How to replicate the bug
Choose hard difficulty
Summon a wither
Take a skull in your body
Observed results
You don't have wither effect
Intended results
You should have wither II effect
Linked issues
is duplicated by 7
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You can be withered on normal difficulty, but not on hard and easy.
wither skulls hits are verry weak too.
You can be withered on normal difficulty, but not on hard and easy.
wither skulls hits are verry weak too.
Still happening in 1.21.51, this is so bad because I was watching Java players trying 100 days in Bedrock @JulienAzelart and @SB737Plus (Youtube), and I kept wondering why they didn't get withered, and the thing with Bedrock is that it gives you double (if not more) the time of the wither effect compared to Java Edition, so I had to check it myself, and I just can't get withered; that's why they thought Bedrock Edition wither was easy... Hard wither is our thing (our = "bedrock edition"); it was not stated in any changelog that they removed the wither effect, but they kept playing with the wither a lot (sounds, rotation, heads, loot tables, spawning animations, wither roses). They have to figure out when they broke it accidentally. If the next changelog says: "We made the wither easier" (or "removed wither effect"), it's straight up laziness.
In this video, Jysq can is seen being hit multiple times by the Wither Skull and still not being inflicted with the Withering effect at all. He was playing in hard mode the whole time while fighting the Wither.
Fixed on preview 1.21.80.27 and 1,21,72.
With wither II effect of 40 seconds.
And NO, I dont think bedrock wither is hard, but more fun to play. Java wither is annoying with regeneration effect effective. Both withers movement are predictable but java wither is annoying w/o power bow and tipped arrows. i could say that since i tried to change the hp of java wither to 600 (not closed arena) and its pain, but on bedrock you just need to dodge and dps, and dont stay close to it when phase 2, and they’re mostly the same (but on java, even when you used bow or crossbow, or trident to get it to phase 2, you gotta risk taking damage to do melee, but everything else is the same so its kinda boring except you dont him getting back to phase 1, at least bedrock wither got new attacks on phase 2}, saturation plays a role i guess. If you take exploit to define easiness, then every bosses able to be exploited are not hard either.
And that’s just my opinion anyways, since you may get your point to consider why “Hard wither is our thing”.
But again, dont bring personal opinions since this (Mojira} is a bug-reporting site, so just do what it does, thank you!