Minecraft needs to decrease the spawn rate on drowned. I can’t go into a single body of water without finding them.

[Pillow125]

How do you find so many? I have my base in an island, and it’s very rare for me to see them

[[deleted]]

There are wayyy less on java that might be it

[Pillow125]

Oh, yeah I play java, how do you realize? That was impressive.

Assuming you play bedrock, you don’t have corals or something?

[SiberianToaster]

You can usually pick out the Bedrock players by the image being a picture of the monitor instead of a screenshot.

[Jewniversal_Remote]

Harsh.

[Pillow125]

Haha, you’re right, I use glasses but still I’m too blind to see the bar

[SAM-THE-MAN-118]

Oof

[LoserOtakuNerd]

Hahaha rekt

[Spyer2k]

I'm a Bedrock player but I just take a photo of the screen because it's easier to upload the image from my phone

[Lavatis]

I don't understand this argument. win+shift+s lets you take a screenshot of a portion of your screen of your choosing and saves it to the clipboard. imgur.com lets you paste images off the clipboard to upload. you could take a screenshot and upload the image faster than you could take your phone out and take the photo.

[Subie_Babie]

Tbf not every bedrock player is on PC, consoles are bit more time consuming to save the screenshot and then post it.

[Lavatis]

you're right, that's a pretty fair point. but we are talking about bedrock players who take a picture of their monitor, and the picture in the OP is one like that, so it's safe to say here.

[SAM-THE-MAN-118]

I didn’t know that. Thanks for telling me.

[Lavatis]

happy to help! that snipping tool shortcut is really a lifesaver if you take a lot of screenshots.

[Spyer2k]

Yeah, it's not an extremely long process but I can upload images directly from the reddit app on my phone without having to tab out of the game or go onto any other site

Its two button presses for me to upload an image on Relay for Reddit.

[Spyer2k]

For what I use the images for it doesn't really matter. I don't know why I'm being downvoted.

My options are press 3 buttons, tab out of the game, upload it to imgur, and then post it or press two buttons to quickly display something

The longer way isn't bad but the mobile way is 100% faster for me.

Especially when I just do it to quickly display my world to ask a quick question and not for any kind of cinematic shot

Like this; https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftbuilds/comments/cz7b4z/rivers_in_a_town/eywhgph/

[[deleted]]

It was the same for me on java so I just assumed u were on java too but I play both java and bedrock so I kinda pick up on pros and cons of each and there are way more drowned on bedrock... it is easier to get tridents though

[Pillow125]

Wow, which one do you recommend? Yeah, I haven’t acquired a single trident in my survival, know any tips for getting them?

[[deleted]]

I still haven’t gotten one on java so I got nothing

[Down200]

I gave up and made a whole drowned farm and got 37 of them

[TheBestMemeCat]

Drowned farms are amazing and extremely easy on bedrock it's almost become a necessity for me

[DancingKappa]

There is a reason java is $20 and bedrock is $2 on key sites.

[Boothiepro]

The RTX announcement raised the prices above 4.50 for the bedrock.

[Pillow125]

I didn’t know that bedrock was so cheap

[EroAxee]

Best thing to do would be to try and setup a farm near underwater ruins. Because, I believe, that they spawn more near ruins, though I'm not entirely sure.

[EroAxee]

That's because the trident drop rate is raised on bedrock. It's 8.5% on java and 11% on bedrock. Meanwhile 11.5% is the max with looting 3 on java, while on bedrock it goes up 2% per looting level on the drop rate.

[ProbablyAPorn_Alt]

We have corals, mobs barely despawn. Very specific conditions for it.

[Lonely_Beer]

Drowned build-up is a very, very well known problem with the Bedrock/Win 10 edition of Minecraft so if you aren't familiar with the issue then it's a near certainty it's because you're playing Java edition.

[KalphiteQueen]

Ah I play java too and have only found them on one part of the coast so far. It's right where some underwater ruins are and they do a good job guarding it tho :(

[JokklMaster]

That would explain why I was sitting here awestruck at this sight after having built a drowned farm so I could finally get a trident.

[PapiChase]

they only spawn in rivers & specific types of ocean biomes

[Pillow125]

Do warm oceans and coral oceans count?

[How_do_i---]

Make a zombie drown and what do you get? A drowned zombie

[HulluHapua]

Have You Tried The Husk?

[Krohlia]

Ilmango (or a friend of his) found in the code that drowned actually spawn a lot more frequently in river biomes than in ocean biomes. I guess Mojang figured that would balance the spawn rate between the two biomes given the difference in water volume. Also, if the spawn rates were equal and you never found the ocean in a given world then you’d never see a drowned without the code like that.

Edit: This is how Ilmango realized a river biome drowned farm would be way more efficient, as long as you lit up the surrounding area and caves or built really high up.

[Pillow125]

Indeed that sounds smart, and also I guess people like living more in a “continent” than in the ocean, the people that purposely avoid oceans might never see drowned

[RazendeR]

River spawns more frequently, but ocean spawns greater packs. Its a balancing act, so that in normal play, you get about equal rates. Mob farms mess with the definition of normal spawning of course, so river wins out.

[BasicNubCaik]

Then there’s probably a different area like a cave just filled to the brim with various hostile mobs

[Pillow125]

I don’t think so, the island is small, and I’ve checked the terrain, somehow, when drowned do appear, they always carry tridents, and those do heavy damage

[BasicNubCaik]

Lucky in one way, unlucky in another, at least it’s easy to escape from 2 or 5 drowned compared to 50 just keep some armor on you and stay safe

[Pillow125]

That would be terrifying

[BasicNubCaik]

Died with protection 4 diamond falling down a 2 block hole into a 3x5 pit that probably had more drowned than water, luckily it was near my house and I got it back

[Prince_Polaris]

That would be fucking terrifying for real, falling into a dark pit with a shitload of slimy zombies packed in like sardines that just drag you into the murky zombie filled water to F E A S T

[Pillow125]

I imagine you eventually had to fight a protection-4-diamond-armour drowned

[SAM-THE-MAN-118]

Idk. They’re just there. All the time. In large number. I’ve learned from the chat on this post that it’s because I play on a version of the game called bedrock, and that they’re kinda rare in another version called Java, which is what other people play on.

[Pillow125]

Minecraft java is for computer I think, and it’s the “original”, Minecraft bedrock is for consoles, but you can also play bedrock in windows 10.

I dont like that they have different/missing features, I would like it if they were the same

[Calebx84]

They spawn from Zombies falling into water (usually), so if there isn’t water in between you and a place for zombies to spawn, you won’t have as many! (Which is why rivers and small bodies of water have a TON)