Another 'too many hostile mobs' topic

[Hube]

Hey,
after updating to 1.20.8 my world has A LOT of drifters, bowtorns and shivers all over surface. The catch is, I have temporalStability disabled, temporalRifts disabled and temporalStorms disabled. My guess is it's an issue with this 1.20.8 version because yesterday I didn't have any (on 1.20.7). I have disabled creatureHostility for now because it was impossible to even go and get wood after killing 5 different mobs. (and yes i'm a little bit of a 'peaceful' type of guy lol).

Do any of you know if devs are aware of this issue and are working on some fix? Because I really wish I didn't have shiver jumpscare me every 10 blocks lol

[LadyWYT]

Welcome to the forums! To my knowledge, it's a bug introduced in 1.20.8, and my best guess is that some kind of patch will be rolled out in a few days, since it's a pretty significant bug.

[Arasine]

I have exactly the same issue, and came to the forums to post as much. Same settings as you OP. Always there's the old faithful group of two Bowtorns and one shiver. Kill them and 15 seconds later they respawn a few blocks away. 

They also have very buggy looting. Can slice them with a knife and no loot window spawns 9 out of 10 times.

Edited April 21, 2025 by Arasine

[Hube]

19 hours ago, Arasine said:

I have exactly the same issue, and came to the forums to post as much. Same settings as you OP. Always there's the old faithful group of two Bowtorns and one shiver. Kill them and 15 seconds later they respawn a few blocks away. 

They also have very buggy looting. Can slice them with a knife and no loot window spawns 9 out of 10 times.

Fortunately enough there seems to be a fix out now, 1.20.9 rolled out 

[Chuckerton]

On 4/21/2025 at 6:58 PM, Arasine said:

 

They also have very buggy looting. Can slice them with a knife and no loot window spawns 9 out of 10 times.

Ive pretty much always had this, that or a loot window does spawn, but with no items even if its a wild creature that should drop meat. Closing the window doesnt despawn the corpse though. If i move away from it by a long while and come back, reskin it, then itll have items. 

8 hours ago, Hube said:

Fortunately enough there seems to be a fix out now, 1.20.9 rolled out 

Man, i dont know if it did fix it. I feel like there are drifters EVERYWHERE now. I didnt use to have very many around my base but now theres usually a few groups every night. I cant even go deep into caves without 4 or 5 shivers just spawning and destroying me. 

[Hube]

1 hour ago, Chuckerton said:

Ive pretty much always had this, that or a loot window does spawn, but with no items even if its a wild creature that should drop meat. Closing the window doesnt despawn the corpse though. If i move away from it by a long while and come back, reskin it, then itll have items. 

Man, i dont know if it did fix it. I feel like there are drifters EVERYWHERE now. I didnt use to have very many around my base but now theres usually a few groups every night. I cant even go deep into caves without 4 or 5 shivers just spawning and destroying me. 

After playing I can confidentially say: It didn't change anything. 

Thought 1.20.9 will stop the hostile mob spawning, especially because it was mentioned in the patch notes but nope. 

When it comes to the corpse - it's not guaranteed you will get something but if you come back and there are items then it's weird, I don't think I had this happen to me until this update. 

[HuwR]

Yea still no change with the 1.20.9 update for me. still constant daytime spawns everywhere

 

[Arasine]

11 hours ago, Hube said:

Fortunately enough there seems to be a fix out now, 1.20.9 rolled out 

1.20.9 didn't fix anything here unfortunately. Still have day mobs everywhere and looting windows not appearing.