In my old fortress I found maybe 3..killed them, tried to expand the area in fortress to make them spawn more (no light). They never spawned more. Moved to a part I left alone going back and forth never finding one. I thought maybe because of the patch or update maybe where I was wasn't "A fortress" anymore. So along I went to an unexplored part of nether. Found a new fortress and killed four Skelly's (no heads ) and I can't get them to re spawn in new one either...anyone else having issues?!
I’ve noticed it, too. I think I’ve seen and killed six, and I’ve been everywhere. The last few times I was in the nether I used my elytra to find more forts and still no luck.
I was looking for some since I have to respawn the dragon. The end city I had didn't have a ship. So I guess until the issue is fixed no elytra for me yet.
Why do you need Elytra if you're going to respawn the dragon?
End cities generate randomly, and they can generate in a number of variations. Plenty smaller variations will not have the ship. I've even seen larger ones without shulkers. You should explore the outer islands more if you want to get an elytra. BTW, the random city generation means you can backup your world, go explore, and if you don't find a city with a ship in a reasonable area you can restore the game and the land will be the same (so you can re-use a screen capture of a map to plot your path) but the cities will be generated randomly again (different cities in different places).
Oh, and I've noticed that the spawn rates of wither skeletons is really low right now. It is non-zero, but really sucks.
I have tried going on and off peacefull, killing all other mobs around..still nothing and I'm used to low rate, but not use to them being impossible to find. There are always a few when I first find the holds...but as soon as I kill the ones first there no more appear. Found a 3rd one today and same thing happened.
Yes. Those are called gateways (so as to not confuse them with end portals or nether portals). A new one appears every time the dragon is defeated up to 20 max. But you don't need elytra for any of that.
I've seen wither skeletons spawn in the current update, but the rate is really low. In the time it took to tame a blaze spawner one spawned. It may be possible to increase the rate by increasing the spawning area. In previous updates (when rates were better) I built three high floors under the main fortress levels and that worked well. But it's time consuming and I haven't done it recently.
I'm aware you don't need an elytra to respawn the dragon that way, but I wanted another portal for another chance to search for end cities.
Was this on a world you created after update or before? I tried large platforms in diffrent parts of holds with no luck. I may test out a new world to see if its just my current one having such bad luck.
The world where it worked was a while ago, before 1.2. The terrible rates I've been seeing are after 1.2.4. My understanding is the platforms should be directly under fortress walkways. I created one, but I haven't seen a single spawn there. I'd say try for the elytra to easily find more nether fortresses. But you don't need to defeat the dragon again, you can just keep going further from the gateway you already have.
The only way I have found to get them to regenerate (and I use that term very loosely) is to run around the fortresses in peaceful to clear everything out and then put it back on hard and go over them again.
Obviously, not something I cba with doing, just something I noticed when clearing pigman because of huge lag buildups.
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Ive tried killing pigmen off too, but I haven’t tried switching it on and off peaceful. I’ll try that next!
In my old fortress I found maybe 3..killed them, tried to expand the area in fortress to make them spawn more (no light). They never spawned more. Moved to a part I left alone going back and forth never finding one. I thought maybe because of the patch or update maybe where I was wasn't "A fortress" anymore. So along I went to an unexplored part of nether. Found a new fortress and killed four Skelly's (no heads ) and I can't get them to re spawn in new one either...anyone else having issues?!
I’ve noticed it, too. I think I’ve seen and killed six, and I’ve been everywhere. The last few times I was in the nether I used my elytra to find more forts and still no luck.
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I was looking for some since I have to respawn the dragon. The end city I had didn't have a ship. So I guess until the issue is fixed no elytra for me yet.
And I've worked so hard on this world.
Why do you need Elytra if you're going to respawn the dragon?
End cities generate randomly, and they can generate in a number of variations. Plenty smaller variations will not have the ship. I've even seen larger ones without shulkers. You should explore the outer islands more if you want to get an elytra. BTW, the random city generation means you can backup your world, go explore, and if you don't find a city with a ship in a reasonable area you can restore the game and the land will be the same (so you can re-use a screen capture of a map to plot your path) but the cities will be generated randomly again (different cities in different places).
Oh, and I've noticed that the spawn rates of wither skeletons is really low right now. It is non-zero, but really sucks.
Doesn't re spawning and defeating the dragon open another portal?
I have tried going on and off peacefull, killing all other mobs around..still nothing and I'm used to low rate, but not use to them being impossible to find. There are always a few when I first find the holds...but as soon as I kill the ones first there no more appear. Found a 3rd one today and same thing happened.
Yes. Those are called gateways (so as to not confuse them with end portals or nether portals). A new one appears every time the dragon is defeated up to 20 max. But you don't need elytra for any of that.
I've seen wither skeletons spawn in the current update, but the rate is really low. In the time it took to tame a blaze spawner one spawned. It may be possible to increase the rate by increasing the spawning area. In previous updates (when rates were better) I built three high floors under the main fortress levels and that worked well. But it's time consuming and I haven't done it recently.
I'm aware you don't need an elytra to respawn the dragon that way, but I wanted another portal for another chance to search for end cities.
Was this on a world you created after update or before? I tried large platforms in diffrent parts of holds with no luck. I may test out a new world to see if its just my current one having such bad luck.
The world where it worked was a while ago, before 1.2. The terrible rates I've been seeing are after 1.2.4. My understanding is the platforms should be directly under fortress walkways. I created one, but I haven't seen a single spawn there. I'd say try for the elytra to easily find more nether fortresses. But you don't need to defeat the dragon again, you can just keep going further from the gateway you already have.
Ive tried killing pigmen off too, but I haven’t tried switching it on and off peaceful. I’ll try that next!
Seeeeeecret Friday Update!