The Bug
See the screenshot for an example. It took four vines to place – one for each block face. When using shears, only one vine is returned. You can lose vines by simply filling a block space with them, then using shears and repeating.
Expected behavior: one vine dropped per side covered
Actual behavior: exactly one vine dropped
How to reproduce
Place two blocks down, one block apart from each other
Place a block behind the gap and above it, see screenshot
Inside the hole, place a vine on each exposed side
In survival mode, attack the vines using shears
❌ notice that the vines block drops only one vine, despite having 4 within its block space
Linked issues
is duplicated by 5
MC-163107
complete vine retrieval impossible
Resolved
MC-190810
Vine bug
Resolved
MC-225988
Inconsistency vines with glow lichen
Resolved
MC-260958
Placing 4 vines inside a single block and then breaking them with shears drops only 1
Resolved
MC-299729
Vines that grow in the corner of two blocks only drop one vine.
Resolved
relates to 2
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Comments 17
I think you misunderstood this ticket. This is not a request for the ability to dupe vines by placing and breaking, this is indisputably a bug. You can lose tons of vines by simply placing and shearing. Also, is inconsistent that if there are multiple vines sharing blockspace and you shear them you only get one vine back regardless of how many vines you actually sheared at once.
@Jbomb01 Don't worry: the status of this issue has been updated since Grum's comment, and it is not marked as Working as Intended anymore. You can use the "All" tab to see his comment in the context of there changes that have happened to the issue, which should clear everything up.
Yeah I see that it is not Work As Intended anymore, but I wanted to make it clear what exactly was the bug, because if a Mojang employee didn't understand it, other people might not either.
tryashtar
Placement feature doesn't mean you suddenly get more out of them 🙂