Mounts keep despawning - Fix this!

[Twisteddigit]

Lvl 29 Moa mount despawned (wasn't there) when I logged to play today. Second time this has happened. I'm done with this damn game.

[Mundus]

It's kind of funny how many challenges you guys are facing with these tamed animals. I have been playing for a long time and the only tamed Moa I did lost was my entire fault - I died to a polar bear and the Moa stands over my corpse and I had no choice then watching my little Chocobo being violently torn apart by that polar bear.

Anyway, what I am saying is: there is no glitch, they are not being abducted or anything, you are just being careless.

Just follow these suggestions below and you all shall be ok :)

Originally posted by Dasmortas:

Always set mounts to passive and stay.

If exploring cave clear stone move them inside I bit b4 farming ore.

Feed and water them regular.

Have them at arms length at all times.

Keep them safe in base with large walls with spikes.

On top of that,

Originally posted by SleepWalker:

Originally posted by Mundus:

The problem with this theory, is that the mounts cannot die from starvation or dehydration.

they actually CAN die from starvation or dehydration. The animal's HP gradually decrease when not fed, until it dies and becomes another ordinary life took it away by Olympus.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

They changed it so that they can't die of starvation at somepoint relatively recently. If they can, its literally a bug.

I also would rate the probability of OP's mounts having been killed pretty high. Despawning mounts isnt a thing. You do get a message in chat about this, though its easy to miss.

[Twisteddigit]

It was on stay, within my base behind concrete walls. I never left. There were "no signs of forced entry" to suggest that it was killed. I logged in and -poof- it was gone. Also, I was playing solo on open world.

[Spaceminnow]

How; Exactly...
How do you end an Icarus session?
Do you "allow" the game to shut down properly?

[SleepWalker]

I'm responding to Mundus, but it keeps glitching:

Might want to figure out whatever bug you have my friend, tames cannot die of starvation or dehydration. Sorry.

[Mundus]

Originally posted by Twisteddigit:

It was on stay, within my base behind concrete walls. I never left. There were "no signs of forced entry" to suggest that it was killed. I logged in and -poof- it was gone. Also, I was playing solo on open world.

I did some testing this afternoon. If your animal isn't registered at the feeding and watering stations, and you don't have the "consume ONLY from authorized feeders and drinkers" option checked, they'll literally go through walls, floors, and ceilings to find food and water nearby. That might be what's causing the "bug" you're seeing. Try (1) setting them to STAY or ROAM and (2) make sure they’re only drinking from authorized spots. Don’t forget (3) to register them at the feeders and drinkers as authorized. Pretty sure that should solve the problem!

[Spaceminnow]

Bluto hasn't explored using mounts yet...
When you "register" do you mean "assign"?
Do you have to "assign" the mount to trough or feeder?

[Wolfofthenyght]

My friend just had two of our mounts disappear on Prometheus tonight when he got disconnected from the server while riding them. Both me & our other friend also got DC'd, but our mounts popped back up when we logged back in- for whatever reason, his were just gone. We know at least one of them is *deleted* gone too, because we were at 12 pets & the pause menu now lists 11. The other one may be lost in the wilderness- where, we have no clue.. but the most recent one was just deleted from the map.

[Sofixultra]

Yeah, every single time a suprise - lost again a sheep...

[SylenThunder]

Just had this happen yesterday. Lost two terrenus mounts. No notice in the chat log to indicate they died. One is still being counted in the total number of mounts, yet it is nowhere to be found.

All mounts are in a walled compound with an active deterrent. None were in use at the time of the loss.

[The Forger]

Same thing keeps happening on my open world. One moment I have 4 mounts the next 1 mount. No where to be found on map or in chat box that it died. Just gone, no clues to what happened.

[william_es]

I just lost "daisy" the blueback from the very first prometheus mission, and I am really annoyed by that. I kept them alive in the mission, and parked them in a cave. They've been safe and sound ever since.

I logged in a few days ago, and it's gone. No messages in chat about animals dying. Just gone. It's not useful for anything, since apparently you can't even put a saddle on it. But I like the idea it was from that mission. I did it back when it had neverending drac spawns, so I shot over 130 arrows while trying to keep that blueback alive.

[Fibrosis]

It still has never ending drac spawns

[RealViking]

*UPDATE*
I'm the problem. I had a burning brazeer and while I was away the baby cow walked into it. That's why this was happening. Happened to my mounts too. Oops, I'm just torching my stuff and not knowing it.

[Taragonra]

I just had a bison vanish into thin air....It's marker was going nuts on the map and then...gone. No death notification just..gone. Menu screen that has the mount counter also went down by 1. Im just glad it wast carrying anything.