Mob limit per chunk
Some sources say that there is no mob-limit-per-chunk, other say, that there is one. I found this formula on the Minecraft-Wiki: cap = constant * chunks / 256
Is this true for minecraft vanilla (PC)? If so:
- What it the value of "constant"?
- Will mobs despawn if a chunks reaches this limit but more mobs are delivered from other chunks?
Why am I asking this: I want to build a mob farm without using a mob spawner (see this video). I thought that it would be clever to create a bigger spawn-area by making it 4x the size from the farm in the video. If this limit exists, I would place the farm in a way that it reaches a bigger amount of chunks.
Best Answer
from what i have seen and heard there is no spawn limit per chunk but a spawn limit overall. so the more poeple on a server the less mobs per unlit loaded area.
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How many mobs can be in a chunk?
I grouped some entities together for Chunk limits, First group is Animals with Pigs, Cows, Horse, Rabbits, Sheep and Chicken are limited to 50 animals per chunk. Chunk limits for Nether group includes Blaze, Magma Cube, Zombie Pigman, Wither Skeleton and Ghast is limited to 30 per chunk.Is there a limit to how many mobs can spawn?
In an optimal configuration, up to 79 hostile mobs can spawn within a single potential area, but this represents the maximum amount available within the entire vertical section of the world.What is the mob cap in one block Minecraft?
in minecraft 1.11+ there is a mob limit per block space of 24 mobs of a kind. so in that way mob farms can now be made that auto kill mobs automatically just by adding an extra mob. furthermore in such an instance, the oldest mob in the pile of 24 is the first one that will die once a new mob is bred/added.Mob Chunks - FTB Stoneblock 2 #28 [Let's Play] [Deutsch] [German]
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