Hardly find any passive mob for food, needing to up the spawn rate?
Too high of a render distance affects spawns? I don't know it just seems passive mobs are lacking unlike Mc Console Edition
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Auldrick
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Currently playing in peaceful mode in survival and only see one cow,sheep or pig once every 100 blocks and almost never see any.
Auldrick
I think the developers tweaked it down recently; in my personal survival world I used to get hordes of passive mobs within my perimeter fence (although that was partly because the fence kept them from wandering off), but now I only get an occasional one.
Ok then, we'll need the developers to get a look at this and decide whether/how to make additional tweaks. You should click the "vote for this issue" link. The more votes an issue has, the more likely it is to attract attention.
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I believe this is related to (or the same thing as) MCPE-21856 , as well as a number of other hostile mob spawn tickets.
Auldrick
It's not a duplicate of MCPE-21856, because that one focuses on hostile mob spawn rates. However, it is related to, or possibly duplicates, MCPE-29536.
[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as a Duplicate of MCPE-29536.
Your additional information and observations are very useful, so if you can add them to the comments section of the parent issue it would be appreciated.
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I don't believe render distance affects passive mob spawns. But trying to compare spawn rates with Console or Java Edition isn't informative: Bedrock has its own, entirely different spawn logic, which the developers have been tweaking a lot recently.
Passive mob spawning depends on the biome and (for the food mobs) on having grass blocks available. You've probably already considered that, but you didn't eliminate that as a possible reason.
Try changing your difficulty to Peaceful (assuming it isn't already) and back again. It's possible that an excess of hostile mobs (possibly in caves where you can't see them) is blocking passive mob spawning. Changing to Peaceful will kill all the hostile mobs and leave room for more passive mobs to spawn. If that works for you, you can use it as a workaround, but please leave us a comment either way so the developers can consider whether more tweaking is needed.