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Looting
Looting is an enchantment for swords that can cause mobs to drop more items (does not affect XP).
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Usage[edit]
Increases the maximum number of items for most common drops by 1 per level. It increases the chance of uncommon drops by making a second attempt to drop if the original attempt failed. The success chance of this second attempt is level / (level + 1). Looting also increases the chance of rare drops and equipment drops by 1 percentage point per level.
Looting affects any kills while holding the enchanted item in the main hand, not only to kills with the enchanted item. For example, a player can fire a projectile then switch to the looting item before the projectile reaches the target to get the looting effect, or can fire a projectile from the off-hand while holding a looting item in the main hand. This allows looting to work on arrows shot from a bow or thrown tridents, as long as the player is holding the looting item when the arrow or trident lands.
Looting still applies to mobs killed with a sweep attack.
Using commands to get higher levels than 3 works as expected, adding higher numbers with a weight of 1. High enough numbers however (like level 2500) may crash the game due to too many dropped item entities.
Data values[edit]
ID[edit]
| Name | Namespaced ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Looting | looting | enchantment.minecraft.looting |
| Name | Namespaced ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Looting | looting | 14 | enchantment.lootBonus |
History[edit]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Added Looting, which can be applied to swords. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w04a | Looting now gives a 1 percentage point increase per level to the chance of getting rare drops. | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| Combat Tests | Combat Test 4 | Looting can now be applied to axes. | |||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added Looting. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | ? | ? | ? | ? | Added Looting. |
Issues[edit]
Issues relating to "Looting" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
