Minecraft – Exploring the locations of monsters in a Minecraft map

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I am trying to "debug" my large monster spawning room. I am aware that all surrounding caves must be lit, but my trap still seems to wind down after a few minutes. I would ideally like to use a tool to figure out where the monsters are so that I can light up the remaining areas. Does such a tool exist?

Best Answer

If you're okay with using a mod, you can install zombe's modpack. There is a mod called "cheat" in there, and it has a feature that highlights all mobs through walls with a colored marker. Here's what that looks like in-game:

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It works in multiplayer as well if you need that support.

If you don't like installing mods, you can always use MCEdit to explore your world, but development has become a bit stagnated, and you'll need to figure out how to compile a dev version to get it to work with MC 1.1.