Teresa Crall
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According to the wiki, rabbits are also supposed to spawn in taiga and flower forests, but they don't. That's the bug.
I have experienced this as well. I have spent considerable time in 1.9.4 exploring. Rabbits abound in deserts, and I just found my first ice plains biome and the first thing I saw was a white rabbit. I have seen several flower forests and lots of taiga, but not a single rabbit in any of those. I brought back a breeding pair from the desert to my home base in grassland, and successfully bred a small proportion of brown rabbits (as well as lots of gold) there as the wiki says can happen.
Update: Having now explored the ice plains for a while, I have seen both ice colors of rabbits (white and black/white) frequently. They do not seem to spawn in the cold taiga, however. I can only confirm ice plains and ice plains spikes. Also, I finally found mega taiga, and there are bunnies there as well.
Ryan, just to clarify:
After you tame a wolf, it sits down. Did you tell it to stand up before you walked away? It will not follow you if it is sitting.
My wolves seem to be back to normal in 1.8.1-pre3. I can use them again, and they don't lose interest in me anymore 🙂 Robert Johnston, are you still experiencing this in the pre-releases for 1.8.1, or only in the officially released 1.8? They didn't fix this problem for 1.8, but have it licked for 1.8.1 which is still upcoming. I can't tell from your comment what version you are using, but you may want to tell your launcher to use 1.8.1-pre3 if you are not already doing so. If you have made no modifications to your launcher, it will automatically load up only the official releases, not the developmental versions, so your wolves will still be dysfunctional until 1.8.1 officially launches at some time in the future. I had a brief buggy problem with 1.8.1-pre4, but am using 1.8.1-pre3 with no issues at all – just back up your saves files frequently as a pre-release may be less stable.
This has changed the way I play Minecraft, and not for the better. I used to travel with a pack of wolves. They were very useful for defense and for finishing off animals that I wanted to slaughter for their drops. Upon finding wolves for the first time in each world, I used to rejoice! Now, I don't even bother taming them, much less trying to move them anywhere with me. In worlds that I already have wolves I have them sitting safely somewhere, waiting for this issue to get fixed. When I walk somewhere at normal speed, they fall behind and stop following almost immediately, so that I have to keep turning around and making sure they are there so I don't lose them (and going back to lure them on again!), because if I lose them while traveling and don't know where, they are effectively lost forever unless I happen to wander through that chunk again at some future date. They teleport so rarely that it is now unexpected. I hope the Minecraft crew fixes this bug soon!
What I am still experiencing with the wolves (now in 14w30c) has nothing at all to do with skeletons. In 1.7.9 I could travel with a pack of wolves and they would always stay close. Now, when I try to walk normally with even one or two wolves – no skeletons anywhere around – they quickly fall behind and stop following me. Even when they are close sometimes they just seem to lose interest. This bug also affects puppies caught in water, since I can no longer run quickly from the spot and have them teleport out to a safe location, so I have to be extra careful never to let any puppies get near even one block of water. For now I am keeping all my wolves sitting in a safe place and not breeding them, waiting for this bug to get fixed before I use them any more to keep from losing them. 😞
I experience this in 14w28b, but often the wolves don't follow either. I can see them in the distance, just standing there. Sometimes if I go nudge them they will begin following me again, but they do not keep up very well and rarely if ever teleport, so eventually they end up in the distance again not following at all.
I think this is because the effect timer (MM:SS) can't show effects longer than 99 minutes? It would be really nice if the effect timer could be updated so that long lasting effects would show properly.