[MC-49742] Mobs won't spawn

Going through the first night in a new survival in the biome "Sunflower Plains", I noticed that hostile mobs were not spawning, even though the game was set to Easy. Also, I noticed that through the middle of the night, the light level coming from the sky was marked as "15" in the F3 debug screen.

EDIT: My render distance was set to "6 chunks", and through a new world in the Extreme Hills biome, I found 1 creeper throughout several minutes of waiting.

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MC-51188 Sunflower Plains don't spawn Villages or animals Resolved

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Talven81 2014-02-25T22:16:16Z

What is your render distance set to?

Travis Edrington 2014-02-27T00:36:22Z

I too am having this issue. I can be in an area I don't see a single light source, and may see one hostle mob the entire night

Travis Edrington 2014-03-02T04:19:37Z

I am now playing on a super flat world and I am seeing normal spawn rates right now, though one time (all 4 times have been with the same seed) none of the villagers spawned.

Almost, try turning the difficulty to peaceful then relog and back to normal, see if that helps at all

Deleted account 2014-05-15T11:12:08Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 14w19a / Launcher version 1.3.11 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.