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.

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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 can confirm that this bug affects mobs killed with either projectile--arrows or thrown tridents. Since trident killers use thrown tridents, it affects all trident killers too.

I've done some tests to clarify that mobs killed by projectile weapons DO drop player-kill loot (example: spider eyes from spiders). They DO NOT drop equipment, including weapons/tools and armor.

To test equipment drops I killed 64 pillagers 6 different ways in creative mode and got the following drops:

• Kill by arrow shot by bow: 72 arrows

• Kill by thrown trident: 72 arrows

• Kill by mele trident: 57 arrows, 11 crossbows

• Kill by trident killer: 66 arrows

• Kill by trident killer while holding looting 3 sword: 153 arrows

• Kill by looting 3 sword: 125 arrows, 21 crossbows

I've seen similar results with my survival mode skeleton spawner farm. Skeletons killed by either thrown tridents or arrows shot by a crossbow do not drop bows or armor.

Edit: note that weapons/armor dropped by raids are not actually carried/equipped by the raiders, so they are not affected by this bug. This bug only affects drops of equipped items. (The one exception for raids is crossbows, which are normal pillager equipment and thus are not dropped in raid farms that use trident-killers, whilst all of the iron items do drop.) 

This issue is also no platform specific, I have replicated on Windows 10 and also running a dedicated bedrock server

Still affects beta 1.16.0.58. Killing drowned with tridents using a trident will have a zero percent chance of dropping one. 

Added a world for help reproducing this. Kill the 1 HP zombies with your fist and equipment will drop sometimes, use the bow and it won't

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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When the fix for this bug releases, you may find that you get far more equipment drops than you expect. That issue is tracked at MCPE-80504. You may wish to leave a vote.