I had a Skeleton Horse tied to a fence post with a lead a while back. Later when I got back on it was gone but the lead was still attached to the fence post but when I broke the lead it disappeared and didn’t pop up in my inventory or on the ground. Today the same thing happened but with a NAMED polar bear which shouldn’t de-spawn because it’s NAMED. Now I’m down two leads and two animals with no reason why.
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