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Hi so I recently built an afk gold farm of my own design with a slimeblock wiper up on the roof of the nether and it'll be working great for about a minute and then the spawning will stop. I have a collection area and an afk area both 30+ blocks away from any spawning platform and when I'd move from my afk area to my collection area, I find that I'm only getting a few drops but as soon as I get there spawning happens again for a minute and then zombie pigman will no longer spawn anymore unless I go back to my afk area. Please help me!

I think I understand what you're saying. I believe the problem is that mobs don't spawn on unloaded chunks, and since a chunk is 16x16, as you travel away from the spawning area, they stop spawning. Any drops you get while you're at the collection point are from mobs that were alongside you as you traveled.

I'm pretty sure that the chunks are loaded since the piston wiper is moving. Plus it's only 30 blocks away and my render distance is 9 chunks so 9 times 16 is around 144 blocks so the chunks are definately loaded.