Axolotls do not spawn

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I also have noticed that, in the current beta 1.17.30.24 axolotls do not spawn.  Please let me know if I should open a new bug report. I have explored a lot of the world and seen no axolotls. I have also set up a spawning box per the requirements for axolotls to spawn: 1) Below X 63; 2) Water sources only, no flowing water; 3) Solid blocks above and below water; 4) Complete darkness; 5) Tinted blocks on all side so that I could see spawning. I afk'd 30 blocks away (sim distance of 4) for an hour. NO axolotls spawned.

Did you have a natural stone floor? That requirement was added in a recent beta.

What I have tried:  I made a 10x10x10 room with the roof at y=60.  Walls ceiling and floor are all natural stone.  I then completely filled the chamber with water from the bottom up, swam out my exit and closed the entrance at the top with dirt to create a lightless environment.  Glow squid spawn in groups of 2-4, but never a single axolotl.

I also found a lush cave down around level -35.  I built a pond at least 7 wide and 7 deep using natural contours and only the light naturally available in the cave.  As nothing but stone forms down there the walls and floor are all stone.  Again, glow squid spawn readily, axolotl do not.  Axolotl also do not spawn in the cave's many shallower pools.  The cave is immense and stunningly gorgeous, btw.  I've spent many hours there exploring.  It should be noted this pool does have light from vines and lichen, but no torches within 20+ blocks.

In have found MANY  flooded caverns and explored them in peaceful mode to reduce dying. All are well below y=63 and most of the floor is a form of natural stone. I get quite far from the entrance.  Again, I see tons of glow squid and 0 axolotl.

I am not on the beta any more but still have access to experimental features in the current android release.  I have put hours of work into this over multiply worlds.

You linked my issue to this closed one.  Please help me reopen it.

This bug also affects the beta version 1.18.0.24, un the lush caves the clay water springs (even in sometimes aquifiers) don't generate axolotls

Ya I was going to report the same issue as well, I have try to set up spawning environment in lush caves and yes nothing spawn other than the glow squid, no fish as well
My version is also MCPE 1.17.42, and open experimental function for 1.18 in realm. Please checkkk

Could we get a copy of a world where axolotls do not spawn?

The weights in the 1.18 spawn rules do make tropical fish 10x more likely to spawn on any given attempt than axolotls in lush caves. Given that tropical fish spawn on average 3.5 at a time, there is a fairly high chance they will fill the water_animal cap of 36 around the player before any axolotls spawn. Also, the way the axolotl density limit and herd size are set up, there cannot be more than two herds spawned within 64 blocks of each other. So they won't be as evenly spread around as tropical fish.

You need clay on the bottom, and I can't reproduce. Although rare, they spawn.

The difficulty of finding axolotls may be partly due to them despawning before you can get to them. Mobs are supposed to be immune from despawning for 30s after they spawn, but they are not (MCPE-152500). Axolotls attempt to spawn in 8-9% of underwater spawns in lush caves, which averages to once every 101 seconds in each chunk. But with no despawn immunity timer, they have a 50% chance of despawning within 28 seconds if the player is >32 blocks away.

I manage to find axolotls after cave and cliff update 1.18 but not after recent ones. I was in many lush caves stayed in there for more than 45 min each and no one axolotl spawned. 

this is still an issue. when will it be fixed?

Affects 1.18.30.28/29

Affects 1.18.30.32/33

Affects 1.19

It's possible that this is a result of older worlds not updating correctly, as described at MCPE-151817.

MCPE-157485 also contributes to this.

Appears to still be an issue in 1.19.2

This has been occurring to me since 1.18 in Java 

This issue will possibly be less worse with the fix of MCPE-157485.

Axolotls rarely spawn for me, but eventually I was able to get some to spawn, but it took a long time (1.19.60.24 Preview)

Affect 1.20.0.21
I will like to request an ownership because the user is inactive and also the report need a new description and a step to reproduce it.
Thank you.

Affects 1.20.12, haven't seen a single axolotl in my world i started over a month ago

I am struggling with this issue as well. It works in new chunks but not in any old chunk.

Not out of malice but the thing that annoys me is the lack of response and listening

We've had this problem for 4 years and you pretend nothing happened
Same thing with lag in the Nether and too many ghast spawns

Please think only about the marketplace or Java...

ping...

We are all still having this issue with axolotls not spawning!!!!

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