Andrew Bender
- adamanthil
- adamanthil
- America/Chicago
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Andrew Bender, I honestly don't know. 
I've asked the devs about it... I'll update the ticket when I get a response. 
Andrew Bender, I'm not sure about the egg-thing. I'll ask. 🙂
EDIT: Yes, chickens from eggs and animals from breeding should both be persistent. 😃
Andrew Bender Were the chickens the only ones to despawn? This could be separate bug with chickens-from-eggs not being set as persistent automatically.
To Andrew Bender, Patrick Quinn, Dylan Ernest Thomas , Tim Rohal, Richard Smith, Marcel Dewith, & Sarah, as well as anyone else still experiencing mob despawn issues:
Having read the recent comments, and after having discussed it with the other moderators, it seems clear that the bug that people are experiencing is a separate one from MCPE-8002, and that this bug is caused by going to the Nether and/or using Realms. I'm currently trying to figure out if MCPE-21416 happened on Realms or LAN/XBL multiplayer. I suspect this is either a Realms bug or a multiplayer-in-general bug. MCPE-21416 will probably wind up being the ticket for this remaining mob-despawn bug.
On our realms server, this bug has gotten significantly worse in 1.0.3 from what I can tell. Our farms constantly depopulate when we travel to and from the nether. Any progress on it in 1.0.4?
@SuperGeniusZeb What constitutes "interacted with"? For example, I have a chicken farm on my realms server that always despawns its mobs when players travel to the nether. If no one remains behind in the chunk, all the animals will be gone when we come back.
In the case of chickens, they have been created as a result of a player throwing eggs, but otherwise hadn't been interacted with after that. Do we need to interact with them further for them to stick around? There are also cows that have been fed wheat and/or bred and those also despawn after the chunk unloads.
Note: nothing despawns as a result of logging out and back in, but when the chunk unloads due to teleporting to the nether.
Thanks SuperGeniusZeb!
> If the entity ever sets you as its target, follows you, gets fed/bred/punched/etc. by you, that counts as interaction.
So, does this mean that in the case of chickens if they are spawned as a result of a player throwing an egg but no further interaction takes place, they are supposed to despawn? Or does the spawning through player throwing an egg cause them to be "interracted with"?
Very happy it sounds like this might be resolved soon.
Perfect thank you! Just gotta wait for 1.0.5. Hopefully soon!
@Chip Well, this bug has not been fixed yet so that is unfortunately the current behavior. The intended behavior is as SuperGeniusZeb described and should be the case after 1.0.5 comes out if all goes well. It's relevant in knowing what should function after the bug is fixed and what is actually a bug vs what is working as intended. In your case, the despawning is definitely due to the bug, which means it should not continue to occur after the next update.
Is this happening on mobs that spawned prior to the 1.0.5 update but are still around? On our realms server, we lost some chickens and horses on 1.0.5 that had spawned prior to the update. However, I don't believe it has happened yet to new mobs that spawned after 1.0.5.
After updating to 1.0.6 on our realms server, all chickens in our chicken farm have disappeared. They had all been spawned from player-thrown eggs on version 1.0.5.
I do not believe this issue is fixed.
That's a good question. I think that some of the chickens had been fed to accelerate their growth as well, but I am not completely sure that's true. I will definitely keep an eye on it more closely.
I can also confirm that this is still a bug on our realms server after further testing. We've lost chickens, horses, and donkeys that have all been interacted with or named after 1.0.5 and onwards. It does seem less common than it was before 1.0.5, but it still occurs periodically.
This ticket should be reopened.
Are we sure that this is a bug and not the intended behavior. It seems like a related bug was just fixed and the behavior changed to work this way with arrows. From the 1.0.7 changelog: "Arrows fired from a dispenser will now hit entities directly in front of the dispenser"
It seems consistent that dispensed eggs should also follow this logic. It is inconvenient for chicken farms, but I'm not sure it isn't working as intended. Farms can still be made to work if they are built slightly larger so the dispensed eggs can't hit baby chickens
Note, this bug seems to be avoided if the animals are in a ticking area. We have quite a few pens in a ticking area on our realms server and it does not occur. Prior to setting the ticking area, they would periodically disappear.
It seems related to memory cleanup when the chunks get unloaded. Putting them in a ticking area works around this by keeping them in memory at all times when the game is running.
Same thing happened to me. Loaded it on Android and it worked fine. Later loaded on Windows 10 and my avatar was reset (spawned at world spawn, no inventory/armor, no items in my ender chest)
Same thing for me: Logged on in Android to update the realm while I was out, logged in later on PC and everything was reset for my avatar & ender chest. I lost a ton of highly enchanted armor, weapons, tools, wither skulls, sea lanterns, etc.
Note: Realms back up automatically. If you find a backup from before your inventory and avatar were wiped you can restore the server from that. It's best to do it sooner than later as the backup resolution is best in the most recent 24hr.