Surtling spawner not working.

[yai200439]

I came across a surtling spawner and made a cor farm.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2947148867

However, ever since I dug out the land the surtling stopped spawning. (It's more than 6 game days and over 12 real-time hours long.)

Does anyone know the reason?

[gomisan]

Your crafting bench etc are too close

[umop-apisdn]

Remove the stone blocks; as I understand it, spawners cannot spawn mobs on top of player-created structures.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by gomisan:

Your crafting bench etc are too close

Spawners don't care about workbenches, campfires, etc.

[Tanyon]

who needs this farm? Like.. 5 dungeons gets you all the cores you'll ever need and then coal? Take like 2 minutes to cut down 5 trees which will last you days and days..

[yai200439]

Originally posted by gomisan:

Your crafting bench etc are too close

Ok, I'll try that.

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Remove the stone blocks; as I understand it, spawners cannot spawn mobs on top of player-created structures.

Was there a change in Surtling spawning mechanism? Because there are many youtube showing spawners working fine with stone blocks

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

who needs this farm? Like.. 5 dungeons gets you all the cores you'll ever need and then coal? Take like 2 minutes to cut down 5 trees which will last you days and days..

Since that is the only reason going to the burial dungeons, I don't want to waste hours searching for and inside the dungeons. Let's just say I'm lazy.

[Draconifors]

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Originally posted by gomisan:

Your crafting bench etc are too close

Spawners don't care about workbenches, campfires, etc.

According to the wiki, fire geysers are not spawners; they are spawn points, and as such suppressed by workbenches.

I once placed a workbench right next to every one of a bunch of surtling spawners, and nothing ever spawned.

[umop-apisdn]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

who needs this farm? Like.. 5 dungeons gets you all the cores you'll ever need and then coal? Take like 2 minutes to cut down 5 trees which will last you days and days..

I guess that depends on how many portals one feels the need to make, and/or how many smelters are required to provide the desired amount of metal at a speed that makes one happy.

Originally posted by yai200439:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Remove the stone blocks; as I understand it, spawners cannot spawn mobs on top of player-created structures.

Was there a change in Surtling spawning mechanism? Because there are many youtube showing spawners working fine with stone blocks

I was not aware of that; thank you for the information. My apologies for my inaccurate statements.

Originally posted by Draconifors:

Originally posted by umop-apisdn:

Spawners don't care about workbenches, campfires, etc.

According to the wiki, fire geysers are not spawners; they are spawn points, and as such suppressed by workbenches.
I once placed a workbench right next to every one of a bunch of surtling spawners, and nothing ever spawned.

Noted; again, thank you for the information.

TL;DR: Aye, it would seem the workbenches are the problem.

[☆Shadow Monkey Wizard☆]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

who needs this farm? Like.. 5 dungeons gets you all the cores you'll ever need and then coal? Take like 2 minutes to cut down 5 trees which will last you days and days..

free coal and cores for being afk, nice for if youre busy doing other things and if you like the throphies they drop, its an easy way to get em

[Darkbirt]

Remove workbench and stone cutter, they prevent the spamming.
No one want's monsters living with them in their base, the game thinks know it's you're base area.

The reason why a farm is nice is not only for cores.
Most people would do it for the trophy, because the Surtling trophy gives light in the dark and it doesn't need a refill. so a nice decoration for you're base.

[Lunacy]

Originally posted by DarthTanyon:

and then coal? Take like 2 minutes to cut down 5 trees which will last you days and days..

haha, 5 trees is like 100 wood, which smelts 50 ore, which is gone faster than it took to chop the trees if you got at least 3 smelters and 4 kilns. gonna need a lot more than that, I'd rather just run around the swamp and get that much coal for no effort