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MC-49577

Slime spawning

I´ll explain everything in the video:

http://youtu.be/FvwTpDU6tmI


Mod edit: Added description of above link:

The problem mentioned in the video also affects normal slime spawning in the overworld. To explain it short: In the latest snapshots the algorithm for slime spawning does not check if medium or big slimes collide with blocks, therefore they can spawn within blocks. This causes the following problems:

  • small slimes fill up the Mobcap
  • less Zombiepigmen/WitherSkeletons/Blazes are spawning
  • farming skulls/nuggets/rods will become a lot harder
  • the Nether will become a lot easier since those mobs will spawn very rarely
  • a lot of gold farms and ALL WitherSkeleton farms will break in 1.8

Update:

After a bit more testing it looks like the new spawning works this way:

  • If a spawnable block was found the game checks if there is something with a hitbox directly above this spot (any block solid or transparent)
  • If that is the case no slime is able to spawn
  • If there is no hitbox above this single block a slime can spawn in all sizes
  • Problem is that there is no seperate check for surrounding blocks if its a medium or big slime
    --> Slimes spawn in blocks and can suffocate

They basically use the normal 2 high mobspawning rules like Creeper, Zombies etc. which makes no sense for slimes since they have completely different hotboxes.

Fixed

Stephan

Mog (Ryan Holtz)

2014-02-23, 03:55 AM

2014-06-06, 02:15 PM

2014-05-15, 12:54 PM

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