Hello all Alpha here, i build a big nonspawner-block monster spawner in the sky but there are no mobs spawning -_- does anyone know the problem? - Yes it is dark - Yep solid spawn blocks (packed ice) - Yep chucks are loaded 1 thing i was thinking about is that the monster spawn rate is slow or not normal on noble could anyone help me please? - Alpha --- Double Post Merged, Jan 19, 2016, Original Post Date: Jan 19, 2016 --- Iam planning to build the same design in skyblock soon, so maybe it will work on skyblock server. I dont Kn0w
Couple of things to note here. 1: KylePokeCraft Packed Ice will indeed let monsters spawn, I did a quick test on this making a super flat world with the custom generation as "3;52*minecraftacked_ice;2;" and it indeed let monsters spawn on it. 2: Although not in this case, most non-spawner type spawners fail due to nearby dark spots. Caves, Tunnels, Surfaces generally. If there's say, 10,000+ blocks they could spawn on, and only 50 are in your mob grinder? Yeah, good luck. 3: Other people online, Minecraftwiki is incredibly, incredibly annoying to research vanilla mob spawning, but from what I've observed, when there are many places mobs can spawn in the world generally, they'd rather be there. Equating to bad spawn rates on Survival.. However, I have high hopes that this mob farm would work perfectly on Skyblock. 4: You may be either too close, or too far away. Mobs can only spawn when you're more than 24 metres away (not sure if it's spherical, or cubic 24 metres) and 128 metres+ is too far. (Note: If they're further than 32 metres away, they'll start to despawn, just over-time.. Don't know how long) Plus, as far as I'm aware, Mob spawning isn't limited on Survival.
Packed ice is fine (if he used it). Mob farms have always been a problem in survival because of caves and such, if you build it in the sky, make sure the player is in the correct proximity for maximum efficiency, though I much prefer spawner experience farms hence I would just spend time looking for zombie, spider, and skeleton spiders or buying them from the shop or off players with IGM. I remember building a farm like ones on sky block and Marsh said it would not work because of the caves and such nearby.
