[MCPE-158955] Allays attached to fence posts break their leads and cannot be led back

Allays leashed to a fence post in 1.19.2 have suddenly popped off the fence post after upgrading the world to 1.19.10 and will not, after leashing them follow the player holding the lead, thus breaking the lead after the max distance is reached.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 13

MCPE-158540 Can't leash allay spawned in previous version. Resolved

MCPE-159180 Allay does not respond to lead Resolved

MCPE-159287 Allays and leads don't work Resolved

MCPE-159616 After the player enters Nether, player's Allay gets rid of the leash tied to the fence and no longer follows the player Resolved

MCPE-159678 Allays break off their leashes Resolved

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Attachments

Allay Nether Test.mcworld

Allay Unleadable.mcworld

Test Two Groups.mcworld

Comments 16

Spook_Lass 2022-07-15T17:17:56Z

This is caused by the new feature allowing Allays to easily travel between the nether and the overworld. For whatever reason, whether in another chunk or leaded, when the player enters the nether and the allay can't the allay becomes broken. This also happens when a world from an older version is loaded in a newer one, especially on a realm.

This bug can be temporarily fixed by removing the item from the allay's hand, punching them, and giving the item back. This is only a temporary fix, as the player entering the nether will cause it again.

kmpoppe 2022-07-15T19:46:35Z

Can confirm @Spook_Lass's observation and workaround.

Perry 2022-07-16T21:23:35Z

Additionally, the Allays, even those with items, seem to wander as if they aren't linked to the player

EveryCabbage884 2022-07-21T12:43:26Z

Resolving temporarily as Awaiting Response. Could you please export your world and attach it to this report? If it exceeds the file size limit, you can upload it elsewhere and link it here.
This ticket will reopen automatically when you reply.

kmpoppe 2022-07-21T13:37:36Z

Hello @Weronika Szajnfeld,

apart from the World being 400+ MB in the backup I do not feel comfortable with sharing the world publicly for everybody to download. What is the way to securely sharing the world with the team?

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Haliaeetus 2022-07-21T20:15:35Z

I've been able to replicate this several times in different worlds. The problem seems to occur when the allay are some distance from the nether portal (~70 blocks or more). After the player enters the nether and returns to the overworld, the behavior of the Allay change and they drift about aimlessly (like when they aren't holding an object). However, they ignore the leads until they drift far enough from the fence that the lead breaks. As @Spook_Lass mentioned, you can return them to their usual behavior by taking the item from them, hitting them and then giving the item back. Alternatively, if you reload the world, they will resume their normal behavior.

However, there is a second problem that sometimes occurs. When they break the leads, occasionally instead of dropping, it "stays attached" to the Allay. When this happens, you can't attach a new lead to them, since they think they are already attached to one. I have not found a way to fix this in the game, nor a definitive trigger for what causes it, but I suspect that the Allay object has some boolean value which indicates whether they are attached to a lead, and that value is somehow being corrupted.

I'm attaching three worlds here.

Allay Nether Test: This world has a group of Allay tethered 70+ blocks from a Nether portal. If you enter the portal and return, the Allay will exhibit the behavior.
Test Two Groups: Here there is a group of Allay tethered 70+ blocks from the portal, and another group tethered closer. The closer group won't exhibit the behavior, but the farther group will.
Allay Unleadable: There are two Allay following the player in this world which cannot have leads attached to them.

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Pedro Barbosa Bruno 2022-07-23T16:50:40Z

It may be worth checking MCPE-159616 even though it is going to be a duplicate from this ticket.

Blodwen 2022-07-25T12:50:02Z

This also happened to me on my bedrock realm yesterday; I have had two allays leaded for quite some time (one I found in game in 1.19.2, the other one I duped/bred from the original when 1.19.1 was released) and after returning from my nether trip both were off lead. I was able to lead the original allay back again, however, the duped allay is unable to be interacted with with a lead. I can still take blocks from the duped allay and I was able to breed it after this occurred, however, I could not use a lead on it or the allay duped from it. I was also able to dupe the original after this occurred and I could not lead the duped allay from the original either - although I could give it a block.

ktorn 2022-08-01T09:44:10Z

Also having a similar issue in a multiplayer bedrock realm.

3 players rescued 4 allays from an outpost. They all responded well to leads all the way to the nether portal. Once in the nether, we could still visibly attach leads but they no longer followed us and the leads just kept breaking. I should note that one of the players did report some success with their lead allay. 2 of us had to resort to continuous dropping blocks for the allays to follow us back to base. (note: we were just walking, not running, flying, nor using boats on ice)

Most surprisingly, once back in the overworld, they allays still don't respond to leads. Even when attached to a wooden fence, they simply wander off until the lead breaks off the fence. We all had to build full enclosures to keep them from wandering off.

ktorn 2022-08-01T14:03:11Z

After looking at MCPE-159616, we did a few more tests on our realm.

Our findings:

The allay only starts ignoring leads the moment the player who last attached a lead to that allay goes through a nether portal, including if the allay was attached to a fence post by that player.
This means other players who did not interact with the allay can go through nether portals without affecting it.
When an allay starts ignoring leads then all players who are currently logged into the realm need to exit and re-enter the realm to restore that allay's normal behaviour.

Pickles6855 2022-08-02T17:38:16Z

This also affects 1.19.11 on realms.

slund312 2022-08-14T20:28:29Z

I also have been having this issue in my shared realm. I had 3 that were tied up fine until I went into the Nether. Once I returned, all their leads had broken and they were no longer following me (with our without the lead). One I even tried to tie up in my house and it went through the wall of my house and broke the lead once it was far enough away outside.

NavDaz76 2022-08-17T21:07:49Z

We noticed this same behaviour on our server.

I had leashed 4 Allays to fences and they were fine till I went into the nether.

When I went through to the nether another server player mentioned that they had all broken off their leads and were heading off in random directions. I returned from the nether and we tried to catch them all with leads how ever they would not follow us while being on a lead and would continually break the lead. This only happened after I went to the nether as previously I was able to lead one over to another spot on the map without it breaking the lead.

BuckGuy925 2022-09-24T00:34:45Z

Still unable to attach lead to Allays in 1.19.30.20.

Timer RP 2023-02-08T12:38:55Z

This error has not been solved in 1.19.60, if you are at a considerable distance for the allay follow you this one will not follow you if it is tied to a leash, but it will follow you if you disconnect and re-enter, the coordinates where the allay was tied when I disconnected was at 304 64 92 and where I disconnected was at 245 63 45 this I know because every time I leave the world I make a backup.

Steps to reproduce:

1.Create a world with the seed 933362424

2.Put a fence at the coordinates 304 64 45

3.Summon an allay, give it an item, put a rope and tie it to the fence

4.Teleport at the coordinates 245 63 92

5.Leave the world and re-enter

6.Go where the allay is

The observed result:

The allay follows you and the leash breaks.

The expected result:

The allay does not follow you and the leash does not break.

here is the link

owlfalls35 2023-03-17T22:47:37Z

Still in 1.19.71