on survival multiplayer, suppose you could obtain a skeleton spawner and put it in the nether will it spawn wither skeletons? does it have to be placed in a fortress to spawn wither skeletons? or will it spawn them if put anywhere?
In 1.11, they separated all the variant types into their own mob ids. This means that zombie cage spawners will no longer spawn zombie villagers. I think wither skeletons were a variant of skeleton in the past, and would have been similarly affected by this change.
on survival multiplayer, suppose you could obtain a skeleton spawner and put it in the nether will it spawn wither skeletons? does it have to be placed in a fortress to spawn wither skeletons? or will it spawn them if put anywhere?
At least pre 1.14…
Cage spawners spawn the mob that is 'inside' it (no variants ie nothing that has a seperate spawn egg so a sheep spawner swill spawn sheep of all the natural colors, but one would need to 'use' a wither skeleton spawn egg on the spawner to get wither skeletons).
[Note, this limitation can be avoided by using commands/editors to affect the SpawnPotentials: tag. ]
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on survival multiplayer, suppose you could obtain a skeleton spawner and put it in the nether will it spawn wither skeletons? does it have to be placed in a fortress to spawn wither skeletons? or will it spawn them if put anywhere?
Easy enough to test in Creative.
Here are my results in 1.14:
Just testing.
In 1.11, they separated all the variant types into their own mob ids. This means that zombie cage spawners will no longer spawn zombie villagers. I think wither skeletons were a variant of skeleton in the past, and would have been similarly affected by this change.
At least pre 1.14…
Cage spawners spawn the mob that is 'inside' it (no variants ie nothing that has a seperate spawn egg so a sheep spawner swill spawn sheep of all the natural colors, but one would need to 'use' a wither skeleton spawn egg on the spawner to get wither skeletons).
[Note, this limitation can be avoided by using commands/editors to affect the SpawnPotentials: tag. ]