OK all you (non-glow) squid geniuses! Is there something going on with Squid spawning in river biomes on EMC? I've tried to set up a few locations in river biomes for a squid farm. In one case I made a 8x22x7 hole all in the river biome and not a single squid spawned. In another I found an area with squid in the wild and, in preparation to make that area a farm, I killed the 5-6 squids there. At that point, no new ones spawned. In a third, larger area not really suitable for a farm, I was able to observe squids spawning after I swam around killing them. So...I obviously don't know the EMC squid spawning rules and/or they don't mirror a vanilla server?? Is there some sort of EMC bug? Does the area have to be a certain size for them to spawn? What say you all?
I'm not a squid genius at all, but I did some reading through old threads... and saw you already found one of the older threads about squid farms, nice. Let us know if you still don't find squid spawning when nobody else is in the Frontier on your server! Edit: Mob spawning mechanics are indeed different on EMC than in vanilla.