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Harvesting Sweet Berries with Fortune enchantment

Harvesting Sweet Berries with Fortune enchanted tools does not yield an increase in item drops. I have done quite a few tests harvesting ("Use" button) and also mining ("Mine" button) rows of 64 Sweet Berries.

... extensive testing...

(Steps to Reproduce) In a Creative Flat world, commands such as...

/fill ~1 ~ ~ ~1 ~ ~63 dirt
/fill ~1 ~1 ~ ~1 ~1 ~63 sweet_berry_bush ["growth": 3] 

... will produce a row of 64 mature Sweet Berry bushes on dirt blocks in front of the player. 

As far as I am aware, harvesting most crops (including Nether Wart) with Fortune tools will give an increase in drops, acknowledging that Wheat and Beetroot only increase the seed drop rate. I would expect to see the same 50-150% increase when harvesting Sweet Berries.

From my tests, harvesting (Use action, not mining/breaking bush) 64 mature Sweet Berry bushes showed no increase in drop rate with Fortune enchanted tools over unenchanted/empty hands:

Tool avg. Berry drops
Bare/Empty Hand 2.5
Shears 2.5
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 2.5
Axe w/ Fortune 3 2.5
Hoe w/ Fortune 3 2.5
Sword w/ Looting 3 2.5

At the previous "third stage" of berry bush growth (Age: 2), there is still no increase in drops when harvesting with Fortune enchant:

Tool avg. Berry drops
Bare/Empty Hand 1.5
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 1.5

Mining the mature Sweet Berry bushes (bush is destroyed), revealed different results:

Tool avg. Berry drops
Bare/Empty Hand 2.5
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 2.8
Sword w/ Looting 3 2.5

This very small 15% increase in drops while destroying the bushes with Fortune 3, is a very poor return, where I now have to replant the berries to grow more, effectively only returning around 1.8 avg. drops.

Thankyou for your consideration.

Next day edit:

Thinking about it overnight, I conducted more testing today:

Tool & Method avg. Berry drops
Empty hand, harvested  2.5
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 1, harvested 2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 2, harvested 2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3, harvested 2.5 (0% increase vs. unenchanted)
Empty hand, mined 2.5
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 1, mined 2.625 (5% increase vs. unenchanted)
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 2, mined 2.75 (10% increase vs. unenchanted)
Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3, mined 2.875 (15% increase vs. unenchanted)

For comparison, I tested other crops:
The following crops are harvested by mining the block/plant, which is where the Sweet Berries are different.

Crop Tool avg. item drops
Carrots Empty hand 2.375
Carrots Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 6 (≈150% increase vs. unenchanted)
Potatoes Empty hand 2.625
Potatoes Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 6 (≈130% increase vs. unenchanted)
Melons Axe, unenchanted 5
Melons Axe w/ Fortune 3 6.3 (≈25% increase vs. unenchanted)
Nether Wart Empty hand 3
Nether Wart Pickaxe w/ Fortune 3 4.3 (≈43% increase vs. unenchanted)

Fixed

theFakeSheep

2023-07-04, 05:58 PM

2024-04-23, 07:14 PM

2024-04-23, 07:14 PM

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3

Confirmed

1163959

fortune, sweet_berries, sweet_berry_bush

1.20.1 Hotfix, 1.20.51 Hotfix

1.20.80.20 Preview, 1.20.80