My god this is so annoying. A few days ago I had 12 leads, now I am down to 3, because they keep breaking and then the items despawn. Can they fix this in 1.7, or maybe like 1.6.3???
Okay now they are disappearing when I am right next to them. I tied up my horse, donkey, and mule, did some smelting/crafting/buildings, and despite being less than 35 blocks away from them the entire time, the leads broke. However, this time they dropped as items, although they still broke for an unknown reason.
This happens to me, except they don't act like they are on a lead. I will tie up my horse, donkey, and mule, leave for a while, return and the leads are gone and the 3 mobs are freely walking around.
Normally before, like I said, the leads would randomly break and be on the ground. I would tie up my animals, walk off, return, and the animals would be roaming freely and the leads would be items on the ground.
Around 10 minutes ago, I went to ride my horse and, just like this problem states, the horse acted like it was on a lead although the lead didn't seem to be present. I found out it was invisible, and in order to get the lead back I had to destroy the fence post it was on. So I've experienced both variants of this lead disappearance glitch, and both are annoying.