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Ok, so my wife and i are playing MCX360 split screen this morning when i decide to explore a mineshaft. As i am going through the mineshaft, i get excted because i finally find a spawner. Hoping for a nice spider spawner, i cut through the webs and remove the gravel only to find, of all things....... a PIG spawner. about 5 minutes later, i find another spawner andmake my way to it only to discover it is also a pig spawner.

I knew there were spawners for the different hostile mobs. but i never thought there would be one for pigs. has anyone else run into these? i have never seen them mentioned on the forums, either. have i found a wierd glitch?

hrm.. my wife and i play on peaceful for hte most part so i didnt really thinkto check. turns out that in easy/normal/hard, they are infact cave spider spawners... wonder why they appear as pigs in peaceful?

Pre tu1 I came across a spawner with a little pink thing in it. I'd already senn little green,black/red,caged up whirling dervishes. So I'm looking at a pink dervish and lo and behold,there's that little piggy face. Have never run across another one, but sometimes this spawner changes beasts. Similar to minecarts changing the beast they scooped up. Oh BTW, it was peaceful survival.

Not sure why yours are still appearing as pigs. This was changed a few updates back. Even on peaceful mode, all my worlds are displaying the appropriate mob (spider, skeleton, zombie, etc.) inside the spawners.

How old is the world? i know a few spawners from my 1.7.3 world, when you are outside their range upon loading the world, will display a pig, but change to their correct "spawner picture" upon a closer inspection...

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How old is the world? i know a few spawners from my 1.7.3 world, when you are outside their range upon loading the world, will display a pig, but change to their correct "spawner picture" upon a closer inspection...

Newly created the day TU10 came out.

This is simply a icon loading glitch potentially caused by lag.
In the olde days of Minecraft all spawners displayed pigs, but still spawned whatever mob was actually assigned to them.

Since a pig is the default for a spawner, this is what will display until the game loads everything properly.
This can be seen in the PC version.
If a player uses the /give command to obtain a spawner, it will always be a pig spawner.

Rest assured, the spawner still will be spawning its correct mob...and if not, I want that world seed.

Just some lag, pig spawners are the default for monster spawners, its the damage settings that separate what spawner it is like how wool works. All the same item ID, different damage settings makes different colored wool. In your case, its lagging and displaying the default block while its still acting as a cave spider spawner.

When I first bought the game, I would find monster spawners that had pigs, but this was about 9 months ago. I guess they used that in early versions of the game.

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Ok, so my wife and i are playing MCX360 split screen this morning when i decide to explore a mineshaft. As i am going through the mineshaft, i get excted because i finally find a spawner. Hoping for a nice spider spawner, i cut through the webs and remove the gravel only to find, of all things....... a PIG spawner. about 5 minutes later, i find another spawner andmake my way to it only to discover it is also a pig spawner.

I knew there were spawners for the different hostile mobs. but i never thought there would be one for pigs. has anyone else run into these? i have never seen them mentioned on the forums, either. have i found a wierd glitch?

I have this problem where im on a server and whenever i place a spider spawner or zombie spawner...or any spawner it turns to a pig spawner. i don't think the two problems are related but both kinda odd. I did test to see and it spawned nothing at all. It as dark in the room and it does in fact produce pigs when put on grass.

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I have this problem where im on a server and whenever i place a spider spawner or zombie spawner...or any spawner it turns to a pig spawner. i don't think the two problems are related but both kinda odd. I did test to see and it spawned nothing at all. It as dark in the room and it does in fact produce pigs when put on grass.

You can't place spawners unless you've hacked the game or on the pc.

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You can't place spawners unless you've hacked the game or on the pc.

Given his listed gamertag its safe to say this one is a troll id say disregard and ignore him

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Given his listed gamertag its safe to say this one is a troll id say disregard and ignore him

I've seen too many tags like that playing CoD so it's hard to tell sometimes, hehe.

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I've seen too many tags like that playing CoD so it's hard to tell sometimes, hehe.

The tell-tale sign is that when you click his name its 404s in Microsoft's database. But I am with you some people have some messed up gamertags