When mining a cauldron filled with lava, the cauldron does not drop as an item. It does drop when filled with water.
Steps to reproduce:
open a world in Survival mode, any difficulty.
Place an empty cauldron.
Fill cauldron with lava bucket.
Mine filled cauldron with pick axe (I used an iron one).
Observed Results:
Cauldron is destroyed
Expected Results:
An Empty Cauldron should drop as an item to be picked up by the player. You lose the lava that it held, but retain the Cauldron.
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Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been temporarily closed as Awaiting Response
Could you please attach video of the issue occurring?
Also, just a reminder, to make your bug report as effective as possible, please try and include the following steps to reproduce the problem:
Steps to Reproduce:
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2.
3.Observed Results:
(Briefly describe what happens)Expected Results:
(Briefly describe what should happen)
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I do not have a video, but can give you the instructions to easily repeat below:
Steps to reproduce:
open a world in Survival mode, any difficulty.
Place an empty cauldron.
Fill cauldron with lava bucket.
Mine filled cauldron with pick axe (I used an iron one).
Observed Results:
Cauldron is destroyed
Expected Results:
An Empty Cauldron should drop as an item to be picked up by the player. You loose the lava that it held, but retain the Cauldron.
NOTE: filling cauldron with water in place of lava yields the proper result.
Here is what actually happens: the cauldron does drop, but the game creates the cauldron item before removing the lava cauldron block, and the cauldron item then gets destroyed inside the lava cauldron block!
In this video you can briefly see the cauldron item burning up:
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Here are frames from the above video showing each burning cauldron item: