MC-16043Witches Don't Spawn In Huts (Dark and Hard mode)
Witches won't spawn in my witch hut, I made a trap with spawning pads with them, and even when I'm on hard and its night, Witches don't spawn. I changed from 1.4 to the 1.6 snapshots with 1.5 in between, and I haven't seen anything. So, yeah. 
Environment
Swamps, Witch Hut
Linked Issues
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Created Issue:
Witches Don't Spawn In Huts (Dark and Hard mode)
Witches won't spawn in my witch hut, I made a trap with spawning pads with them, and even when I'm on hard and its night, Witches don't spawn. I changed from 1.4 to the 1.6 snapshots with 1.5 in between, and I haven't seen anything. So, yeah.
Environment
Swamps, Witch Hut
duplicates
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What I expect to happen: I can spot a witch when I visit her hut (when not on peaceful), and I can fight with her.
What actually happens: the witch spawning ratio is too low (see MC-16043 and MC-880) so you can visit her hut many times, and she will not spawn at all. But even when having her spawned from spawn egg, you will not be sure to have an occasion to fight with her.
Witch huts stay, as a rule, in shallow water. The witch (once spawned) can jump from the hut into water but she cannot go back inside. Having noticed the player, she goes toward him, even if there is a deep water between them. As a result, she drowns and there is no fight.
How to reproduce: just observe a witch hut in the game (to save your time, spawn the witch from egg).
Possible solutions:
1. To give an absolute priority for witch to spawn when only there is a witch hut (and the game is not on peaceful). As for now, the spawning ratio seems to be so low that zombies, skeletons etc. have chance to spawn but not a witch (reported many times with no solution...).
2. To add the witch a way to go back inside her hut - make the "legs" of the hut shorter, add stairs etc., or give the witch a broom to make her able to fly.
3. To add the witch some more intelligence - she really should not go to deeper water like a brainless ram but she should protect herself from drowning, especially when there is a way to go towards the player through shallow water and land.
Duplicate of
MC-880MC-880has been closed without resolving the problem. Why?Witch spawning ratio seems to be too low, and hence the problems with witches. Actually, I visited three witches huts many times and even stay for the night in a cabin nearby. The huts are generated entirely on swampland so valid for witch spawning. I saw many zombies and skeletons but not a single witch.
The possible solution would be to make the spawning ratio of the witch higher than presently, at least for the first witch present in the hut. It should be more likely to spawn than any other mob as witches huts are rare. It would be even nice if the player meets a witch always in the hut when on hard. Which is more, there is no reason for witch to despawn (if only not on peaceful). Witch huts should not be empty...
You should build a proper witch farm before complaining about the spawn rates. They are spawning like crazy in those, eliminating the need of gathering redstone, glowstone and gunpowder entirely. If anything witch spawn rates should be lowered.