If you don't want to cheat the best way is to make some leads and lead some animals back to your base.
Preferably by sea, animals can be towed behind boats at full speed. (unless they changed that in 1.9/1.10)
If you do want to cheat there's the /summon command.
/summon Cow ~ ~ ~
for instance.
(in 1.11 it's probably /summon cow ~ ~ ~)
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To get animals to spawn you'd have to kill virtually every animal in all the loaded chunks, and then the new ones would likely spawn far away from where you want them anyway.
Not really practical except in skyblock or on lonely islands.
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If you have cheats turned off you can turn them on temporarily by opening your game to LAN and choosing to allow cheats. (You don't need a LAN just choose Open to LAN in the game menu.)
If you're in a biome where passive mobs spawn naturally but it's not in your spawn chunks (the chunks where you first spawn, always loaded) then type /setworldspawn at your house. That will move your spawn chunks and should allow passive mob spawning.
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If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
If you're in a biome where passive mobs spawn naturally but it's not in your spawn chunks (the chunks where you first spawn, always loaded) then type /setworldspawn at your house. That will move your spawn chunks and should allow passive mob spawning.
Why would they spawn in the spawn chunks?
I think the mob cap for passive mobs is 10, that means that if there are at least 10 passive mobs in the loaded chunks then no new ones will spawn, whether in the spawn chunks or not.
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Not necessarily. I have seen animals spawn more in plains in forests, but when it comes to nights or an extreme hills biome, it gets thinner.
Anyway, there are plenty of mods he could use if he is playing in versions under 1.8. Like 1.7.x Mob Spawn Controls. That one's nice. . .
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Not necessarily. I have seen animals spawn more in plains in forests, but when it comes to nights or an extreme hills biome, it gets thinner.
Have you actually seen NEW animals spawning in old chunks or are you talking about the animals that spawn when the chunks are generated?
I've seen animals spawn in old chunks but only in a superflat world where the only grass was grass I had placed, in a skyblock world or on islands far from any other land.
I think the mob cap for passive mobs is 10, that means that if there are at least 10 passive mobs in the loaded chunks then no new ones will spawn, whether in the spawn chunks or not.
He's just offering a suggestion based on the premise that the OP's spawn chunks have too many animals and thus natural respawning isn't happening anywhere else. Since the OP says there are no animals near their house, moving the spawn chunks to there would likely mean passive mobs would start spawning more readily in already generated chunks.
Have you actually seen NEW animals spawning in old chunks or are you talking about the animals that spawn when the chunks are generated?
I've seen animals spawn in old chunks but only in a superflat world where the only grass was grass I had placed, in a skyblock world or on islands far from any other land.
uhhh, yes.
Do you want me to post a picture?
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There is one God. The creator of the heavens and the earth, who sent his son down to earth to save us... he loves you and he's pursuing you. Return to him.
...yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
"Some may say that you are a Christian because you were raised in a christian family, but even if my mother was a calculus teacher, no mater what she told me, two plus two would still equal four." - Dr. S. Jenkins
"I'm not a hater, I just know you're wrong. You need to realize that." - Unknown
Sadly, I built my house where no animals spawn. Even if I go searching, it takes me awhile to find chickens, pigs, etc.
Is there a way I can "force" them to spawn near my house?
If you don't want to cheat the best way is to make some leads and lead some animals back to your base.
Preferably by sea, animals can be towed behind boats at full speed. (unless they changed that in 1.9/1.10)
If you do want to cheat there's the /summon command.
/summon Cow ~ ~ ~
for instance.
(in 1.11 it's probably /summon cow ~ ~ ~)
--
To get animals to spawn you'd have to kill virtually every animal in all the loaded chunks, and then the new ones would likely spawn far away from where you want them anyway.
Not really practical except in skyblock or on lonely islands.
--
If you have cheats turned off you can turn them on temporarily by opening your game to LAN and choosing to allow cheats. (You don't need a LAN just choose Open to LAN in the game menu.)
Just testing.
If you're in a biome where passive mobs spawn naturally but it's not in your spawn chunks (the chunks where you first spawn, always loaded) then type /setworldspawn at your house. That will move your spawn chunks and should allow passive mob spawning.
Watch out for the crabocalypse. Some say the day will never come. But it will.
Feel free to drop by for a chat whenever.
If you'd like to talk with me about other games, here are a few I play.
Team Fortress 2
Borderlands series (Borderlands 2 is my favorite game, ever. TPS combat is a lot of fun and makes up for the lower-quality story, in my opinion)
Elder Scrolls series
Warframe (IGN is something like That_One_Flesh_Atronach)
Pokémon series (HGSS forever)
Rocket League
Fallout series
Left 4 Dead 2 (Boomer files always corrupt though)
SUPERHOT (SUPERHOT is the most innovative shooter I've played in years!)
Dead Rising series (Dead Rising 2 is one of my favorite games, and the 3rd was a lot of fun. 1st has poor survivor AI and the 4th is bad)
Just Cause series
Come to think of it, I mainly play fighting-based games.
Why would they spawn in the spawn chunks?
I think the mob cap for passive mobs is 10, that means that if there are at least 10 passive mobs in the loaded chunks then no new ones will spawn, whether in the spawn chunks or not.
Just testing.
What biome are you in?
There is one God. The creator of the heavens and the earth, who sent his son down to earth to save us... he loves you and he's pursuing you. Return to him.
...yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
"Some may say that you are a Christian because you were raised in a christian family, but even if my mother was a calculus teacher, no mater what she told me, two plus two would still equal four." - Dr. S. Jenkins
"I'm not a hater, I just know you're wrong. You need to realize that." - Unknown
Unless there are fewer than 10 animals in a 240X240 block square around the player no new animals will spawn in any biome.
http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Spawn#Animals
Just testing.
Not necessarily. I have seen animals spawn more in plains in forests, but when it comes to nights or an extreme hills biome, it gets thinner.
Anyway, there are plenty of mods he could use if he is playing in versions under 1.8. Like 1.7.x Mob Spawn Controls. That one's nice. . .
There is one God. The creator of the heavens and the earth, who sent his son down to earth to save us... he loves you and he's pursuing you. Return to him.
...yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
"Some may say that you are a Christian because you were raised in a christian family, but even if my mother was a calculus teacher, no mater what she told me, two plus two would still equal four." - Dr. S. Jenkins
"I'm not a hater, I just know you're wrong. You need to realize that." - Unknown
Have you actually seen NEW animals spawning in old chunks or are you talking about the animals that spawn when the chunks are generated?
I've seen animals spawn in old chunks but only in a superflat world where the only grass was grass I had placed, in a skyblock world or on islands far from any other land.
Just testing.
He's just offering a suggestion based on the premise that the OP's spawn chunks have too many animals and thus natural respawning isn't happening anywhere else. Since the OP says there are no animals near their house, moving the spawn chunks to there would likely mean passive mobs would start spawning more readily in already generated chunks.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
Stupid 3D..
uhhh, yes.
Do you want me to post a picture?
There is one God. The creator of the heavens and the earth, who sent his son down to earth to save us... he loves you and he's pursuing you. Return to him.
...yeah, I'm one of THOSE guys.
"Some may say that you are a Christian because you were raised in a christian family, but even if my mother was a calculus teacher, no mater what she told me, two plus two would still equal four." - Dr. S. Jenkins
"I'm not a hater, I just know you're wrong. You need to realize that." - Unknown