Azure Klein

Tails,

I have not had a single cat despawn in 1.6.2. Ever. I don't know about other peoples' experiences, but as far as I can tell, it's been resolved in 1.6.2 and the fix is already in place. Considering nobody else has commented on the issue since my last one, I think it may be safe to assume this is the case for everyone. <3

Thanks to you and all the devs for caring and making a great product!

-Azure

EvilSeph, the problem is there's no way to ensure it happens EVERY TIME.. although the more cats you have, the higher the likelihood one or more will vanish (at least in my experience.. which makes my resolution of "keep a breeding pair to replace the vanished cat" very hit-or-miss).

I'm willing to do ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING you ask me to do.

Do you need video? Is there some sort of logging I can setup and obtain for you beyond just the normal crash report?

Let me know. I don't care how much work it takes on my end. I'll install special logging software, make you a bunch of videos, create new worlds in different operating systems, LAN games, SSP, SMP, anything.

Also, at least in my experience, the kittens WILL grow to adulthood IF YOU STAY IN THE CHUNK WITH IT. If you walk away while it's a baby and expect to return to an adult, that will almost never happen.

Installing the latest snapshot now to do some testing.

Edit:

No problems in the snapshot 13w23a so far. Promising.

Another Edit 24 hours from the original post: So I see the problem in 1.5.2 still, but not in 13w23a. At all. I am shocked but also happy. I'll just keep playing snapshot until it goes live. =^_=

Well, they clearly thought it was fixed. People other than me need to prove its not. Once we get enough of a consensus, I'm sure they'll reopen.

Sigh. I was really hoping they had actually fixed it instead of just closing the ticket, but no.

Don't get your hopes up people, it's still there even in 1.5.2 vanilla. 😞

Yes Patrick, kittens are a lot worse at despawning than the adults.

Depending on how much you work with cats, you may not run into the despawning issue. Most recently I've had an adult stay for over two weeks (real time, not minecraft time). As soon as I brought in more adults and tried to get my crazy cat lady house setup again though, all the adults despawned within 4 hours. I'm not sure if more cats = more likely to despawn, but that seems to be the case anecdotally.

Yeah I've found that eventually the creeper always sees the cat. At a certain distance though, it doesn't run away so much as, see the cat, walk somewhere else, wander towards me again, see the cat, run away. If the cat wanders too far away, the creeper can get close to me even with the cat present.

Seems to be working as intended to me.

An interesting thing happened this morning.

I was breeding cats (as I frequently do, since I live nowhere near the jungle and want to always have a cat on me), and after breeding two tuxedo cats together, I ended up with 5 ginger tabby kittens, a tux kitten, and a wild adult ocelot, all in addition to the cats that were already present at the moment.

I'm not sure how this may or may not be related, but figured I'd add in my experiences just in case.

Confirmed: Cats /sometimes/ come back! This leads me to believe they're not so much despawning as they are invisible and nonreactive for some reason. Confirmed by the presence of the disappeared cats in the crash report through creative use of named spawn eggs.

I had three cats sitting where I could find them. They stayed for 2 days. On the third day, only one cat was left. On the fourth day, it was back to two again. (All different breeds sitting in different spots to make it easier to know which was which.)

Yeah, I see that now. I was knee-jerking on the whole "Why didn't you search for dog bugs before reporting cat bugs" insult. Sorry about that.

If it's on record and being looked at, that's all that matters.

Thanks.

i did search.

that ticket's about wolves. i've never tamed a dog in my life. why would i have searched for stuff about wolves?

Sorry about that. I'm happy to reinstall without Rei's for further testing. I honestly didn't even think of it since I assumed the server to be the issue, not the client.

I'll open a new ticket with an unmodded client. Sorry for the trouble.