Pretty straightforward: Dr.Zhark's Mo'Creatures does not use the vanilla spawner, it uses its own spawner, Custom Mob Spawner, which takes over all spawning because the vanilla spawner won't spawn Mo'Creatures mobs. TorchMaster has no effect on CMS spawning, so if Mo'Creatures is installed, TorchMaster doesn't work. I don't know if this is fixable by Torchmaster or not.

(I imagine it goes without saying that it almost certainly won't work with Lycanite's Mobs either, because Lycanite's Mobs deliberately ignores ALL spawning controls.)

I'm not sure if I understand your issue. The Torch is only supposed to block spawning from low light levels (natural spawning). I dont want to break monster farms, hence why I added special support for vanilla spawners (and extra utilities). If the spawners keep spawning entities, this is intended behavior. If the spawners dont work on the other hand, its a bug and I will need to fix that.

I've tested the following mods:

• Torchmaster 1.2.1.23
• DrZhark's CustomSpawner 3.10.1
• DrZhark's Mo'Creatures Mod 10.0.6

I was not able to replicate any issues with the Mega Torch. No natural spawning occured inside the torch volume. Only a few critters (Bugs, cats, moles, etc) were spawning since they arent considered being aggressive entities. Spawning of non-aggressive entities is successfully blocked by the dread lamp.

I would like you to report back on this if you can replicate the problem or if you have more information about the issue.

I can confirm, some of Lycanite's Mobs are not blocked by the Mega Torch. Issues related to Lycanite's Mobs should be handled in #14 for now.

I'm surprised any of the Lycanite mobs are blocked. :)

The issue I had was that the Mega Torch did not seem to be blocking any Mo'Creatures spawns at all. We put up torches and continued to get full monster spawning.

It does seem to be working better now; I'm not sure what changed.

I dont want to rule out any issues with Mo'Creatures spawns, due to the issues with Lycanite's Mobs. If you can replicate the issue (maybe with a specific creature) it would be really helpful.
Sadly, Mo'Creatures is not open source and afaik, decompiling is not prohibited, which makes the whole issue much harder to debug.

One thing you need to keep in mind:
The Mega torch does not chunk load. If some of the chunks inside the torch radius are loaded while torch itself is not, the mobs can spawn (since there is no torch loaded to prevent the spawning). Also, mobs can spawn outside the torch radius and simply walk into it.

I'll try to replicate it. I'm also scratching my head over why it initially had no effect but seems to be working now. Could the server being restarted since the torches were placed have had anything to do with it?

This could be one reason, but I doubt it. A torch registers itself in a registry when the torch is loaded and unregisters itself when the chunk is being unloaded.

If - for some reason - this registration process is not working, the torch will effectivly not work. Replacing the torch or leaving the area and going back to it should fix it though. But like I said, I dont think this happens.

I will close this issue for now. Please report back to this issue if you have any news. I will reopen the issue, if necessary.
Thanks for your feedback so far 😄

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