To those who say “trident killers are enough”:

We, as redstone engineers, respectfully ask you to reconsider.

The tipped arrow mechanic (Instant Damage/Instant Health) has been a cornerstone of Bedrock technical survival for years. When an arrow deals lethal damage, it is not consumed — this allows us to build efficient, resource‑free kill chambers that fully benefit from Looting enchants, while handling massive entity counts (e.g., slime reactors, gold farms, XP banks) that trident killers simply cannot process in time.

Tridents are single‑target. Tipped arrows are area‑of‑effect. They are not interchangeable — they serve different purposes. Removing this mechanic breaks countless player‑built contraptions, not because we “relied on a bug”, but because it was a consistent, documented behaviour that we designed our farms around for years.

We are not asking to keep a bug; we are asking to revert this specific change — or at least provide an alternative that preserves the same functionality (multi‑target, Looting‑compatible, non‑consumable kills).

Please understand that this affects a large part of the technical community. We would greatly appreciate it if you could support us in requesting a rollback from the developers. Thank you for reading. 🙏

Trident killers are still a thing and a viable alternative. Also, tipped arrows are easy and inexpensive to craft thanks to the cauldron behavior on MCBE which allows for dispenser as an alternative. The “bug” you describe is actually a fix for an existing bug. Farms shouldn’t rely on obvious bugs, as it is clear that they will be fixed someday. I strongly urge Mojang to keep the fix for this particular bug, as it does not fit the game’s nature for errors to persist after hitting an entity.

This report belongs on the Minecraft Feedback site as it works as intended and does not describe an actual bug.

Just like the Java edition kept TNT duplication to make the game more fun, the Bedrock edition should also keep tipped arrows.

Instant-kill tipped arrows are of vital importance to the Bedrock Edition redstone survival community. Removing this mechanic from the version would spell disaster for the community, with the key issues outlined below:

1. Fish farms would stop functioning entirely, cutting players off from a reliable early-game source of mass bones and drastically ramping up survival difficulty.

2. Slime farms built around Corrosion Potions and Lurking Potions, as well as standard slime-chunk farms, spawn slimes at an extremely high rate. Tipped arrows are mandatory to dispose of them quickly enough; without this mechanic, worlds or servers will inevitably crash.

Countless other farms would also become completely unusable. I strongly urge the developers to revert the update and preserve this feature, much like how the Java Edition retains TNT duplication to enrich gameplay variety.

TIPPED ARROW KILL CHAMBER IS NOT BUG,

IT IS PART OF THE GAME

You can't just expect Mojang to introduce a brand-new bug in an update, and then completely break other features just to "fix" it. That’s like decapitating someone just to cure a common cold.

​Tipped arrow kill chambers have been around for a very long time, and countless farms rely on this mechanic to function—it was never treated as a bug. The real issue only started because a recent preview update caused arrows to never disappear, rather than staying only when killing a low-health mob with one shot. That is the actual bug Mojang was trying to patch.

​It’s not a question of whether it’s "inexpensive" or not. Are TNT dupers in Java Edition expensive? No.This tipped arrow mechanic doesn't hurt casual players at all; in fact, it’s vital to the late-game experience for many.

​I strongly urge Mojang to roll this back and restore tipped arrows to how they originally worked. You shouldn't mess with some parameters in a preview version, turn a working feature into a bug, and then resort to a "headache-solving decapitation" that removes it entirely. This comes down to whether the developers respect the player base or not.

​Bedrock players shouldn't be treated like neglected orphans. Continuously making decisions like this will only drive players away from Bedrock, hurting its market and revenue as everyone migrates to Java Edition or simply chooses to abandon the game. The developers should be supporting and maintaining the Bedrock community, which is why I strongly advise Mojang to preserve the tipped arrow mechanic and roll it back to its original state.

​In conclusion, whether a game is worth playing completely depends on the developers' attitude toward their players. Take the Java Edition developers, for example—they respect the player community, which is why they chose not to patch TNT duping even though they could. If the Bedrock team continues to pull these "headache-solving decapitation”stunts and completely ignores player feedback, then I want to say this: no player who truly loves this game has a weak spine.If the developers don’t respect the players at all,the Bedrock market will absolutely never generate better revenue. In the end, player bleeding is never the players' fault, and the developers seriously need to reflect on this.

The way to obtain a trident is more difficult than a potion arrow. We really hope to retain this feature, which will give players more choices when building a biological farm, rather than just choosing to use Trident Killer. If we choose to make this feature disappear, the gameplay will become monotonous and boring. This is not what we hoped for. I hope that after careful consideration, the Potion Arrow Killer will be allowed to become the second Trident Killer. This can make the gameplay more diverse and the player's gaming experience better.

The kill-pass tipped arrow is a legacy Bedrock feature used widely in redstone farms for years. The fix in 26.40.30 breaks nearly all vanilla arrow farms. Please revert this change and keep it as an official feature, similar to Java TNT duping.