Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34241117-20180210161754/@comment-34241117-20180307052048

Well, the animal would count like an NPC animal. Players woudn't be able to interact with it for one. So that basically stops any actual chance for the animal to actually die. Normal NPCs wouldn't try to kill it, and they would actually work like you pushing a minecart down a set of tracks. It would go down to wherever it needs to, acting like a normal animal. Normal animals don't jump down holes or into lava, so natural death is going to be basically impossible. If, however, a player does somehow kill the mail animal, (with lava or tnt or something of that sort), the mail is going to drop, (like an item from an animal or items from a dead players inventory) unless it is destroyed by lava or fire or explosions of the sort. But, in all fairness, what is the chance of a player running into a mail animal, (one which is on the ground, not a bird in the sky) and wanting to kill it? Wy would you need to kill it? But yes, there is a very small chance that the animal could get killed by a player.