Problem/Bug Squids rarely spawns, Vanilla is okay though.

Hi.

How come, when running Bukkit, squids rarely spawns, I did an AFK test for 2 hours, got only 15 ink sacks, then I tried the same world in Vanilla and Forge, and the squids were spawning just like in singleplayer.

What can I do to change this behaviour?

 

@asundrus
Do you have any plugins editing mob spawnrate? Do you have any plugins that use squids for anything? Also, how are testing the spawn rate? Are you testing from a spawner or are you checking the natural spawn rate?

 

Sorry for my lack of info.

No plugins at all, did not tinker with any settings at all.
I made a squid farm, which as I mentioned, works flawlessly in both Vanilla and Forge server

 

@asundrus
I've tested it as well and it seems they rarely spawn, even on 1.11.2. I would recommend you create a ticket/post on the spigot forums.

 

Thanks for the reply.

I just reposted this in the Spigot forums, hopefully they'll have an answer as to why we are experiencing this, and thanks for testing it also.

 

Looks like you and I are the only two people experiencing this. I posted over at Spigot, but no replies. So I tested by editing the bukkit.yml, I edited:
animal-spawns: 400 to animal-spawns: 4
which seems to replicated Vanilla spawning behaviour, this however seems odd, as the wiki as far as I remember says, the 400 is equal to Vanilla.

 

@asundrus
That information on the wiki page was added more than 3 years ago, I would not expect it to be accurate, as Mojang have probably changed the minecraft default several times since then. You might want to create a ticket on Spigot asking the default value to be readjusted.

EDIT: I had a look in the sources, and it seems the vanilla default value is actually 1.

 

@AlvinB
So the 4 I used was actually close hehe, thanks for your insight.