Did you just relogin? Their egg laying timer gets reset every time you enter the game.
Nope, none would spawn, i waited for about 1minute in my main tunnel, and i usually see an egg every 5seconds,, i didn't see a single 1.... now i have disconnected, rejoined,, and restarted the server,,, :S it was after i made a new awesome and improved chicken farm + dispensers /redstone circuit.
For some reason, it is now working, i think there is a limit on the number of passive mobs you can have and it stops them from working, i slaughtered about 150 chickens in my new pen/restarted the server and now everything is back to normal/
For some reason, it is now working, i think there is a limit on the number of passive mobs you can have and it stops them from working, i slaughtered about 150 chickens in my new pen/restarted the server and now everything is back to normal/
There's not a limit of passive mobs when you override it with creating chickens from eggs. What happens is that chickens normally spawn eggs once every 7 minutes. When you reload the server (or relogin), you won't see any eggs for 4-5 minutes. Sometimes, since servers are really buggy, unloading and reloading the chunk will also cause the timer to reset. But I can say it's not about the amount of mobs, I've had chicken pens with 600+ chickens.
Really, they can escape through fences ? Do you have the source ? I never had that problem, but my fencing area is 4*4*2 with 20 hens... If the 1 block per hen rule should apply, I may simply have been lucky to not put more than 32 in it :laugh.gif:
Did you just relogin? Their egg laying timer gets reset every time you enter the game.
Nope, none would spawn, i waited for about 1minute in my main tunnel, and i usually see an egg every 5seconds,, i didn't see a single 1.... now i have disconnected, rejoined,, and restarted the server,,, :S it was after i made a new awesome and improved chicken farm + dispensers /redstone circuit.
There's not a limit of passive mobs when you override it with creating chickens from eggs. What happens is that chickens normally spawn eggs once every 7 minutes. When you reload the server (or relogin), you won't see any eggs for 4-5 minutes. Sometimes, since servers are really buggy, unloading and reloading the chunk will also cause the timer to reset. But I can say it's not about the amount of mobs, I've had chicken pens with 600+ chickens.
Really, they can escape through fences ? Do you have the source ? I never had that problem, but my fencing area is 4*4*2 with 20 hens... If the 1 block per hen rule should apply, I may simply have been lucky to not put more than 32 in it :laugh.gif: