Hi. One of my friends decided it would be a good idea to spawn massive amounts of chickens from mob eggs to each of the player's houses on my server. I got rid of all the chickens at his house by nuking it repeatedly. But it's going to take forever to get rid of all of the rest of the chickens. I don't believe there is a kill all mobs command in vanilla servers, and I can't find a server mob that has this command. Please help!
Get rid of many mobs quickly?
- Thread starter Ddogclaw
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/butcher should kill chickens (if specified) the only thing i found out last night
Will only kill 29 mobs in the 50 yard radius. You need to keep spamming the command till your get 0 mobs returned >.<
Layout of the command
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/butcher 50Layout of the command
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/butcher [radius|world] [type] [x, y, z]
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Kill all hostile mobs within a certain radius, or 10 blocks by default. Putting "world" instead of a numerical radius specifies the entire dimension. The 6 types you can choose from are: passive (all non-hostile mobs except tamed animals), hostile (doesn't cover bosses), golem, villager, tamed, and all (everything but bosses and players). BE CAREFUL! This cannot be undone!This is a bit of a necro, but there is no real answer given to this question and it's a fairly common annoyance/issue.
This does not require Forge Essentials or any other mod. It is a Vanilla solution.
It will still work even if the game is so badly lagged out that it isn't possible to enter the game.
Everyone with an animal pen will have to restock it, but the server won't have to struggle with the lag from hundreds or thousands of livestock
This does not have any affect on hostile mob spawn
Restocking an animal pen is much easier when everyone in the game can move.
This does not require Forge Essentials or any other mod. It is a Vanilla solution.
It will still work even if the game is so badly lagged out that it isn't possible to enter the game.
- In the server root, open the file server.properties and set spawn animals=false
- Restart the server...
- Enter the game and the animals should be gone.
- Revert spawn animals=true in the server.properties file
- Restart the server again.
Everyone with an animal pen will have to restock it, but the server won't have to struggle with the lag from hundreds or thousands of livestock
This does not have any affect on hostile mob spawn
Restocking an animal pen is much easier when everyone in the game can move.
I suppose you have a good point.
I guess I'm not thinking in terms of a server with a vast multitude of users.
/butcher also has some limitations as well as being a nice feature. It presumes that lag allows commands to be entered.
What brought me here (aside from Google) was that an MFR autospawner was set up in an enclosure that would properly contain any mob larger than 1x1x1... and I could barely enter the game for a landscape that was covered with chickens that leaked out of it into the surrounding area. Not griefing. Just a miscalculation/mis-design... and a GregTech bottomless Quantum Tank with who knows how much mob essence in it. *facepalm*
Entering commands at the console it took several minutes to even get text echo... and while I'm patient, I'm not patient enough for that. Besides, the players were more interested in getting back on than whether they would have to find another pair of cows.
I suppose different circumstances call for different solutions.
Any decent administrator has a script of some kind for saving a backup of their world... but nobody wants to actually use a backup archive unless the alternative is generating a new one.
I guess I'm not thinking in terms of a server with a vast multitude of users.
/butcher also has some limitations as well as being a nice feature. It presumes that lag allows commands to be entered.
What brought me here (aside from Google) was that an MFR autospawner was set up in an enclosure that would properly contain any mob larger than 1x1x1... and I could barely enter the game for a landscape that was covered with chickens that leaked out of it into the surrounding area. Not griefing. Just a miscalculation/mis-design... and a GregTech bottomless Quantum Tank with who knows how much mob essence in it. *facepalm*
Entering commands at the console it took several minutes to even get text echo... and while I'm patient, I'm not patient enough for that. Besides, the players were more interested in getting back on than whether they would have to find another pair of cows.
I suppose different circumstances call for different solutions.
Any decent administrator has a script of some kind for saving a backup of their world... but nobody wants to actually use a backup archive unless the alternative is generating a new one.
You could always get world edit and use /butcher -a and specify a radius. Or a plugin RoyalCommands has a entity remove command I think /eremove? something of the sorts that removes entities near you.
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Emerald_Mage
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If you do /butcher -a that works but it only removes animals a.k.a the chickens then to remove mobs just do /butcher. Hope it helps 
There's no need to bring a 4 year old thread to life based on the information you provided.
And if anyone else reads this thread now - most packs use Cofh Core and there are probably more suitable commands available in the later packs of today.
http://teamcofh.com/docs/cofh-core/commands/#killall