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... and its ruining the game for me. I have, in many maps and many different houses, a problem wherein I get monsters spawning next to my bed in rooms that are set up to be safe, where the bed is away from the wall (though I think this is a stupid rule), where there are no openings to outside and where there is plenty of light and seperation from monstery areas. Sometimes putting the bed up on blocks will fix the problem but then ...what... I have to have all my functioning beds up on blocks? Lame. Sometimes these are even beds that I have slept in successfully before. Also, frequently, even when I haven't changed the location of the bed, I get a message saying that the bed is obstructed or moved... and I spawn a map away with no tools or inventory whatsoever and all my stuff is gone when I get back to the house.

The whole glory of the game is being able to create the world the way you want it to look... except every bed has to be away from walls and blah blah... that sucks. Once your house is built it should be a safe place. But its not.

Will someone PLEASE explain in some satisfying way why monsters are allowed to spawn in a secured house at all!? I thought the point was to build a house so they couldn't come in... yet there is this one lame rule where they can just spawn in your closed off, lit up house. SO why build a house? This ruins the whole point of building a house in the first place.

I LOVE this game. It is under my skin and I love playing it ... except for this one thing that continually ruins play for me. It ruins the logic of the game and I end up dying in my house over and over.

I had the same horrible problem, except the monsters would also spawn in my lit up and closed off house during the day. I would keep your bed at least one block away from the wall, but I would remove the platform from underneath it because that tends to cause the "obstruction".

Make sure your house isn't near any mines or cave systems. If it is, double the amount of torches you have in the mines and cave systems near your house to make sure there are no dark places in them. Apparently monsters spawn in small packs, and sometimes they spawn in the small dark areas in a mine or cave system near your house and when they can't all fit, they will be able to spawn in lit up places. Something like that is what happened to me.

If all this fails, I suggest building walls around your bed so that the bed is two blocks away from each wall and put a door one of the walls so you can get in and out. Also make sure that if you decide to put a roof on this little bed cage thing, be sure that you can stand up on your bed so that there are no obstructions. Obviously this idea will make your bedroom look much worse, but it is much safe and can be used as a temporary fix until you find a solution. I used this temporary fix until members of this forum helped me out and found a solution for me. I'll find a link to the topic I started for additional help.

I really hope all of this helps because I know how you feel and it sucks hahaha. Good luck!

EDIT: Here is the link to my other topic: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1396710-how-do-i-get-mobs-to-stop-spawning-in-my-house/#entry16989192

I really hope I helped you in some way. I'm sure others will join in if my ideas don't work.

Yeah... it does suck. I don't like that it ruins the look of my bedrooms and how I can put them together and decorate them. It ruins the feeling of safety that the house should be having. Instead I feel like there IS no safe place. So then why build a house?

My beds are already away from the walls and my mines, though not adjacent to the bedroom, are well lit in the top areas at least. Depsite that I have doors on my house and monsters shouldn't even be able to spawn inside. I don't get why monsters spawning while you sleep in a closed room makes sense in any way.

I loved the feeling of getting caught out at night away from your house and having to hustle towards home to avoid monsters. But if my house and bed aren't safe then who cares...

49er has the right of it. If you have cave systems under you home that are poorly lit the game will spawn monsters in the available spaces around it. Even if those spaces are properly lit up.

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49er has the right of it. If you have cave systems under you home that are poorly lit the game will spawn monsters in the available spaces around it. Even if those spaces are properly lit up.

So here's what you do, OP... save your game. Load it up and DIG. Dig everywhere under your house. Go down as deep as you can and look for a cavern.

DO NOT SAVE YOUR GAME (obviously). Report back what you found.

P.S. This is the method I use to search large areas for dungeons, using TNT. If I find one, I write down the coordinates and then reload an older save file. Now I can dig directly to it with minimal damage to the landscape.

if you have doulble doors in your house it would be best to make your self a room

Make your bedroom wall two blocks thick.






This helps (some of) your problem with bed placing.
Also.... Can zombies break open your doors at night?

Let me get this straight... You're saying your beds placement is ruining the game for you...?

Anyway, though, I have not had this problem since the first patch that fixed it. Moving your bed away from the wall isn't that hard.

I forgot to ask this, but does your room have its own door? I find that having a door on my room as well as the main entrance of the house seems to help. This might seem like a stupid question, but not everyone uses doors throughout their house; they only have doors on the main entrance to the house.

The few times this happened to me I discovered that small areas of my house were not lit properly and mobs were spawning in those small areas. After making sure every single nook and cranny had enough light, problem went away. Based on my experience, I still think these reports are just people who don't realize they have a block or two in their house that is dark enough for a mob to spawn on.

They need to fix this. Hopefully this is a bug, and they repair it soon. I am so sick of this, in my long playing of minecraft for xbox, iv'e died like 3 times from this. I just put dirt by my doors and sleep upstairs.

You could try to build a nice wall around the bed with fences. I think it looks nice and works too.

I really don't get it, or it really doesn't affect me. I always play on normal, and I have placed beds out in the open, with four torches around me and slept, and not got attacked. The only time I have ever been attacked in my own house is when I forget to shut the door.

There just has to be something going on around your little hovel that is causing you this trouble...the cave system to dark under it, a spawner perhaps, double doors (this one does it everytime) and if it is double doors and you don't want to loose the look of double doors on your house, make sure that you have a bedroom with a single door.

While playing on the PC, i used the instant tent mod and things would get in, and the problem was not having a proper floor, or having grass as a floor, so if you have grass as a floor consider changing it to something else, after all, who really has grass in there house as a floor.

The house is built into a mountain with cave systems below it which I have pretty well lit. I dug below the bedroom and now open ares for blocks and same with above. The walls are as thick as the mountain. I have so many torches in the room, outside the house, in nearby caves, fields that it looks ridiculous. The bed is away from the walls. I don't understand why being safe in your house has to be this hard.

In another map I have a three story eastern-style house with the bedroom on the top floor. Tons of torches. Tons of fencing around the balconieas and walkways. Still... every time I try to set a spawn point monsters spawn and cause trouble.

And yes... not being able to set a spawn point in a fully closed and lit room is kind of game ruining to me. Especially, when the point of the game is to build safe havens in a world of monsters. AND enjoy creating your environment ... which has now just become a job at OSHA and NOT an outlet for creativity that it wants to be.

I'm just frustrated by this.

How thick are your floors? Try making them 2 or 3 thick and see if that alleviates the problem for you.

Ugh, seriously??? My house has a freaking massive cave system under it. It started out as just a basement mine, but then I broke through into a cavern with lava and running water, which turned out to be connected to a system of caves so huge that it seems infinite. I get scared down there; sometimes I get really, really lost. Every time I go exploring down there I find more and more undiscovered caverns (still haven't found a single dungeon in the cave system, though). So there is a lot of unlit space down there, but it's really deep down. And there is an iron door a the entrance to the mine.

Is this why I have never respawned inside my house? There is a cobblestone wall around my house, then a moat, then another cobblestone wall before the actual structure of the house starts. And my bed is on the second floor, away from the wall.

Most bed issues are caused by double wooden doors, half slabs, low ceilings and huge rooms. Bedrooms should be smaller in size and secured by a single door.

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system of caves so huge that it seems infinite. I get scared down there; sometimes I get really, really lost.

When going into a cave or tunnel, always put torches on the left wall or on the floor. When you want out, just make sure the torches are on your right, and you'll soon find the light.

This topic has found a way to secure a bed for a house, without having to get rid of your double-doors.

I honestly have never had this problem. Although, I have suffocated to death after waking up because there were no open spots on the floor for me to stand so I spawned on top of the bed in a 2 high room XD

I don't WANT to play on peaceful. I want monsters. You can't get all materials without them. I just don't want them spawning in the house I spent a long time building to look stylish and be safe. I don't want to have to make my house a specific way, with specific floors and doors to stop it. That cuts my creativity which is what the whole point of the game is.

Anyway, I've decided to just say F it and go with it. Constant hassle or no.