Soul Shards + Wither + Melee Turtles = No Drops

[Sterling]

I don't know if this is a feature or a bug, but I recently went through the trouble of getting myself a Tier 5 wither skeleton shard. Fortunately, I found a shortcut to make that trouble less onerous, but it I seem to have run into a bug (feature?) that is annoying. I've basically duplicated Direwolf20's Season 5 wither farm using my T5 shard with 5 turtles set in front of a row of transposers. However, when the turtles kill the skeletons, they never drop anything except XP. I expect them to drop bones and coal at least, but they drop nothing. If I kill them myself, they drop coal and bones as expected.

Anyone have the same problem? Anyone know if it's a bug or a feature? If it's a feature, I'll just go back to the wither farm I used to create the T5 shard, which worked reasonably well.

In case it matters, this is happening under Direwolf20 Pack v5.1.1, which has been a very buggy release for me overall.

 

[vineet]

It is intentional. The guy who made soul shards made it that mobs spawned from his spawners will not drop rare drops.

 

[Guswut]

Anyone have the same problem? Anyone know if it's a bug or a feature? If it's a feature, I'll just go back to the wither farm I used to create the T5 shard, which worked reasonably well.

Dumb question, but have you checked inside the attack turtles as they normally pick up the loot. Verify that, first, please.

It is intentional. The guy who made soul shards made it that mobs spawned from his spawners will not drop rare drops.

This does not sound like that, as they aren't dropping coal or bones.

 

[Sterling]

Oh, duh. I hadn't even thought to check the turtle inventory. I will check that, but I'm sure that's it. I had the same mob farm killing blazes and was getting plenty of drops, but that's probably because of blazes dying in the water rather than from the turtles. The wither skeletons only die from the turtles though. Thanks!

 

[Guswut]

Oh, duh. I hadn't even thought to check the turtle inventory. I will check that, but I'm sure that's it. I had the same mob farm killing blazes and was getting plenty of drops, but that's probably because of blazes dying in the water rather than from the turtles. The wither skeletons only die from the turtles though. Thanks!

Yup, no worries at all, and good luck! Get those wither skulls before the soul shard mod updates and ends up removing rare drops!

 

[vineet]

Yup, no worries at all, and good luck! Get those wither skulls before the soul shard mod updates and ends up removing rare drops!

Yeah I find that not fair, since we already had to kill about 1024 of them. Make it at least that only the player can get the rare drops.

 

[KillerRamer]

It is intentional. The guy who made soul shards made it that mobs spawned from his spawners will not drop rare drops.

Didn't mention it in the changelog. And I'm still getting rare drops from the mobs on the newest version.

 

[vineet]

Didn't mention it in the changelog. And I'm still getting rare drops from the mobs on the newest version.

I heard direwolf say that in newer version there won't be rare drops. I heard it a while ago, so I though it was fixed in newer versions.

 

[Guswut]

Yeah I find that not fair, since we already had to kill about 1024 of them. Make it at least that only the player can get the rare drops.

If there is a config file option for it, I'd support the change even if they make it the default option. That way, we can change it back to what it should be, hahah.