so basically, my hard drive got corrupted and I had to delete everything that was in it, including my HUGE old world, where I built farms and huge structures.
so I decided today to comeback into a new world with a random seed.
on my second day, I reach a second village that's close to spawn and what do I see? A PINK SHEEP. now, if you've read the sheep page in the minecraft wiki forum, you probably know there's a 0.164% chance of a pink sheep to occur. however, I didn't find just ONE sheep, I found TWO PINK SHEEPS!
More specifically, that means that within an entire 32x32 chunk region (32x32 is the "grid size" that villages and temples use and they leave the RNG in the same state within each region) every flock of sheep will have the same colors (at least for the first four spawn attempts in a pack; each of 4 mobs has 4 attempts each) so the chance of a pink sheep within a given region is about 0.656% regardless of how many sheep (unless none) spawn within it.
That said, I'm really surprised that Mojang has not fixed that bug yet; it is as simple as adding a new RNG object to the structure class and using that instead of the world RNG, and optionally, if you want sheep color to still be tied to the seed (otherwise it will be completely random, as with variants of other mobs, villager trades, etc), call the setRandomSeed method immediately before spawning passive mobs (this would also work by itself but structures really should use their own RNG; mineshafts already do use the main RNG to determine whether they can spawn):
In MapGenVillage(etc); the first two lines also shows why the seed is set to the same value within regions; maxDistance defaults to 32:
Of note, this fix actually makes it easier to find pink sheep because now they vary from chunk to chunk, not region to region; I found two in widely separated areas in a world I played using these changes and have seen quite a few more in test worlds, while a far larger vanilla world that I have only has several pink sheep in a small area (while the fix(es) means you'll likely only ever find one at a time you can breed them with any other color to get more).
Why is this so amazing? I don't want to be mean but pink dye is fairy easy to obtain, so you just dye the sheep and get the wool, if that is what you want. The died sheep is not any different from the original one neither the wool you get from it.
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In this series paulsoaresjr starts a new world with Minecraft 1.9 and finds pink sheep. He marvels because they are so rare and founds the Pink Sheep Clan. You can find later episodes by searching for "Pink Sheep Clan" on YouTube.
I knew Pink Sheep were rare but about a one in a half percent chance in a thousand rare? Are they really that rare? I want to say the first one I ever saw in my world, about 3,000 blocks from spawn where I made the first village in my world, way back in 1.2.5 had two of them there, but I could be mistaken. If stuff like this is constant I could check the seed. It did have at least one for sure though. I never knew they were quite that rare.
I've never seen a charged creeper though. I've never seen the whole "horse spawns skeletal horses" thing happen either.
Even if it's a bug, it's a neat sight. I can recall a while back I saw a pair of pink sheep naturally spawn. Forgot to snap a screenie, as luck would have it.
*ignore my username I was young*
so basically, my hard drive got corrupted and I had to delete everything that was in it, including my HUGE old world, where I built farms and huge structures.
so I decided today to comeback into a new world with a random seed.
on my second day, I reach a second village that's close to spawn and what do I see? A PINK SHEEP. now, if you've read the sheep page in the minecraft wiki forum, you probably know there's a 0.164% chance of a pink sheep to occur. however, I didn't find just ONE sheep, I found TWO PINK SHEEPS!
here's a screenshot of the occurrence:
http://imgur.com/a/bF3g5
and here's my seed and coords, if anyone is interested:
seed: -951062662
coords: -127 70 -290
HOLDUP I JUST GOT ANOTHER PINK SHEEP WHAT IS GOING ON
I swear I am not making this up, like???
0.004410944%!!!!
OHLDHUDIPPHDPHS WTAHth 4 {INSNSK SHEE{ 4444
0.000723395%
omg I know this looks like a troll but I swear to god thi sisnt
http://imgur.com/a/FKIhX
the 4th one is behind me, which is the one I'm closest to in the first image.
what is going on?!!?!?!?
HOLLD THE PHNE 6
6 sdhpheep
0.000019456% chance
whatis sgoignn onn
here;s the other 2:
http://imgur.com/a/TUPFO
ok I just saw another 2.. that would be 8 or 0.000000523 chance of happening... Ithink something fishy is going on
another 4 or so 12 or (well.... this is awkward because it seems as tho my calculator would only go down to 0.000000002 (11 sheep)).
LOL guys I 360 noscope creepers all day and I always make 6 years old kids rage trololololololol
https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-2788
More specifically, that means that within an entire 32x32 chunk region (32x32 is the "grid size" that villages and temples use and they leave the RNG in the same state within each region) every flock of sheep will have the same colors (at least for the first four spawn attempts in a pack; each of 4 mobs has 4 attempts each) so the chance of a pink sheep within a given region is about 0.656% regardless of how many sheep (unless none) spawn within it.
That said, I'm really surprised that Mojang has not fixed that bug yet; it is as simple as adding a new RNG object to the structure class and using that instead of the world RNG, and optionally, if you want sheep color to still be tied to the seed (otherwise it will be completely random, as with variants of other mobs, villager trades, etc), call the setRandomSeed method immediately before spawning passive mobs (this would also work by itself but structures really should use their own RNG; mineshafts already do use the main RNG to determine whether they can spawn):
In MapGenVillage(etc); the first two lines also shows why the seed is set to the same value within regions; maxDistance defaults to 32:
In ChunkProviderGenerate.populate():
Of note, this fix actually makes it easier to find pink sheep because now they vary from chunk to chunk, not region to region; I found two in widely separated areas in a world I played using these changes and have seen quite a few more in test worlds, while a far larger vanilla world that I have only has several pink sheep in a small area (while the fix(es) means you'll likely only ever find one at a time you can breed them with any other color to get more).
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Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
Why is this so amazing? I don't want to be mean but pink dye is fairy easy to obtain, so you just dye the sheep and get the wool, if that is what you want. The died sheep is not any different from the original one neither the wool you get from it.
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ModeratorYou can breed a red sheep to a white sheep to get pink.
I accidentally did that without knowing what would happen quite some time ago.
I ended up with an entire flock of pink sheep.
There are no dangerous weapons. There are only dangerous people. R.A. Heinlein
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Using Amidst type programs to map and research Seeds
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https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-tools/2970854-amidst-map-explorer-for-minecraft-1-14
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Congratulations on finding this rare spawn!
In this series paulsoaresjr starts a new world with Minecraft 1.9 and finds pink sheep. He marvels because they are so rare and founds the Pink Sheep Clan. You can find later episodes by searching for "Pink Sheep Clan" on YouTube.
One time pink sheep bugged out. I found 6 of them in a world. Once I showed somebody, they thought I dyed them.:angry:
I knew Pink Sheep were rare but about a one in a half percent chance in a thousand rare? Are they really that rare? I want to say the first one I ever saw in my world, about 3,000 blocks from spawn where I made the first village in my world, way back in 1.2.5 had two of them there, but I could be mistaken. If stuff like this is constant I could check the seed. It did have at least one for sure though. I never knew they were quite that rare.
I've never seen a charged creeper though. I've never seen the whole "horse spawns skeletal horses" thing happen either.
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Curse PremiumEven if it's a bug, it's a neat sight. I can recall a while back I saw a pair of pink sheep naturally spawn. Forgot to snap a screenie, as luck would have it.
Figured it was time for a change.