update 1.2.6 installed. i had previously built a guardian farm. after the update no guardians spawned. switched to peaceful and then back. to normal. the guardians resumed spawning, but at a lesser amount. gradually it reduced to 1 guardian every once in a while and no more. traveled to another monument site and there was just 1 guardian . pretty sure i sawsome despawn as i was swimming down to the monument. thanks for reading and your hard work on this game.
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For comment. we've noticed spawning issues all over the world, such as spawners becoming empty, The End mobs becoming erratic, and general mob activity is inconsistent.
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I have the same issue. Spawning appears better when only having one block deep water that is exposed to the sky. Spawn rates go down in my testing when adding multiple water levels and covering the spawning space (Should be the other way around). Rates are significantly lower than in the console version.
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I'm having the same issue on my realm. A working 1.2.5 Guardian farm no longer spawns Guardians after the 1.2.6 update.
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Thought it was fixed, then guarians stopped spawning again. No matter my distance.
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I did some testing and discovered they will spawn if there are only air blocks above the water.
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John, took part of the roof off. Still the same.
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Any mob grinder that relies on normal mob spawning seem to be broken right now. I think it's because mobs just don't despawn when they are far away from you.
My slime farm stopped working since the last update too.
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@ Mark B, I had about 300 spawning spaces available about half way up the height of where the monument used to be.
@Gabriel. When I looked at my world in creative I flew around the ocean and did notice 100s of Squid in large clumps surrounding the monument space. So you may have a point.
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Earlier today spawned 2-4 guardians in the guardian farm every once in a while. Still very slow and unproductive.
Cant renew my realm now by the way. It won’t let me.
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Confirmed on 1.2.16 / iOS. Guardians seem to spawn only in a water block whose downside neighbor is something opaque and solid. Not signs, not water, only solid opaque blocks just like regular overground mobs. This means one can only have guardians spawning in a 1 block tall pool of water made of solid opaque blocks, which severely limits the possibility of guardian farms. Will upload a test world later.
And this seemingly affects squids too.
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Attached a test world "Prismarine Farm.mcworld"