Why won't monster spawns work?

I've noticed on my server that almost no monsters spawn throughout the night.

I used to think that this was a problem with multiverse, since the problem seemed to have started when I first installed it, but the problem has persisted even though I removed multiverse.


I have no idea what could be causing this. I know that monsters CAN spawn, I'll see a couple here and there, but I see nowhere near the amount that I would expect for a regular nighttime.



Does anyone have any idea what could possibly be causing this?

 

ur difficulty seting for your sever?

 

It's on hard. Sorry, should have mentioned that.

And mob spawns in server properties is set to true.


I read that having the view distance lower than seven or greater than ten could mess mob spawns up, so I changed it to 8. It didn't work, though :/.

 

i think i have the same problem too above groud but it doesnt annoy me

 

I THINK I may have figured it out. Setting view distance to 10 appears to make mobs spawn, although I'm not sure if this was actually the root of the problem or if I just got lucky. I hope it isn't the case that view distance has to be this high to make mobs spawn, as having such a high view distance will probably lag my server as it gets more players.

 

LOL