I own and play on a realm and had gone mining far away from my base. When I returned all my villagers, horses, animals, and armor stands were missing. Countless hours gone.
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Most mobs despawn if you walk too far away from them and don't give them nametags. However, certain mobs can gain persistence and won't despawn. Villagers and armor stands are supposed to always have persistence.
More info on Minecraft Wiki.]
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Yeah, it was definitely some type of bug. The named/saddled and penned horses, penned animals, tamed and named dogs/cats, sniffers, as well as my Villagers/Prisoners in their small rooms that have all been traded with were gone. My zoo with enclosed "wild" animals however was unaffected. This world was survival only. No creative mode. Definitely frustrating.
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Yeah, it was definitely some type of bug. The named/saddled and penned horses, penned animals, tamed and named dogs/cats, sniffers, as well as my Villagers/Prisoners in their small rooms that have all been traded with were gone. My zoo with enclosed "wild" animals however was unaffected. This world was survival only. No creative mode. Definitely frustrating.
GoldenHelmet
Can you give more details about the circumstances around this? For example,
Did this occur within one session?
Did your change dimensions (nether, end) at all?
Did your game crash?
Were other players logged in to the Realm at the time?
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It was two sessions. The first session I went mining but had got off. The next session was the next morning. I got back on and headed back to my base. I had not changed dimensions and my game hadn't crashed. I was also the only person who had played on the server for a few days. Thankfully I had a backup from before I left my base so I just loaded that up and had all my critters back. I haven't played since as I don't want to put hours in again just to have to load a backup again.
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It was two sessions. The first session I went mining but had got off. The next session was the next morning. I got back on and headed back to my base. I had not changed dimensions and my game hadn't crashed. I was also the only person who had played on the server for a few days. Thankfully I had a backup from before I left my base so I just loaded that up and had all my critters back. I haven't played since as I don't want to put hours in again just to have to load a backup again.
GoldenHelmet
Could you provide copies of the backups from immediately before and after the entities disappeared? If you can upload the world exports to a sharing site you may give the link here.
Most mobs despawn if you walk too far away from them and don't give them nametags. However, certain mobs can gain persistence and won't despawn. Villagers and armor stands are supposed to always have persistence.
More info on Minecraft Wiki.]