Daytime Serpents Despawning?

So for most of my serpent hunting adventures so far one principle has remained true: a serpent born in the storm will stay in the ocean till you kill it.

so it was simple, expect night serpents to despawn and day-storm serpents were keepable as pets as they wouldn't despawn

or at least that's what used to happen.

3 serpents makes it no fluke, I've had 3 serpents born in daytime storms despawn before my very eyes when the storm ended. i cant keep pet serpents anymore if they can despawn. I saw nothing on the subject in the patch notes so i have to ask is this intended behaviour?
12:13 pm, March 15, 2022
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Veseljko replied to Daytime Serpents Despawning? March 15, 2022 @ 8:31:34 am PDT

Just checked the one in my first world... it didn't despawn. So i can confirm that they do not despawn in vanilla game.
I guess using mods broke something. It happened to me with raids. I had mods that modified raids... i removed it and started a new vanilla world. Had my first raid at day 76. Now i'm at day 180 with a total of 3 raids :)
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The Russian replied to Daytime Serpents Despawning? March 15, 2022 @ 9:49:23 am PDT

Originally posted by Veseljko:
Just checked the one in my first world... it didn't despawn. So i can confirm that they do not despawn in vanilla game.
I guess using mods broke something. It happened to me with raids. I had mods that modified raids... i removed it and started a new vanilla world. Had my first raid at day 76. Now i'm at day 180 with a total of 3 raids :)

ty for testing, im guessing i missed something
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GunsForBucks replied to Daytime Serpents Despawning? March 15, 2022 @ 3:42:36 am PDT

My experience was always that night spawns will despawn and day spawns will stay until the next morning.

I don't think it was ever intended they could be kept as pets.

Do you run mods or did you then?
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The Russian replied to Daytime Serpents Despawning? March 15, 2022 @ 3:50:49 am PDT

i have run with mods and without. noticed before running any mods that affect spawns. noticed after behaviour didn't change upon running spawn modifying mods.

day spawns would stay. full stop. no limits besides their lifespan. i ROUTINELY kept storm born as pets both vanilla and modded pre 207.20

and most of the unhinged ♥♥♥♥ i do in games is deffo not intended, i just prefer it when through a little eccentric creativity you can do something as unhinged as keeping serpents as pets.

I guess the real question here is did anyone else notice this vanilla or did i break something and not notice at the right time?
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Veseljko replied to Daytime Serpents Despawning? March 15, 2022 @ 4:31:17 am PDT

Yeah its fun to have uncommon pets.
A friend and I had 3 serpent pets in a pool in our base. They always say hello when we get home. We fed them with rafts and we also set up a boar breeder above the pool… but we removed it because we didn’t want to have business with PETA 😅
Here is a picture of the first one we captured. A rare picture of a wild serpent being fed in captivity 😂
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2741002642

This was before the last update and the server is now shut down, so i cannot check if they are still there. Also i think one of them was night spawn which didn’t despawn. I guess that is because they need to swim further away to despawn.
However, i also have one in my first world. I will check it later.
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