[MCPE-140859] Axolotls do not spawn

No Axolotls Were Spawning In My World Not Even A Single One I Try To Get A Copy Of My World And Use The Kill Commnad To Kill Axolotls But There Were No Axolotls Killed

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BDS-15747 Hello, I’m having trouble with finding axolotls. They used to spawn in the lush caves and also in the underwater caves. It’s like it’s a bug or something that is making them not spawn. Resolved

BDS-18134 Axolotl not spawning Resolved

MCPE-134381 Axolotl's not spawning Resolved

MCPE-140871 Axolotls do not spawn in new Beta 1.17.30.24 Resolved

MCPE-141430 Axolotls do not spawn natural Resolved

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MCPE-150161 Axolotl density limit is smaller than its max herd size Open

MCPE-151817 Incorrect cave biome data when upgrading world Resolved

MCPE-152500 30 second despawn immunity does not exist Resolved

MCPE-157485 Tropical fish in lush caves have a surface density cap, but are underground spawns Resolved

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[Mod] Umija5895M 2021-09-08T11:31:07Z

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Tracy Colletta 2021-09-08T15:14:02Z

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.

GoldenHelmet 2021-09-13T11:32:37Z

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

Susan Anvin 2021-10-11T15:25:16Z

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.

Carlos Eduardo Alfaro Gómez 2021-10-31T13:17:17Z

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

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Yin Ee Yee 2021-11-30T12:58:47Z

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

GoldenHelmet 2021-12-11T08:56:52Z

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.

Netheritedrifter 2021-12-20T15:43:11Z

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

GoldenHelmet 2022-02-16T00:55:37Z

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.

Rokiitaa 2022-02-18T20:43:28Z

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.

Eric Pixley 2022-03-03T09:31:29Z

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

Pedro Barbosa Bruno 2022-03-24T22:59:20Z

Affects 1.18.30.28/29

Pedro Barbosa Bruno 2022-04-03T18:18:51Z

Affects 1.18.30.32/33

Gujamin 2022-06-08T15:34:28Z

Affects 1.19

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2022-06-10T10:44:59Z

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

GoldenHelmet 2022-06-14T00:40:04Z

MCPE-157485 also contributes to this.

Gujamin 2022-06-23T11:26:44Z

Appears to still be an issue in 1.19.2

Ariel Castro 2022-09-05T18:29:07Z

This has been occurring to me since 1.18 in Java

Pedro Barbosa Bruno 2022-11-23T20:25:55Z

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

KittiMeow 2022-12-20T15:21:00Z

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)

Picomos plays 2023-04-23T03:26:22Z

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.

Evantures 2023-08-11T01:45:44Z

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

Brandon Cyr 2024-04-15T01:54:22Z

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

ReyBad98 2024-08-02T12:19:48Z

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...

LaCobayaHabla 2025-01-17T04:16:00Z

ping...

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

Jarl-Penguin 2025-01-18T09:26:42Z

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