Minecraft 1.14.3: Why are hostile mobs not spawning?
I am playing on a vanilla 1.14.3 smp server. At first, hostile mob spawns seemed normal; they would spawn out in the open during nights because I haven't lit up a whole lot of my island. Now they just downright won't spawn on the surface, even after I've lit up virtually every cave under my island. Most of the time I am the only one online, so it can't be that they are spawning near other players. Why are hostile mobs not spawning? Is the spawning broken somehow? The server is on easy, but as far as I know, as long as it's not on peaceful, the difficulty shouldn't affect standard mob spawning.
More details here (steps taken, screenshot, etc.): https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ck40sc/hostile_mobs_not_spawning/
Oddly enough if I go to a friend's house several hundred blocks away (when he's online, but I'm not sure if him being online/offline matters here) mobs spawn at night normally.
Edit: my friend got off and I went to another area off my island and mobs seemed to spawn normally on the surface at night. It doesn't make sense to me that mobs won't spawn on my island because I lit up all the caves, so more should spawn on the surface at night instead.
Best Answer
I've had the same problem that you're describing and from what I've found it's to do with the movement of the player (or lack of) that seems to prevent the mobs from spawning. I had the same issue where I could stand at the bottom where the mobs should be falling and I could leave it overnight and NOTHING would spawn. As soon as I ran up to the top of the tower and back down, oh look, there's 8 or so creepers falling to their death.
To fix your problem and allow you to AFK, build a powered rail that goes up to the top of your tower and then back down that just loops. You should find that mobs start to spawn once you start moving around!
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How do you fix hostile mobs not spawning?
Your server's view-distance setting is set too low. If your server's view-distance setting is too small, it'll cause fewer mobs to spawn. We recommend increasing the view-distance setting in your server. properties file to 10.Why are no hostile mobs spawning?
Make sure you're not on peaceful mode - this can be selected in the options. Hostile mobs will not spawn in peaceful mode. Mobs also won't spawn on half blocks/slabs or transparent blocks, so if you're surrounded by a huge area of glass there would be no valid spawn location.How do you get hostile mobs to spawn?
To increase mob spawn rates, players have to light up all caves, ravines, and all other spawning areas in a radius of 128 blocks from the spawning platform. Minecraft only allows a limited number of hostile mobs to spawn. If the limit is already filled, no new mobs are going to spawn.How long does it take for hostile mobs to spawn?
Hostile mobs have a spawning cycle once every game tick (1\u204420 of a second). Friendly and water mobs have only one spawning cycle every 400 ticks (20 seconds). Because of this, where conditions permit spawning, hostile mobs spawn frequently, but passive mobs (ie: animals) spawn very rarely.If Your Mob Grinder Isn't Working, Watch This!
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