Talk:Mobs/@comment-118.136.175.58-20111209030306/@comment-4583259-20111209050532

It's not despawning, but if you notice trapped mobs disappearing, this might be what happened (and it's not a program glitch). For a long time I had this really nice collection of astronauts:



One time when I went to check them out, there was only one astronaut, and a bunch of Disks. While I was gone, one of them decided to start shooting at something (probably a green mob) and another astronaut got hit by "accident". Then it started shooting back, and more got caught in the crossfire. Pretty soon they're all killing each other until there was only one left.

When Astronauts die, they don't always seem to leave a disk. Walk all around the area where they were, and you might find the disk was hidden inside a block.