Talk:Mobs/@comment-118.136.175.58-20111209030306/@comment-4501235-20120126061434

I've noticed that sometimes mobs will spawn before the terrain has generated. And a few times I've seen 5 or 6 spawn and then after the terrain generated I would only be able to find 1 or 2 of them. I kind of suspected that the terrain actually generated around the others.

I confirmed this once for brown mobs (I know you're probably shocked that I was looking for them). I knew that I saw 6 spawn. I quickly caught 2, but couldn't find the rest. I decided to dig a fast little hole and force the transparency bug and sure enough there were 4 brown mobs heading towards the bottom of the moon. Green mobs didn't seem to jump down when trapped in a block, (at least when I was fooling around with them) so I don't know if they might be doing something similar.