1.0.3: Farm mobs randomly dying

[Wulfgar_agis]

Version:
1.0.3

What is the bug:
I am not sure if this is a bug or something unknown, but the sheep in my wool factory and the cows in my cake factory are constantly dying for reasons unknown. Both of these are automated using the rancher.

Mod & Version:
MFR?

Paste.feed-the-beast.com log:


Can it be repeated:
Continuing to happen gradually in loaded chunks. Cause has not been observed

Known Fix:

 

[Jakalth]

Three possible reasons; mobs escaping, hostile mobs killing the livestock, weather killing the livestock(if the farms have no roof).

Your livestock might be glitching through the walls of your pens. It can still happen under rare circumstances. But you would most likely still find them wandering around nearby if this was what is going on. Unless they are glitching into the walls and being suffocated...

Sometimes hostile mobs can kill your livestock. I have not seen what actually triggers this. But I have seen skeletons kill some of my livestock, by coincidence, due to something setting them off. They were firing at some unseen target and the livestock kept walking into the line of fire. I do not know what caused them to start doing this...

Weather... I have had entire pens of cows/sheep killed off during a thunderstorm because my pen had no roof. On one server, it happened several times. After adding a roof to the pens, they were no longer killed off.

If these 3 things are not what is causing your animal farms to be wiped out, then it is indeed something strange. Possibly some odd cross mod interaction, or a glitch with the rancher?? who knows...

 

[Wulfgar_agis]

Thanks, I will try to add a roof and maybe some paving stones of warding instead of fences. I highly doubt it was a hostile mob because of several magnum torches near my base. I never see any hostiles withing 300 or so blocks of my base.