I had many mob spawners in the game - which I use for farming. Since updating I've discovered three new spawners that were empty (with no flame). I thought it might be deliberate at first but after the third I thought it might be broken. I went back to previous spawners and they had stopped working - they still had the flame but no mob inside and certainly not spawning. The only thing I can think of (other than upgrading my phone from an S3 to S5, and the newer MPCE being installed) is that I turned it down to peaceful for a bit recently and then back up difficulty. Does this break all spawners or is it the new 12.1 update?
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This is not just for new spawners found. I had working spawners in v0.11 and moved them from the 'minecraftWorlds' folder on my S3 onto my S5 and now they don't have an enemy inside the cage nor do they spawn anymore. I had zombie, skeleton, spider spawners all along this path I'd carved out since v0.9.4 (I know because that's what I labelled the level name. Now my existing spawners are broken and I can't use the mob farms I'd created. No more spawners for me. What's interesting is the spawners are working fine in the Windows 10 version I'm testing on my Surface Pro 3. Aren't they essentially the same version now (i.e. same C++ base code)?
Just to clarify I don't think it's the same issue as the one listed in MCPE-8998. I have that issue now but it also seems the existing spawners have been broken.
Just to clarify I don't think it's the same issue as the one listed in MCPE-8998. I have that issue now but it also seems the existing spawners have been broken.
Would it work as a test to move the 'minecraftWorlds' data for the level into my Window 10 version as a test or are MCPE and it still a little different in how they load the .DAT and .LDB files?
Me too. Many empty spawner cages. Very frustrating. I never changed the level difficulty.