Do any of these mods affect animal placements?
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ExtraBiomesXL messes with spawns, in the sense that certain biomes only spawn certain mobs.
For example, in one world I started I thought I was in new zealand... everything was hugely mountainous, and covered in millions of sheep, but there was not a single cow or pig within 2 kilometers of my spawn. I ended up abandoning that world.
In another world I got a different biome makeup, and did not face these issues.
For example, in one world I started I thought I was in new zealand... everything was hugely mountainous, and covered in millions of sheep, but there was not a single cow or pig within 2 kilometers of my spawn. I ended up abandoning that world.
In another world I got a different biome makeup, and did not face these issues.
I tend to use Mystcraft now for my animal needs, instead of going 1000+ blocks away from my home just to find one cow (which I did recently and swore never to do again). It was really frustrating too, because I saw like 100 sheep/pigs/chickens as I was looking for cows.
Of course, if you don't cheat in the mystcraft notebook it may be a bit more difficult. And you need at least one cow to make a book (unless you luck out on a village library).
Plains/Meadows/Forest/Swamp or some combination of the 4 is what I pick to find the animals I want. Checkerboard biome with two of them works out extremely well. Usually find quite a bit of sheep in the Plains/Meadows and cows in the swamp. Chickens seem to spawn everywhere for me, and I don't worry about pigs.
[Edit] Oh ExtraBiomes affects spawns? No wonder I find mobs easier in the regular biomes with mystcraft. Still, if they do affect it then myscraft with normal biomes might be easier for you.
Of course, if you don't cheat in the mystcraft notebook it may be a bit more difficult. And you need at least one cow to make a book (unless you luck out on a village library).
Plains/Meadows/Forest/Swamp or some combination of the 4 is what I pick to find the animals I want. Checkerboard biome with two of them works out extremely well. Usually find quite a bit of sheep in the Plains/Meadows and cows in the swamp. Chickens seem to spawn everywhere for me, and I don't worry about pigs.
[Edit] Oh ExtraBiomes affects spawns? No wonder I find mobs easier in the regular biomes with mystcraft. Still, if they do affect it then myscraft with normal biomes might be easier for you.
I don't really have any idea about MystCraft, so dunno what you mean about using a book... And I really like the xtra biome stuff, and animal placement makes sense, but it's still a PITA... Is there anyway to turn off just the animal segregation by biome but still keep the extra biomes?
There is no way to configure animal spawning within EBXL biomes. They have lower chance than the vanilla biomes, that is certain. If you're fine with weird borders you could generate your world initially without EBXL and then put it back to get the extra biomes but still get animal rich starting area.
I highly recommend watching DireWolf20's mod spotlight of Mystcraft. Though a bit old, it's very informative and may help you out. All you need to do is spawn in a notebook from creative mod to get all the symbols. Or if you have a good supply of leather/feathers discover it all yourself.
Other than that, spawning them in or disabling EXBL and then reenabling it like others suggested may be what you need to do, if you don't wanna keep remaking worlds.
From my experience, if I had too many of a single animal in the area: I would start a genocide of that one and different ones would start spawning. Also it seemed to me, if I brought an animal from somewhere else to a place where none of that type spawned they would start spawning.