Mobs are not dropping armor/held items.

Thank you for your report! However this is WAI (working as intended.)  Mobs have a low chance to drop armor/tools they spawn with if you give them the tools/armor they will drop it 100% of the time. Have a great day! 🙂

Ok I guess it must just be the world I created because I have killed countless mobs with armor and have not received a single piece of armor even with my looting 3.

I know you guys said that mobs have a low chance to drop armor/tool...
I made a pillager/raid farm and a skeleton farm, none of them drop bow or crossbow, with looting 3. Also I made drowned farm and you know what, I get a lot of trident from that farm alone without using looting sword (from minecraft wiki, it said there's 11% chance of getting trident).
In skeleton and raid farm? I didn't get a single bow or crossbow (from minecraft wiki, it said there's 11% chance of getting bow from skeleton using looting 3 sword and 44% chance of getting crossbow from pillager using looting 3 sword)
I noticed this bug in 1.12 beta version

Have encountered this whilst on the 1.12 betas and 1.13 beta, uninstalled the game (un-enrolled from beta) reinstalled and tested mobs on 1.11 both in survival and creative - all mobs dropping weapon  and armour as normal.

As soon as the 1.12 release came out and the game updated the issue is reoccurring, no weapon or armour drops at all no matter how many mobs killed. 

Experiencing this and tested on Windows 10 and also Xbox one. Usually play on a local multiplayer Lan game with my partner and child.

Ever since the this latest update both our Skeleton and Zombie spawner grinders no longer drop armor, weapons or tools. We had an overflow of gold and leather armor and now, nothing.

@Don Cox This is not WAI (working as intended) Ever since the 1.12 updated Mobs (Skeleton, Zombies) are not dropping Armor, Bows etc. You seem to have your facts wrong. Both my farms skeleton and zombie have not and do not drop these items since the update. I play hard mode only and this function is not working...

I have had the same problem since the last update. No armors or Swords. 

I play in windows 10.

Reproduction of the bug:

Create a flat world. Put a skeleton spawner at y = 24, casting shadows over the spawner. Kill all skeleton falling down. They only drop arrows and bones, no bows or armor. The same problem is with the Zombie Pigman

Also having this issue.  It seems like it is only a problem in worlds because it worked fine on the realm I was playing in.

I downloaded the realm and went to the same skele farm and only received bones & arrows whereas armor and bows dropped while using the farm on the realm.

*edit* The realm portion of this was a coincidence.  The issue seems to also affect the realm in the same way as the world.

This issue goes even deeper than this. I have reported a separate bug where mobs are not spawning with any armor or handheld items at all. I have had a Realm for about 2 weeks, standard vanilla 1.14 Bedrock on Xbox, and not a SINGLE piece of armor has spawned on any mob. I have a zombie spawner set for collection right by the main village for the world, and no person playing on the Realm has seen any armor appear. We get all variants of zombie, baby, villager and regular. No items, ever. This Realm is used by people on the Switch, PC and Xbox, and the results are the same.

Please fix this! I depend on these drops for armor and xp!

We are tracking an issue of skeletons not dropping their bows (well, rarely) at MCPE-48891. There are indications that the problem is more general, affecting the dropping of armor, tools, and weapons by other mobs. Skeletons, at least, do drop bows, but much less frequently than they used to, and possibly only if you have a Looting (3?) sword. Mobs also seem to spawn wearing armor much less frequently. We are researching the extent of these problems.

I'm not getting any drops from hostile mobs outside the normal Arrows/bones/zombie flesh/gunpowder. I'm on Windows 10 Bedrock version. I do have plenty of mobs wearing armor and toting weapons and shovels but they never drop.

I came to report I discovered a similar bug on my Xbox. In my world I have a skeleton spawner mob farm. I’ve had problems with spawn rates (pretty sure I’m missing nearby caves/dark spots) affecting how steady I gain xp. Recently I decided to add a simple trident killer so I can get steady XP. I immeadiately noticed that when I have the grinder on that I was only getting only arrows and bones and uncommonly a bow. As soon as I turn the grinder off and go back to killing mobs manually the missing drops return. I am currently using 1.13.0.3.

@Ronald if it helps at all, I think yours is a problem with the (thrown) trident killers. See comments in https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-48891 for a little bit more context.

is fixed in 1.14

I am seeing this is 1.14. I get drops when using my looting 3 sword. I don’t get the drops if I use Trident or Bow. Not sure if it is related to the looting 3 or the ranged weapons, but I never get drops of weapons/armor when using my bow.

Thank you for your report!
However, this issue is a Duplicate of MCPE-48891.

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For those of you experiencing lack of equipment drops from trident killers or when killing mobs by bow or thrown trident, please see MCPE-44408, and add your vote there.