Random Invincible Enemy Spawn

45 votes

While funny, it can be a little annoying. A single random enemy (skeleton, greyling, mosquito, boar, etc...) will randomly appear and whoever I think is the host will be the only one to see them. The enemy doesn't attack, are invincible, and will follow you or your friends around until eventually they disappear. Enemies that do engage with other enemies will fight this random spawn if the right enemy was spawned. While the host will see it, other players will just see them chasing and swinging at nothing. And again, it's invincible so it cannot die. It can be troublesome especially in dungeons because it does body block the player who can see it and it can be annoying in fights. Not sure what causes it.

Continous development Suggested by: iSyNN (17 Feb, '21) • Upvoted: 06 Jan, '22 • Comments: 8

Comments: 8

18 Feb, '21
Lepus
Also other players don't see them
19 Feb, '21
Sean
I experienced something similar to this. A friend was hosting a server and an invincible enemy (as described in op) appeared in my game. Additionally, both the host and I gained xp from attacking it. Was fixed by logging out/back into the server.
19 Feb, '21
Chance Veinot
I have this problem constantly, I could probably write a story of all the stuff that I've seen appearing around me or my friends. Have plenty of screenys
25 Feb, '21
Lucas
Seen it happen on my dedicated server too.
19 Mar, '21
Insanity
Thats a desync issue, netcode is still pretty bad on this one. Even on single player you can have this issue. What I see happening the most is one specific player gets desync'd and becomes the invincible mob, he cant hit anything, but he cant be hit either, and this only gets fixed with a full restart of the game. I believe this is due to MTU sizes, since the more mods you have the more frequent this becomes (more data being transferred).
31 Mar, '21
z0
just had this issue yesterday, i hear nonstop banging outside my base, there were 2 skeletons beating on an invisible/invincible neck. i also could not kill or move the nech
06 Apr, '21
Randwulf
I had a friend discover an invincible Neck. I hit the ground next to it with my pick and it was no longer invincible. I guess it spawned partially buried.
23 Apr, '21
Kate
Had something very similar but I as the host couldn't see the enemy, only the other player on my server could. It was a Neck that had spawned and my tame wolves were going mental but the Neck couldn't be moved, hurt, killed or interacted with in any way. Restarting the game and re-inviting the other player to the server seemed to fix the problem but it's happened a few times. It's funny, but quite annoying!