Will animals spawn less likely in offline mode?
In Minecraft, I usually play by myself in the single player game mode. Now I had to disable the internet access on my laptop because of an overload on internet usage. When playing Minecraft I searched for some pigs and horses to bring back to my city, but after an hour of looking around I only found a few chickens (that I happily murdered).
Do animals spawn less frequently in offline mode or is this just sheer coincidence?
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I'd put it down to pure coincidence. The spawning algorithm is based (primarily) on a random number generator, meaning that any result is guaranteed to be random. (Well, pseudo-random. I'll come back to this).
Some things to consider that may be affecting your chances:
- Animals do not spawn in desert or ocean biomes (except squid, but their spawning algorithm is different)
- Animal spawning is determined by the world seed, meaning that if you use the same seed, then the same chunks will contain the same animals (This is where the 'pseudo-randomness' comes from).
- Of newly generated chunks, 1/10 will contain mobs.
- Animals usually spawn in groups of 1-4 of the same animal
- They cannot spawn on transparent blocks.
- Initially, the block doesn't need to be grass, or illuminated
- When new animals spawn in already-generated chunks (which happens rarely), they need grass blocks with a light level of 9+.
- The grass/light requirement holds true for animals spawned using mob spawners.
- The only animals that can despawn are wild ocelots and hostile wolves.
Source: Minecraft Wiki
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Answer 2
Animal spawning is guaranteed to be the same in both Survival Single Player and Survival Multiplayer. Mostly because "single player" mode is, and has been for a while, merely a local server running on your PC that only you can connect to.
Answer 3
This is coincidence. The animal spawning algorithm has been analysed in fine detail and no part of it mentions accessing the internet at all. You can find information on the minecraft wiki; animals are spawned in 1/10 of new chunks, but it's not evenly distributed, so sometimes you find a lot and sometimes very few.
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