[MCPE-56879] Spawners animations are invisible

The animated spinning mob in a mob spawner is invisible for some players, or for others only visible when the player's viewpoint is within a sphere of radius 6 blocks from the center of the spawner and the cursor is on the spawner. If the cursor is moved off the block or the player moves outside the sphere, the animation vanishes.

The issue occurs in either creative or survival mode and in either an infinite or a flat world. It has no effect on the activation distance (where the flames appear) and does not interfere with spawning mobs.

Original description:

Since version 1.13.1 all mob spawner cages have been empty (no spinning monster animation) and are still empty in 1.13.1 (corrected typo)

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Attachments

MCPE-56879.mcworld

Minecraft 2019-11-17 23-02-26-SD.mp4

Comments 24

Auldrick 2019-11-15T17:11:22Z

I assume you mean "since version 1.13", and that was a typo. Please review your submissions before submitting them.

We have had reports that this is caused by certain add-ons. Can you reproduce it with no add-ons active?

Jason Hight 2019-11-15T19:34:12Z

Seeing the exact same thing on iOS with no add-ons.

Barry Parker 2019-11-16T03:58:13Z

Not running add-ons or shaders in this world at the moment, nor have edited this word in MCC Tool Chest (yet) Its a new world I started in 1.13.1.

it is also not a random spawner either, the image is about my sixth spawner found so far, including those in two diferent mineshafts (spider and dungeons).

Auldrick 2019-11-16T04:38:22Z

I tested this in 1.13.1 and found issues, but I'm not sure I found the same ones you're reporting.

What I found is that in a flat Creative world, when I placed a mob spawner and then used a zombie spawn egg on it, it became active (the flames appeared) and a zombie appeared inside it, but if I moved the cursor off the spawner block the zombie was no longer visible. The flames were still there, however.

Please answer a few questions:

You mentioned seeing this problem in a new world. Have you seen it in an upgraded world, too? If so, was it in a spawner that you know had a mob in it previously?
Were the spawners you see it in generated naturally, or did you build them in Creative?
Does the mob appear when your cursor is on the spawner?
Are flames visible in the spawner? If not, are you close enough to activate it? (You must be within 16 blocks to activate it.)
You said it happens in "all mob spawner cages". How many have you seen it in, roughly?

Barry Parker 2019-11-17T06:14:59Z

Answer to questions...

Seen in both new world (2), upgraded old worlds (4) and experimental world (1), that I know where the Spawners are. Because I had not loaded my Global Resources Texture Pack in yet, all my old world restore to original texture with still no spinning amination. I then re-opened with a local texture pack to test and still the same.
All worlds are naturally generated in Suvuval Mode.
in neither and at any distance
Flames animation is active when in range and tested enabled/disabled (with tourch). Mobs still spawn form the cage when in range, but no inner spinning animation.
Yes, All mod spawners cages in All worlds test (above) including the onse I had turned into mod grinders (in most of my old worlds I have 3 Spider/Skeleton/Zombie) also checked in the Nether. How many? in the new 1.13.1 world 7, 4 spider in minesfafts and 3 in dungons.

Note: By the way, this Windows 10 operating system (1903) is a new image (Clean Start), done only two weeks ago and therefore Minecraft is also a new installation, begining at 1.13.0. My old worlds were copied in from my old user profile (which I had made a copy of).

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Auldrick 2019-11-17T10:16:14Z

Thank you for the good information. I have it all figured out now and will shortly be updating the description and confirming this report.

Barry Parker 2019-11-17T12:36:50Z

I've uploaded a short Vid of one the spawners in my current 1.13.1 world. You will see that an no point in my movement too and around does the Spinner animation occure. This is a natural one in Suvival mode, marked out at 16 block (for my next mob grinder).

It's the same in all my worlds both old and new.

Daniel Barnes 2019-11-17T12:57:34Z

I have same issue with Nintendo switch and and iOS versions. Using any texture pack has same result no image inside spawner.

Auldrick 2019-11-17T13:00:51Z

Ok, I modified my description to include it never being visible for some people. It's strange that we get different results. Would you care to download the world I attached and try it? I am able to see the animation when I'm in the white areas. If you can, too, maybe there's a second bug that you have but I don't for some reason.

Auldrick 2019-11-17T13:13:05Z

@unknown: Not every pack does it. I tried two, a small one from a third party and the Natural pack from the Marketplace. I could still see the spinning mob with both of them, as long as I was in range and pointing at the spawner. But maybe it happens with specific packs. What packs have you used that you think cause the animation to disappear?

Barry Parker 2019-11-17T15:04:33Z

@Auldrick: I tried your world, I still only see flames no spinner. I even moved away from you original and created another Spawner, again it only added the flame anim with no spinner.

I also tried changing my view (F5) to see if that had an effect and changed my skin to default (just to eliminate everything) still no change.

GoldenHelmet 2020-01-19T22:53:52Z

Since this bug started, no spawners in my survival worlds have shown the mob spinning. My two main worlds were created in 1.11 and 1.14. However, i just tried activating spawners with spawn eggs in a flat creative world, and those spawners all showed the mob spinning inside. When I switched to survival they still showed the mob. Distance and cursor on the spawner or not made no difference in my case.

Fors Coyt Anderson 2020-01-19T23:11:32Z

If you have the world on Peaceful it will not have anything in the spawners. Make sure it is not on peaceful then try it. if it is not on peaceful and still doesn't have anything in the spawners or the spawners are not spawning mobs then you have an issue.

Barry Parker 2020-01-20T03:39:24Z

@GoldenHelmet - Just tried what you said, with creating a flat world and spawned the cages. I still get no spinner, (spawners still spawn though). I now have two accounts and still neither show spinning animation within the cages.

@Fors Coyt Anderson - Doesn't matter what mode I'm in. Created a new survival world in 1.14.1 last week on normal mode and still nothing...

@MCPE Mod - Why is the MCPE Workflow showing Postponed?

tryashtar 2020-01-20T03:41:37Z

That's just a generic graph showing all possible states for a ticket. The status of this ticket is open.

PHO 2020-02-12T14:10:25Z

This still happens on 1.14.20 / iOS but with a slightly different result from that on Win10. The mob spinning animation is shown only when:

You are close enough to the spawner,
The cursor is on the spawner,
And you are moving the camera, i.e. either your position or the cursor is moving.

killerbeenl83 2020-02-20T17:12:25Z

Some of the different results might be explained by the Outline Selection setting (in video-settings). Disabling Outline Selection can cause the mob to appear when the block is highlighted (aimed at). (Win 10)

When commenting with further information, please see if outline selection is enabled or disabled and if changing this setting causes any difference.

(please keep in mind this is additional information to the ticket and this is not considered a fix or workaround)

Bubba Doodah 2020-02-22T06:35:38Z

In Minecraft MCPE Windows 10 PC v1.15.0.51 and v1.15.0.53, mob spawners are empty unless you disable "outline selection".

Barry Parker 2020-04-18T05:06:16Z

Minecraft MCPE Windows 10 PC Beta Ver. 1.16.0.57 only visible when 'Outline Selection' is off and you are point directly at the spawner.

As soon you move the pointer of the spawner, Mob animation disappears.

user-189af 2020-04-26T07:30:26Z

I noticed the more powerful the device, the more likely it appears. I switched between an iPhone 7 and Xbox one and the Xbox showed the animation, the iPhone 7 did not show it however.

Auldrick 2020-05-12T20:20:09Z

@unknown: But what makes you think it's the "power" of the device that matters? Why not its size, or its weight, or its manufacturer, or how it connects to the network? If you assume it was the "power" just because that was the first difference you thought of between an iPhone 7 and an Xbox, it's just a guess and as likely to be wrong as right. You would need to test your hypothesis with a bunch of devices, with all of them giving results that support your guess, before you can confidently state that the "power" of the device has anything to do with it. (This is the meaning of the saying "Correlation is not causation".)

MythicBurritoz 2020-05-13T16:25:59Z

What Auldrick said is a good point. I play on a powerful Windows 10 computer that allows for far more intense graphics than my Xbox One does, yet the spawner does not display an animation for me. Power has nothing to do with it.

user-189af 2020-05-20T20:24:47Z

Seems to be a strange bug then. Props to the developers for fixing this in the latest beta as it stopped showing for one beta. Then it came back after updating!

Makzevu 2020-06-23T17:34:38Z

Fixed for 1.16.