I have a pen that is 17x32 (didn't plan out the dimension just built it). It is four blocks high fence with a wooden slab roof and 3 block stone barrier all around it. there aren't even gates, just solid wall, yet they still disappear. I check in on them once a day and by morning they will have apparated.
i have just about given up on animal farming. i have tried giving them growing wheat.. feeding them wheat/seeds regularly by hand. making sure there is a water block accessible, but not deadly. no matter what i do, i hear the sound of falling and dying as my animals croak in a flat pen. i can get them to breed, but i can't get them to remain alive for 5 minutes.
it has imbittered me to the point of slaughtering every animal on sight.
hmm.. i wonder if flint and steel will light a cow on fire.. :/
i have just about given up on animal farming. i have tried giving them growing wheat.. feeding them wheat/seeds regularly by hand. making sure there is a water block accessible, but not deadly. no matter what i do, i hear the sound of falling and dying as my animals croak in a flat pen. i can get them to breed, but i can't get them to remain alive for 5 minutes.
it has imbittered me to the point of slaughtering every animal on sight.
hmm.. i wonder if flint and steel will light a cow on fire.. :/
These are just flat out false statements. I dont care if GOD told you that. The 4J devs dont know whats wrong with the animals despawning, otherwise it would be fixed.
Actually, padware, one of the 4J devs, posted on this very forum saying that an animal may despawn if it can move 20 blocks in any direction. So, for all intents and purposes, God did tell me that, in that 4J are the "god" of Minecraft on 360. Perhaps you'd like to check your facts?
I did tests in the same thread that padware posted in, creating several sized pens and seeing if animals despawned. What I found was that if the internal area of the pen is greater than 20 blocks then I lost animals. This means, in practice, that a 5x5 area (internal) pen will potentially lose animals, as it's a total of 25 blocks.
I currently have a lot of 3x3 pens (5x5 fence, 3x3 internal area) with a pair of coloured sheep in each that I'm using to breed and shear for coloured wool. Seems pretty stable. I've also made sure that the floor is not dirt or grass in the pens so that wolves and other passive mobs can't spawn in them. Wolves in particular, because they like to eat sheep. That's been the only way I've lost sheep in a 3x3 pen.
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hahahahahahaha i didnt want to offend people who arent christian or other religions
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yeah i am sure it is. i probably would of got spammed with quotes of that comment
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I've also made sure that the floor is not dirt or grass in the pens so that wolves and other passive mobs can't spawn in them. Wolves in particular, because they like to eat sheep. That's been the only way I've lost sheep in a 3x3 pen.
so.. the best method is to put them in a stone hole with no food and water?
that's just silly.
i had a sheep despawn yesterday in a 3x3x3 hole in about 5 minutes. when i returned with a second sheep, i found no sheep and i found no wolf there. the hole is inside a fenced in area. it often takes 5 minutes to bring back a second animal, as they spawn on the mountainside. i either have to go wander and find one on the flat to lead back or i have to carve a path down the mountain.
i've thought about setting up next to the village and poaching their herds, but i'd rather be raising animals myself...
i had a sheep despawn yesterday in a 3x3x3 hole in about 5 minutes. when i returned with a second sheep, i found no sheep and i found no wolf there. the hole is inside a fenced in area. it often takes 5 minutes to bring back a second animal, as they spawn on the mountainside. i either have to go wander and find one on the flat to lead back or i have to carve a path down the mountain.
i've thought about setting up next to the village and poaching their herds, but i'd rather be raising animals myself...
Strange. I don't have mine in a hole, I just have a fence of 4x4 (2x2 internal area), which has a cobblestone floor. I've never had sheep vanish from them. I do tend to go around and kill a lot of other animals around the area though, I don't know if that makes any difference.
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it has imbittered me to the point of slaughtering every animal on sight.
hmm.. i wonder if flint and steel will light a cow on fire.. :/
just light the block under it, it'll work
Actually, padware, one of the 4J devs, posted on this very forum saying that an animal may despawn if it can move 20 blocks in any direction. So, for all intents and purposes, God did tell me that, in that 4J are the "god" of Minecraft on 360. Perhaps you'd like to check your facts?
I did tests in the same thread that padware posted in, creating several sized pens and seeing if animals despawned. What I found was that if the internal area of the pen is greater than 20 blocks then I lost animals. This means, in practice, that a 5x5 area (internal) pen will potentially lose animals, as it's a total of 25 blocks.
I currently have a lot of 3x3 pens (5x5 fence, 3x3 internal area) with a pair of coloured sheep in each that I'm using to breed and shear for coloured wool. Seems pretty stable. I've also made sure that the floor is not dirt or grass in the pens so that wolves and other passive mobs can't spawn in them. Wolves in particular, because they like to eat sheep. That's been the only way I've lost sheep in a 3x3 pen.
Good call.
so.. the best method is to put them in a stone hole with no food and water?
that's just silly.
i had a sheep despawn yesterday in a 3x3x3 hole in about 5 minutes. when i returned with a second sheep, i found no sheep and i found no wolf there. the hole is inside a fenced in area. it often takes 5 minutes to bring back a second animal, as they spawn on the mountainside. i either have to go wander and find one on the flat to lead back or i have to carve a path down the mountain.
i've thought about setting up next to the village and poaching their herds, but i'd rather be raising animals myself...
I presume you're joking. I'm not saying it's aesthetically the best option, but it's what works for me.
Strange. I don't have mine in a hole, I just have a fence of 4x4 (2x2 internal area), which has a cobblestone floor. I've never had sheep vanish from them. I do tend to go around and kill a lot of other animals around the area though, I don't know if that makes any difference.
Misinformation.
Fences DO hold them in. Try to jump over a fence..
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I would love to see your horses! got a pic?