So, I've spent around six hours the past couple days waiting for a miniboss. I've been in a large desert within some Wastelands, most of the time the only one in those Wastelands. Most of the time I'm in a shelter or nearby it, but I've tried running around the desert as well. I've tried waiting for hours at a time and disconnecting a few times once in a while. Still no miniboss. So, does anyone have some strategy that works for spawning these guys? I'd really appreciate it.
I think miniboss spawns are completely random and they spawn quite a few blocks away from any local players. So there probably isn't a strategy other than wait, but seeing as I have never even owned any boss items, you'd need a second opinion
BTHarrold98, captaincraft300 and I made a shelter out in the Wild on SMP2, in a large desert biome and waited. After about 24 hours (including sleep, breaks, and other random interweb things) we had gained 3 Vault Vouchers, a Marlix Helmet and 2 Dragon Stones. We were very lucky to get so much so quickly - it is purely luck, in recent days we have not had any at all.
Enraged and Miniboss spawns work by randomly replacing a spawn when a regular mob might spawn. Biome and other factors have no effect (except daylight, but that one should be obvious ) So, the best strategy is keep moving, to keep getting more spawns with the chance of a enraged/miniboss, staying in one area won't help that much
Hmm.. I forget where there is info on spawning mechanics of mini-boses, but lets see what i recall from memory. Mini-boses (Momentus & Marlix): Spawning requirements: Light level below 9 (like most hostile mobs) sky access (will only spawn on the surface). at least 1 hr between mini-boss spawning in any given world Will not despawn for a very long time (even when chunk is unloaded) Given these requirements, some things that will increase chance of spawning: Given they will only spawn at night, there's not a lot of point looking during the day, or in lit up areas. Jump betwen servers that have opposite day/night cycles, so it's always nighttime while you search. Deserts are ideal, as their entire surface has sky access, and therefore all valid surface spawn blocks can spawn mini-bosses. While forests etc have too many spawning blocks that cannot spawn mini-boses and thus reduce spawn chance of mini-boss. Be the only player in the world, which will maximise the chance a mini-boss spawns near you, and not somewhere else. If jumping between servers, be the only player on both Despawn other mobs oftenish to increase spawnrate of mobs and thus mini-bosses. Other than increasing spawn chance, you may want to consider preparing for when the mini-boss arrives. How are you going to kill it? are you going to farm it for enraged? etc. (I won't give ideas on that lol )