Mobs cannot pick up items if mobGriefing is false, and custom spawners can't force them to
What I expected to happen was
Mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1 would pick up dropped items.
Mob spawners with CanPickUpLoot=1 in the SpawnData would be able to spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.
What actually happened was
No mob could pick up items, regardless of the state of CanPickUpLoot.
Custom spawners could not even spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.
Steps to reproduce, without external editors:
1. Make sure you are in Hard mode and Creative mode, with the gamerule mobGriefing set to false.
2. Make a small pit, and spawn a massive number of zombies, skeletons, and/or pigmen in it.
3. Drop some items, weapons, and/or armor into the pit
4. Chances are you can't tell if anything's been picked up... Fly or teleport yourself about 200 blocks above the pit.
5. Fall back down to the pit.
6. Observe that all mobs have despawned, and all items remain where you dropped them.
Had any mob picked up an item, it would not have despawned, and the item would not remain on the ground.
Steps to reproduce, the faster and less ambiguous way:
1. Spawn a zombie, pigman, or skeleton.
2. Save and quit your world.
3. Open the world in MCedit.
4. Find the mob, select the area it is in, and export to a schematic.
5. With NBTedit, set its CanPickUpLoot to 1.
6. Import the schematic back with MCedit.
7. Save the world, and return to the world in Minecraft.
8. Observe that the mob does not pick up any items you throw at it.
I've attached a schematic of a CanPickUpLoot=1 zombie and a spawner which is meant to spawn such mobs (but for some reason, they still spawn with CanPickUpLoot=0, which is rather redundant considering CanPickUpLoot=1 doesn't make a difference). Make sure you have mobGriefing set to false before trying this.
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MC-177120Villagers don't ignore items when the "mobGriefing" gamerule is disabled
NormalMC-55218Villagers not harvesting crops when gamerule mobGriefing is "false"Works As IntendedMC-1924Zombies and skeletons won't pick up items on easy, normal and hard i testet out 200 zombies but it doesn't worked.Cannot Reproduce
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Mobs no longer pick up items, and custom spawners can't force them to
What I expected to happen was
Mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1 would pick up dropped items.
Mob spawners with CanPickUpLoot=1 in the SpawnData would be able to spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.What actually happened was
No mob could pick up items, regardless of the state of CanPickUpLoot.
Custom spawners could not even spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.Steps to reproduce, without external editors:
1. Make sure you are in Hard mode and Creative mode.
2. Make a small pit, and spawn a massive number of zombies, skeletons, and/or pigmen in it.
3. Drop some items, weapons, and/or armor into the pit
4. Chances are you can't tell if anything's been picked up... Fly or teleport yourself about 200 blocks above the pit.
5. Fall back down to the pit.
6. Observe that all mobs have despawned, and all items remain where you dropped them.Had any mob picked up an item, it would not have despawned, and the item would not remain on the ground.
Steps to reproduce, the faster and less ambiguous way:
1. Spawn a zombie, pigman, or skeleton.
2. Save and quit your world.
3. Open the world in MCedit.
4. Find the mob, select the area it is in, and export to a schematic.
5. With NBTedit, set its CanPickUpLoot to 1.
6. Import the schematic back with MCedit.
7. Save the world, and return to the world in Minecraft.
8. Observe that the mob does not pick up any items you throw at it.I've attached a schematic of a CanPickUpLoot=1 zombie and a spawner which is meant to spawn such mobs (but for some reason, they still spawn with CanPickUpLoot=0, which is not how they worked prior to 1.4.4).
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What I expected to happen was
Mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1 would pick up dropped items.
Mob spawners with CanPickUpLoot=1 in the SpawnData would be able to spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.What actually happened was
No mob could pick up items, regardless of the state of CanPickUpLoot.
Custom spawners could not even spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.Steps to reproduce, without external editors:
1. Make sure you are in Hard mode and Creative mode.
2. Make a small pit, and spawn a massive number of zombies, skeletons, and/or pigmen in it.
3. Drop some items, weapons, and/or armor into the pit
4. Chances are you can't tell if anything's been picked up... Fly or teleport yourself about 200 blocks above the pit.
5. Fall back down to the pit.
6. Observe that all mobs have despawned, and all items remain where you dropped them.Had any mob picked up an item, it would not have despawned, and the item would not remain on the ground.
Steps to reproduce, the faster and less ambiguous way:
1. Spawn a zombie, pigman, or skeleton.
2. Save and quit your world.
3. Open the world in MCedit.
4. Find the mob, select the area it is in, and export to a schematic.
5. With NBTedit, set its CanPickUpLoot to 1.
6. Import the schematic back with MCedit.
7. Save the world, and return to the world in Minecraft.
8. Observe that the mob does not pick up any items you throw at it.I've attached a schematic of a CanPickUpLoot=1 zombie and a spawner which is meant to spawn such mobs (but for some reason, they still spawn with CanPickUpLoot=0, which is not how they worked prior to 1.4.4).
What I expected to happen was
Mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1 would pick up dropped items.
Mob spawners with CanPickUpLoot=1 in the SpawnData would be able to spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.What actually happened was
No mob could pick up items, regardless of the state of CanPickUpLoot.
Custom spawners could not even spawn mobs with CanPickUpLoot=1.Steps to reproduce, without external editors:
1. Make sure you are in Hard mode and Creative mode, with the gamerule mobGriefing set to false.
2. Make a small pit, and spawn a massive number of zombies, skeletons, and/or pigmen in it.
3. Drop some items, weapons, and/or armor into the pit
4. Chances are you can't tell if anything's been picked up... Fly or teleport yourself about 200 blocks above the pit.
5. Fall back down to the pit.
6. Observe that all mobs have despawned, and all items remain where you dropped them.Had any mob picked up an item, it would not have despawned, and the item would not remain on the ground.
Steps to reproduce, the faster and less ambiguous way:
1. Spawn a zombie, pigman, or skeleton.
2. Save and quit your world.
3. Open the world in MCedit.
4. Find the mob, select the area it is in, and export to a schematic.
5. With NBTedit, set its CanPickUpLoot to 1.
6. Import the schematic back with MCedit.
7. Save the world, and return to the world in Minecraft.
8. Observe that the mob does not pick up any items you throw at it.I've attached a schematic of a CanPickUpLoot=1 zombie and a spawner which is meant to spawn such mobs (but for some reason, they still spawn with CanPickUpLoot=0, which is rather redundant considering CanPickUpLoot=1 doesn't make a difference). Make sure you have mobGriefing set to false before trying this.
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Possibly related to MC-3370
Ah there we go. Duplicate of MC-3370 and working as intended.
Duplicate of MC-3370
Is mob griefing off? Because I was looking for something similar to this and found this, MC-3370 (I know its java but it might relate to this.) Let me know if messing with mob griefing does anything.
Unable to reproduce, make sure mobGriefing wasn't set to "false", see MC-3370.
Duplicates MC-55218 MC-3370
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The Bug:
Villagers don't ignore items when the "mobGriefing" gamerule is set to "false".
[Mojang] elvendorke recently changed the title of MC-250020 to "Allay doesn't ignore items when mobGriefing is set to false", therefore indicating that allays should ignore items under these circumstances. Since this same concept can also be seen with villagers, I'm inclined to believe that this behavior isn't intentional, hence my reasoning for creating this ticket.
Please also note that this report isn't a duplicate of MC-3370. This ticket (MC-253480) describes how villagers don't ignore items when the "mobGriefing" gamerule is set to "false", not actually the fact of how they cannot collect them.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Place down a composter and summon a villager nearby.
- Set the "mobGriefing" gamerule to "false".
/gamerule mobGriefing false
- Throw some items that the villager would normally be able to collect on the ground, for example, some carrots.
- Wait for the villager to notice the carrots and begin pathfinding towards them.
- Take note as to whether or not villagers ignore items when the "mobGriefing" gamerule is set to "false".
Observed Behavior:
Villagers don't ignore items.
Expected Behavior:
Villagers would ignore items.
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You need to set the mobGriefing game rule to true; mobs can't pick up items otherwise.
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No problems. Unfortunately mobs cannot pick up items when mobGriefing is disabled, which is intentional.
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Is /gamerule mobGriefing true, MC-3370?
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This issue is a duplicate of MC-3370 and, unfortunately, is intended behavior. However, for piglin bartering, you can still right-click with a gold ingot.
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Cannot reproduce as per screenshots. Zombies picked up the swords given to them and remained after flying to altitude 250 while the others despawned as expected.
On further analysis (including trying again in a new world), I figured out that the mobGriefing gamerule was causing all of these issues. If set to false, mobs cannot steal items, and mobs created by spawner always have CanPickUpLoot set to 0 (which is rather redundant in my opinion, but that's just me).
I'll update the issue; seeing as this is not documented anywhere it may still be a bug (considering mobs which steal items are now guaranteed to not despawn, it doesn't exactly qualify as 'griefing' on the same level that explosions do).
Confirmed, but not sure if intended since picking up stuff is kind of "griefing".