I have observed this in version :dancer::poo::dancer::bee: I think slimes and possibly other mobs may be filling up the mob cap in my world. I made a new world after the last update, and original spawn was in a swamp. In the beginning mob spawns were at their normal terrifying level but lately, mayb...

I'm currently in the slow and terrifying process of curing a desert village. I feel like everything, even the sand, is trying to kill me. And those sounds... I'm amazingly terrified, thanks FC! Slightly less related: Does anyone know if a village spawns with one villager per house? I found four hous...

I have consistently been able to recreate the bug, and my melons are planted on the same height as yours relative to the lake(I believe y=64 in my case, looks like it could be the same for you) I suspect it could have something to do with the height.

Yeah, I'll take a look at the witch drops overall. I think I neglected to consider them in drop sorting when I broadened their spawns to include entire swamps. Huzzah! I had the same problem with my sorting system, If the witches aren't sorted out of the main line before they reach the killing cham...

As per title.

That is one case where monster sorting is actually useful. You can separate creepers from witches using cats as a way to scare the creepers into another channel, then kill them from there. Whether the hit to item production efficiency and the added space of a monster sorting system is worth it, is ...

I made my mob trap in a swamp biome even before witches could spawn anywhere in swamps. The one block thick layer of water made it far easier for me to build it (screw you, screw pumps!), And it is generally right outside my base. When the witches were updated I thought it wouldn't affect me anyways...