Solved Low Monster Spawn Rate, High Animal Spawn Rate?

I started adding a bunch of plugins into my server, and now the monsters spawn rates are weird.
In each chunk, there is about a monster. Even in the pitch darkness at night in the open, no monsters would spawn near me, or at all.

There are also crazy amounts of animals spawning; perhaps 10 animals in a chunk?

Plugin List:


I tried tweaking the bukkit.yml to increase monster spawn rates, but it did nothing.

Current bukkit.yml:

Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler

Code:java

# This is the main configuration file for Bukkit.
# As you can see, there's actually not that much to configure without any plugins.
# For a reference for any variable inside this file, check out the bukkit wiki at
# [url]http://wiki.bukkit.org/Bukkit.yml[/url]
settings:
allow-end: true
warn-on-overload: true
permissions-file: permissions.yml
update-folder: update
ping-packet-limit: 100
use-exact-login-location: false
plugin-profiling: false
connection-throttle: 4000
query-plugins: true
deprecated-verbose: default
shutdown-message: Server has been temporarily shut down. Join in 10 seconds.
spawn-limits:
monsters: 10000
animals: 100
water-animals: 50
ambient: 15
chunk-gc:
period-in-ticks: 600
load-threshold: 0
ticks-per:
animal-spawns: 400
monster-spawns: 500
autosave: 0
auto-updater:
enabled: true
on-broken:
- warn-console
- warn-ops
on-update:
- warn-console
- warn-ops
preferred-channel: rb
host: dl.bukkit.org
suggest-channels: true
database:
username: bukkit
isolation: SERIALIZABLE
driver: org.sqlite.JDBC
password: walrus
url: jdbc:sqlite:{DIR}{NAME}.db

I adjusted the server difficulty to Hard (3) in the server.props, and I double-checked that monster spawns were on...

Show Spoiler Hide Spoiler

Code:java

#Minecraft server properties
#Sun Feb 03 13:30:42 PST 2013
spawn-protection=1
query.port=25565
server-name=GameTrackerClaimServer
generator-settings=
allow-nether=true
gamemode=0
public=true
enable-query=true
difficulty=3
spawn-monsters=true
admin-slot=false
max-connections=3
pvp=true
grow-trees=true
snooper-enabled=true
level-type=DEFAULT
hardcore=false
max-players=200
server-port=25565
debug=false
texture-pack=
verify-names=true
server-ip=23.29.70.90
spawn-npcs=true
allow-flight=false
level-name=world
view-distance=8
hellworld=true
spawn-animals=true
white-list=false
generate-structures=true
online-mode=true
max-build-height=256
level-seed=
enable-rcon=false
motd=Powered by DARKLYGaming.

Yes, the server can handle the animals.
DARKLY has a load of memory on its' rig, so it should be fine.
3 players online (hey, it's 10 PM, what do you expect ):

There are no WorldGuard regions on this server besides in the spawn world, so there are no flags in the main world.

Thanks!

 

What is your ip?

 

500 ticks for mob spawns?

Change that number to 1 and see how it is.

 

my.darklyworld.com

...Load of monsters now, thanks!
Can you give me a tip on what to set the tick number and the max monster spawn rate please?

EDIT by Moderator: merged posts, please use the edit button instead of double posting.

 

Average amount of players online?
CPU & Ram you have?

 

Average is about 20-30.
CPU.. IDK
RAM.. I'd guess around 30?

 

spawn-limits:
monsters: 75
animals: 5
water-animals: 1
ambient: 1
ticks-per: (
animal-spawns: 200
monster-spawns: 1

If your having performance problems after this, just raise monster-spawns in intervals of 20.

 

Thanks!