MCPE-35966Horses and other livestock despawing
If you guys are finished mucking about with putting 17 different kinds of fish into buckets and giving us useless turtles to make useless helmets and pointless potions, maybe you'll spare a moment or two for the long-running problem of livestock despawning? Specifically, horses.
I don't care about cows and pigs and sheep despawning … and they do … I just keep making more faster than they despawn. But it's impossible to make a herd of fast horses that can jump very well if the good ones keep despawning.
It's been a year that this problem has persisted. I know there's another report on this. But if you can't be bothered to look into this after a year, I don't see why I should be bothered to look it up.
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Horses and other livestock despawing
If you guys are finished mucking about with putting 17 different kinds of fish into buckets and giving us useless turtles to make useless helmets and pointless potions, maybe you'll spare a moment or two for the long-running problem of livestock despawning? Specifically, horses.
I don't care about cows and pigs and sheep despawning … and they do … I just keep making more faster than they despawn. But it's impossible to make a herd of fast horses that can jump very well if the good ones keep despawning.
It's been a year that this problem has persisted. I know there's another report on this. But if you can't be bothered to look into this after a year, I don't see why I should be bothered to look it up.
- Unresolved
- Open
- Unconfirmed
- Windows
- Windows 10
- 1.5.1.2
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duplicates
If you knew that this is a duplicate, why did you make another report?
Please, calm down.The developers are fixing hundreds of other bugs and all those require a lot of time. Insulting the features or the devs changes nothing. Adding useful details to the earlier ticket helps more than ranting about the "useless helmets and pointless potions"
Are the horses being left on a chunk boundary when you leave the world or realm? If so there's a higher chance they will despawn. If you can add a screenshot of where the horses are kept with the coordinates I might be able to help ascertain if that is the issue.
I'm sure the place is big enough that it has to sit on the edge of a chunk somewhere. There's another pen beyond this one that had other horses in it, but I took them out as they were melting into the blocks on the bank of a pond and suffocating. You could hear them taking damage, screaming and dying. The horses, mostly colts, will also merge into walls, haybales, the surrounding cliffs, suffocate, audibly take damage, scream and die. I lost one quite recently this way.
And that's just what happens when I've been in the corral. I leave for a time and they despawn; precisely how I don't know. The herd seen in the pics is missing about a quarter of its previous number in just a few days. I keep breeding more and they keep disappearing. All of the vanished horses have been tamed and saddled, and several of them were named with nametags, and a couple were wearing armor when they despawned.
A previous herd of about two dozen despawned until only the bays were left (brown horses with black manes); all other colors vanished. The bays in this pic are the only ones left from the original herd. None of the bays were named, but all are saddled. I don't know why this one color seems to be immune to despawning, or even if it is. Maybe it's just coincidence.
Thanks for the images. It does look like the horses are positioned over a chunk boundary, which means they are much more likely to despawn as they are not correctly saved in either chunk.
From the coordinates you've shown, here are where the chunk boundaries are:
Now please be aware that this is a workaround to try and help you with the despawning issue, I do not think this is a final fix for the issue, but if you keep your horses/animals etc. away from the chunk boundaries, you should find that they do not despawn.
You can enter your coordinates into a site such as this one and figure out where the boundaries are, and move your animals accordingly (or place fences, for example).
As for horses suffocating in blocks, this issue has been fixed in the latest beta, and will be included in a future update.
I hope this information helps you out. For now I'll close this ticket as a duplicate of
MCPE-21416.Also, the bug where horses can be pushed into blocks and suffocate has been fixed in the latest beta, so it shouldn't be too long before we see that in the stable version (
MCPE-20034)."Stable" version? LOL.
Thanks for the word on the suffocation glitch fix. That, at least, is heartening.
I guess I can put the best horses in the two stalls in the barn, for now, provided the stalls are not on a chunk border. I'll have to make my next barn a lot bigger. Thanks for your help, Mega_Spud.