Glow squid spawn naturally in various caves in my realm, and often quite frequently, up to around y63. They do not seem affected by y level or light level. However, they do not spawn in farms I have made. These farms have been variously below y40, y20 and y0. I have tried with magma bubble columns, no joy. With just stone blocks below and above, no spawn. With no light, using sapphire glass, nada. I have ensured there are no large pools of water within a 44 block radius. It’s a 4 chunk render on a standard Xbox realm. Yet in the same cave, about 75 blocks away, the glow squid will spawn in naturally occurring pools of water. Is this a biome-centric thing, or like a slime spawn chunk thing?? I can’t work it out.
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I’ve added screenshots. They show a standard chunk aligned water filled box, with magma on the base and a minecart hopper collection system.
in the screen shots you can see I’ve experimented adding stone blocks above the magma to see if that works. Also you can see the closest water on the floor of the cave. The squid will happily spawn in that when you are closer. It’s out with sim distance on this shot.
Can confirm this behavior on a Realm playing on Switch, 19x19 farm, glow squid not spawning in player-placed water sources.
Y-19: Stone/Cobblestone
Y-18: Air
Y-17: Water Sources, Water Streams
Y-16: Water Sources, Water Streams
Y-15: Water Sources
Y-14: Water Sources
Y-13: Water Sources
Y-12: Water Sources
Y-11: Stone/Cobblestone
Plains/Savannah biome border directly above the farm.
Glow squid spawning is not affected by biome. What is likely blocking them is other animals filling the underground animal cap. In particular, any old trader llamas or bred animals within about 80 blocks horizontal take away cap space from glow squid. It only takes 4 such animals to fully block glow squid spawns (MCPE-98073). Would that account for your farm not working?
We would need to know more about how your "farm" is built to determine if there is a bug or not. Please attach screenshots showing the farm design.
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