[MC-70582] Guardians spawning without ocean monument.

I was searching deep oceans for monuments and found guardians spawning without there being a monument. I encountered two places where this occurred. The world is a realm that has been up for a few months.

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MC-65214 Guardians are spawned in random places Resolved

Comments 3

Dlawso the Really Lucky Rabbit 2014-09-02T23:14:58Z

Dupe of MC-65214

Andy Hicken 2014-09-03T06:14:05Z

Same here. Lots of guardians and a bare sea floor. No structures or jack-o-lanterns.

Timothy Patrick 2014-09-05T01:36:18Z

Although the Wiki says, "Ocean Monuments can spawn in existing chunks from older versions of Minecraft," it appears they do not, and only the Guardians spawn.

In my current world save, no monument spawned in an area I had previously explored, but I did find Guardians. So I loaded an older backup, in which that same area had not been previously explored, and found a monument.

So it appears that monuments will NOT spawn in existing chunks, but the Guardians still do.