[MCPE-9846] Mobs wearing armor drop that armor 100% of the time

An example, if I kill a zombie pigman with armor they drop full armor.

Steps to reproduce

Make sure your map is in creative mode. (This also affects the survival game play.)
Make sure your game difficulty is on the highest setting.
Spawn a zombie until one is wearing armor.
Give yourself a sword.
Switch to survival mode.
Kill the zombie that's wearing armor.

You will get all the armor the zombie was wearing. Repeat these steps and you will get even more sets of armor.

Linked issues

is cloned by 1

MCPE-11102 A mob with armour always drops the armour it wears Resolved

is duplicated by 11

MCPE-10494 Zombies that have armor drop all of it 100 percent of the time. Resolved

MCPE-10988 Zombies,skeletons, and zombie pigmen wearing armor have a 100% chance to drop their armor Resolved

MCPE-11469 drops Resolved

MCPE-11470 17381 Resolved

MCPE-11471 drops Resolved

6 more links

relates to 4

MCPE-17452 Zombies Do not drop armor Resolved

MCPE-14211 Mobs don't pick up armor or tools when dropped or dropped by killed player Resolved

MCPE-14613 Strays and husks have only one skin layer Resolved

MCPE-14706 Strays iron helmet armor texture bug Resolved

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Comments 27

Zenzoh 2015-08-15T00:20:18Z

Confirmed in Build 9

Namitha Kumar 2015-09-09T12:34:58Z

Still there on build 13 of 0.12.1.

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2015-09-26T13:37:56Z

Do you mean that mobs always drop their armour? If so then I will vote for this bug, if not I'll write a new one. The armour dropping 100% of the time is overpowered.
Also:
This goes for all armour wearing mobs, and the armour that gets dropped is nearly always at full durability.
Win 10 PC edition 0.12.1

Sammy 2015-10-05T18:59:05Z

Comfirm on iPad 4, iPhone 5s, Windows 10

Namitha Kumar 2015-10-14T10:36:21Z

Still present in 0.12.2. I was attacked by a skeleton with full gold armor. When i killed it, it dropped all its armor. Tested on
Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Gt-N7100 and Windows 10 edition.

17 more comments

Jamie Douglass 2015-10-19T19:29:48Z

Confirmed Windows 10 0.12.0 and 0.12.1. Added a picture of how much I actually have.

Aleksandra Zajac 2015-10-20T10:34:17Z

This issue is currently being fixed.

Namitha Kumar 2015-10-25T07:33:30Z

Bug still present in 0.12.3.

Namitha Kumar 2015-11-03T11:44:19Z

Still present in 0.13.0 build 1.

Sean Stewart 2015-11-20T18:02:53Z

Still happening on 0.13.0, using iPod Touch 5 Generation.

Aleksandra Zajac 2015-12-08T10:31:40Z

This issue was submitted for testing and fix.

Sammy 2016-01-11T11:32:22Z

This bug still affects version 0.13.1.
The bug has gotten worst, as now players can't see the armor on zombies, and only a bit on skeletons.

Namitha Kumar 2016-01-27T16:35:02Z

This bug is still present in build 1 of 0.14.0.

Sammy 2016-02-04T22:41:34Z

Bug present in 0.13.2

Torben Schamborski 2016-02-07T21:09:45Z

Confirmed for version 0.14.0 build 5
Device Samsung Galaxy Note3 Android 5.0

Kai Sharp 2016-02-12T03:10:37Z

You would think would be good, but it is just plain annoying. So... much... armor... (I did not spell that wrong. The grammar varies between countries.) This bug is on my Kindle Fire and my iPad.

Namitha Kumar 2016-02-23T11:44:50Z

This is still present on 0.14.0.

Joshua 2016-03-06T18:51:46Z

Present on my device which is an Ipod touch 5th generation. Minecraft pe version 0.14.0

Namitha Kumar 2016-04-13T11:40:58Z

This still affects MCW10 version 0.14.1.
Device: PC with Win 10 Pro

MacchuPicchu96 2016-06-01T00:12:59Z

Present on my iPhone 6S, running MCPE 0.14.3. I'd like to add two points to the discussion:
1) The importance of fixing this bug to Survival gameplay cannot be understated. A skilled Minecraft player with a set of stone tools can, after just the first night of a Survival world, easily acquire a half dozen full sets of gold and leather armor, much of it pretty well enchanted. There's no challenge in that. I want an armor drop from a mob to be an event, something exciting, something I'm proud to have, especially after just a few in-game days. But because armor drops are so common, almost none of it is valuable in any way. It's quite sad.
2) MCPE currently treats equipped armor on mobs as player-created armor that spawned with full durability. This means that if you kill an armored mob with potions, for example, the dropped armor will be at full durability. If you kill that same mob with a sword instead, their armor will take damage, resulting in a bunch of barely-damaged armor as seen in the picture posted above. But according to the Wiki, armor drops should have random durability, not full. I hope that this issue will be fixed alongside the major bug discussed here.

Maggie Mae Cufr 2016-06-01T01:53:33Z

same here. i hope it gets fixed in the next update i have this bug on win10 as well not sure though on my ipod 4th gen mcpe though.

SuperGeniusZeb 2016-06-13T20:55:48Z

Confirmed for 0.15.0 on Windows 10 Edition.

Aleksandra Zajac 2016-08-04T09:07:43Z

This issue was reported and under fix for quite a while. It is more complex than initially reported.
Hopefully we will see a fix in the near future, please do not take this as a promise that this bug will be fixed in the next update.

Isaiah Varnado 2016-08-11T16:29:06Z

Confirmed for 0.15.6

Rodrigo 2016-08-30T13:11:41Z

Fixed in version 0.16.0 build 1

Isaiah Varnado 2016-09-25T22:24:09Z

Reopen it's still in 0.15.9

PHO 2016-09-26T05:52:52Z

@unknown, 0.15.x does not contain bug fixes in 0.16.0 beta so it needs not to be reopened.