Refreshment and Critical Hit not working on Exploding Crossbows
I have a Firebolt Thrower with Refreshment and Critical Hit enchantments and they don t work. I have tested these enchantments on other exploding crossbows and they don t work on them either.
Please fix this ASAP as it is currently ruining my build, plus Critical Hit is a recently added enchantment to bows, so I don t see why this could not be patched in a hotfix for this update.
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Potion Thirst and Critical Hit not working on Exploding Crossbows
I have a Firebolt Thrower with Refreshment and Critical Hit enchantments and they don t work. I have tested these enchantments on other exploding crossbows and they don t work on them either.
Also, Ricochet doesn't work on them but I believe that is intentional. Please fix this ASAP as it is currently ruining my experience, plus Critical Hit is a recently added enchantment to bows, so I don t see why this could not be patched in a hotfix for this update.
I have a Firebolt Thrower with Refreshment and Critical Hit enchantments and they don t work. I have tested these enchantments on other exploding crossbows and they don t work on them either.
Also, Ricochet doesn't work on them but I believe that is intentional.Please fix this ASAP as it is currently ruining myexperience, plus Critical Hit is a recently added enchantment to bows, so I don t see why this could not be patched in a hotfix for this update.I have a Firebolt Thrower with Refreshment and Critical Hit enchantments and they don t work. I have tested these enchantments on other exploding crossbows and they don t work on them either.
Please fix this ASAP as it is currently ruining my build, plus Critical Hit is a recently added enchantment to bows, so I don t see why this could not be patched in a hotfix for this update.
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The latest version fixed exploding crossbow and firework arrows did't trigger some enchantments(MCD-6329).But when mobs are killed by their AOE damage, the enchantments still not trigger normally.For example with using Refreshment,If Firework arrows kill 5 mobs(1 for base projectile and 4 AOE kill),Refreshment should be triggered 5 times,but in fact it just triggered only once.

This issue was resolved in the 1.13.1.0 update.
Actually, it has not be fixed completely, when this issue has been resolved as "fixed", the text in patch notes is
But exploding crossbows and fireworks still can only trigger some enchantments for base projectile damage, the enchantments don't work when the targets are affected by the explosion. For example, a crossbow with Critical Hit enchantment fire a firework toward a target, the hitted target will take 300 damage(the Critical Hit enchantment is wark), but another target(next to the hitted target) will take only 100 damage.
It still happened in 1.13.1.0, please reopen it.
I can confirm this. I tested the Exploding Crossbow with Voidstrike(Ranged), Critical Hit, Fire aspect and Exploding!(Enemys explode on death), here is my result for each named tested enchantment.
Void strike(ranged): It works and does trigger when the targeted mob or testing dummy is shot by the Exploding crossbow, but It doesn't add the void damage. It affects the target dummy with voidstrike but the purple damage numbers aren't shown. I also see no difference with the damage with and without Voidstrike (ranged).
Critical hit: Same as Voidstrike, that means that it does trigger, the critical hit icon (the purple skull) is sometimes shown, but it doesn't add the 3x times damage and the red damage numbers aren't shown eighter.
Fire aspect: Works and add the fire damage over time. However only when the actual arrow of the Exploding crossbow hits, "the explode on impact" doesn't trigger fire aspect and therefore no fire damage from the explosion.
Exploding!(Enemys explode on death): Same as Fire aspect, Only mobs that died by the arrow and not from the "explode on impact" explode on death. This happens very rarely though, because the "explode on impact" kills the mobs most of the time.
I hope this helped for the next update. Sorry if something is misspelled or you don't understand a certain part, I am not born in a country were the nativ language is english, therefore my english isn't perfect.