The Curious Case of the Disappearing Camel

So I have my private server running on the Exiled Lands, and a friend of mine and I decide we want to go on an epic iron harvesting run. Finding a bearer of sufficient tier can be a pain in the neck, but–camels! Camels are easy, relatively cheap, and fun! So I snake my way behind the Dogs of the Desert and buy 2 baby camels. Bring 'em home, throw 'em in the pen, wait the requisite entirely too long, and blammo: camels. I place mine, and bring him his.

Fast forward to a few days later. He has his camel in tow on his way to the iron-rich valley southeast-ish of Sepermeru, when during a sandstorm, he notices his camel is AWOL. Just gone. I tell him to check the Followers menu, but I don’t know whether he actually did. The next day, he tells me he still can’t find his camel anywhere. We’re in the same clan, so I pop open my Followers menu tab; lo and behold, there is only 1 camel in our clan. We’re well below the max permitted thralls/pets-per-clan limit, and I hadn’t heard anything about a “1 camel per clan” rule, so I check the logs. Plenty of my friend getting brutally murdered & occasionally starving to death (it’s a long story), but nothing about any pet deaths.

I have an unofficial policy on my server: if you lose something because you were stupid or got killed or whatever (i.e., normal gameplay), sucks to be you. However, if you lose something because of a bug or some other bizarro game behavior, I’ll replace it. (I am a benevolent god.) So, I popped into admin mode & spawned my friend a new camel. Huzzah.

I’m left with the original conundrum, however: what happened to the original camel? I know about the new anti-undermeshing stuff; is it possible that Dipstick the Camel found the one Hole in the World, fell through, and got whacked by the anti-undermesh? If that’s what happened, wouldn’t there still be a notice in the logs? My buddy says he never got a “Camel is no longer following you” alert, like you do when you watch your faithful bear get shredded by an army of undead (shut up, I don’t want to talk about it). And like I said, I never saw anything in the logs about anything untoward happening to a pet. Before I admin-replaced it, there was only 1 camel in our clan’s Followers list. (To be fair, I didn’t look beforehand, and why would I?)

Sorry about the length of this post (too late now). Anybody have any thoughts?

I have no idea. Except, of course…

if it’s your server, and you think it takes too long for a pet to mature.
Why do you not reduce the time in the setup page.
thrall crafting time, lower is faster IE 0.5 is twice as fast as 1.0

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