Suddenly without warning the world fails to spawn all mobs - the oceans are empty of fish/drowned - no hostile mobs spawn at night. Have uninstalled and re-installed MC. Spawners seem to be unaffected. Have tried different copies of my most current world to no avail. I keep copies in triplicate online and off. Tried a previous copy from yesterday and I get hostiles (possibly already spawned when world was saved) but once killed no more spawn...
Have tried setting to peaceful and back to normal/hard in menus and by commands but still no luck
Clues: Prior to this error world file size was 91MB - went exploring the perimeter of a 4 x map and world jumped to 122MB - triggered a raid from 4000 blocks away and went back home to initiate raid - won raid and this is when I noticed the error...Will start another world on this version and report back - may just be a corrupted world ...HTH
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Ok the 91MB world has now become 101MB and mobs are thinning out and not re-spawning - the standard zombie/skele/creeper combos are maybe 1-2 a night of each on hard - drowned are more common but thankfully not overrun as before - changed areas to unload chunks and return but no improvement...
Revisiting 121MB world - did an entity count across my bases and found chicken farm had chickens glitch through blocks and 100+ chickens were in existence so I exceeded the 200 mob cap hence the game felt like I was playing on peaceful (no mobs would spawn, friend or foe)- Conclusion: Keep a tight rein on farms especially as we now have many more mobs and farms than we had 5+ years ago - The world size had nothing to do with it - Sorry, my mistake!++
A new world seems to spawn hostiles ok - have reverted to a previous save (91MB before exploring) and this seems to work better - fish are far rarer especially squid but hostiles have returned - I know drowned spawns have been altered in a recent beta - wondering if after a successful raid defence there a less hostiles in the world for a few days perhaps?- have set difficulty to hard to try and spawn more - will report back once I exceed 100MB game file size to try and repeat the error...