[MC-147347] Lighting a creeper with a flint and steel doesn't count as mob killed in statistics

If you light a creeper with a flint and steel, your "Mob killed" stat for "Creeper" will not increase.

Take a Creeper and a flint and steel
Do a right-click with the flint and steel on the Creeper
→ ❌ Watch your stats of "Mobs Killed" before and after this action.

Here is an example in video:

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Linked issues

Still in 1.14.2 Pre-Release 1 and 1.14.2 Pre-Release 2

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Can confirm in 1.17.1. Here is an alternate method of reproducing this issue:

Steps to Reproduce:

Create a scoreboard objective for tracking when you kill a mob and set it to display on the sidebar.

/scoreboard objectives add MobKills minecraft.custom:minecraft.mob_kills
/scoreboard objectives setdisplay sidebar MobKills

Obtain a sword and summon a creeper.
Kill the creeper using the sword.
→ ✔ Notice how the scoreboard increases.
Obtain a flint and steel and summon another creeper.
Use the flint and steel on the creeper to make it detonate.
→ ❌ Notice how the scoreboard doesn't increase therefore indicating that minecraft.custom:minecraft.mob_kills doesn't increase when killing a creeper through the use of a flint and steel.

Can confirm in 1.18.2 and 22w18a.

Feature perhaps, you don't even kill the Creeper, just igniting it as TNT.

In a word, ignite =/= kill.

Possibly is, seeing as it doesn't do a death animation, but you'll need a Mojang source saying so.

Can confirm in 1.19.

Can confirm in 1.19.2.

Can confirm in 24w46a.