Is there any way to re-enable animal spawning in 1.8.1? My server has no animals left and people are going crazy. I don't want to regen map chunks because most of them are built on. I don't even know why Notch disabled the spawning in 1.8.1 why didn't he wait till 1.9
I have mobs in 1.8, no idea what you're talking about. Check your properties, and if that works check other areas. Mobs don't spawn in certain biomes.
My properties is fine. I have people spread out all across different biomes and they have seen no animals.
I have run into this issue and it seems that the problem is items and mobs aren't despawning properly. I honestly don't know if this is a Bukkit issue or Minecraft issue because I haven't run a vanilla server long enough to find out. What I do know is that this has nothing to do with any plugins because I was running Bukkit for a little while without any. I saw this issue before installing any plugins. What I have come up with for a fix it completely removing all entities to get things to start spawning again. Doing this once or twice a day seems to keep my players happy with the spawn rate. <Edit by Moderator: Redacted mediafire url> (source included in jar) This is a quick plugin I wrote up to wipe out all creature entities as well as items and arrows. Not included are minecarts and paintings (not sure about boats). The source is included in the zip and using the command /clearen will do the job. BACKUP your world first. I don't see any issues, but I don't want any one bitching at me. Edit: Updated to require Op status.