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For those of you who mentioned that loose tridents in the world are disappearing, that is a separate issue and is being tracked as MCPE-141539.
Bug
When a mob gets killed by a projectile, the loot from the mob will not be applied with looting, resulting in less drops from the killed mob. This happend after the 1.17.30 update
Expected result
The loot from the mob gets applied with looting. Just like it happens on Java.
Observed result
The mob only drops the amount of loot that is the same as killing a mob without looting.
Steps to reproduce
Step 1: Shoot an arrow or trident against a Ghast with 1 or 2 health left (try punching the ghast 3 times before shooting)
Step 2: Switch as quick as possible to a looting 3 sword in your hand
Step 3: Look at what the Ghast drops, only 0-2 gunpowder and 0-1 ghast tears. This should be 0-5 gunpowder and 0-4 ghast tears per Ghast
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In 1.17.10, using a trident, the ghast drops:
-With trident:
3 gunpowder and 1 ghast tear. Because I got 3 gunpowder, means there must be looting applied as getting 3 gunpowder is impossible without looting (max loot of gunpowder without looting is 2 gunpowder
-With bow:
3 gunpowder and 4 ghast tears. The multiple ghast tears shows that looting is definitely applied in 1.17.10 on mobs killed by looting
In 1.17.30+ (the recording is done in 1.17.40.21, but 1.17.30 experience the same issue as seen by the other attachments)
-With trident:
1 gunpowder. Because I got only 1 gunpowder, it can be said looting is not applied
-With bow:
1 gunpowder and 1 ghast tears. This once again shows looting is not applied if mobs are killed by projectiles
In Java you can see, after throwing the trident, it will drop the loot with looting applied. This means the change in 1.17.30 is in disparity with Java
Linked issues
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Added context. Trident killers using the looting effect are a required part of Minecraft Bedrock edition gameplay to balance the game further towards Java. Java edition has a much larger mob spawn rate, and mob cap, which allows all of it's hostile and passive mob farms to be incredibly faster than Bedrock Edition's farms. It also helps make up for the lack of Bedrock Edition not having sweeping edge, which allows for Java players to quickly kill large numbers of mobs with a single attack, getting the looting effect applied to all mobs killed. Bedrock does not have an equivalent to this.
Trident killers are used to bridge this gap.
We could not reproduce the issue.
Could you provide a video of this happening? If the file is too big, upload it elsewhere and link it here.
Attached a video showing this with looting 255 sword(obtained by inventory editing). Looting effect is clearly not applied to mobs killed by projectiles
[media]This is a severe nerf to Bedrock players, as others have noted. For example, with drowned-copper farms bedrock players cannot make use of the reinforcement mechanic present in Java to get faster drop rates. Factoring in the nerf from this bug makes it really hard to get renewable copper for all console and mobile players. Hopefully it gets a hotfix in days rather than weeks.
Thank you for the additional information - the repro steps and video examples we have now should be enough, and the issue is being looked into by the team.
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Tested related scenarios:
Looting applies if you kill mobs with a harming potion while holding a looting sword.
It does not apply if you kill a mob with TNT while holding a looting sword.
It does not apply if your tamed wolf kills a mob while you hold a looting sword.
Note that projectile looting is reported as a bug in Java Edition at MC-3304.
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