1. Place horses in pen
2. Fly backwards until the pen has unloaded from view & memory
3. Fly back, just like magic they will all have disappeared.
If you exit the game they will save when you relog the game. This also seems to happen with naturally spawning horses. Could not get an error report as it seems F3+C just closes the window down now with no actual report.
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was the horse tamed? because untamed horses will despawn.
No these horses were not tamed. Why would untamed horses despawn though? Untamed wolfs and other passive mobs do not do this.
yes they do
No they do not, not as (mind blank cannot remember the version!) when the yadded real mob farming passive mobs do not despawn.
Just to quote the wiki page on spawning "Unlike monsters, animals do not spontaneously despawn, except for wild ocelots and wolves (which can despawn only when they are hostile)." (EDIT: link is here http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Spawn#Animal_spawning)
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Wolves#History
here another quote for you: "Wolves only despawn when aggressive; passive and tamed wolves will not."
aannd. horses were based of the MO creatures mod. on the main page of the mod it says in the horses subtopic: untamed horses will despawn.
this not a bug but working as intended
Fair point; if that was the behaviour in the mod then this is fair; but is the spawning behaviour adapted so they spawn more regularly? Or horses would become almost impossible to obtain.
I would say, go find out 😃!
but I think that if horses spawned too regularly that they won't be special anymore. how cool is it if you're on a server and you're the only one with a horse!
😃 lording it over the server on your steed 😛!
now thats what im talking about😛
Is this supposed to happen with bred horses as well?
When breeding two horses, the foal isn't tamed from the beginning, thus despawning when leaving the chunk.
Is this really intended behaviour?
Having to wait until a foal is fully grown to be able to tame it to prevent loosing it?
happend to me in 1.6.2 without logging off/out. Horse was tamed, got a saddle and golden armor .. all gone!
REALLY frustrating game experience, please fix this!
Still happens in 1.6.2, I lost a horse with diamond armour because of this, and another without anything.
Both were tamed and bound to a fence, and I'm sure the chunk wasn't unloaded: The horse just vanished.
mobs disappear when leaving chunks sometimes