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Spawn Doctor

Spawn Doctor

/spawndoctor โ€” plain-language diagnosis of why your mob farm isn't spawning anything (Peaceful, doMobSpawning, cap theft, AFK ring, sim distance).

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Minecraft: Java Edition

1.21.1
1.20.1

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Server-side
Singleplayer

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Licensed MIT
Published last month

Spawn Doctor

You built the mob farm exactly like the tutorial and nothing spawns. /spawndoctor tells you why, in plain words โ€” not a flame graph, not an overlay.

Spawn-overlay mods only show light level. None of them explain why a correctly-built farm produces nothing: hostiles loaded far away eating the spawn budget, an AFK spot too close, or simulation distance. Stand where you expect spawns and run the command.

Spawn Doctor โ€” why your mob farm is dead:
42 hostile mobs are loaded FAR from you vs only 3 nearby. The far ones eat
the same spawn budget your farm needs โ€” light up caves / clear them.
 โ”ƒ Mobs spawn 24-128 blocks from a player: AFK at least 24 blocks awayโ€ฆ
 โ”ƒ Server simulation distance: 10 chunks โ€” the farm must be within thatโ€ฆ

It calls out the dead-certain causes (Peaceful difficulty, doMobSpawning off), surfaces the usual silent killer (far-loaded hostiles eating the cap), and always states the universal spawn rules (the 24โ€“128 ring, simulation distance). The mob-cap formula is version-sensitive, so it never claims an exact "cap X/Y" โ€” a wrong number is worse than none. Open to all players, 30-second cooldown (ops bypass).

Read-only and on-demand: no mixin, no config, no blocks or items.

Server-side โ€” install on the server only.

Free to use in any modpack. Source and issues: https://github.com/KURONAMI333/spawn-doctor