Martin Welbourne

I've been playing in the same world for over two years (see my previous post), I could count the number of slimes I have seen.. probably less than 20 in that time period. My base is between two swamp biomes, both are loaded when I am in my house. My base is also over 3 'slime chunks'. Not seeing any slimes. I now cheat in slime blocks when I want to do something with them.

This issue is affecting me in the latest release version 1.8.1. I see slimes only rarely in swamps, I think I have seen only two; possibly during full moon as reported by MCDodge, but I'm not sure. I have looked for slime chunks using third party software and slimes do not spawn in those chunks either (I checked at y = 26).

I will try changing the render distance as suggested by Guilherme and will report if successful.

EDIT: Have now been playing in the same world for over 3 months. I kill every slime I see and have amassed about a stack of slime balls. It is not that there are no slimes but that they spawn only very rarely. It does seem to have something to do with distance as a slime will spawn occasionally in the swamp next to my house but never when I am in the swamp.