Had a horse tied to a fence post with a lead. Got on the horse to ride it and saw the lead appeared broken ... not attached to the fence post and visible on the ground (the lead as a tether/leash, not as an item icon). Rode a chunk or two distance away. Went to attach a lead to the horse to tie him up in this new location and the lead will not attach. Only command option is to ride the horse.
I tried each of the following steps to resolve, none of which have worked:
returned with the horse to the original fence post
destroyed original fence post
saved and quit game, reentered
saved and quit game, restarted Minecraft
rebooted Xbox
Google searches have turned up a couple of references to this type of error, but from years ago.
MC-14826 Leads in unloaded chunks break, become invisible or connect to an invisible target far away - Jira (mojang.com) (2019; note: Java edition)
(2) Invisible lead stuck to horse : Minecraft (reddit.com) (2019)
Those are the only two references I can find. This error just happened for the first time.
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I appear to be having this issue on the realm I play on. When the 1.18 update first came out, a group of us took horses out to explore and when we came back to spawn, one of the members, who had taken the horse, named Pizza, said he could not attach the lead back on the horse, but everyone else was able to tie their horses back in the stables just fine. Multiple people tried to tie Pizza and could not, even after relogging. Everyone ended up forgetting about it though. Today I went to the stable again and was reminded when I saw Pizza untied, but I was able to tie him again now. I took a different horse, April out because she is faster and now I am unable to tie April back in the stable. Both trips were several thousand blocks one way
I've gone through more trips between the same locations with both April and an unnamed horse and another member on the realm has done the same trip using another horse named Teddy. April is still unable to have a lead attached while Teddy and the unnamed horse can be attached no problem. I wonder if speed may be a factor as April seems to be the fastest of the three
I am still unable to put a lead on the specific horse I mentioned before, haven't had any issues with any others
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