So I started a new world and spawned right beside a witches hut. Obviously the witch started attacking me so I ran and started mining somewhere else. I came back to the my world spawn area with the hut to build and the witch was gone...
I wanted to capture it and put it in a jail for throwing stuff at me. Now it's gone. Will it ever despawn or respawn if it died?
The jury is out on this one. Some people think they respawn and some say they don't. It would be hard to test this because no one is sure just how they do spawn, so you can't set up an environment to run a test. We think they only spawn in generated structures in swamps. We need someone who can look at the code to find the answers for sure.
Yeah the wiki doesn't have much about witches spawning and despawning. I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it comes back.
Well remember witches are new, and so is the wiki page. Why not read over the code, and when you get the answer, add it to the wiki?
EDIT: Now that I think about it, this is probably something that will get fixed in a future update. From your stories, it sounds like they don't respawn, and maybe they even despawn when you go away. They probably only spawn when the chunk is new, which kind of ruins the whole witch experience. The little hut should have some kind of witch spawner inside - but a new kind, so you don't have to battle an endless stream of witches!
Ok, I finally learned something about this. Using the difficulty command I changed the difficulty to 0 to delete all mobs and then back to 1 or 2 repeatedly until I finally got them to spawn. They appear to be extreemly rare. They spawn both inside and outside of the hut and apparently only at night. I didn't wait around to see what happens to them when morning comes. They do spawn at dificulty 1. At first I was thinking that the spawning was bugged but it seems that they are just so rare that you will hardly ever see them. Seems to me that this should be adjusted a bit.
The wiki is horrible at explaining Witch spawning. Yes, they do respawn, in low light, usually rarely. But if you want them to spawn commonly, there are easy ways.
Easy method that I know, that I created a topic about, is to tear down the walls of a hut, expand the floor a bit, and light up tons of caves and ground around the hut, keeping light level AT the hut less than 8. Then, when night comes, walk away about 30 blocks and come back, and you should see some Witches and a few more hostile mobs. Rinse and repeat, going away and returning.
Docm77 made a vid on a Witch farm prototype, which shows a way to mass produce witches, and kill them easily, but it tears up the landscape around the hut, and it would take forever to slab the area in survival. Of course, lighting the area has the same effect. Currently, his design is the ONLY of it's kind, no other good Witch farm is known yet.
They appear to be extreemly rare. They spawn both inside and outside of the hut and apparently only at night.
So, speaking from absolutely zero experience, and purely making an educated guess here...I would imagine that witches simply spawn on solid blocks in swamp biomes in low light, and the "swamp hut" is just a way to add a few more solid, non-water blocks for them to spawn on top of? Or do you think the hut does something special? Is it based on coordinates (like the "GenNetherBridge" sub-biome, or whatever it's called, for blaze spawning) or just on the blocks of the actual structure (like NPC village "houses" for villager breeding)?
So, speaking from absolutely zero experience, and purely making an educated guess here...I would imagine that witches simply spawn on solid blocks in swamp biomes in low light, and the "swamp hut" is just a way to add a few more solid, non-water blocks for them to spawn on top of? Or do you think the hut does something special? Is it based on coordinates (like the "GenNetherBridge" sub-biome, or whatever it's called, for blaze spawning) or just on the blocks of the actual structure (like NPC village "houses" for villager breeding)?
No I believe they definitely only spawn at the hut, but I did witness them materialize on the ground outside of the hut.
When me and my friend cyber2gp were mining up we saw a hut in a swamp i dont know if herobrine made this or witchesInside the house was a cauldron and a crafting table and a pot of brown mushroom please reply
When me and my friend cyber2gp were mining up we saw a hut in a swamp i dont know if herobrine made this or witches
Inside the house was a cauldron and a crafting table and a pot of brown mushroom please reply
Not shure ask Jeb he knows.
On the OP its like spawning a mob in a small space: almost imposible without caving and lighting the surface.
They only spawn in the hut, at any time, No other monsters spawn in them
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Not shure ask Jeb he knows.
On the OP its like spawning a mob in a small space: almost imposible without caving and lighting the surface.
They only spawn in the hut, at any time, No other monsters spawn in them
Don't get scared, those items are totally normal to spawn within a hut.
Stop bringing up old threads. Witches respawn withing the 7x9 witch hut area, starting from ontop of the bottom support beam log and going up to the roof, assuming the light level is low enough. End of story. No more reviving old threads
Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
I wanted to capture it and put it in a jail for throwing stuff at me. Now it's gone. Will it ever despawn or respawn if it died?
Also, did you ask the wiki?
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EDIT: Now that I think about it, this is probably something that will get fixed in a future update. From your stories, it sounds like they don't respawn, and maybe they even despawn when you go away. They probably only spawn when the chunk is new, which kind of ruins the whole witch experience. The little hut should have some kind of witch spawner inside - but a new kind, so you don't have to battle an endless stream of witches!
Go 36 blocks away from hut then change to peaceful then back to easy/normal/hard. It should spawn by then
Easy method that I know, that I created a topic about, is to tear down the walls of a hut, expand the floor a bit, and light up tons of caves and ground around the hut, keeping light level AT the hut less than 8. Then, when night comes, walk away about 30 blocks and come back, and you should see some Witches and a few more hostile mobs. Rinse and repeat, going away and returning.
Docm77 made a vid on a Witch farm prototype, which shows a way to mass produce witches, and kill them easily, but it tears up the landscape around the hut, and it would take forever to slab the area in survival. Of course, lighting the area has the same effect. Currently, his design is the ONLY of it's kind, no other good Witch farm is known yet.
So, speaking from absolutely zero experience, and purely making an educated guess here...I would imagine that witches simply spawn on solid blocks in swamp biomes in low light, and the "swamp hut" is just a way to add a few more solid, non-water blocks for them to spawn on top of? Or do you think the hut does something special? Is it based on coordinates (like the "GenNetherBridge" sub-biome, or whatever it's called, for blaze spawning) or just on the blocks of the actual structure (like NPC village "houses" for villager breeding)?
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No I believe they definitely only spawn at the hut, but I did witness them materialize on the ground outside of the hut.
Not shure ask Jeb he knows.
On the OP its like spawning a mob in a small space: almost imposible without caving and lighting the surface.
They only spawn in the hut, at any time, No other monsters spawn in them
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Don't get scared, those items are totally normal to spawn within a hut.
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Need a good universal mob farm? Check out the Double Shift Towers. Designed for 1.9 and gets 22,000 Items / Hour with a very simple redstone set up - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8aoJpjjgU
I know we're talking about survival, but I'll say in creative mode, witches spawn anywhere,even a flat world.
Remember to look at the date that the thread/posts were made.
This one is from as far back as 2012, when Witches only spawned in witch huts.
They will now spawn anywhere as of 1.7.2.