I'm not sure if I should be posting this under this issue, but it does seem related.
While playing last night, I was killed by an adult zombie who then picked up my armor and sword. I used the /tp command to go back to the death coordinates and was quickly killed again. While on the death screen (before clicking respawn) after the second kill, I saw the adult zombie despawn with my loot. Respawning and teleporting back to the death spot confirmed the zombie was nowhere to be found. A cave spider spawner was in the vicinity and contributed to my deaths, if that makes any difference debugging the issue. I mention it because my other experience loosing loot to a despawning baby zombie (and the reason I'm following this issue in the first place) also involved a cave spider spawner and being poisoned.
Elias Saba
I'm not sure if I should be posting this under this issue, but it does seem related.
While playing last night, I was killed by an adult zombie who then picked up my armor and sword. I used the /tp command to go back to the death coordinates and was quickly killed again. While on the death screen (before clicking respawn) after the second kill, I saw the adult zombie despawn with my loot. Respawning and teleporting back to the death spot confirmed the zombie was nowhere to be found. A cave spider spawner was in the vicinity and contributed to my deaths, if that makes any difference debugging the issue. I mention it because my other experience loosing loot to a despawning baby zombie (and the reason I'm following this issue in the first place) also involved a cave spider spawner and being poisoned.