times out of 6 tries or more. This is getting beyond annoying. I am spending so much time having to leave the world and reload it is destroying the enjoyment factor of the game.

1.14.3:  I have the issue with boats.  For me, half the time, there is just a small delay, but I am able to exit the boat and the boat is still there; in this situation, the boat may disappear for part of a second.  The other times, not only does the boat disappear and I need to log out and log back in again like others have mentioned, but before while the boat is invisible, I am stuck in the invisible boat, moving slightly (no more than 1 block in distance in any direction) and vibrating.

Have also repeated experienced this, primarily in the nether - dismount, horse (or mule) disappears but can still hear it.  Present after exiting and reentering the world (too chicken to leave and reenter render distance).  Windows 8, Java 11, MC 1.4.3, no mods, both single player and multi.

I've been playing in 1.14.3 and still see this happening occasionally with my horse. Usually disconnecting and reconnecting fixes it, but it's still pretty annoying to deal with. Also, I usually  play Minecraft on a PC running Windows 7 with the latest version of Optifine installed and I usually play on a server I am locally hosting that is running the 1.14.3 server.

Also 1.14.3 van. (without any mods/addons) on win10/i7/16GB

One thing I noticed – maybe due to the mechanisms of the game:

When you dismount a horse/donkey/whatever, it looks as if it's being teleported from somewhere, presumably from the point where you mounted it.

I suspect, when that distance gets too long and/or the chunk where you mounted the horse/… is unloaded, this may occur.

1.14.3: I've noticed this effect, too. However, I've had the problem with exiting boats even after traveling quite short distances so I don't think it's connected especially since I've seen the "teleport" effect occasionally since at least 1.11. However, I've never had the problem occur when transporting villagers by boat on land (trying vainly to get them sorted back to their appropriate workstations / beds). 

1.14.4.pr6/7  This problem with boats disappearing on exit has gotten much worse in the last 2 pre-releases.  I can tell it will happen when I exit a boat and the game stutters while I try to move forward; the character movement is all jittery and slow for up to 15-20 seconds.  Once I finally get off the boat I look back and it's gone.  A save and reload fixes it.  This is now happening 90+ percent of the time.  Especially annoying on large map exploration missions in a world with lots of ocean and frequent boat action.

Still happens in 1.14.4 release.

Same - just happened to me with a horse in 1.14.4. I dismounted, turned around to leash him (her?) to a post and the horse was nowhere.

I had to restart (not enough to quit out of the world, you have to quit back to the launcher) and then the horse showed up again.

for now try to unload and load again chunks this will cause the horse to reappear

I have an easy temp fix, just before you jump off the horse, take off its saddle then jump off. This made it stay for me 🙂

Another data  point. It seems to happen when client and server get out of sync. Another way to make this appear is to have a diamond shovel with efficiency III digging sand. That's the fastest digging there is. Then, the same thing can happen. A block may not be there in your view, but you get the same jittering and sticking there. 

it seems the issues has been partially reduced in the latest versions. However it still exists.

also you can observer it while exiting a boat. sometimes it seems to disapear for a second and then glide to the position you dismounted it in.

I had this issue with a boat in 1.14.4 too. In rare cases it disappeared and on reload it is visible again. Unfortunately i coulnt catch it while recording the boat glide glitch.

MC 1.14.4 - Leaving a boat makes it disappear and glide back in position: https://youtu.be/hwbmHfnWPQg

Had this happen with a boat yesterday - the entity was clearly still there as I was walking as though I was stuck inside the boat despite being dismounted. I went from afternoon to midnight with how long it took me. Then today, happened with a horse. Thanks @Agonizer for the reload mention, as I thought I lost my horse for good (and they are SUPER rare in my seed...)

This was on 1.14.4.

Also having this problem, almost everytime I dismount from the boat on my ice road in the nether the boat glicthes out, and I get stuck. If I pass through a nether portal and come back it is where it should be.

1.14.4 Java edition.

Yes, we know that everyone is affected by this issue. Please only comment here if you have something new that you want to add to the report.

Happens to boats when I dismount all the time.  On 1.14.4 vanilla java server.

New behavior on this old bug this time around: I rode a horse a short distance and dismounted it. Instead of disappearing it appeared to be flickering between two locations. I could not mount it, but I could see it as if it were trying to exist in two locations and the rendering engine was trying to teleport them between two locations very rapidly. But yeah if you ride long distances, you probably won't see the effect and assume the horse disappeared.

@PlNG This might be related to MC-158414

Reloging into the world will fix any invisible entity. If you are on singleplayer, just click the Save and Quit button and load the world again. If you are on server, log out and log in.

It's also worth noting that if you teleport the horse the player is riding, it can do a bunch of different things. Things like it either just doesn't teleport the horse, it freezes the player into only being able to look up and down and not able to dismount, and lastly, removing the horse completely. The two before can be fixed with relogging, but the last one will actually get rid of the horse somehow. This is for 1.14.4

This still happens on 19w38b, not fixed!

→ MC-161313

Since several other opened bugs have been marked duplicate and closed, I'm posting here.  This is happening repeatedly in 1.14.4 when exiting a boat on ice in the nether.  The player also behaves "trapped" as though stuck - movement is very slow and returns to normal after getting out of that block.  Boat reappears upon relogin.  Also, I don't know if it's related, but when breaking ice, occasionally an ice block is removed, but water flows around it like it's still there.  If you stand in that spot, you get "stuck" as described above.  It's solved by placing an ice block and breaking it again.

This issue will be fixed in a future version (1.15), hence this ticket has been closed. There are some issues with the fix in the latest development version (see MC-161313), but I'm sure that that'll be fixed as well.

I have found this same problem. My horse seems to be fine dismounting near where I mounted it, but I found that when trying to dismount in any chunks that are not loaded when first mounting the horse, it disappears like for everyone else. This also happens after visiting an unloaded chunk and returning to a chunk that was loaded when mounting the horse. I hope this helps (although I may be a bit late, it might help if the current solution doesn't work)

@@unknown Which version are you on? This is already fixed in 1.15 snapshot.

An issue raised by me some time ago that contained an "Issue Link" to this is still ongoing, see here (https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-157641)

Experienced same problem for boats disappearing again in version 1.18.1 and 1.18.2 just in bedrock edition