When you need to talk and do business and whatever via chat that doesn't work very well.

@TheSpiderman2013 ESC>OPTIONS>CHAT SETTINGS>CHAT: SHOWN / COMMANDS ONLY / HIDDEN

If I did that I wouldn't be able to see the other very useful prompts such as voting links etc.

I agree with @TheForgotten20 the welcome message is a bit much and when multiple people join and staff deploy that message it spams the chat. It is a bit much for newer players and, in my opinion, makes the server seem less vanilla.

When I first joined the first thing I did to ensure vanilla integrity was press tab and look at the commands. I didn't see non vanilla commands so I stayed. I am pretty sure that if I joined and immediately got a message talking about warps and CraftyCredit and voting then I would leave.

Very nice

Just Cause 3

Battlefield 1

Il-2 Sturmovik 1946

War Thunder

And Minecraft of course :P

@Azarieth yeah im trying to convert some villagers, but it doesnt help if no zomboids spawn :/. I wonder if this is something the server peeps are looking into to potentially correct?

Working with multiple people and using Alts help increase spawn rates, also try to kill any entities around you so that more of what mob your looking for can spawn.
Get online when the server population is low, that also helps.

@iwarriiori Isn't this a good thing? Now we don't have to worry about dying to hostile mobs!

It is a good thing to those who are trying to avoid hostile mobs.

However to those who are actively hunting them (I hunt creepers for gunpowder for example) It is a pain to try and find them when they are spawning sparsely.

Also people who are grinding mobs for XP or for mass loot it is a pain.

I've noticed the same thing.

I've also noticed an increase in the server's population of players at any given time.

I've been mining iron to make 192 hoppers for an auto smelter, I can search caves without a single torch and only find 3-4 mobs, and this is at a cave that I found almost 9 stacks of iron ore in (so it's huge)

Players have a very heavy influence on spawn rates, I know this because I live in the end, and when others are in the end my enderman grinder gets OK spawn rates when I'm alone, decent spawn rates with an alt, and incredible spawn rates with 3+ people.

In the overworld I have to run around the 10k area for most of the night before coming across a single hostile mob.

@gilbertboys I'm pretty sure they can alter the hostile mob cap in /gamerule.

I don't think so... I've used /gamerule on single player to stop mob spawning but I haven't seen anything to throttle spawn rates.

If you want increased spawn rates you can always use an alt. If you don't have an alt then hunt mobs with friends and make sure to do this when the general population is lower than usual

I use an alt to increase spawn rates on my enderman farm when there are people in the end.

I want:

1 dirt block

Your base coordinates

And a book and some EXP bottles