In 1.20.5, Looting was made to work properly with bows and arrow-shooting-crossbows, should the enchantment be applied to them via commands (or an anvil in Creative Mode). However, trident projectiles and firework-shooting-crossbows still fail to activate the enchantment. For crossbow fireworks, this applies both to direct hit kills and indirect explosion kills.
Expected Result: Looting activates on kills dealt with trident projectiles and crossbow fireworks (both direct hit & explosion)
Observed Result: Looting fails to activate on kills dealt with trident projectiles and crossbow fireworks (both direct hit & explosion)
Attachments
Comments 2
This is because the Looting enchantment only works when the item is held in the mainhand.
After testing, Looting functions correctly when a trident or crossbow is held in the mainhand. Since tridents are thrown in Survival mode, Looting does not apply in that case — I believe this is working as intended, as referenced in https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC/issues/MC-99063.
Looting works normally when holding a trident or crossbow in the main hand. You can refer to the video below:
Hi!
Thank you for your report!
Could you please provide more details. As we have no repro of this issue.
Could you please record a video of the issue and upload it?
Can you list the commands you used to obtain the crossbow and trident?
Quick Links:
📓 Issue Guidelines – 💬 Mojang Support – 📧 Suggestions – 📖 Minecraft Wiki