The sticks and planks dropped from a boat breaking is not controlled by a loot table, but instead is hardcoded. This issue was created due to the recent fix for MC-267866.
Steps to Reproduce:
Since this bug report is about functionality that is missing, the only way to verify this issue is to look into the various loot tables in the game either by decompressing the game jar, or looking in the code of the game.
Code analysis:
protected void checkFallDamage(double p_38307_, boolean p_38308_, BlockState p_38309_, BlockPos p_38310_) {
. . .
this.causeFallDamage(this.fallDistance, 1.0F, this.damageSources().fall());
if (!this.level().isClientSide && !this.isRemoved()) {
this.kill();
if (this.level().getGameRules().getBoolean(GameRules.RULE_DOENTITYDROPS)) {
-> ISSUE START
for(int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {
this.spawnAtLocation(this.getVariant().getPlanks());
}
for(int j = 0; j < 2; ++j) {
this.spawnAtLocation(Items.STICK);
}
-> ISSUE END
}
}
}
this.resetFallDistance();
}
. . .
}
Suggested Fix
Introduce a loot table for sticks and planks dropped from boats.
Notes:
Related to MC-94610 MC-149589 MC-269838 MC-269839 MC-269873 MC-269874 MC-269875
Linked issues
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Comments


Potentially duplicate of MC-109377

Apparently in 24w37a the planks and sticks drop from boats have been completely removed, so this report isn't longer valid, can you confirm?

The code that drops planks and sticks in Boat.java was completely removed in 24w37a.
I think the fact that boats still somehow drop planks and sticks is a bug in itself, since it's a legacy leftover feature from before boats were reworked in 1.9 (see MC-119369 and it's duplicates).