I have been experiencing this issue too. I does not seem to be the mob cap which is what everyone wants to blame it on. I understand when more people log on the mobs spawning near them count towards the mob cap but the mob cap is based off of the number of people logged on. So it increases as more people join to make up for the mob distribution. I have played with 10 other people on a server and other hostile mobs spawn pretty normally but never any naturally spawning drowned. I have been on the same server by myself and I have gotten swarmed by drowned. The moment 1 other person logged on new drowned stop spawning completely. It was very drastic and very noticable. This is why it seems more likely a bug than the mob cap
Greg Pechiro
I have been experiencing this issue too. I does not seem to be the mob cap which is what everyone wants to blame it on. I understand when more people log on the mobs spawning near them count towards the mob cap but the mob cap is based off of the number of people logged on. So it increases as more people join to make up for the mob distribution. I have played with 10 other people on a server and other hostile mobs spawn pretty normally but never any naturally spawning drowned. I have been on the same server by myself and I have gotten swarmed by drowned. The moment 1 other person logged on new drowned stop spawning completely. It was very drastic and very noticable. This is why it seems more likely a bug than the mob cap