
Spawn Doctor
/spawndoctor — plain-language diagnosis of why your mob farm isn't spawning anything (Peaceful, doMobSpawning, cap theft, AFK ring, sim distance).
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You built the mob farm exactly like the tutorial and nothing spawns. /spawndoctor tells you why, in plain words — not a flame graph, not an overlay.
Spawn-overlay mods only show light level. None of them explain why a correctly-built farm produces nothing: hostiles loaded far away eating the spawn budget, an AFK spot too close, or simulation distance. Stand where you expect spawns and run the command.
Spawn Doctor — why your mob farm is dead:
42 hostile mobs are loaded FAR from you vs only 3 nearby. The far ones eat
the same spawn budget your farm needs — light up caves / clear them.
┃ Mobs spawn 24-128 blocks from a player: AFK at least 24 blocks away…
┃ Server simulation distance: 10 chunks — the farm must be within that…
It calls out the dead-certain causes (Peaceful difficulty, doMobSpawning off), surfaces the usual silent killer (far-loaded hostiles eating the cap), and always states the universal spawn rules (the 24–128 ring, simulation distance). The mob-cap formula is version-sensitive, so it never claims an exact "cap X/Y" — a wrong number is worse than none. Open to all players, 30-second cooldown (ops bypass).
Read-only and on-demand: no mixin, no config, no blocks or items.
Server-side — install on the server only.
Free to use in any modpack. Source and issues: https://github.com/KURONAMI333/spawn-doctor
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as spawndoctor-0.1.0-fabric-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 14 KB
- Download link checked 21 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.