Control spawn rate?

Hi. Is it possible to modify the rate that mobs spawn? I was searching but I haven't found anything beside an example spawning more mobs when the creaturespawn event fires. That'd work I suppose, but I was hoping for a more natural method. Is it possible? Thanks!

 

@Strahan
You can try canceling the CreatureSpawnEvent if the 'mob limit' has been reached. Use Entity#getNearbyEntities(x,y,z).size() to get the amount of mobs within a radius.

 

Hmm. Cancel the event? Wouldn't that reduce mob spawning? I want to increase them actually. More accurately, I want to increase whatever mechanism in the server causes them to spawn. Right now on a creature spawn event I am spawning 5 more mobs and just moving them a random amount of blocks from the original creature spawned. It works, but I wasn't sure if there was a way to naturally increase the rate..?

 

If it works why then look for another way? I dont think there is a natural way. (Increasing difficulty?)

 

I was hoping to increase the regular spawn rate so the mobs aren't always close to each other. I guess I can just increase the distance I move them away, but easiest would be to increase the rate.

 

I dont think there is a fully supported way to do this.

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