Hostile Mobs not spawning

[Proper_Brgdbald]

It seems that hostile mobs are not spawning naturally in the Normal world; I ran in a rainstorm for a few hundred meters outside Lake Eschaton's lit areas and encountered nothing.

Fax already checked that mobs can "survive", and hearts don't heal like they would if on Peaceful, so something else may be up.

[Guest]

it feels like its on peaceful.

[Guest]

Yeah, I noticed that too. It's odd, though there weren't any spawning at night outside, I swear during the day I heard zombies grunting underground on more than one occasion...

[Guest]

I'll look into it further, but the settings are not on peaceful

[Guest]

I agree Fax; it's not on Peaceful.

Hostile mobs do spawn, but it seems very rare. I noticed that Galloton logging on seemed to make things come back to normal, but when it's three of us (Derpa and Mr. Badman), it's still slow.

[Guest]

Hostile Mobs are spawning just fine and regular outside of spawn.

[Guest]

They seem to be appearing underground in the Monster Pen too. Wierd. I cruised through wolf woods all night and all I saw was cowzers and chickens and sheep, oh my!

[Guest]

It seems on and off now; I had a horde appear at Castle Cobalt during the dawn, but I've rarely seen anything there on the flat areas at night.

[Guest]

I will tell Galloton to log-on more often ...

[Guest]

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[Guest]

From what I've noticed is that hostile (and maybe passive?) mobs spawn when there are four or more people online at once. When there's three or less people on, the hostile mobs stop spawning.&nbsp;

[Guest]

This had been my observation as well, but sometimes they do seem to spawn with less or no people on.

[Guest]

interesting. then we need more people! but it's all a joke when the zambies see you as candy

[Guest]

I'm not finding any issues with regards to monster spawning whether 1 or more people are on. So I'm kinda confused on how to tackle this.

[Guest]

I can't find a pattern; I was even alone and saw mobs, so I'm going to leave it.

[Guest]

As Proper pointed out yesterday, I haven't seen a creeper in weeks.

[Guest]

I've never been able to recreate any of these problems once. As far as I'm concerned there is nothing to act on because I can't A) figure out how to, or B) even confirm if there is one :S

[Guest]

Yes, it is strange. I was on today, I didn't notice anything weird.

Then Joe_Cola came on, and Sigurther's town was SWARMING with mobs.

I guess we could keep recording what we see until we find a pattern.

[Guest]

Maybe we should run something to kill all the hostile mobs. Pretty sure MV has the ability to purge specific types of mobs.

There could be hundreds of bugged out zombies sitting somewhere and never despawning, eating up the spawn cap. Then if that chunk is ever loaded for any reason mobs would stop spawning. Given how weird chunk loading can be, it would be hard to pin them down to a specific area.


That's what my best guess would be.

[Guest]

Good idea, but that only runs in chunk loaded areas.