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10 years ago Excellent video by XboxAhoy: Deconstructing Minecraft's Origins (discussion) - touches on this topic: around 2:25, Left 4k Dead (2008), inspired by Valve's Left 4 Dead - "in Left 4k dead, some of Minecraft's origins are visible: the zombies, the danger of darkness..." - i.e., hostile mobs spawn in the dark. See also:
- http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Spawning#Mob_spawning
- http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1753435-1516-just-another-spawner-jas-v0130/ - alternative
- http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/81771-172-mo-creatures-v620-with-ents-and-moles/
- https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y2cRx51omBBNPYvibG0ya6Ap7UQkGpiVrAU9gS52AHc/edit?pli=1
There are several modules adding creatures:
https://github.com/substack/voxel-creature https://github.com/substack/voxel-spider https://github.com/codemiller/voxel-sheep
Would be nice to have a mechanism for naturally spawning these creatures (either dangerous or passive) in the wild, so they could be found during legit survival gameplay