Tips and tricks for limiting entity spawns

[Cyan]

Hello,

 

I was wondering if anyone may have some good ideas for further limiting an entity from spawning, as I can't seem to get the desired results that I want. Currently, I can only limit an entity by the probably of it spawning, the number per spawn, the max amount spawned per chunk, and what block they can spawn on.(Courtesy of vanilla methods)

 

What I want to know is, what would be my best bet for making "rare" entities? I'd like to only make a certain entity only spawn once in a biome to be more specific, but the closest I can get to that is to limit to one per chunk.

 

Alternatively, I have tried generating special blocks in different biomes so that they can only spawn from it, but that is a hassle.

 

Thanks for any tips/insight

[Mew]

Hmm... This is an interesting dilema.

[GotoLink]

Hum...making it spawn in really dark/lit areas ?

[hydroflame]

why not calcel spawning usign a handler given a random change

 

its a hack in solution but itll work (aka spawn onyl if Math.random() > 0.9)

[Cyan]

Hmm. The handler may have to do, but I'm going to keep this open just a little longer in case anyone else has some ideas.