So I made a huge corral, about 20x20, and I lured a few bovine beasts over. I'd come over with a bushel of wheat, drag em all together and start handing them out left and right to maximize the herd. Worked great, until I got about 12 of them.
Then it was biz as usual, delving down to mine a few squares above bedrock level for an hour or two.
When I come back, they were all gone.
Not a single one left. No place for them to have gone -- there was nothing but fence in any direction. No wolves coulda gotten them because there were none for miles, and again, the fence should have kept them out anyway.
Anyone else have this happened? I'm rather disinclined to build up livestock pens if the game arbitrarily takes them away.
When other monsters spawn in the game, I believe a certain number of them starts to despawn others. I.e, while you were mining all the tunnels around you were filling up with monsters. By the time you got back to the farm, all the monsters spawning had despawned all your bovine.
I love that word, Bovine! Played Diablo 2 too much, HELL BOVINES <3 haha. "Moo. Moomoomoo, moo, MOOO!" and then it falls to the ground, with a halberd in hand. ahh... the days.
It's a disease that's been going through the bovine community lately. There are shots available, but they're a little tricky to administer...
Actually, this has been experienced by a lot of us - myself included. Seems to be related to the number of other passive mobs in the area. Go around and kill as many animals as you can find in the area - keeping just the ones you want to lure into your farm. You'll find them fallen into holes, sunken lakes, out to sea, and standing on a single block on the edges of cliffs. Be ruthless and you might have better luck with your own animals.
My latest theory is that this happens when the corral is too large. Try really small pens. In the Tutorial World (where I'm doing most of my playing right now), the only pens from which my animals never seem to disappear are those constructed by 4J for the tutorial. They are 5 x 5 with a mating pair in each of them. I breed them so I have 2 parents and a baby in each pen. They seem to stay intact 99% of the time when I go mining (the other 1% might be attributed to the animals taking damage by banging against the fences). Conversely, when I tried just stocking the main tutorial area with a bunch of animals and then blocking the tunnel to the castle - almost every single animal was gone when I got back.
Others believe that when the numbers of animals approach the cap, the most recent additions are those that despawn first. This could also have some bearing. I did have two sheep in a smaller pen that I added myself disappear once.
The hostile mob cap and the passive mob cap are separate. They have no effect on each other. Having monsters spawn will not cause cows to despawn.
Thank you for informing me.
Either way, going underground for that long causes other stuff to spawn, thus despawning the Moo Moos. Supposed to be fixed with TU8. Passive mobs will spawn to a certain number, and once that number is hit, they rarely spawn.
I really feel that the passive mob limit is to blame here. Currently in-game we have animals not despawning on their own but still spawning in large numbers, which is not like the PC version where animals don't despawn but only spawn on chunk creation. New animal spawns appear to force older animals to disappear if you move out of the chunk.
I really feel that the passive mob limit is to blame here.
For sure. I can't believe how many groupings of animals I see, it's like every biome has turned into the Great Plains with pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep representing buffalo!
Lol, it's really fun to play in creative on a walled town, get sick of the ridiculous amount of animals there are getting in the way of building, and spam the heck out of splash Potion of Harming II. If you hold throw, and sprint in fly mode, they fall behind you. I feel like I'm giving a B-52 carpet bomb run!
you know what is funny? My southren area of my world keeps spawning animal and TONS of them like 30 plus. I thought they cant respawn anymore.
As of now, animals still respawn. This is all I know for sure. Not sure when it will change. Maybe when the sheep can regrow their wool but that is just a guess.
I've had the same problem. The only passive mob that stays around are my dogs. Strangely, their pups will stay too, even if I don't befriend them. Now.. keeping them and all other passive mobs in my home area out of the water is a different matter. In fact, just today I made a Snow Golem just to see it work. As soon as I set the head on, it woke up, looked at me, turned a 180 and made a straight beeline for the pond 20-30 blocks away. Go figure...
Hopefully the despawning bug the OP mentioned, and this water affinity problem will be solved in the next title update.
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So I made a huge corral, about 20x20, and I lured a few bovine beasts over. I'd come over with a bushel of wheat, drag em all together and start handing them out left and right to maximize the herd. Worked great, until I got about 12 of them.
Then it was biz as usual, delving down to mine a few squares above bedrock level for an hour or two.
When I come back, they were all gone.
Not a single one left. No place for them to have gone -- there was nothing but fence in any direction. No wolves coulda gotten them because there were none for miles, and again, the fence should have kept them out anyway.
Anyone else have this happened? I'm rather disinclined to build up livestock pens if the game arbitrarily takes them away.
I love that word, Bovine! Played Diablo 2 too much, HELL BOVINES <3 haha. "Moo. Moomoomoo, moo, MOOO!" and then it falls to the ground, with a halberd in hand. ahh... the days.
Actually, this has been experienced by a lot of us - myself included. Seems to be related to the number of other passive mobs in the area. Go around and kill as many animals as you can find in the area - keeping just the ones you want to lure into your farm. You'll find them fallen into holes, sunken lakes, out to sea, and standing on a single block on the edges of cliffs. Be ruthless and you might have better luck with your own animals.
My latest theory is that this happens when the corral is too large. Try really small pens. In the Tutorial World (where I'm doing most of my playing right now), the only pens from which my animals never seem to disappear are those constructed by 4J for the tutorial. They are 5 x 5 with a mating pair in each of them. I breed them so I have 2 parents and a baby in each pen. They seem to stay intact 99% of the time when I go mining (the other 1% might be attributed to the animals taking damage by banging against the fences). Conversely, when I tried just stocking the main tutorial area with a bunch of animals and then blocking the tunnel to the castle - almost every single animal was gone when I got back.
Others believe that when the numbers of animals approach the cap, the most recent additions are those that despawn first. This could also have some bearing. I did have two sheep in a smaller pen that I added myself disappear once.
Thank you for informing me.
Either way, going underground for that long causes other stuff to spawn, thus despawning the Moo Moos. Supposed to be fixed with TU8. Passive mobs will spawn to a certain number, and once that number is hit, they rarely spawn.
For sure. I can't believe how many groupings of animals I see, it's like every biome has turned into the Great Plains with pigs, chickens, cows, and sheep representing buffalo!
Lol, it's really fun to play in creative on a walled town, get sick of the ridiculous amount of animals there are getting in the way of building, and spam the heck out of splash Potion of Harming II. If you hold throw, and sprint in fly mode, they fall behind you. I feel like I'm giving a B-52 carpet bomb run!
They will always respawn... Just at a later date that rate will more likely drop noticeably... like 1.8.2 before the patch...lol
Hopefully the despawning bug the OP mentioned, and this water affinity problem will be solved in the next title update.