I've noticed this for a while now... I used to be able to get from level 0 to 30 in my mob farm by watching the entity count get to around 150-160. I understand there were changes to the XP system, however throughout the snapshots, and now in 1.8 itself, I've found that I barely get to level 30 with 150 entities. I thought this might have been a diminishing rate of return, but when I manually kill maybe 5 more, I easily get to the next level. ** This is a skeleton farm and I soften mobs and then splash a heal potion on them for the kill.
This evening I let it get to 192 and I got exactly level 30, which seems to be not so much a diminishing return as it is something wrong with the XP algorithm.
I AFK'd and forgot about it, and came back to 311 entities in my farm. After killing them all, I ended up with level 31. I manually killed about 10 more and ended up with level 32 or 33.
150+ entities should get you more of a difference than 1 or 2 levels! Can this please be looked into? XP farms have been nerfed, I get that, but this isn't right.
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Is this still an issue in the current Minecraft Snapshot 15w46a 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.
Just tried a couple more runs. I started at level 15, and had 168 or so entities and ended up at level 29.7. I then killed 16 more by hand and am now at level 31.
Was at level 28 and had 150 entities and ended up at level 34. Killed 15 or so more and ended up at level 35.