"minecraft.custom:minecraft.damage_dealt" doesn't increase when using projectiles to attack entities

If i'm not wrong, thats because an arrow doesn't "know" if it was shot by a player or a hostile mob. Therefor the arrow is dealing the damage and not the player. So its not a bug - its just not implemented as you want it.

Confirmed for Minecraft 14w29b

So guess this is a "requested feauture" and they should just add a "owner" NBT for arrows.

@Searge, you know what the next "secret feature" will be ;D (and actually one, that poeple except for SethBling requested ...)

When we are at the topic and you read this, also please look at the request that other projectiles are able to do knockback to players
and a way to register "hitting" the player, even if it will not do damage. (for expample. stat.hitPlayer)

Masahiro Kurokawa this is NOT the suggestion page! (it is here: http://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftSuggestions)

Also you shouldn't decide about a report which is about something which works already for some entities and for other not is a future request or a bug.
That is the decision of the developers 😉

Then please see it as a "bugfix suggestion" ;D

The "bug" can be fixed by giving arrows a "Owner"-nbt tag, so you will be able to track them.
And yes, I can confirm this "bug"

It is true, arrows need really more tags, but I do not really understand how it works then with the team option friendly fire

Except mobs can determine who hit them, and players can't hurt each other with projectiles if pvp is disabled in server.properties. So the game has some way of knowing.

@Torabi, yeah, you can't pick up arrows from skeletons, that means that game must know that it came from a skeleton, also death messages says "[player] was shot by [player]", so I agree, the game must have some way of knowing.

the arrow only knows if it came from a player or not. But not from which player it came from.

it does know, [deathplayer] was shot by [shootingplayer/mob]

The last time I shot someone in a LAN world, the log said:
[22:14:27] [Server thread/INFO]: §9AndreNYH§r was shot by §9JediTFM§r
[22:14:27] [Client thread/INFO]: [CHAT] §9AndreNYH§r was shot by §9JediTFM§r
So it does know who shot the arrow.

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.8.1 Prerelease 3 / Launcher version 1.5.3 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

It's still on the 1.8.1 Prerelease 3, sadly 😞

I know this is a year old issue, but I'm just here to confirm that it still is a bug on the following versions: 1.8.9, 16w06a, and 16w07a.

I can confirm that this bug is still present in the 1.9 version of Minecraft

Confirmed in 1.9.3-pre1. Occurs with all non-melee attacks. Almost certainly intended.

Confirmed in 1.9.4.

Confirmed in 16w21b and lower 1.10 snapshots.

Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.

This is an automated comment on any open or reopened issue with out-of-date affected versions.

Yes, I can confirm this bug/inconsistency is still present in 1.10.2, as well as 16w44a.

Confirmed in 1.11.2

confirmed in 18w03b

confirmed in 18w22c, does not track arrow damage or thrown trident damage

Also I can't figure out how to update the versions affected, sorry 😛

Can confirm for Minecraft 1.14

Can confirm for Minecraft 1.14.2 - both bow and trident damage is not tracked

Confirming for 1.15 Pre-Release 1, tested with Bow, Trident, and Crossbow

Confirmed in 1.16.1.

Still happens in 20w27a

Still happens in 20w28a

Can confirm in 20w46a. 

This same concept also applies for:

• Bow

• Crossbow [Arrow]

• Crossbow [Firework]

• Trident

• Snowballs damaging blazes

I'd like to request ownership of this report as the reporter has been inactive since August 2014.

Can confirm in 20w51a.

Can confirm in 21w03a.

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Can confirm in 21w06b.

Can confirm in 21w07a. I'd like to request ownership of this ticket, since the current reporter has been inactive since August 2014. I am willing to keep it updated and provide all of the appropriate details regarding this issue.

yeah i just saw this when i was trying to make a custom weapon that gives you arrows when you deal damage to an entity and i hope this can get fixed in the future

1.15.2 doesn't work either