This has happened to me before too, with the animals.

Help Godsy!

Last night I went to cut some wool from my heard of about 40 white sheep (indoor farm) and every one was gone. 🙁 I moved a few colored sheep into the pens dyed em white and started to breed them, got up to about a dozen and they disappeared again. I am having similar problems to a lesser degree with cows, chickens and pigs.

If animal populations totally crash before the glitch is fixed can you supply pairs of spawn eggs to reestablish populations plz?

Thanks,

Wog

This is due to recent optimizations for mega-farms.

I outlined some changes here: http://piratemc.com/topic/planned-maintenance-monday-evening/#post-5930

In general, here’s what I changed:

• I Added a plugin chunkspawnerlimiter to limit the amount of Mobs that are allowed per chunk, so for those people that had 500 chickens in one tiny hole, you were causing massive lag to the server, now times this by hundreds of players and you get unstable TPS, then lag, at the moment, im using the plugins default settings, which says: Animals:50, Monster:50, NPC: 50, other: 500, I have just seen the option to notify players in that chunk if stuff has been culled, I will turn that on.
  Im assuming this is the main cause of destruction to farms.
• I also updated bukkits settings to limit animals or mobs can spawn in a chunk, monsters are set to 60 from 70, animals are set to 13 from 15. But I cant see this having an affect since its always been on 15 since we started 2 years ago, and people have had thousands of animals in one plot.
• Changed frequency of mobs; Monsters used to spawn every tick of the server, which is insane, this is now every 13 ticks, So mob-farming may be slightly slower now.
  Animals spawning naturally were on every 600 ticks!!! Which is also absolutely insane for a default, I moved this down to 300 ticks, so animals should be more common around the world now.
• Greatly reduced “entity-activation-range” for animals and monsters, this may need to be changed, as it may effect gameplay.
  

  Controls the range in blocks that entities will become “activated” – entities outside of this range will tick at a reduced rate to prevent server lag. When changed

• nerf-spawner-mobs is now on, This is another option I may need to revert, it was done as a test for lag/tps.
  

  When enabled, mobs which originate from a mob spawner will not have any AI. They will generally only be affected by water movement, with the exception of blazes which will still emit fireballs and float up and down.

As for claims, that is based on something you have done in-game @captainvenoms for instance, if you had a claim transferred to you then you decided to abandon it, it will remove that claim block area from your claim block count.

I have have checked out my farms and reapers farms and neither of ours have been effected, I can only assume the farms that were had a great amount of entities in them!

But no fear, I will happily replenish farms and hand out dye for lost sheep, but you have to apply in this thread, to acknowledge the recent changes.

Now, please, please read through those changes, as only you as the players will be able to tell me how badly this effects gameplay, my entire optimization was to remove as much lag as I could.

I also just checked my sheep pasture and i only have 5 sheeps plus a chicken which i really think is too little on that big of an area. I am actually a fan of the limited animals per square because its so unrealistic, but i would say realisticly that my pasture would be able to hold more animals than that. In my opinion the sliders might be bumped up to much, so maybe halve them as well as the mobs spawn rate.

Right now i think its an improvement, it is gonna be alot thougher getting wool (or just require alot more space), but thats okay. It could go up a bit though to allow more aniamls at the same spot yet still have great effect as i see it.

-bislo1

@Tom Godsy I’m going to beg you to please set the monster spawn rate to a smaller amount of time… it takes absolutely forever now for me to gain xp 🙁 could you possibly lower it from 13 ticks to something like 5-8 ticks? Please? Thank you!

@tom ok so, just to check; what is the limit. I know it’s 50 per chunk, but   I and many others don’t know how big a chunk actually is.

Secondly; I had heard that nametagging an animal makes it not count as an animal itself but rather a random mob (included in the 500 amount posted above). I don’t ask this as a workaround for creating more lag; but rather for things like a horse stable where I am frequently breeding expensive animals and expecting them to not despawn. Just having 1-2 of every coat type of horse, and a few donkeys/mules, several horses despawned when this update was made, even though my stables is pretty large.

Lastly there are some spots in which there were less than 50 animals, but despite that many were despawned. Like if someone has 20 sheep, and comes back and there is only 3; in an area where that is the only animal farm for a good while. I’m not sure why this is happening, but perhaps looking into that would be a good idea.

I know that mass animals makes server lag (and for the most part I only lost chickens which I have eggs to replenish, and horses which I’d really like back but I’m not sure how many were missing to begin with) but perhaps a sticky could be made somewhere about animal farms and their limitations so that we, and future players, can know what to work with?

For some weird and wonderful reason, which is clearly stated above, my horses have de-spawned, which is slightly annoying. So, instead oh making boring claims about how rare their speed stats were, I would instead just like 2, only 2, to repopulate. I can breed them again, its just that they don’t naturally spawn on my island, and are so hard to get, I am grateful for whatever I get. Thanks in advance, and I’m sorry, this couldn’t come at a worst time for you gods. THIS IS NOT URGENT. Do it when you want, I do not want to cause you anymore stress.