Weirdness with Passive Mob Farms

#1

I have been trying to make a chicken farm for a few days now. What I have noticed is: If there is a certain amount of mobs (chickens) present in one place, no more are able to spawn(by eggs) or be bred.

The chickens “get hearts”, Make love, drop XP, but no baby chickens are spawned/generated.
I have tried 1x1, 2x2 and 5x2 farms, none work.

Does anyone know why this is?

Cheers Cookie

EDIT: Make love :wink:

#2

There is a plugin that limits the number a species of mob can be in one chunk. Our limit is 50/animal/chunk.

#3

Man that sucks I know it’s to prevent lag but it wrecks every mob farm. :frowning:

#4

The plugin limits only friendly mobs. So it only prevents you from having industrial type friendly-mob farms :slight_smile:

#5

But I need 150 cows!!!

#6

Then use three chunks :smiley: