Absorption hearts do not appear to flash when taking damage

Can confirm

This is a feature request.

It’s been six years and it’s still unclear to me what part of this counts as a feature request - MC-206881, which deals with this exact issue for a different type of heart, was not given this treatment, and was instead outright triaged as a legitimate issue, and has remained valid ever since.

If the thing that makes this a feature request is the lack of a texture file and that requesting that a new texture be implemented means this is a change request rather than a legitimate bug report, then MC-207252 would fall afoul of this in the exact same way, yet we also see that it recieved a Mojang triage at around the exact same time rather than any opposition. In addition, other tickets, such as MC-268819, have historically been fixed by adding new user interface textures, so that reason for invalidation doesn't hold up from what I can see either.

The current behaviour - where absorption hearts unceremoniously disappear without a flashing animation in stark contrast to normal hearts - is very visually jarring, inconsistent, and does not indicate loss of health to the player as clearly as in other cases. If this won’t be reopened, I would very much like to hear what the justification for this being a feature request is when the others are not, since I myself can't seem to figure out why.

Adding to the above comment, since I can't find an edit button: this report was created when icons.png existed, but that atlas was split around halfway between the report’s creation and the present day, meaning the circumstances have also changed considerably since then.