Zombified piglins failes to drop wither rose when agro'd to player
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Description
Expected behavior
When a zombified piglin is agro'd to the player and killed by the wither it should drop a wither rose.
Observed/Actual behavior
When a zombified piglin is agro'd by the player and is killed by a wither, it fails to drop a wither rose.
Steps/models to reproduce
- Cage a wither
- Spawn zombified piglins in the cage
- Agro the zombified piglin
- Make the wither target the player so it starts hurting the agro'd zombified piglins
- Wait until the zombified piglins have been killed by the wither
Plugin and Datapack List
None
Paper version
This server is running Paper version 1.21.8-25-main@846c64f (2025-08-04T13:12:55Z) (Implementing API version 1.21.8-R0.1-SNAPSHOT)
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Other
When the zombified piglins are agro'd by something else like am iron golem it seems to always drop a wither rose.
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue with the listed wither, zombified piglin, and player-aggression steps on Paper 1.21.8-25. Compare the result with a piglin aggravated by an iron golem; done means an aggravated zombified piglin drops a wither rose when killed by the wither, without plugins or datapacks.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- game-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100