MC-116643Silk Touch cannot be combined with Looting or Luck of the Sea
The bug
It is impossible to combine the "Silk Touch" enchantment on an anvil with any item with the "Looting" or "Luck of the Sea" enchantment or vice versa.
Code analysis
20w08a, Mojang names
net.minecraft.world.item.enchantment.LootBonusEnchantment.checkCompatibility(Enchantment) (which is used for "Fortune", "Looting" and "Luck of the Sea") prevents combining it with "Silk Touch".
Note that it would probably possible to remove that method override because compatibility is checked reflexively (see Enchantment.isCompatibleWith) and UntouchingEnchantment (used for "Silk Touch") already verifies that it cannot be combined with "Fortune".
Created Issue:
Looting and Silk Touch cannot be combined
It is impossible to combine the "Silk Touch" enchantment on an anvil with any item with the "Looting" enchantment or vice versa.
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The bug
It is impossible to combine the "Silk Touch" enchantment on an anvil with any item with the "Looting" or "Luck of the Sea" enchantment or vice versa.
Code analysis
20w08a, Mojang names
net.minecraft.world.item.enchantment.LootBonusEnchantment.checkCompatibility(Enchantment) (which is used for "Fortune", "Looting" and "Luck of the Sea") prevents combining it with "Silk Touch".
Note that it would probably possible to remove that method override because compatibility is checked reflexively (see Enchantment.isCompatibleWith ) and UntouchingEnchantment (used for "Silk Touch") already verifies that it cannot be combined with "Fortune".
Looting andSilk Touch cannot be combinedSilk Touch cannot be combined with Looting or Luck of the Sea
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I'm calling to allow Silk Touch + Looting/LoTS, not disallow Looting/LoTS + Silk Touch
May I ask why it was not fixed that way but instead prevents combining Looting and Silk Touch at all now (see also MC-116643)? These enchantments are completely unrelated and therefor should in my opinion not prevent each other.
How is this Works As Intended if these enchantments are for completely different tools?
Reopened; potentially the devs just confused looting and fortune.
This apparently also affects Silk Touch with Luck of the Sea.
It only affects enchanted books in practice, but normally you can have enchantments meant for different items on the same book without any issue.
This bug is especially apparent in the Java Combat Tests, seeing as axes are weapons that can have both silk touch and looting. Hoping to see this fixed soon!
Silk Touch can not work on something with Looting because Looting is used to multiply the ore drops while Silk Touch picks up the ore itself
[~vchsiao36@gmail.com], you're confusing Looting with Fortune.
In survival, this now can also impact axes enchanted in Combat Test 4 or Combat Test 5 instead of just enchanted books. The axes now have the ability to have looting and have had the ability to have silk touch but now can't be added.
Confirmed for 1.16.1.
Can confirm in 20w51a.
Can confirm in 1.17.1.