They were reduced (or some other change that greatly effected their spawning), and thats what we have now.
Ghastopalypse or whatever it was dubbed happened in early September 2012 as part of the changes I previously said were in that November. Here's a post I made with a couple of screenshots I took. http://empireminecraft.com/threads/...silence-of-the-lambs.14895/page-9#post-253568 Looking back and after re-reading some of the thread, I find post #168 pretty comical. Aikar gives an explanation of what he changed as it regards Ghasts in post #173. It was way more than 5 Ghasts at a time. I had just finished a Blaze grinder and hadn't taken the time yet to Ghast proof it because it had been so tame then they called me back out there and I had to repair it under fire. Quite an adventure.
Yes, so high. Ghasts, my least favorite mob that I hate the most, they pop up everywhere all the time and are soooo annoying!
Calling you out on this. Less then a year ago Aikar messed with the spawn rates of mobs in general and caused ghasts to spawn like crazy to the point where there was so many spawned in a small area around the player that you had ghasts hitting each other as well as decimating the surroundings. He did end up fixing it in a way to make it so it spawned less then that horrible mess but I still think he still altered it in a few ways. There are even posts showing screenshots that were put up a while back showing all these ghasts all over the screen. Granted I haven't been into the nether for a while. But that's mainly cause someone decided to mess with it and add nether hounds and such making it more of a pain then it already was.
Sorry about that , the last time spawn rates were messed with was about 10 months ago. My apologies. Not really relevant to the discussion, nor the place to complain things you have a problem with.
