More precisely, both types of nether roots. (Nether Vines and Nylium are supposed to drop themselves when mined by normal means. Nether sprouts now drop only when mined by shears, so they are fixed.)
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Crimson roots dropping without shears is inconsistent with normal grass. When I am using bonemeal on Nylium to harvest lots of fungi, it's annoying to also be collecting the roots as they serve no purpose currently.
I mean, I guess it makes sense as shears are hard to obtain in the nether, but it does seem inconsistent with how the overworld's shrubbery is obtained.
But this isn't the case in the Bedrock codebase. Mega Spud resolved the ticket as WAI when this was created. Refer to MCPE-66941. Plus, it's inconsistent with how the rest of the vegetation works.
No longer happens with nether sprouts in 20w19a. Can still confirm for crimson roots and warped roots.
Can confirm for 1.16 rc-1, I would like to request ownership of this report so I can continue to update it
How can this ever have been a bug? Has it ever been a documented feature that you need shears to collect nether plants? How come feature requests get raised as bugs and then changed. This is specifically an issue as it's now been raised as a parity issue for bedrock, where nether plants are extremely useful for bone meal farming
Nylium and the vines are supposed to work without Silk Touch.