1.0.1: Low hostile mob spawns

[Bubbajr114]

Version:
1.0.1

What is the bug:
So I've seen this in a couple of worlds now. The first couple of nights the spawn rate seems normal, fight off a dozen mobs mobs or so until I can get wool to get a bed. Then the spawn rate seems to drop to the point that I might not even encounter a hostile mob through a whole night.

I've started to notice that underground spawns might be a little low as well. I play in hard difficulty for extra challenge and I also need the mob drops like enderpearls.

Mod & Version:


Paste.feed-the-beast.com log:


Can it be repeated:
I'm not exactly sure what's causing it and I've never seen anyone else with this problem.

Known Fix:

 

[buggirlexpres]

Maybe other entities are spawning in the world, and blocking hostile spawns. Like squids. There's always a lot of squids

 

[Bubbajr114]

Maybe other entities are spawning in the world, and blocking hostile spawns. Like squids. There's always a lot of squids

Is there a way to kill off all the squids then? Only command I know to kill off mobs are hostile mobs

 

[lordtorus]

Is there a way to kill off all the squids then? Only command I know to kill off mobs are hostile mobs

If you settle yourself like Direwolf, this indeed can be problem with massive squids. I recommend you creating Mystcraft world with flat terrain or full glacier - I got this world by accident and its really easy to spot enemies and you get huge speed boost while sliding on ice. Sorry for my grammar

 

[CoolSquid]

Is there a way to kill off all the squids then? Only command I know to kill off mobs are hostile mobs

Killing squids?!

 

[Bubbajr114]

Killing squids?!

I feel great anger coming from this one.....

 

[DaemosDaen]

Um.. it's most likely mobs spawning in caves, peaceful and aggressive mobs are on separate tables. I had this issue on my server I play with my wife till she went cave diving. unless forced otherwise, you can have 200 aggressive mobs spawned, while only 50 peaceful. before no more will spawn. Unless you spawn them with a spawner. (note, spawner spawned mobs count, you might have a dungeon with a spawner near by.

Plenty of things can case this,

 

[CoolSquid]

It's probably squids. WE'RE GONNA TAKE OVER YOUR WORLD!!! I found 117 squids in a world once... It was so fun!!!

 

[nckheinrich]

nope. even in caves i got nothing.

 

[Virgoddess]

I was caving for over 20 minutes and came across one zombie the entire time. It was daytime, too. So IMO something funky is going on.

 

[th3wyatt]

I had the same issue after upgrading to 1.0.2. For some reason, mobs were not despawning causing it to reach the 200 mob limit and no mobs at all would spawn with one player online. cofh killall, killed all hostile mobs. there were 150 zombies somewhere gumming up the system. Worked like a champ after that.