How as you killing the witches? Magma blocks will not kill the witches at all, they'll just constantly drink potions to outpace the damage tick and because they are constantly drinking potions the game will never despawn them ("busy" mobs are exempt from despawning). The same may also be true for piston-crushers, though in that case perhaps enough damage is done to slowly kill them.
If a witch is drinking a potion, they will drop that potion instead of the random drop.
I do not know why this is happening to you it may be the way you kill them you may have them dieing in a way where they take a lot of damage then they start to drink potions and die at that moment dropping the potion. What i do in my witch farms is to lead them to my player in order to kill them with looting sword for more drops. I hope this helps a bit.
What I meant is the skeletons could kill the witches they would STILL sometimes drop discs.
So you say put a creeper farm on the witch farm for more gunpowder, that would make sence since then you could get a disk as another drop if you use skeletons but still witches do not drop disks if killed by skeletons only creepers have the ability to drop disks when killed by a skeleton.
I just made a Witch farm and it works amazingly but the only thing they drop are potions no
sticks restone Glowstone just potions any ideas why?
Also I'm in version 1.16.5 not on a server with mob drop on
How as you killing the witches? Magma blocks will not kill the witches at all, they'll just constantly drink potions to outpace the damage tick and because they are constantly drinking potions the game will never despawn them ("busy" mobs are exempt from despawning). The same may also be true for piston-crushers, though in that case perhaps enough damage is done to slowly kill them.
If a witch is drinking a potion, they will drop that potion instead of the random drop.
I do not know why this is happening to you it may be the way you kill them you may have them dieing in a way where they take a lot of damage then they start to drink potions and die at that moment dropping the potion. What i do in my witch farms is to lead them to my player in order to kill them with looting sword for more drops. I hope this helps a bit.
Creepers drop discs when killed by skeletons not witches and yes a sword is probably the best way to farm witches especially with looting.
So you say put a creeper farm on the witch farm for more gunpowder, that would make sence since then you could get a disk as another drop if you use skeletons but still witches do not drop disks if killed by skeletons only creepers have the ability to drop disks when killed by a skeleton.