u/Different-Scene5327

Not even a joke. Had a world eater running with 4 carpet bots loading the area. The 4 carpet bots were on 3x3 platforms above the world eater. Desert biome (meaning no rain or thunderstorms at all). Our server has phantoms turned off. Meaning there is literally nothing that can kill or move the bot and the platforms are also way too high for endermen to randomly teleport there.

I was busy at the storage system when I get a notification: "Player loader3 was blown up" (or something like that).

I immediately rush over to the perimeter and behold... it broke. Going to the platform where the bot was, I saw a skeleton horse standing there instead of my bot. And the skeleton horse was not in the trap state anymore since nothing happened when I got closer.

The only theory I have is the biomes being 3D since 1.18, a part of the platform where the bot was, was a river. I did check on the ground level and I remember the platform would have been over a river biome, but I moved it to the side a few blocks (checking that the 3x3 area is desert), but since the platform was at something like y200, I assume the river biome was maybe on one or 2 of the platform blocks, allowing lightning to hit there and the getting unlucky and it spawning a skeleton horse.

After a lot of head shakes and laughing and being angry-confused, I decided to just surround all the bots in blocks and respawn the bot. Fixed the world eater and have not had any issues since then.

Also this is fabric 1.21.11 with standard tech mods and xaero maps.

So TLDR: Always surround your bots in blocks. No matter what or where.

If you are a technical player and love to build crazy farms and push the limits of the game, join our discord server - https://discord.gg/a2a4Hh6B

• 18+ Only
• The server is privately hosted and whitelist only (hosted in South Africa)
• Standard tech mods (mostly Masa's mods) with minimap
• Includes a creative copy and creative superflat
• No claims, no votes, no micro-management, just normal Minecraft
• Collaborate on big projects or do your own thing
• Only taking 2-3 new players on at the moment
• The world is still in its infancy with starter farms being built - Hybrid Bulk/MIS Main Storage just finished recently.

If you are interested, join the discord server and I will reply when I am available.

Sorry if this is the wrong place but I honestly do not know where to find tech players for my server. I am not advertising it here - just genuinely want to know since I posted on r/mcservers but since tech servers are not big in the overall Minecraft community, I expect it to go nowhere. r/technicalmcservers I have been waiting 3 days now to get approved.

Running a small technical Fabric 1.21.1 server. Masa's mods (Tweakeroo, Litematica, Carpet) with some optional additions. Looking for 5-8 serious tech players. DM me if interested.