I stupidly posted this to the Mojira site and was redirected to post this here. As I wrote in the report: I go out every night and kill a wide variety of mobs, mostly skeletons and zombies. Before the most recent changes, I would get an even split between bows from skeletons, and swords/shovels/helmets from zombies. After the recent updates, though, all I seem to get are bows. I've gotten one almost-dead sword and one almost dead shovel but I've gotten enough almost-dead bows to make around 2-3 full-durability bows! I've got around 4 double chests full of un-used bows. It's annoying to spend time and energy killing mobs only to get spammed with a rare drop I never use.
I'm playing on hard so, IMO, this should be a "high risk, high reward" situation where I get rewarded for going up against tougher mobs (weapons and armor) with a decent chance of getting (very broken) weapons and armor and tools. There was a time when I was able to go mob-hunting at night as an alternative way of getting new swords, shovels, and helmets. Now I'm still getting rare drops, but they're overwhelmingly bows. It seems like something must be wrong. Skeletons seem to drop their bows almost every time whereas zombies never drop anything. Stop the bow flood!
It is beause all skeletons have bows. If you kill an even amount of skeletons and sword wielding zombies, you will probably get the same amount of bows and swords.
Make a solution to the durability issue for bows by pitching the idea of the bow restoring it's durability after it's taken from the skeleton but you were slow to fix the problem. On the bow flood issue though, they should make it less of a chance, that I agree on and they should make it on rare occasion for a skeleton to drop an enchanted bow with a random enchantment on it.
I'm playing on hard so, IMO, this should be a "high risk, high reward" situation where I get rewarded for going up against tougher mobs (weapons and armor) with a decent chance of getting (very broken) weapons and armor and tools. There was a time when I was able to go mob-hunting at night as an alternative way of getting new swords, shovels, and helmets. Now I'm still getting rare drops, but they're overwhelmingly bows. It seems like something must be wrong. Skeletons seem to drop their bows almost every time whereas zombies never drop anything. Stop the bow flood!
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