Talk:Squid

New trivia
Would it be ok if I added a new trivia. It would be that squid can survive in a single block of water. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 96.236.223.233 (talk) at 14:58, 30 May 2015 (UTC). Please sign your posts with
 * This is a wiki, so generally be bold in editing. Although I think that your trivia is too obvious. And, also, please sign your comments in the future. —  Grid Command Block.png NickTheRed37 (talk&#124;contributions) 15:17, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

What does "useful" mean in the context of using a squid in a minecart? I don't understand what that comment adds to anything--I find it confusing to picture exactly what happens when you try to get a squid into a minecart. Does it work? Why would it matter whether there's water or not? This could use some clarification. ChapnCrunch (talk) 20:56, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Milking squids was possible because they borrowed cow behaviouur, so this should probably be added to the trivia section.104.34.226.124 22:58, 26 April 2020 (UTC)

Squid Spawn Radius
I've gotten confirmation from gnembon that squid spawn/despawn by the same basic rules as most hostile mobs - not within 24 blocks of the player, despawn over time if outside of 32 blocks and despawn instantly if more than 128 blocks away. I'd change the info box on spawning to include this info, but it seems the page is in a protected mode at present because of vandalism issues. Here's the link to the tweet: https://twitter.com/gnembon_mc/status/1096150977105809409 Rashkavar80112 (talk) 17:09, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

1.18 Squid Spawn Changes
Squid used to require 2 blocks of water in order to be able to spawn however as of 1.18 they now require 3 blocks Source: https://youtu.be/nyiWUpFRrjo
 * Note that in Bedrock Edition 1.18, squid and glow squid can spawn in water 1 block deep. I'm not able to test Java. — Auldrick (talk &middot; contribs) 21:22, 16 March 2022 (UTC)

Upon some testing using a custom superflat world it seems this water is still not required to be stationary. This testing was done in a deep ocean biome. Squid also are still unaffected by flowing water. This was tested using one source block of water flowing into two air spaces. More testing would be required to see if 3 flowing blocks of water would allow spawning. This was tested in Java 1.18.2.