Harvesting mobs is suddenly really janky

[Zippy Wonderdust]

Is anyone else having trouble harvesting animals and monsters since the upgrade to 1.20.1?

I was playing over LAN with two friends on a shared world that had just been upgraded from 1.19.8 and found it suddenly almost impossible to harvest any kills.  I simply couldn't get the contents window to open for a number of freshly-killed drifters (including two bowtorns) despite using exactly the same key combinations as before. I kept trying unsuccessfully until the bodies eventually de-spawned. Later on in the same play session I killed two moose and had similar troubles with them, although I was *eventually* successful after trying from what felt like a dozen different angles.

It seems like the hit-box for dead animals and drifters has somehow become smaller or in some other way harder to activate.

Is anyone else having similar difficulty?

[p0rps]

This happens to me every few tries.  I noticed it in 1.20.1 on my server when I tried to harvest a moose, but someone else tried and it worked for them.  I still notice it happening on 1.20.3, most often with bowtorn.

[Thorfinn]

31 minutes ago, p0rps said:

I still notice it happening on 1.20.3, most often with bowtorn.

This. I think their dead hitbox needs some adjustment.

OTOH, I've never had a fail if I got close enough that the crosshair was red. When it's white, sometimes it works, sometimes not.

[Zippy Wonderdust]

I think I found the "problem".  I did some testing in a randomly generated creative-mode world that has all the same mods as I usually play with. I spawned in a few Bowtorns and some moose and did some target practice with a longbow. I then came at it systematically from different distances and angles.

I find that when harvesting a dead mob I now have to get super close for it to work.  It is no longer enough to rely on your crosshair turning red; it can be red and you can still be too far away.  I have to get as close as possible to the geometric center of the creature (close enough so that I'm actually pushing it across the ground) to get a reliable result. This means aiming for the midsection of a Bowtorn, even though I might get a red reticle over the head or lower body.  Same goes for the moose; only the belly, approached from the side with the legs, gives reliable results.

I didn't test any other mobs, but I suspect all of the larger ones may need this approach.

[LadyWYT]

1 hour ago, Zippy Wonderdust said:

I think I found the "problem".  I did some testing in a randomly generated creative-mode world that has all the same mods as I usually play with. I spawned in a few Bowtorns and some moose and did some target practice with a longbow. I then came at it systematically from different distances and angles.

I find that when harvesting a dead mob I now have to get super close for it to work.  It is no longer enough to rely on your crosshair turning red; it can be red and you can still be too far away.  I have to get as close as possible to the geometric center of the creature (close enough so that I'm actually pushing it across the ground) to get a reliable result. This means aiming for the midsection of a Bowtorn, even though I might get a red reticle over the head or lower body.  Same goes for the moose; only the belly, approached from the side with the legs, gives reliable results.

I didn't test any other mobs, but I suspect all of the larger ones may need this approach.

 

2 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

This. I think their dead hitbox needs some adjustment.

OTOH, I've never had a fail if I got close enough that the crosshair was red. When it's white, sometimes it works, sometimes not.

Pretty much this. Hitboxes on larger creatures are a bit dicey, even on a good day, when it comes to harvesting the carcass. For bowtorn, the general hitbox for looting seems to be on their lower half, near the um...loincloth.

[Kevin Eric Snell]

I was noticing the same problem with moose in 1.19

[Yerik]

21 hours ago, LadyWYT said:

the general hitbox for looting seems to be on their lower half, near the um...loincloth.

I have started using the bowtorns feet, that seems to work. A little annoying, but hasn't failed me yet.