Whose dog is that
Chests on TWiTcraft don't say who owned them — but pets do. When a player tamed a wolf, an ocelot or a horse in Minecraft 1.7, the game wrote the owner's name into the animal, and the animal is still standing where it was left. So this is the one kind of property on the server that can be handed back: dogs and cats belonging to named players, tamed horses, and animals somebody bothered to name.
The biggest kennels
| Owner | Animals | Dogs | Cats | Horses | Named |
|---|
Sitting dogs and cats stay exactly where they were told to sit, which is why so many survived: they were parked at home. The same pets counted in both the October and December 2013 snapshots are only counted once.
The horses
Fastest on the server
Highest jumpers
Every named horse
Jokes with a name tag
Name tags arrived in 1.6 and the server immediately used them for comedy: creepers called BOOM!!!, mobs renamed Dinnerbone so they walk upside down, sheep called jeb_ that cycle through every colour, iron golems posted as the Airfield Sentinel, and a zombie army of Goobghanistani Infantrymen.
Spawners
A mob spawner is the cage-shaped block that dungeons and abandoned mineshafts are built around, and the thing every grinder is built on top of. There are of them across the archived worlds — almost all cave-spider spawners in the endless mineshafts under the old survival map.
World by world
| World | Spawners | Of which |
|---|
The densest clusters
Where several spawners sit within twenty blocks of each other. Most are tangles of mineshaft; a cluster of pig or blaze spawners is a farm somebody built. On the living spawn world the old grinders can be watched running again — though modern Minecraft only spawns mobs in total darkness, so some 2013 designs stay quiet.
How this was made
Entities and tile entities were read out of every region file with the scan behind the Library and What They Carried. A tamed wolf or ocelot carries its owner's name in 1.7 NBT (Owner); a horse carries OwnerName, plus its speed, jump strength and health attributes. Wild horses are not included — only tamed or named ones. Spawners are counted from their tile entities (MobSpawner). Coordinates open the map at the animal's last position.