u/Dubbl1n

I'm having a hard time determining why hostile mobs have recently stopped spawning in my farm district. I was afking at my witch farm and it was producing witches, but then later on it just stopped completely and there are no hostile mobs in the general vicinity at all. When I fly away for 1-2 rockets, I will start getting baddies spawning again.

Things I've tried/considered:

• I thought the shulkers might be maxing out the mob cap somehow but I set the simulation render distance to the lowest setting to exclude other farms and still no mobs.
• I have one portal chunk loader somewhat far away, but I don't believe this should cause any issues
• When I go into the nether, the mobs spawn with no issue

Thanks in advance, this is making me want to tear my hair out!!

UPDATE: I had this problem for a few hours and then it randomly fixed itself… the fix seemed to coincide with another player joining the server (I was previously on the server by myself) but I’m not sure if that’s related. A very unsatisfying answer indeed 😭