The block drops in explosion will always merge into some stacked items, but the loot from entites will not. This is some kind of inconsistency with the explosion.
Steps to reproduce:
Ignite a TNT to destory some blocks
Observed that block drops have merged together, the number of item entites is usually 1 or 2
Ignite a TNT to blow up some monsters
Observed that entity loots are scattered everywhere
Expected behaviour:
Both of the drops are merged or scattered.
Environment
Vanilla
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The blocks tend to merge in larger groups whilst the mob loot merges in smaller units. I tested it and the blocks merged in groups ranging from 16-20 whilst the mob loot ranged from 2-6. It probably was an intended feature to distinguish each mob.