[MC-74257] Local difficulty has no effect in Easy

The maximum value for local difficulty in Easy is 1.5, while everything that uses it doesn't have any effect until local difficulty passes 2.0. Thus, in Easy, zombies and skeletons don't get armor, don't get enchanted weapons, can never pick up dropped equipment, and so on.

Comments 5

kumasasa 2014-11-11T07:13:13Z

That's sounding pretty intended.
Easy = No armor, no enchanted weapons.

Anomie X 2014-11-11T12:14:29Z

If it were intended then why not skip the calculation of local difficulty entirely for Easy? Why pretend the local difficulty rises from 0.75 to 1.5 when it has no effect?

I note mobs would spawn with armor and so on in 1.7 on Easy.

user-f2760 2015-07-31T13:26:31Z

this sounds intended to me

amefeu 2015-10-16T20:32:32Z

I would assume that the difficult from .75 to 1.5 would affect spawn rates

Anomie X 2015-10-16T20:39:45Z

You would assume wrong, because local difficulty has no effect on spawn rates on any difficulty level.

But as of 15w38a there is now one effect: chance of a lightning bolt spawning skeleton trap horses is affected by local difficulty even in easy.