Very few mobs spawn in caves, especially small or medium. I can walk right into medium open caves and expect few mobs. In 1.16, there were many more mobs to fight in the caves even though they were smaller. This makes the game discouragingly easy even on Hard difficulty and feels unbalanced as there is much less danger walking into a cave now than 1.16.
It is NOT resolved, the screenshot added by the other user shows the issue. A couple total creepers and zombies in a large cave is too small of a number.
To replicate;
Find a small or medium cave in while playing survival and observe the amount of mobs inside.
There will be much fewer than before due to new caves lighting themselves up with glow lichen and lava removing spawnable spaces. Not only this, but with the new light level rules, this eliminates quite a few spawning spaces.
Please note this may not occur every time due to varying factors, but it happens more often than not and makes it too easy.
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I'm unable to reproduce this issue in 21w43a. In my testing, I found a wide variety of mobs in caves and their spawn rates didn't appear to be noticeably low.
[media]NOT resolved. Still too few mobs in caves because of new light spawning rules + naturally generated light sources (glow lichen, lava) removing most of the spawning spaces especially in smaller caves.
maybe working as intended