So in 1.1 generated a new world for my server, I found an abandoned mineshaft and chests were plentiful. I created another new world in 1.2 and there is only one chest per mineshaft. I've explored two of them and was really annoyed by the lack of chests (Mellon seeds) so a clean copy of the seed in MCedit and confirmed that there is only one chest in the entire abandoned mineshaft, BOTH of them!
As you can see by all the yellow squares the 1.1 world has a lot of chests but the 1.2 world has only one in the entire mine shaft.
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Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)
It's just bad luck I still get a ton of chests from mineshafts.
With a world generated after 1.2 was released?
I even tried to generate a new world using the same seed and one of the 1.2 snapshots and I came across the same issue there. So that's a total of 3 mine-shafts where I've gotten no loot.
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I found another mineshaft in the world that doesn't have this problem, I guess it is just really bad luck that I only got one chest in the last three I've searched. This mine shaft is so horribly broken up though I can't find it all on survival.
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I've had only one chest in my 1.2.3 jungle world mineshaft. Lucky for me there were some melon seeds in it. If they're going to nerf the spawn rate, the least they could do is make the chest give better loot. All I got was lapis, redstone, some iron boots, and some melon seeds.
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Chest frequency/location seems just as random in 1.2.4 as it did in 1.0 & 1.1, sometimes you might find none or just one, sometimes there's 3 within 15 blocks of one another.
As you can see by all the yellow squares the 1.1 world has a lot of chests but the 1.2 world has only one in the entire mine shaft.
Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)
With a world generated after 1.2 was released?
I even tried to generate a new world using the same seed and one of the 1.2 snapshots and I came across the same issue there. So that's a total of 3 mine-shafts where I've gotten no loot.
Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)
Maybe you could post your world seed, so we can test if there is a variation on chest numbers in mineshafts, from version 1.1 to 1.2.
Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)
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