Minecraft version: Java 1.16.3, uncertain about earlier versions.
The issue mentioned in the summary above seems very similar to the already reported and currently on status: "resolved" issue, which also is affected by this (no longer resolved!):
The difference to that issue is that fish (cod) are still dropped, but no salmon/clownfish/pufferfish.
For the wiki still sais that guardians would drop the other fish types occasionally I was surprised to find only cod in my guardian farm as well as from killing them with a looting III sword, so far I got 2 doublechests full of them and nothing else.
I have left a note in mentioned issue MC-91152 a few days ago, but for no reply was given I was not certain if the note was seen and the issue would reopen, which is why I created this new bug report, I hope this is ok.
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Am I just out of luck? They dont drop them at a low surface level or out of water or in deep _cold_ocean? What am I not seeing?
No, I am not using any mods or datapacks. The world was created some time ago, though.
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The drops you are mentioning are player kill drops (at least they are now), are you sure that in previous versions, they even dropped when the guardian wasn't killed by a player?
Aaah, ok - this was not properly mentioned in the wiki:
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Guardian
"Guardians also have a 2.5% chance of dropping a random fish as an extra drop in addition to the normal fish drop. This chance is increased by 1% per Looting level, for a maximum of 5.5% with Looting III. This drop uses the same chances that fishing uses, resulting in a 60% chance for raw cod, a 25% chance for raw salmon, a 13% chance for pufferfish, and a 2% chance for tropical fish. A guardian on fire drops cooked fish."
For this reason I thought the drop chance was active for environment kills, too. I'll make the according change in the wiki, thanks for the info - I gave the swordkilling another chance and playerkills are indeed working to drop pufferfish, it seems I just didnt kill enough by hand the first try.
By the way, the pufferfish still is the hardest-to-farm - or at least the most-boring-to-farm brewing material in Minecraft singleplayer. I hope my guardian farm can change this once I optimized it for hand-made-kills. EDIT: It cant. Guardians or hoppers, I dont know what, is causing the framerate to go down tremendously unfortunately. Back to the fishing rod zZz.
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