Hardcore Animal Spawning in SMP

[lifeiwater]

Hardcore Animal spawning feels off specifically in SMP environment. It is impossibly brutal on larger population SMP servers. My new server has around 8-10 active players on it each night. For the most part there are no animals at Hardcore Spawn locations or walking distance within those locations. None of us are far enough along to make food stations along the way, or even to save food for that matter. So players are starving and eventually cycling to a new location to repeat the process again.

[FlowerChild]

That's a problem you need to plan for and solve as a server, and not one I'm willing to water down the overall play experience to solve for you.

If your server population has depleted the local food supply through use, then it behooves them to create sustainable food sources to offset that problem and a transportation network so that people can get to that food supply.