When killing an mob it will play the animation where it goes on its side and becomes red. If you hit that animation with a sword, no matter what mob, the sword will lose durability.
MC-10210
Sword durability loss on dead mob
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Jackson Blitz
(Unassigned)
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Minecraft 1.4.7
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