[MC-1767] Silk touch doesn't work on webs Created: 01/Nov/12  Updated: 13/Aug/14  Resolved: 09/Nov/12

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.3
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Seth Hendrickson Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Invalid Votes: 44
Labels: None

Confirmation Status: Unconfirmed
Game Mode: Survival

 Description   

Using a silk touch tool on webs doesn't drop the web as an item.



 Comments   
Comment by VanilleOfDead [ 13/Aug/14 ]

Shovels work on ice because using no tool is the right tool for that. Same counts for picks on grass

Comment by Kumasasa [ 09/Nov/12 ]

This is not a bug, but a feature request, please post it in http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum/1-suggestions/

Comment by [Crispy] PokeCanada [ 09/Nov/12 ]

If you use TMI's feature of enchanting,you can get Silk Touch on your sword and it would work but that would be cheating...

Comment by Rolf Redford [ 07/Nov/12 ]

There is 3 "levels" of tool usage. "Correct tool", "Wrong tool" and "no tool". I think shovel don't work on webs because it is "no tools" catalog for webs. Sword count as "Wrong tool" so 2 uses, BUT there's no such thing as silk touch for sword (or shears for that matter!)

Would have to test it though.

Comment by Seth Hendrickson [ 06/Nov/12 ]

Using a Silk Touch shovel on ice works, why wouldn't using a silk touch shovel on web? As far as I know, the shovel is not the correct tool for either material.

Comment by Rolf Redford [ 06/Nov/12 ]

Ahh makes sense. Enchanted shears seems awesome to me. Prolong life, faster, and silk touch for webs. HMM

As well as make flint and steel enchantabletoo , but only for life (or immortal tool at high enchant levels?)

Comment by [Mojang] Jeb (Jens Bergensten) [ 06/Nov/12 ]

Swords can't have silk touch and shears can't be enchanted, so at the moment this is a feature request and not a bug report.

Comment by Alexander Hammett [ 05/Nov/12 ]

Logically it should drop cobweb.
It might be that mojang doesnt want it that way, but the votes are speaking differently for the users.

Comment by Joshua [ 03/Nov/12 ]

This is a feature request not a bug and does not belong here

Comment by David [ 02/Nov/12 ]

I never understood why cobwebs can't be collected with silk touch, but that's the way Mojang designed it.

Comment by Simons Mith [ 02/Nov/12 ]

Whether it's done through allowing Silk Touch on shears or spiders that occasionally leave cobwebs as they move about, or any of several other options, I don't care how it's implemented but I'd really like it if spider webs could appear in survival mode. I could then decorate the less-visited parts of my empire with the odd web.

Comment by Ricardo [ 02/Nov/12 ]

Using shears it drops string, but Seth says that it should drop cobweb item when you use Silk Touch.

Comment by Selbram (Tory Clement) [ 02/Nov/12 ]

Have you tried using shears?

Comment by Rolf Redford [ 02/Nov/12 ]

Why not? I can see uses for spider webs.

Comment by Ricardo [ 01/Nov/12 ]

This is not a bug, but it will be great yo be in the game...

Comment by Talven81 [ 01/Nov/12 ]

I could be mistaken, but it seems that, that is intended. I seem to remember in the update notes that silk touch would specifically not work on spider webs.

All I could find is:
12w17a - Silk touch can now retrieve Ice blocks and glass panes.

No mentions of spider webs.

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