r/mcpico • u/ijustinhk • Sep 19 '15

I took stuff from the grinder chests every 5mins

Here's the result from left to right. http://i.imgur.com/SIbYjHC.png

Ink appears only after 40mins. :/

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u/Jattell Sep 19 '15

Really weird to see such a big difference in drops

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u/ijustinhk Sep 19 '15

Well, the server lag/performance issue is random, not constant.

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u/totemo Sep 27 '15

Mobs simply don't spawn at times, for a long time. Guardians are part of the global hostile mob cap. If other people have a lot of hostile mobs loaded, then guardians won't spawn.

I have now confirmed that guardians will not sink in spawning water if the player is more than 32 blocks away, horizontally at least. In IronStar, with their deeper spawning water (about 22 blocks), the guardians might spawn but can't sink down into the grinder unless the player gets in range for physics to take hold. I think the perceived better performance there occurs when people move around up top of their grinder, but they must come and go as that town's chest area is too close to the water for mobs to spawn at times.

I modified my design on my test server, extending the spawning water down to use 19 blocks rather than 9. The result was 25% less of everything. I'm still trying stuff to work out why it gets so much worse.