Lantern automatically optimizes large mob farms to keep the server running smoothly. These changes reduce load without deleting your mobs during normal gameplay.
How to avoid farm optimizations
- Spread large farms across multiple pens instead of keeping everything in one area.
- Keep fewer than 15 animals within a 5-block radius.
- Keep breeding pens small, then move animals into separate enclosures afterward.
- Named, tamed, leashed, mounted, and actively breeding mobs are excluded from optimization.
Current mob limits
- Animals · all types combined
- When 15 or more animals are within a 5-block radius, their AI is temporarily disabled and collisions are turned off. Interacting with them restores their normal behavior.
- Breeding animals · same type
- Breeding is disabled when 30 of the same animal are within a 5-block radius.
- Villagers
- Breeding is disabled when 20 villagers are within a 10-block radius.
Block limits per chunk
| Block type | Limit | What counts |
|---|---|---|
| Hoppers | 64 | Hopper blocks in one chunk |
| Beds | 64 | Bed blocks in one chunk |
| Tile entities | 256 | Chests, barrels, furnaces, hoppers, shulker boxes, beacons, and other storage or functional blocks |