[MC-92849] mob kills due to knock back from a sweep attack fail to reward EXP

Expectation: Knocking a group of skeletons into lava using the sweep attack should reward EXP for the entire group.

Result: EXP was rewarded only for the skeleton directly hit (I.E. damaged) by the sword.

To Reproduce: Gather a group of skeletons in a 1x1 hole with lava suspended above their heads. Using a sweep attack on the skeletons will knock them all into the lava, killing them, but only reward EXP for the skeleton damaged by the attack.

Linked issues

relates to 1

MC-272077 Entities hit by indirect sweeping attacks receive more knockback than entities hit by direct sweeping attacks Open

testing discovered 1

MC-93669 The sweeping attack doesn't ignite other mobs when using the fire aspect enchantment Resolved

Comments 3

rydian 2015-11-17T06:35:51Z

It may not be intended since you didn't actually damage them.

(I wonder if a fixed 0.5 damage amount for swept enemies would be alright balance-wise.)

Jens Bergensten 2015-12-01T11:46:10Z

First I fixed it as you suggested (0.5 points of damage), but it was really fun so I bumped it to half a heart instead (1 point of damage) 🙂

Nathan Ryan 2015-12-01T11:52:29Z

Hah, that's going to make my Zombie-Pigman XP farm much more interesting. With a bunch of damaged pigman packed into one spot, an attack will 1-hit kill only one of them, but damage the rest. I expect that the new damaging sweep attack will cause other pigmen in the area to agro.