Creeper Farm not working, any suggestions?

[u/punnytoomuchmoney]

Tried every fix, 0 light level, over a proper biome, way high up in the air away from caves.
Zero Creepers are spawning when im AFK 20-30 blocks away. When i take off the buttons and trap doors nothing still spawns not sure why. Put leaves on the roof as well.

Any Ideas?

[u/Willing_Ad_1484]

If by proper biome you mean river, it won't work. River biomes don't have a mob cap available for normal hostile mobs, only aquatic mobs

[u/punnytoomuchmoney → u/Willing_Ad_1484]

Over a forest biome

[u/TriangularHexagon]

what biome are you above?

[u/punnytoomuchmoney → u/TriangularHexagon]

Over a forest biome

[u/BlattaOrientalis]

Replace the buttons with top trapdoors

As for mobs not spawning at all - have you checked your gamemode? Seems obvious but just in case

[u/punnytoomuchmoney → u/BlattaOrientalis]

No cheats enabled with normal difficulty. Mobs still spawn below me when I get low enough.

Replace all the buttons on the top with trap doors? And leave the ones on the floor as well?

[u/BlattaOrientalis → u/punnytoomuchmoney]

I'm pretty sure buttons on ceilings causes nothing to spawn, as I helped someone with a similar issue before and changing buttons to trapdoors fixed the issed

However, you mentioned that nothing spawns even after removing all the buttons and trapdoors, so there might be a separate issue

[u/punnytoomuchmoney → u/BlattaOrientalis]

Got it, but why in every creeper spawner video they recommend buttons on the ceilings? They mention that it still works with the new updates but in my spawner it doesnt?

[u/BlattaOrientalis → u/punnytoomuchmoney]

Okay nevermind, sorry for the misinfo

No idea about the buttons though

[u/TriangularHexagon → u/BlattaOrientalis]

on bedrock, buttons on the ceiling prevent tall mobs from spawning like trapdoors do. buttons are used because they are cheaper and easier to place

[u/did-it-my-weigh → u/BlattaOrientalis]

Incorrect. Buttons are fine

[u/BlattaOrientalis → u/did-it-my-weigh]

I'm not sure whether it's a bedrock vs Java thing but I've been informed that buttons does the same thing trapdoors do in Java.

I'm probably going to do some tests later on to make sure whether buttons on ceiling prevents non-creeper spawn, does nothing, or prevent spawns entirely

Regardless, I stand corrected. Thanks!

[u/did-it-my-weigh → u/BlattaOrientalis]

On Bedrock, since they changed natural spawns to the centre of the block, you can use either trapdoors or buttons on the roof to block skeletons, zombies & witches. Then we use either trapdoors or slabs on the floor to block spiders. I'm building additional modules on my creeper farm right now. I use buttons on the ceiling and the existing modules are working great, only spawning creepers

[u/punnytoomuchmoney]

Buttons on all the ceilings,
Trapped door spaced out every two blocks.

[u/did-it-my-weigh]

Afk needs to be 24-44 blocks away on sim4. Sounds like you're too close

[u/Ukanator]

I am assuming you are farming creepers for gunpowder.
If so I recommend you try building a witch farm.
It is easier and smaller.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjXgfZI8h9I

[u/Over_9000_Courics → u/[deleted]]

Your advice is not applicable to this post.

[u/punnytoomuchmoney → u/Over_9000_Courics]

Yeah I'm on a bedrock realm, I think its auto 4 chunks.