That is strange indeed. Cats can wander pretty far from their village. Are you sure there is none nearby that you haven‘t discovered yet?
As an experienced village chief, cats despawn and the area (village) will spawn a new one, I can prove this, I build a wall surrounding a house 4 block height, ( to prevent villagers to leave the house or protect them from zombies) I always noticing cats spawns inside the wall then it will despawn and .. a new one will spawn in a long time. The new cat was never the cat before( for instance the first one is a siamese, then It despawns, and the village will respawn a new one ( now an Orange cat )
That cat probably wonders off so ye but if you didn't found any village nearby at all, that might be a bug.
I found a cat in the mountain biome of my new survival world. Pics below.
Is this supposed to happen? The wiki says they only spawn near villages
That is strange indeed. Cats can wander pretty far from their village. Are you sure there is none nearby that you haven‘t discovered yet?
As an experienced village chief, cats despawn and the area (village) will spawn a new one, I can prove this, I build a wall surrounding a house 4 block height, ( to prevent villagers to leave the house or protect them from zombies) I always noticing cats spawns inside the wall then it will despawn and .. a new one will spawn in a long time. The new cat was never the cat before( for instance the first one is a siamese, then It despawns, and the village will respawn a new one ( now an Orange cat )
That cat probably wonders off so ye but if you didn't found any village nearby at all, that might be a bug.