Peaceful????

[scotjr79 Profile]

I have been playing on survival and have not seen a single mob lately. I saw a few in resource land but none near my area by sky5. On a related note my recently purchased pig spawner is not working either. What is going on??

[Dio Profile]

Since you are near Sky 5, you are near spawn. Because of the extremely low entity limit they have on this server, you will hardly ever see any mobs spawn near spawn and that is probably why your pig spawner isn't working.


tl;dr: move away from spawn

[scotjr79 Profile]

Thanks for the answer. Seems to me that most of sky5 looks abandoned, but I can see many homes have there own private farms full of animals that will never be harvested. Any recommmendations for an area that is isolated a bit more?

[SWChris Profile Website]

A friend and I and his little brother have started developing an urban area WAAAAY to the north. I don't think they'd mind letting you build there. The coordinates are x=-298, z=-4154.

To get there quickly, go to my Victorian house at x=10, z=290 which is near spawn. In the subbasement below the basement there is a Nether portal that will lead you to a minecart track that will take you north to another portal that will spit you out in our new area. Find an open spot and build away.

[t2t2]

On a related note my recently purchased pig spawner is not working either. What is going on??

Make sure that there's grass around mobspawner for the mob to spawn. Mob spawners don't check entity limits. (Peaceful mob spawners require grass to spawn mobs on and light level 9 or higher)

[asim0v Profile]

Thanks for the answer. Seems to me that most of sky5 looks abandoned, but I can see many homes have there own private farms full of animals that will never be harvested. Any recommmendations for an area that is isolated a bit more?

Not sure what you mean by abandoned. Someone built a house, and I won't remove any houses unless the person is perma-banned. There hasn't been city development done in quite a while because I've been super busy with work and haven't had the time to work on the city. As for private animal farms, I have only seen one or two, and they don't have enough animals to be an issue.

[Curley]

A lot of the entities limits placed on the server were to combat the tick lag spikes we were having over most of the 1.3 season. Luckily with the last 2 releases of Recommended build bukkit the team patched whatever it was that was causing these dips. I'm slowly bringing up the entities limits with each reboot.

[hbiede Profile]

There hasn't been city development done in quite a while because I've been super busy with work and haven't had the time to work on the city.

Do you know what the ETA for further development would be?

[asim0v Profile]

Do you know what the ETA for further development would be?

Plenty of development on Sky5 has happened since that was posted over a month ago...