Nether star item entities have the unique property that they are explosion-proof. This however does not apply if a nether star is buried in suspicious sand.
To reproduce
Run this command:
/setblock ~ ~ ~ minecraft:suspicious_sand{item:{id:"minecraft:nether_star",Count:1b}}Place TNT near the suspicious sand and interact with it with a flint and steel
Observed result
The nether star inside of the suspicious sand is explosion-proof and drops .
Actual result
The nether star does not drop.
Linked issues
Comments 8
Relates to MC-252469, expected result is that the nether star is not destroyed as it is explosion-proof.
Aha, that is important to know and understand. Based on the phrasing of the bug report I thought all other items would drop but only nether stars wouldn't.
Is it though? Nether stars do survive being blown up when inside shulker boxes or bundles, so this is just inconsistent.
I think the reason behind this is that the items in the suspicious sand are "fragile" and can only be retrieved by carefully extracting them with a brush. Since nether stars don't show up in suspicious sand in vanilla, adding them as an exception to that would be a feature request - whereas shulker boxes and bundles affect vanilla gameplay directly.
Does the suspicious sand drop anything when blown up if any other item is contained in it, or is this an issue specific to nether stars?