Does lighting affect monster spawning?

[Eoin Lynne]

If I put a lot of torches around an area where monsters spawn, will it prevent or slow down their spawning?

[SoldiersAmbition]

If you don't want monsters to spawn you can dig up the tiles that spawn them with a spade, Slimes spawn on orange tiles etc - you can do the same with bugs and their spawn tiles.

You can then put these tiles down elsewhere if you want, say in a locked room full of spike traps to farm slime for potions.

[Astasia]

Originally posted by Eoin Lynne:

If I put a lot of torches around an area where monsters spawn, will it prevent or slow down their spawning?

No.

[Eoin Lynne]

Originally posted by SoldiersAmbition:

If you don't want monsters to spawn you can dig up the tiles that spawn them with a spade, Slimes spawn on orange tiles etc - you can do the same with bugs and their spawn tiles.

You can then put these tiles down elsewhere if you want, say in a locked room full of spike traps to farm slime for potions.

You misunderstand I want monsters to spawn. I made a large room with nothing but slime floor and another large room with the living room floor and chrysalis however with the exception of 1 to 2 normal slimes, nothing is spawning.

The only difference between here and there seems to be the torches I put down for lighting.