Maybe the mobs despawned?
That happens when there are no people near them.

 

You might have been by them when animals got butchered to reduce server lag.

 

I thought friendly mobs were not killed doing butcher. This makes farming impossible then.

 

I didn't think they were, either. I'm assuming it does, though. My wolves in my town that I find in the wild (8 of them...) were one day gone. Completely surrounded in my town, no way to get to them, sitting and not suffocating in walls. They survived weeks, until we got butcher. :/

 

only andrew can kill animals, regular butcher only kills hostile mobs.
andrew killed them all for the same reason as the partially disabled /spawnmob
we had big lag and had to do this to prevent the lag from happening again.

 

is this going to be a regular thing? should i bother restocking my now empty farm?

 

I keep hearing this but on multiple occasions all of my animals except my wolves and cats disappear right in front of me at times ALL OF THEM not one or two the whole lot of cows chickens sheep and pigs poof no sound no nothing just gone and usually someone else on the server cries out the same thing happen to them, so it is happening I can't believe it's a bug.

If this is going to happen on a daily, every other day, or weekly event can we get it on a schedule so we can reap the bennifits and kill our own animals? Nothing worse than having 20 chickens laying eggs and poof no feathers or meat at all.

 

How many times did this happen and when?

 

It was happening every day last week I'd go to bed with animals wake up gone, we thought someone was griefing the house but then when it happened in front of me I confirmed it was not, I'd say 5 times last week and 3 this week a total of 4 times right in front of my eyes usually it's later in the evening around 7 or 8 pm MST

 

It Just happened again at 2:27 PM MST one of the mods said you were updateing plugins and all but my wolves disapeared right in front of me... Lots of colorful sheep, thanks again guys.

 

I would like to add to this discussion as my new town "Naga" was only purchased to turn Mob Spawning on since my Skeleton Spawner was out there.

Because I had a 200x200 town there now, I decided to give all my RepublicCity Members free Ranch plots where they could house farm animals and have the fun of the game with breeding animals for leather, food, feathers and etc. But, just today people complained of their animals being gone.

Mine weren't though, so we thought someone had griefed them. Then only minutes later all mine WERE gone because we left back to RepublicCity and found them gone when we returned. So we figured they despawned.

I am really sad about this, but I would have ZERO reason to be bothered by it if the server just didn't allow animals because of lag issues. OR If Spawning animals didn't cost me $250 an animal to spawn.

Kind of a real bummer that I spent thousands of my own money for my members out there in their ranches just to have all that money gone for no reason. Any way we could remove the cost of /spawnmob? Since we just kill the animals anyway?

 

Hehe....no. I should be more mature about this.....can't! hehehehe XD

 

this happened to me twice once a month ago i tped to my home with my dog but my dog never came then about a week ago a random tamed dog was following me. The second occourence was when i trapped 5 cows within my town logged on one day and 4 out of the 5 were gone im the only one in my town except nousername1284 and he wasnt on that day.

 

You got me... Typing when frustrated always ends badly. Im going to start logging when they disapear. Ive had a wolf for almOst a month its been in front of the cow pen for 3 days lost cows twice in that time but not wolf. It can not be glitch or despawn if 20 animals disapear while im standing there it is either a command or a setting on the server or a feature

 

7:14 PM MST I was working on a basement for the past 30 mins at least and I come back to the pens and all animals are gone again, 20 chickens 5 sheep 10 cows 4 pigs and a mushroom cow all gone... Whatever you are doing it isn't cool.

 

7 April 2012 9:00 AM MST Went to feed my chickens noticed only two as I gave them the wheat to breed they poofed!! Seriously this is becoming annoying and I don't think it's a glitch on top of that I have a feeling no one cares to look into it or admit what's really going on.

 

XD Hehe

About the issue of not being able to keep animals and basically rendering the /spawnmob feature I paid for unusable:
I have an entire city that is pointless until this gets fixed...OR...I need to hear that it won't ever be fixed.

If it can't be fixed and a developer or Andrew tells us that animals are just out of question in ECC basically, I will be bummed, but at least I can take that friggin' 180 thousand Ecodollars town and do something to earn that money back with it. Maybe a 10x10 greenie city. /shrug

It would just be nice to know whether this is a BUG or a consequence of the server and just won't ever be different.