[MC-70966] When mutiple lightning strikes hit mutiple pigs in the same tick each lightning turns pigs into multiple pigmen.

If there are 2 pigs, and you summon lightning at both of them, the first lightning bolt will say "make 2 pigmen", the second lightning bolt will think the same thing, so 4 pigmen will be created. With many pigmen and many bolts this adds up fast. The command we were using was /execute @e ~ ~ ~ summon LightningBolt ~ ~ ~

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MC-68866 Multiple Lightnigs summon multiple Pigmans Resolved

Comments 2

Duddy DWAC 2014-09-05T01:43:30Z

More testing, it works with witches but not creepers.

Aaron Rhodes 2014-09-05T02:41:56Z

It seems to only with villagers and pigs because it summons a new mob at the villager/pig, then removes the villager/pig. for a temporary fix, update your command to:

/execute @e[type=Pig] ~ ~ ~ summon LightningBolt ~ ~ ~

It seems that lightning gets summoned at the pig, which spawns a zombie pigman at the pigs location, and before the pig is removed, another lightning bolt is summoned at the zombie pigman, also striking the pig, creating a second pigman, and finally removing the pig.