Hey, It seems wither skeletons (and blazes) can't spawn anymore in my wither fortress after I made some minor changes and returned back to the original. I have covered the spaces where you could fall between the bridges by cobblestone so when I would mine the netteract above it would fall on it and be picked easily. Block removed, I have made the fortress as close to what it was when it worked, removed the lights, no success.
Note some bridges were added. between the original bridges respecting the same look of the fortress. I have tried to remove the portal also.
Any help or solutions would be appreciated on how to make the wither skeletons spawn again, I have searched a while on other forums and nothing I found solved the problem
Wither skeletons can only spawn in the "box" of the nether fortress. There's mods out there that let you see this box, but it basically only consists of inside the fortress and on the exposed bridges. My guess is that by you adding all that extra cobblestone outside of that box, zombie pigmen are spawning there and taking up the mob spawning cap, preventing the spawning of skeletons in/on the fortress.
Hey, It seems wither skeletons (and blazes) can't spawn anymore in my wither fortress after I made some minor changes and returned back to the original. I have covered the spaces where you could fall between the bridges by cobblestone so when I would mine the netteract above it would fall on it and be picked easily. Block removed, I have made the fortress as close to what it was when it worked, removed the lights, no success.
Note some bridges were added. between the original bridges respecting the same look of the fortress. I have tried to remove the portal also.
Any help or solutions would be appreciated on how to make the wither skeletons spawn again, I have searched a while on other forums and nothing I found solved the problem
Thnx for your help
Wither skeletons can only spawn in the "box" of the nether fortress. There's mods out there that let you see this box, but it basically only consists of inside the fortress and on the exposed bridges. My guess is that by you adding all that extra cobblestone outside of that box, zombie pigmen are spawning there and taking up the mob spawning cap, preventing the spawning of skeletons in/on the fortress.
There is one huge bounding box defining all of the fortress. Within it, there are smaller boxes defining various elements of the fortress.
Within those smaller boxes, fortress-specific mibs can spawn on ANY solid block.
Outside of those, but within overall fortress boundary, wither skeletons only spawn on nether brick.
So if you filled in those areas with cobble, you provided ample spawn areas for other mobs, but not withers or blazes.
Consider putting a layer of nether brick over the cobble. That should up the share of withers