Ok, I'm seriously tired of my mob grinder not spawning anything. My design use to spawn dozens of mobs, even when there were several people online, but now it's dropped off to virtually nothing. I've asked a few people to come in and take a look and I've tried lowering the spawning areas by a block (a suggestion) but still nothing. I'm open to any help/suggestions. Also, if I'm online I will tp you to my island (would prefer if you had /fly to get on top of my spawner easier)
Not sure if this is important, but my gold farm is pretty close to my mob grinder. I thought that pigmen were neutral so they wouldn't affect hostile mob spawn rates, but I could be mistaken.
The mob farm came first. The problem is that the rate of hostile mobs dropped before the first portal of my gold farm was lit.
I'm thinking of just moving it to another section of my island, but I want to see if there are any other solutions before I do this.
"Like wild wolves, zombie pigmen are not initially hostile, but all zombie pigmen in the area will become aggressive and converge on the player if any individual is attacked. This only applies to the player; mobs that provoke zombie pigmen will only be attacked by that specific individual." -MC Wiki this might help, i dunno though
I can stand by my gold farm for a few minutes and have quite a few zombie pigmen in my holding area, but I can stand by my mob grinder for 5 times the amount of time and come away with nothing.
Mob spawn rate does not affect Zombie Pigmen. Edit: It does, but not 100% sure but, I believe you can change it per mob, and it was not changed for Zombie Pigmen, however not sure. All ik. Is the normal hostile mobs (Overworld hostile mobs) are lowered.
I knew that the mob spawn rate had been decreased for awhile now, but I thought that there was an inverse relationship between spawn rates and players online (or available spawning area). Maybe we should make a petition and get this changed? =)
I highly doubt it. I'm pretty sure changing this up is a very complicated thing in coding. We don't have as many devs as we use to
I just hopped onto the server to ask for some help. Ender took a look at it but he couldn't help. I'm hoping for help here before I tear down the grinder and move it.
I will ask staff and our devs to see what I can find out about this. The spawn rate has been down for a while. I'll let you know once I find anything out. @psgs
