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In Minecraft 1.1 there's been the addition of eggs. Everything can now be "hatched" (including Villagers...) I've started a new (flat) map to have a play around with epic creeper battles but can't get hostile or nether-based mobs to spawn. The "Enderman" egg results in the purple particles showing, and the ghast egg produces a ghast scream. I thought about they can't survive in the sun so I built a little shelter for them...still no luck. I tried digging a hole far down to see if I could get a slime to spawn but didn't realise the shallow depth of an ultra-flat map and fell out to my death.

How do I get the evil beasties?

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  • I don't know what could be your problem, Yogscast got it working: Youtube. Is your .minecraft folder clean?
    – Alec Mev
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 19:59
  • Is this a multiplayer server?
    – Ullallulloo
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 20:21
  • @MyFaJoArCo, no mods installed, only two previous saved games and a couple of screenshots - and it's Creative Single Player
    – tombull89
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 20:24
  • For the record, slimes spawn on the surface in the ultra-flat maps. They're a major hazard in survival mode.
    – Random832
    Commented Jan 13, 2012 at 15:07
  • @Random832, yeah, I've already expereinced that. Why would you do survivial on ultra-flat though?!
    – tombull89
    Commented Jan 13, 2012 at 15:18

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I'm having no trouble doing this in single player:

mobs spawned from eggs

What's your difficulty? If it's peaceful, then all mobs will despawn instantly.

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  • Oh, difficulty, of course!
    – Alec Mev
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 20:35
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    Difficulty. That was it. <sighface> that'll teach me to play on peaceful all the time.
    – tombull89
    Commented Jan 12, 2012 at 20:41
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You have to remember the difficulty cannot be peaceful, once you switch it to anything but peaceful, it will work fine.

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