Mobs don't drop equipped items when killed with projectiles

Mobs never drops their equipment when killed using bow or crossbow, including witch and wandering trader when drinking potion

Related ticket MCPE-48891 describes a bug in 1.12 in which skeletons don't drop rare drops when killed with any non-Looting weapon.

Hi guys, first comment in this JIRA. LMK if there is better way/place to do what I am doing.

Quick question: Is this issue being worked on or planned to be fixed?

I'm facing the same issue here. In my mob farm, if I make them near dead and last-hit with my sword, I get enchanted equipments, etc. But if I turn on the grinder with trident, I don't get such equipments at all.

The bug tracker doesn't get status updates for Bedrock bugs. Once an issue has been passed to the devs (which this one has, btw), we normally don't know what's being done about it until they tell us it's fixed.

I don't think the problem with your mob grinder is the same as this one. After 1.14 there were a lot of reports about so-called "trident killers" not working any more because the tridents were getting shaken out of the blocks they'd been embedded in. I'd suggest searching again using keywords like "trident killer farm".

Hi @Auldrick

> After 1.14 there were a lot of reports about so-called "trident killers" not working any more because the tridents were getting shaken out of the blocks they'd been embedded in.

I don't think that's my problem here. I followed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kME3fYqydbI to build the trident killer and it is killing mobs fine (the tridents never left the blocks). I'm getting all the experience and the normal drops, just not the equipments the mobs were wearing. So I believe my problem (i.e. mobs not dropping the equipments they were wearing when killed by trident killer with me nearby) is what this issue was about.

Thanks for the info that we won't know the progress until they tell us this is fixed.

BTW, I don't see 1.14.1 mentioned in the "Affects Version/s" section. Should this be updated to reflect that 1.14.1 also appears to be affected?

Thank you again for your reply. I appreciate it.

Thanks,

Roy

I request this not to be fixed as it is great for mob farms as you dont have to sort out bows and other equipment drops. This only has a noticeable negative effect for drowned farms and for most cases using an autoclicker or just manually killing them is fine.

Confirmed in 1.16.20... Mobs DO NOT DROP equipped items like tools / armor when killed by tridents... Can't confirm for other projectiles though!! 

Please fix this ASAP as this affects the TRIDENT KILLERS YOU ONLY GET NORMAL DROPS AND NOT THE EQUIPPED STUFF WITH THIS !!!

@visual a simple non stackable item filter will solve you having to sort manually.

Would be nice to have the Zombie Piglins drop their gold swords in my gold farm so I can smelt for more gold.

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