Reduce mob spawn rates

well when the first spider was born we fed it nothing but mushrooms, what you see are the results of this mother spider

 

Well photographic proof has been given of this ludicrus spawn rates... and all you are saying is "tough" ... nice.... a flaw in the server and its basically sticking 2 fingers up at everyone...

 

The spawn rates are good to get wool but the monsters get annoying.

 

The ratio of animals : monsters is stupid its like 1:200000

 

Nonsense, I see piles of passive mobs all over the place.

 

It's not a flaw. It's a setting that we made on purpose.

 

That. Is. Cool. Thank you, for both the explanation & the changes. (Though, I can see how the effects would be substantial!) This is the kind of info that should go on the wiki, as it's going to get lost in the forum search within a few weeks, and we're then going to get lots and *lots* of "Argh, too many mobs (and it's causing lag)!" posts in the none-too-distant future.

 

AAAAWWWWWWWWW YYYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!

dont see why ppl are complaining anyway, put some armour on grab your diamond sword and fking pwn them, failing that build traps, water death traps are fun!!!

 

Still to easy, I personnaly think, that all mobs, honestly, should explode with a 50 radius to get the survival back, because if you wear armor, like the average population should, and can, you will have a good use for all your excess diamonds and iron, aswell as being able to fight like 5-10 creeps at the same time, with some carefullness.

 

Reduce spawn rates, increase spawn amount. (Title of thread + outcome)

If they spawn once a night only idt it would be that bad, but constant waves could be tough.

 

IF you had the tools to help yourself, when i need of help, wouldn't you do it ?

 

I think hostile mob spawn rates should be lowered in main and kept the same in mining. My town has torches on the roads everywhere and mobs still spawn... no building can be completed with mobs killing town members all the time... especially creeper. I have a feeling the creeper's detonation radius has been increased or their cool down rate has been decreased or something

 

Yeah, I noticed this last night. Normally I can kill creepers with the old in & out routine, but every single one of them blew up on me last night, as though I couldn't duck quite far enough out of their range.

Definitely worth living in diamond armour these days

 

I find this very amusing. The closest anyone has gotten on this thread to matching Anvil's spawn rate is Zangetsu, and he's about half the rate. And, this is with me being the only one in my town online. There is a good 500 block radius around our spawn building that upon being entered you are risking your life. I've literally watched spiders and creepers spawn right next to torches. But honestly, the only thing I have an issue with is the number of creepers, and the fact that in the middle of the desert at midday, spiders are still aggressive in broad daylight. I also think the skeleton ratio should be boosted lol, I don't see enough of them.

 

My problem with the spawn rates has been trying to dodge them to get back to where I died or even just to an area where I can mine again. But whatever, i'm learning to live with it. Would rather have too many mobs than too little. Back 8 months ago the mobs got turned off, and that wasn't much fun.

 

Perhaps thankfully, I live on a magical floating castle with a built-in mob spawner underneath. The upside is many mobs spawn down there, the downside is I have to hear them all the time.

However, it is not unusual when I'm derping on the /mc to open a hole in the floor and see 10+ mobs hanging around underneath me. With the new chunk rules that came into play, Realm and I's town had a bit of a problem with monsters spawning aboveground, with multiple players ~25 blocks away from each other, so we had to improve the lighting. That seems to have reduced the problem, perhaps coupled with our unusual position above a giant dark hole.

I still get increased numbers of mobs in my vicinity at night, usually not a problem, but sometimes it gets pretty hairy. It also makes it difficult to afk unless I am inside or flying. However, I agree with MG's statement of the survival nature of the server. Players need to be ready to deal with the challenges the game will throw at them, whether it be lava, ninja spiders, or zombies breaking down doors.

One important thing to mention though, the removal of chickens and, subsequently, feathers, makes arrows a rarer commodity. I personally have some lag where creepers are a challenge to defeat without exploding them, which is frustrating.

I do see enough skeletons in ratio with other mob types, but with 1-2 arrows per drop, and some number larger than that required to kill a creeper, it adds up fast. A possible solution may be to offer feathers for sale at the /shop. This possibility has most likely been considered, just thinking out loud.

Think of it as "extreme house-building".

 

Hes right, i think they should really cut it down. its not that you dont know how to fight them its just you dont want to run into 8 creepers and 5 skeletons right after you spawn!

 

too many mobs!