MC-92849mob kills due to knock back from a sweep attack fail to reward EXP
Expectation: Knocking a group of skeletons into lava using the sweep attack should reward EXP for the entire group.
Result: EXP was rewarded only for the skeleton directly hit (I.E. damaged) by the sword.
To Reproduce: Gather a group of skeletons in a 1x1 hole with lava suspended above their heads. Using a sweep attack on the skeletons will knock them all into the lava, killing them, but only reward EXP for the skeleton damaged by the attack.
Environment
OSX 10.11
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Created Issue:
mob kills due to knock back from a sweep attack fail to reward EXP
Expectation: Knocking a group of skeletons into lava using the sweep attack should reward EXP for the entire group.
Result: EXP was rewarded only for the skeleton directly hit (I.E. damaged) by the sword.
To Reproduce: Gather a group of skeletons in a 1x1 hole with lava suspended above their heads. Using a sweep attack on the skeletons will knock them all into the lava, killing them, but only reward EXP for the skeleton damaged by the attack.
Environment
OSX 10.11
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It may not be intended since you didn't actually damage them.
(I wonder if a fixed 0.5 damage amount for swept enemies would be alright balance-wise.)
First I fixed it as you suggested (0.5 points of damage), but it was really fun so I bumped it to half a heart instead (1 point of damage)
Hah, that's going to make my Zombie-Pigman XP farm much more interesting. With a bunch of damaged pigman packed into one spot, an attack will 1-hit kill only one of them, but damage the rest. I expect that the new damaging sweep attack will cause other pigmen in the area to agro.