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i made a spider grinder out of my spider spawner and i left my xbox running for about 30 minutes and came back to about 300 spiders. that was all cool but then i decided to push it to the limit. i left my xbox on for 4 hours while spawning spiders and turned my tv off. before i turned my tv back on i was expecting my xbox to have frozen or my fps to be like 2 because i was expecting about 1000 + mobs. when i turned my tv back on it was the same as when i had left it for 30 mins. after i killed the spiders i got about the same amount as 300. So what i want to know is: what is the mob limit on the xbox with spawners? and yes i know there is a mob cap of about 40 with natural spawns but its different for spawners.

I was wondering the same thing. I do know that there is an item limit...around 200 or so i think. So if your only counting drops, then maybe thats skewing your count. Or there is a spawn limit around that number. Any way you look at it, you need to pick up drops as they come or they will be wasted, so it kinda doesnt matter.

there is no drops while there spawning. i have noticed that i get about a stack and a half of string once i kill them all but i know there is more spiders spawned than that. there might be a cap on items and i dont get them all. usually i wait till i kill all the spiders before i collect there drops. maybe im losing alot of string because of i how i do it but im not sure.