[MCPE-14211] Mobs don't pick up armor or tools when dropped or dropped by killed player

Zombies mobs don't pick up dropped tools and they don't put dropped armor on. Skeleton mobs don't put dropped armor on.

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is duplicated by 4

MCPE-27223 Monsters Do Not Pick Up Gear Resolved

MCPE-40361 Drowned & Items Resolved

MCPE-47482 Zombies don’t pick up items. Resolved

MCPE-70926 Mobs can’t pick up Armor Resolved

relates to 1

MCPE-9846 Mobs wearing armor drop that armor 100% of the time Resolved

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HyperCamel 2016-04-21T20:22:32Z

If I remember correctly, zombies don't always pick up items, it's sorta a random chance when the zombie spawns that it can pick up items.

rplatham 2016-05-17T20:05:48Z

I could not get any zombie to pick up an item or get a zombie that spawned with a weapon to exchange it for another one. Tested in MCPE 0.14.2 single player creative (hardest difficulty) on my Samsung Galaxy S6 (SM-G920W8), Android 5.1.1.

I've never observed a mob pick up an item in MCPE, so I thought I'd test it empirically.

To test I built a bedrock lined 3x3x3 hole, dropped in some items that would be tempting for a zombie to wield (see Wiki) and egg-spawned me a pile of zombies. None picked up the items. I blew them up with TNT (thus the bedrock lining) and repeated about 20 times. None of the zombies picked up items. From this I concluded zombies don't pick up items in MCPE.

I'm still uncertain if this is a bug or a feature that's not yet implemented.

billy 2016-05-17T22:17:58Z

I swear they added it awhile ago and it worked then.

BugCleaner12 2016-06-04T14:46:59Z

Affects 0.15.0 Build 1.

SuperGeniusZeb 2016-06-21T01:46:40Z

Can confirm for 0.15.0. (Tested on Windows 10.) I tried spawning tons and tons of zombies and threw tons of items into a small area, but I could never get a zombie to pick up an item.

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AMAN4700 2016-08-08T01:49:12Z

Please respond and add the current version if you can reproduce this issue.

SuperGeniusZeb 2016-08-08T04:03:17Z

Confirmed for 0.15.4. (Tested on Windows 10.)

Isaiah Varnado 2016-08-18T23:18:14Z

confirmed for 0.15.6

AMAN4700 2016-11-18T04:34:23Z

This is a bulk resolve of issues that haven't been updated to 0.16.0+ yet. Please comment below (To open the ticket) and update your affected versions. If you cannot reproduce the bug, please write in the comments so we can resolve it as "Cannot Reproduce". Thank You!

Specialistol 2016-12-11T22:00:39Z

This is pretty annoying. According to wiki, having mobs pick up diamonds is the only way to get the "throw diamonds to another player" achievement without having friends.

gatharian 2016-12-22T00:51:26Z

Still affects 1.0.0

internetuser1bill 2016-12-28T14:06:18Z

Bug confirmed on 1.0.0 tested by throwing diamond swords and diamond amour to like 30-50 zombies and skeletons that spawned from a spawner but not a single picked it up

Specialistol 2017-06-06T08:21:08Z

Looks like it isn't fixed in 1.1 either (~20 zombies, none picked up any diamonds).

Leon Hannan 2018-04-29T18:34:27Z

This seriously needs to be fixed because I really want to move to the Bedrock edition because it's a mechanic my RPG world needs in order to work

Lio 2018-06-21T20:41:47Z

Still affects 1.6.0.1

Lio 2018-06-28T17:12:20Z

Still affects 1.6.0.5

Lio 2018-07-12T00:47:55Z

Still affects 1.6.0.6

Lio 2018-07-30T19:04:21Z

Still affects 1.6.0.8

Justice 2019-01-01T17:21:43Z

Affects Beta 1.9.0.3

Lio 2019-06-10T06:12:01Z

Still affects 1.12.0.10 Beta

DrownedZombie 2019-06-10T06:36:02Z

I think the CanPickUpLoot tag hasn't been added to Bedrock. Though you can give mobs armor with dispensers facing towards mobs.

Euwill Eusebio 2019-06-10T08:54:50Z

After looking in the game's files, there's no behaviour that allows for mobs to do this. This isn't a bug, but a missing feature.

CrampedSpider72 2019-07-08T19:54:58Z

This bug does not make sense as of 1.13. Just tested the newest beta. Since foxes can pick up items, I don't see how other mobs can't pick them up

Euwill Eusebio 2019-07-11T05:50:49Z

@CSpider, that is because this is a feature that has to be there for foxes.

DrownedZombie 2020-04-18T04:24:47Z

Mobs are not picking up items again in beta 1.16.0.57.

CrampedSpider72 2020-04-18T19:57:54Z

They still do. Remember, not all zombies can pick up loot(much like baby zombies can ride other mobs). Though there is an issue where if they pick up other items(items that are not armor or weapons) and you kill them, they won't drop those items. This also includes elytra. Basically whatever they do not equip, disappears.

Jarl-Penguin 2020-05-21T07:32:26Z

Fixed as of 1.16.0.63. As @unknown mentioned, not all mobs have the ability to pick up loot, only a percentage of them do.

Chris Glosser 2020-08-04T16:32:44Z

I think there is confusion/missing info here. In my testing,

zombies created by the player (e.g spawn eggs in creative or with player created spawners) never create zombies that can pick up items
A certain percentage of zombies created by the game can pick up items
There is no command to summon zombies (or create a spawn egg) that has the pick up items tag in bedrock

are these correct?