(I don’t think this is MC functionality, I didn’t come across it before I played in the server, but correct me if I’m wrong.)

Current functionality:
Mobs currently have a habit of merging and prefixing/suffixing their gamer tag with x3 etc. to reduce lag I assume.

Problem:
When passive mobs merge my 3 sheep are suddenly 1 sheep and it is suddenly no longer possible to feed two separate mobs and make them ‘in love’ to breed more. If you are dependent on breeding your passive mobs manually/naturally to sustain your herd (which produces much less lag than auto-producing via spawners) this suddenly becomes impossible to do.
This in turn becomes an unfair cost burden on players who do not have spawners who are then forced to spend more grass/diamonds on egg spawners.

Suggestion:
Could a piece of code be written in so that when mobs merge they do so in such a way that there is always 1 mob left unmerged? ie. merge all but one.

Effects:
This retains the server load benefits of merging mobs, but by leaving one unmerged mob, continues to allow feed-breeding.
I know it doesn’t lend itself to everyone’s style of play, but encouraging players who really don’t need spawners, to breed mobs this way rather than always being dependent on spawners should also contribute to reducing lag.

 

Suggestion to add to this idea: if there are 2 mobs of the same type in a pen, they won't group. If there's 3, It'll group with one, but try to sustain an equal number. When a player breeds a group of sheep with 2 wheat (1 to each sheep), it'll birth a baby sheep, and these can group as well, or increase the sheep count by one (or something like that).

If I'm unclear, I'm tired af right now and I'll correct it in a few hours time. It's midnight for me and I barely slept last night.

 

How about we remove the merge plugin so I can remake my magma cube lag machine from classic :c

 

You can rename one or more of the mobs with a nametag and it wont stack with others

 

I always do stuff like that late at night. Then I wake up in the morning and say to myself... ‘what on earth was going through my brain when I sent that...???’

 

Isnt it already like this? i thought it was were 1 stays unmerged

 

But everyone knows that once you give it a name, killing it and eating it become soo much harder to do! lol

That will work for me though, thanks!

 

My 3x sheep are now called 'The Ram' unfortunately one of them didn't separate out, so I'm still gonna need to buy another spawn egg.
Their health doesn't seem to regenerate either, so 'The Bull' only has 1/2 a heart left... 'The Cock' has full health though, and is unfortunately laying eggs...

 

are you a rank or if you can get a rank they can spawn sheep for free, /spawnmob sheep 2

 

Finally managed to vote enough times to win a $15 voucher this month (only taken 8months!) ...since it's taken so much effort, I'm gonna save it until I can afford a decent rank. (Though I might just settle for buying /fly ... I'm quite proud of my island achievements to date without any ranks or special abilities.)

 

In my opinion buying fly itself isnt worth the money I would say try to get October then do a 50 percent off on donor50 skylord that rank is the minimum worth rank getting fly nick and a decent kit along with other misc. Commands and you get a spawner

 

I'm good at saving ... just not at voting lol ... missed 2nd of November so I'm 3 votes down already! Might have to continue focusing on simply contributing a beautiful island to the server the hard way lol