I expect that the other players are loading the chunks where the pigmen appear but are more than 128 blocks away so the pigmen instantly despawn.
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If you can build the overworld part of the farm somewhere where either somebody is likely to be within 128 blocks so the pigmen survive long enough to die ;-) or nobody is likely to be close enough to load the chunks at all then I would expect it to work more often.
This happens because as long as nobody is loading the overworld the pigmen will not despawn and just die but if one player is loading even one chunk in the overworld the game instantly despawns any mob that is outside that player's mob spawn radius and since pigmen come out of the portal the chunk the portal is will be loaded for a few secs making them despawn instantly. The only way to fix this is to have another player be near the portal where the pigman come out so that they dont despawn. If you have a second account use that player for this otherwise you need to use the farm only when you are alone on the server.
Hi,
so I built a new gold farm on my server, where the pigman spawn and walk through a portals in the overworld, where they die from falldamage.
: this is the tutorial.
The farm works perfectly when I am alone on the server, but as soon as somebody joins the server, the pigman stop appearing in the overworld.
Why is this ? And is there a way to fix this problem ?
I expect that the other players are loading the chunks where the pigmen appear but are more than 128 blocks away so the pigmen instantly despawn.
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If you can build the overworld part of the farm somewhere where either somebody is likely to be within 128 blocks so the pigmen survive long enough to die ;-) or nobody is likely to be close enough to load the chunks at all then I would expect it to work more often.
Just testing.
This happens because as long as nobody is loading the overworld the pigmen will not despawn and just die but if one player is loading even one chunk in the overworld the game instantly despawns any mob that is outside that player's mob spawn radius and since pigmen come out of the portal the chunk the portal is will be loaded for a few secs making them despawn instantly. The only way to fix this is to have another player be near the portal where the pigman come out so that they dont despawn. If you have a second account use that player for this otherwise you need to use the farm only when you are alone on the server.