After trying to get to sleep, while everyone else in the Frontier was AWAKE and was Away, I started to wonder why people who are away count in things like sleeping and Boss Spawning.
After a certain amount of time, people who are AFK do not count as players as far as mob spawning and such goes so that one is no issue. Sleeping, I am unsure of.
I've never actually slept through a night on EMC. Don't know why you would want to. I would think it's pretty hard to change something like bed mechanics for Aikar, though mini bosses shouldn't spawn when AFK.
I live in the wild 24/7, and I can tell you it ain't much fun having a creeper herd kill you while building a plot.
Sadly,I couldn't risk Protection IV, because some people in the SMP9 East Wild, build lava traps in their houses.
Creepers will spawn in daytime under trees if it is dark enough and other mobs just like caves, just make sure your area is well lit. Use half slabs placed on the lower half of the block so mobs cant spawn on them, it will mean chests and such have a half slab gap under them. (I am not sure if this will still work in 1.8!)
This is how I see sleeping would work: (player's would need to be able to enter a bed) When a player enters a bed (bed event) set a player variable to true When a player leaves a bed set that player variable to false When someone goes /afk ...that same variable also is set to true ....When the player enters the bed it loops all players in the world If everyone in the world has their variable set to true then it will become day time... else it will stay dark :3
Lava Traps are against EMC rules. If someone try's to shelter then triggers the lava trap, the person that made the trap killed the person that triggered it
I do the same, and this isn't a problem for me. Just light up the area well enough and you'll be fine. Most of the mob spawning issues have been fixed and over the past few months have been nearly non-existent.
