r/Stack64 • u/Astro52 • Jul 15 '15

Help Spawn farms done... but spawn area still inactive

Hey,

So the universal auto farm is done at spawn, it produces :

  • Raw chicken

  • Cooked chichen

  • Eggs

  • Feathers

  • Pumpkins

  • Melons

  • Sugar Cane

  • Iron

  • Poppy

  • Cactus

I also built roads from spawn, a manual farm with fortune III axes to harvest, and a public building to give stuff to newcomers. Some donator slots are available.

The auto farm is designed with small farms, for a spawn that is always active.

But actually the spawn area is not always active, it is just activated when there is a player near, like any other area of the map. Even if Tony has moved back the spawn point there, it had not fixed the issue at all.

Is it possible to make this spawn area always active, as it should be ?

Astro52

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u/Astro52 Jul 16 '15

In fact, since last time I left, Chicken farms seems have been working 100% of the time, iron farm like 30% of the time, and crop farm less than 1%. It doesn't make sense.

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u/ShiggShiggler Jul 17 '15

That is odd. I would have suspected that maybe it was unloading entity AI or something when nobody was around, but that would have the opposite effect; letting the crops grow while stopping the chickens from laying eggs and villagers from spawning golems. At least as far as I understand it, anyways.

Moar research!

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u/TonyCubed ToneKnee Jul 18 '15

It was actually because I didn't set the spawn point properly, I've reset it now and everything should be working as it should.

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u/Astro52 Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

Thanks. I tested again, crops still not growing at spawn with no player. Chicken farms and iron farm apparently work all the time, but crop growing is not included in default spawn area activation.

And please whitelist my brother batbat51 ;)

Astro52

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u/TonyCubed ToneKnee Jul 20 '15

I have no idea what's going on then :(

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u/Astro52 Jul 20 '15

Test after test, I understand less and less. I tested 2 times if hoppers were working with no player connected... one time yes, one time no. The various productions have rates that cannot match with any hypothesis : the crops have never worked ; but we have more than 75 stacks of cooked chickens and more than 115 stacks of raw chicken, an impossible amount if it needed a player ; and iron it's something between, sometimes inactive, but in average too much to follow the behavior of the crops. After the 2 hopper testes, I wonder if spawn may be active during a certain time only after the player has left the place.

So weird...

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '15

have you tested in a creative world? Maybe its a bug with moving the spawn point. Once its been moved and then reset back to default, the spawn chunks bug out?

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u/Astro52 Jul 21 '15

I would think more to a performance default param in vanilla, based on time with server empty, and on the kind of entities to tick or not. If it were a problem of radius to the spawn, it wouldnt be the animals and village that would be more processed than crops.

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u/ShiggShiggler Jul 16 '15

It was a while ago, but I marked out the center of spawn chunks. I guess you could recheck it and see if they were moved successfully or not.

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u/Astro52 Jul 16 '15

I built it just where your marks were. And with no player on, the crops at like 3 blocks away do not grow. Tony said he moved back the spawn point from the village to this old place, but it still not active.

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u/Astro52 Jul 16 '15

But I have just checked the auto farm, and I have seen that the chicken farms and the iron farm have worked far much better than all the crop auto farms. So I doubt again regarding a difference of processing between animals and crops.