Mobs Not Spawning Properly

Hello all,

I have a server with a few friends, and we started in not too long ago. We are playing on 1.19.4.

I've noticed that the natural mob spawning is comically low, like when we were fighting the ender dragon and went end busting for elytras, there were literally NO Enderman in all of the end. This persists to this day. This also applies to the overworld, where there is little to no NATURAL mob spawns I've seen like, 2 skeletons walking around in caves about once, but other than that, nothing. I've created a creeper farm for us and it does not work in the slightest, due to the mob spawning. The only time we are able to get mobs to spawn our skeleton spawner farm, and this is still less efficient than other times before.

Here are some of the solutions I've tried already:

-setting a de-setting the "monster spawns" in the server options, restarting the server in between each time.

-kill @e[type=(insert common mob, skeleton, zombie, enderman, spider, etc.] (just in case there was a bunch of them not de-spawning somewhere)

-following every instruction and change on this official aternos post:

mob spawning thread thing

please help! I'm hoping we will be able to make an ender-ender and not rely on our sub-par skeleton spawner farm for XP...

Quote from Powerful845tiger

Which server software do you use?

We currently use PaperMC on 1.19.4,

I can attach my bukkit.yml or any other server file if neccessary.

thanks!

Quote from Powerful845tiger

Copy the stuff in https://aternos.org/files/config/paper-world-defaults.yml

and https://aternos.org/files/bukkit.yml to https://mclo.gs and share two separate links

Quote from Powerful845tiger

Copy the stuff in https://aternos.org/files/config/paper-world-defaults.yml

and https://aternos.org/files/bukkit.yml to https://mclo.gs and share two separate links

I have the server monster limit set to 100 to combat this erorr currently. I've tried it on both 70, 79, 85, and 100. Nothing changed it.

Thank you for your help!

this clearly is taking more effort than your usual server error...

Quote from Powerful845tiger

Have you tried increasing the server difficulty? if that also doesn't work them you might need to just ask in https://forums.papermc.io/

yeah, it's been set to hard since day one.

I'll set it to normal and see what happens!

if not, I'll look elsewhere.

thanks.