Its plain and simple the tamed horse de-spawned.
I was hoping it wouldn't de-spawn.
It despawned.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tame a horse
2. Get off of the game or unload the chunk
3. May or may not cause de-spawning of horse
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I just realized something I forgot to mention:
The horse that despawned was named with a name tag. Anything named with a name tag SHOULD NOT despawn, but it did anyway!
This "despawning" happened to me yesterday on an SMP server. Tied donkey to post, slept to make night pass faster (about 20 blocks away), donkey was gone along with saddle and contents of chest. The rope appeared to be still wrapped around the post, but when I right clicked it, it just vanished, dropping no rope and releasing no donkey.
No portals anywhere in that chunk. It was in a village that I have protected enough that I've not seen any weird intrusions in. Oddly, I do see baby villagers all the time even though I've added no doors in a long time. Any weird "villager drowning in the well" bug shouldn't have touched a donkey tied to the post, however.
I had a whole herd of tamed horses just disappear, several with armor. Probably five were attached to posts. Most were inside a fenced area. Two donkeys disappeared as well. All leads disappeared. They were there last time I was in the chunks. I came back from a trip via nether portal and they were all gone, every single horse and donkey in the area. More than a little disappointing.
I am playing in single player un-modded Survival Mode. I had a horse despawn inside my barn after I left the area and then returned. It was a single block wall of wool and glass that it would have had to glitch through. Only other option is that it made it through two sets of closed wooden doors. Five other horses in the barn were still there, but they were from a different original mob. Only my buckskin disappeared. This is very disappointing. Any suggestions? Thanks!
I had 7 horses, all fenced in and all had name tags. Somehow 2 of them are gone. Playing multi player survival.
This isn't fixed (anymore).
It just happened to me in a Superflat world in Creative mode.
I had a tamed horse tied to a fence post with a lead. I flew far enough away so that the area where the horse was tied was out of my render distance. When I came back, the horse and lead were gone, leaving only the fence post.
I went further than the distance I went today in 1.6.1 and the horse was still there when I got back. This means it was unfixed in 1.6.2.
Mods, please attempt to reproduce in 1.6.2 and reopen this issue.