Enemies Are Not Spawning

[BobbyTheCat]

I found out just recently enemies on my world aren't spawning. Is there a way to fix this? I just made a dark room and so far there are no enemies spawning. The difficulty is on hard too. Did I do something wrong, or is it just a a bug?

[Doorstop]

No enemies spawning anywhere or just in your dark room?

Enemies can't spawn within a certain distance of you, in case you didn't know.

[wkw427]

Ah, I didn't know that.

How far away do they have to be to spawn?

[Doorstop]

Ah, I didn't know that.

How far away do they have to be to spawn?

30 blocks or something?

Something close to that.

[BobbyTheCat]

No, I mean I don't see any enemies anywhere. Outside at night all there is are pigs, sheep, cows and chickens. The dark room didn't spawn any either.

Edit: Mobs spawn no closer than 24 blocks, but no further than a 144 x 144 area around the player's location after a short delay

[wkw427]

If there are a lot of mobs out, hostiles won't spawn

[BobbyTheCat]

If there are a lot of mobs out, hostiles won't spawn

How many would you consider "a lot"? There are always a bunch of farm animals out in front of my house, but not so many I would expect no hostile to spawn.

[Madous]

Make a new world and play on that one for a night. If enemies spawn, then it something in your world, such as a nearby cave with a shit-ton of monsters in it. So many, that they will not spawn anywhere else. If they do not spawn in your new world, the its a bug with your client, possibly something odd happened with an addon. I'd suggest deleting your minecraft.jar file then re-starting the game to force it to download all the files anew.

[wkw427]

Make a new world and play on that one for a night. If enemies spawn, then it something in your world, such as a nearby cave with a shit-ton of monsters in it. So many, that they will not spawn anywhere else. If they do not spawn in your new world, the its a bug with your client, possibly something odd happened with an addon. I'd suggest deleting your minecraft.jar file then re-starting the game to force it to download all the files anew.

No, just deleting minecraft.jar won't re-download the jar. Delete everything in the /bin folder.

[BobbyTheCat]

I'll try that, thanks Greatman. Hopefully it will work.

[Frozyn]

Make sure it isn't on peaceful...

[Siege]

Make sure it isn't on peaceful...

The difficulty is on hard too.

They don't teach reading comprehension these days, do they?

[Frozyn]

Perhaps he thought it was on hard, but it really isn't. There are things called mistakes, Mebecj. I never said that it was on peaceful, merely make sure it isn't.

[BobbyTheCat]

Okay I started it up again, turned it to peaceful for a minute then back to hard and enemies started spawning. There was massive slowdown though and soon enemies started not spawning again. What does this mean?

[Pez]

Maybe the enemies are scared of you.

[wkw427]

What about the pigmen? They fear no one. They have long golden SWORD

[Seanadelic]

What do you mean? It sounds like they spawned and you were upset because they didn't continue to spawn. Do you want monsters like everywhere you look?

[BobbyTheCat]

What do you mean? It sounds like they spawned and you were upset because they didn't continue to spawn. Do you want monsters like everywhere you look?

NO, I mean they stopped spawning. Some spawned, they died, and they stopped.

I'm starting to think that they aren't spawning because ifthey did, my computer might crash. It seems I get lag every time I see a mob.