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great thanks it must be the caves...all i ever find underground is caves. i should probably put torches all around the surrounding chunks.

and yes the minimum limit for mobs spawning near you is 24 blocks.

if anyone wants to see the design of the grinder/spawner,(the design is not mine at all), this is by a guy called Luclin and th video is at () also a tutorial by the same guy on how to make them somewhere else if you look for it.

note that the 0,0 chunk glitch was patched as of 1.3 so no longer increases spawns.

mob spawn rate is nearly constant within 300 blocks of you at all times, but if everything outside the walls of your trap are unspawnable (water, ice, half-blocks, glass or lit with torches), then all the suckers spawn inside your trap and get killed. I cannot stress enough that the size of the trap is not nearly as important as getting rid of spawnable areas in the caves and the surface within the 300 block around it (it's actually 144 block radius in a sphere around the player, but 300x128x300 is easier to remember for most ppl).