We're going to be making a change to the vanilla behavior of Animals soon in order to help cull the amount of mobs that are, well, everywhere. By default, Animals never despawn in vanilla MC. Since we have more aggressive mob spawning on these days in order to guarantee mobs spawning all over the world, no doubt everyone has noticed the sheer quantity of animals that're everywhere.
The change we're making is that animals that do not meet the below requirements will naturally despawn like monsters do. Outside of usual requirements, an animal would have to meet one of the following requirements in order to stick around:
This was a change we've always wanted to make, and wasn't only born out of the recent aggressive spawning. Simply put there's no reason to have vast quantities of animals on the server ever since the advent of the Dungeon and Barn industries. It's beneficial for the future of the server to keep out entity counts down, and this means to do that.
Very likely it'll be Monday Morning when we activate this change. Animals will continue to spawn, of course, but they'll no longer persist for long and result in being so prevalent.
Go Forth!
The change we're making is that animals that do not meet the below requirements will naturally despawn like monsters do. Outside of usual requirements, an animal would have to meet one of the following requirements in order to stick around:
- Animal is named (nametagged)
- Animal is tamed (thus has an owner)
- Animal has only been alive for less than 5 minutes
- Animal is in a town
This was a change we've always wanted to make, and wasn't only born out of the recent aggressive spawning. Simply put there's no reason to have vast quantities of animals on the server ever since the advent of the Dungeon and Barn industries. It's beneficial for the future of the server to keep out entity counts down, and this means to do that.
Very likely it'll be Monday Morning when we activate this change. Animals will continue to spawn, of course, but they'll no longer persist for long and result in being so prevalent.
Go Forth!
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