This seems to be a cross platform issue and has had troubles since at least 2015, by the look of previous posts.
I have found that a Fortune II enchantment continues to allow a shovel to mine gravel without issue, and your flint drops improve appropriate to the enchantment. However, if the shovel is increased to a Fortune III enchantment, it discontinues gravel drops when mining these blocks. Flint will drop, as per the enchantment's improvement, but it will fail to produce gravel all-together.
This was true for me on both the Bedrock edition and the Xbox One edition. People on Java are apparently seeing this problem too in years past. I've resorted to using a lesser shovel, but it seems like the better shovel should actually be better and not detract from your resource accumulation.
I've seen this issue while using a Diamond Shovel with the following enchantments:
Fortune III
Unbreaking III
Mending I
Efficiency V
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Fortune II seems to have a diminished drop rate of gravel as well. 90% of the time it seems to drop as it should, but sometimes it will act like the Fortune III enchantment and only drop flint with no gravel.
Fortune II seems to have a diminished drop rate of gravel as well. 90% of the time it seems to drop as it should, but sometimes it will act like the Fortune III enchantment and only drop flint with no gravel.
Okay, then my curiosity is why we should want a shovel to not drop gravel if we wish to use it elsewhere? Avoid Fortune enchantments altogether if we are mining gravel?
Okay, then my curiosity is why we should want a shovel to not drop gravel if we wish to use it elsewhere? Avoid Fortune enchantments altogether if we are mining gravel?
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