Guardians not spawning in guardian farm?

IGN: builderjunkie012
Bug: Upon completion of my guardian farm in beta they stopped spawning for some odd reason
Time/Date: feb 11
Steps to reproduce: not sure if you can
Evidence: /t spawn prismaville (private beta)

 

Spawning could have been nerfed.

 

nope. t3k's works fine

I'm guessing that your guardian farm was at the wrong level (height) or it was not entirely on the guardian spawning area.

 

Cooleysworld nerfed them, but I am sure your guardian farm should get SOME.

 

it hasn't gotten anything

 

I'll take a look at it when I get on later. Just send me a mail on how to get there (or if you are on, I can assist you there).

 

There are multiple factors that could cause this. It needs to be in a water temple, it needs enough water volume/area, it needs need to have a roof giving no visible view of the sky and you need mobs toggled on the plots.

 

I have each of those but what volume must it be? the top water block is at y:63

 

Msg me in game if you see me on. IGN: iDupe

 

How to fix your problem: /t toggle mob

 

It's /plot toggle mobs

 

I did this way before i even built the grinder :/

 

place solid blocks on top of your water...

 

actually it can be either it /t toggle mobs is plural

 

Do /t toggle mob

 

/plot = plot

/t = town

 

/t resets it for all town plots unless you manually /plot toggle it differently
I'm pretty sure

 

Yeah, when it was suggested to use /t toggle mobs, I offer /plot toggle, as one might not want to toggle mobs throughout the town, but rather in individual plots, heh.

 

I've built three of these so far, feel free to message me in game. Even with them knocking natural mob spawns down by almost a factor of ten, a properly build guardian farm should still yield visible spawns every minute, wish that could be said of creeper/skelly/zombie machines but I should not digress.

Only necessary rules are as follows:
Mob spawns must be enabled, check with /plot perm, toggle with /plot toggle mobs.
The grinder must be build within the confines of the original monument, usually thats y= 38-63 in a 58 block square footprint coinciding with the temple floor.
The grinder must utilize source water, no flowing water will allow gaurdian/squid spawns.
The grinder should have a lid on it at 63 or 64.

The last one many overlook: You cannot be within 24 blocks of an area previously considered valid for spawning, your presence will prevent the spawns, fix this by making an AFK spot in the sky, or digging down lower. Remember that certain entities don't even remain rendered/calculated past 64 blocks(this is a server limitation not mc), if you're going to make any non-hopper item transport system, this must also be close to your afk'er. You can remedy this by running a hopper-only setup.

Once again feel free to message me in game about this or any other grinder setup, I am well versed in the field of minecraft mechanics.

 

Also, I'm sure your grinder has flowing water, not stationary.