[MC-238977] Glow squids spawn in villager farms and wells in superflat worlds

Glow squids spawn in villager farms, while normal squids not.

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MC-239597 Glow Squid Spawn in any water source on a superflat world Resolved

MC-239677 In super flat, the village water pool spawn Glow Squid Resolved

MC-239740 Glow Squid and the Superflat World Resolved

MC-239895 Glowsquid spawn regardless of light level Resolved

MC-240885 Glow squid Spawning on village's Water Resolved

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MC-214951 Superflat worlds start generating at negative coordinates, causing a dark horizon Resolved

MC-215423 Certain Superflat world preset settings are obsolete for the 1.18 update Resolved

MC-239708 Superflat world "Water World" preset settings are obsolete for the 1.18 update Resolved

MC-240642 Glow squids spawn even if the block light is above 0 Resolved

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ampolive 2021-10-14T18:07:39Z

This is caused by the changes introduced in 21w40a, as glow squids can spawn in every water block under y = 30. I am not sure that this side effect was intended though.

migrated 2021-11-06T14:47:05Z

Confirmed this behavior in 21w44a

migrated 2021-12-02T08:33:33Z

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Confirmed behaviour v1.18. squid spawn in any light level

migrated 2021-12-02T13:18:33Z

They can also spawn in wells in villages

migrated 2021-12-26T19:43:21Z

They also spawn if you place water, cuz I built the Fox Lodge in-game and glow squid started to spawn in the small pond, while they didn't spawn in the toilet, since the water is at a higher level.

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migrated 2022-01-17T09:06:56Z

Still a problem in 1.18.1
They can even spawn in a single block of water that is completely enclosed (hydration for farm), with non-natural block underneath. You can see their tentacles through the block.

They can also spawn in flowing water (sideways for a waterstream collection system or vertical as in a single column water fall).

This is the single most annoying bug in the game for me.

Preventing them from spawning in the bolded conditions would be the perfect fix imo.

migrated 2022-01-30T00:01:09Z

Still a problem in the snapshot 22w03a!

The most important problem of them all is that they spawn in flowing water which makes no sense. They can even spawn in edge of the water flow in which the water is roughly a few pixels tall, thus they can suffocate at the very exact block they spawn in.

It would make more sense if they had some spawning restrictions like light, block underneath, or more than 1 height water sources. Much like how Axolotl's work now (Clay Block, etc).

Right now it breaks a lot of people's farms/builds that were built in previous versions below level 30 before Glow Squids were released (water streams, item elevators, pools, aquariums, etc). It would be more useful if Glow Squids were spawning below level 0 so old servers' farms wont have such an issue.

I hope Mojang will do something about the Glow Squid issue. Right now it became a disaster for some old servers.

migrated 2022-02-03T19:51:01Z

Turns out, Glow Squids are programmed to spawn in any block that has #minecraft:water tag, which is what causes this craziness. The game also does not check if there is a larger area for Glow Squids.

Glow Squids should only spawn in minecraft:water, not in all blocks containing #minecraft:water.

ampolive 2022-02-07T10:40:19Z

Glow squid spawning in bubble columns (MC-222036) and ignoring light level (MC-240642) is intentional. The only conditions for glow squid spawning currently are: 1. it has to be a water block; and 2. it is below y = 31.

migrated 2022-02-07T10:57:26Z

@@unknown I think they don't spawn (at least) in bubble columns anymore. Since they already fixed an "intentional" issue, there's still hope for the other ones as well. fingers crossed

migrated 2022-02-07T23:10:11Z

They're spawning in waterlogged stair blocks with no other water on all six sides. Even in Minecraft logic, this makes no sense. The targeted fluid shows as both minecraft:water and #minecraft:water, so there's got to be more to it than that.

There needs to be some mechanism that prevents them from spawning in water below y =31.

migrated 2022-02-16T21:30:59Z

So how exactly has this been fixed now?

migrated 2022-02-16T22:33:08Z

They added a condition to only spawn in light level 0

migrated 2022-02-16T23:04:35Z

Unfortunately the fix provided doesn't solve the flowing water issue. It can still break farms such as in MC-248639

migrated 2022-02-23T00:46:06Z

Yes it frustrates me to because I'm working on mario theamed map but this river is just field with glow squid

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