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Harvesting Sweet Berries with Fortune enchantment

Harvesting Sweet Berries with Fortune enchanted tools does not yield an increase in item drops. I have done quite a few tests harvesting ("Use" button) and also mining ("Mine" button) rows of 64 Sweet Berries.

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... extensive testing...

(Steps to Reproduce) In a Creative Flat world, commands such as...

/fill ~1 ~ ~ ~1 ~ ~63 dirt
/fill ~1 ~1 ~ ~1 ~1 ~63 sweet_berry_bush ["growth": 3]

... will produce a row of 64 mature Sweet Berry bushes on dirt blocks in front of the player. 

As far as I am aware, harvesting most crops (including Nether Wart) with Fortune tools will give an increase in drops, acknowledging that Wheat and Beetroot only increase the seed drop rate. I would expect to see the same 50-150% increase when harvesting Sweet Berries.

From my tests, harvesting (Use action, not mining/breaking bush) 64 mature Sweet Berry bushes showed no increase in drop rate with Fortune enchanted tools over unenchanted/empty hands:

Tool

avg. Berry drops

Bare/Empty Hand

2.5

Shears

2.5

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

2.5

Axe w/ Fortune 3

2.5

Hoe w/ Fortune 3

2.5

Sword w/ Looting 3

2.5

At the previous "third stage" of berry bush growth (Age: 2), there is still no increase in drops when harvesting with Fortune enchant:

Tool

avg. Berry drops

Bare/Empty Hand

1.5

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

1.5

Mining the mature Sweet Berry bushes (bush is destroyed), revealed different results:

Tool

avg. Berry drops

Bare/Empty Hand

2.5

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

2.8

Sword w/ Looting 3

2.5

This very small 15% increase in drops while destroying the bushes with Fortune 3, is a very poor return, where I now have to replant the berries to grow more, effectively only returning around 1.8 avg. drops.

Thankyou for your consideration.

Next day edit:

Thinking about it overnight, I conducted more testing today:

Tool & Method

avg. Berry drops

Empty hand, harvested 

2.5

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 1, harvested

2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 2, harvested

2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3, harvested

2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)

Empty hand, mined

2.5

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 1, mined

2.625 (5% increase vs. unenchanted)

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 2, mined

2.75 (10% increase vs. unenchanted)

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3, mined

2.875 (15% increase vs. unenchanted)

For comparison, I tested other crops:

The following crops are harvested by mining the block/plant, which is where the Sweet Berries are different.

Crop

Tool

avg. item drops

Carrots

Empty hand

2.375

Carrots

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

6 (≈150% increase vs. unenchanted)

Potatoes

Empty hand

2.625

Potatoes

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

6 (≈130% increase vs. unenchanted)

Melons

Axe, unenchanted

5

Melons

Axe w/ Fortune 3

6.3 (≈25% increase vs. unenchanted)

Nether Wart

Empty hand

3

Nether Wart

Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3

4.3 (≈43% increase vs. unenchanted)

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Affects all versions, from 1.10.0.3 to 1.20.60.24

theFakeSheep

(Unassigned)

1163959

Confirmed

Multiple

Windows 10

fortune, sweet_berries, sweet_berry_bush

1.20.1 Hotfix, 1.20.51 Hotfix

1.20.80.20 Preview, 1.20.80

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