[MC-33373] Luck of the Sea not working correctly

Either working as intended and enormously flawed, or there's a bug in Luck of the Sea.

According to the wiki, is doesn't raise the change of treasure, but reduces the appearance of "junk".

the "bug" stems from my suspicions of the enchant categorizing "treasure" as "junk".

My tests have shown that poles enchanted with LotS III catch a lot of fish and very little items (from either category) while poles with no enchants are more likely to catch items (regardless of category).

Maybe a tweak that could be done is make LotS affect the rate at which items drop from the treasure category. This is most likely what people thought when the enchant first came out anyway.

Thanks

Linked issues

is duplicated by 2

MC-35187 Fishing after two hours did not get any Lilly pads or other random loot with Luck of the Sea x3 Resolved

MC-56280 Fishing Does Not Give "Item" Loot. Resolved

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CubeTheThird 2013-10-01T13:12:26Z

This is currently the intended behaviour. According to the wiki, it also says that junk is replaced with fish, hence the increase in fish when using it.
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Barbara Crowley-Kaufman 2013-10-01T13:22:59Z

You completely misread my post.

You or the wiki never mention it's function to also reduce treasure as well as junk.

As it stands now, you get pretty much nothing but fish with this enchant.

If that's the intended function, then it's seriously flawed and needs fixed.

Ezekiel 2013-10-01T14:13:02Z

Decreases odds of catching worthless junk
Lowers frequency of "junk" catches by swapping them to fish.

Therefor, the likely hood of fish drastically increases, which is what Luck of the Sea would do. The treasures are unrelated to this.

Barbara Crowley-Kaufman 2013-10-01T14:22:22Z

I feel like I'm being trolled when all I'm doing is trying to report what I feel is a bug.

I know what LotS is supposed to do, this is why I'm reporting.

Compared to a normal rod, the amount of treasure caught is about half.

For example a plain jane rod with no enchants got me a name tag, 2 books a saddle, an enchanted bow and an enchanted rod. This is along with fish and junk.

A LotS rod got me a name tag and a saddle a ton of fish and about as much junk as the normal rod.

Is it clear now?

These averages are solid through 7 of each rod in testing and 3 in my survival world.

Ezekiel 2013-10-01T15:31:39Z

Reopening because this may need rebalancing even if its not a bug, and I definitely see your point.

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galaxy_2alex 2013-10-06T10:26:37Z

Can confirm this, allthough I get any treasure items at all, and sometimes when I get a catch, it "fails" and I won't get anything from that it. The only thing I got besides fish is a wooden bowl, using a Rod with LotS II and Lore II.

galaxy_2alex 2013-11-27T20:30:04Z

As fishing did not change and this bug isn't marked as fixed, yes, it is still a concern.

Ezekiel 2013-11-27T20:34:32Z

Have you actually tested that?

Barbara Crowley-Kaufman 2013-11-27T21:46:20Z

I've done a bit of testing since full launch and yes, it seems that you're still crippled using anything but unbreaking on a fishing rod.

Coconut_Oil 2014-04-27T21:53:15Z

I still see this behavior in 14w11b. Very few non-fish items when the rod has FotS III on it. Get the expected number of non-fish items with unenchanted rod.

Nicholas Bronner 2014-08-09T23:24:28Z

Using an luck of sea level 100 (edited with NBTExplroer) it catches treasure every time. This is not a bug, it's just that level 3 luck of sea is low enough to make it barely worth noticeable. Because 5% changed to 8% percent luck of sea level 3 is not noticeable.

Fang Zhang 2014-09-11T12:24:31Z

Dug a little into the code and found nothing obviously wrong (I'm using 1.8)...

It would help if you report some exact data on the item-to-fish ratio.

By the way, if you don't know already, LotS does increase the probability of treasures, by 1% per level.

Fang Zhang 2014-09-11T13:55:07Z

Well, this distribution does not feel right. With a vanilla rod, 5/50 treasure and 3/50 junk? Not the most impossible thing in the world, but certainly unlikely... (see screenshot)

galaxy_2alex 2014-10-25T21:08:56Z

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.

user-f2760 2016-03-18T16:44:19Z

No response for over a year.

marcono1234 2016-08-29T22:01:35Z

Should not be the case anymore as loot tables are used now and Luck of the Sea acts like normal luck.

Jon 2020-06-26T20:23:48Z

I am having the issue of my lots 3, lure 3, unbreaking 3, mending fishing rod not catch any treasure after fishing for many more than 6 hours.

galaxy_2alex 2020-06-26T20:50:55Z

@Jon: Check the changelog, treasure can only be gotten in 1.16 when fishing in open waters - in the future, please also refrain from commenting on very old closed reports.