My Looting III diamond swords are not causing greater drops. It's most notable with Endermen, which I used to get 1-3 ender pearls with each kill with a Looting III sword. Tonight I killed 5 endermen in the span of a few minutes and didn't get a single pearl. That's not "Bad Luck", that's "Something is Broken".
I'm playing on a Survival Hard Realm; mobs have been spawning like crazy since the update.
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It doesn't seem to be affecting the meat drops for livestock, which are still what I've become accustomed to with Looting III
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I'm confirming this. I have a looting III/sharpness III/mending sword.
At the base of my mob grinder I've put a bunch of dirt about to lure the occasional enderman. I used to get enderpearls nearly every drop, often more than one. But not in the last few weeks. I've now killed 8 endermen and counting w/out a single pearl. Something is off.
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Well, after getting a couple more endermen w/ no drops (10 in a row total), I just killed 2 and they each dropped 2 pearls. It may be that it was bad luck for me after all.
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It's still happening, and over the long haul, I don't get any greater loot from killing things like slimes, magma cubes or endermen with my Looting III sword than I do with my bow. I'm not even using my sword much anymore except to kill endermen, as outside of this one function, swords have become rather pointless without a working Looting III enchantment.
[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
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Also noticeable with Zombie Pigmen. I used to get at least a nugget with every couple of kills, sometimes a gold sword as well. It seems like the gold nugget drops for them has also dropped off, but I'll have to hunt down more of them to know for sure.