[MC-2518] No -breaking sound or- particle effect for some tools and all armor Created: 08/Nov/12  Updated: 18/Mar/20  Resolved: 02/Apr/19

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.5, Minecraft 1.4.6, Minecraft 1.4.7, Minecraft 1.5, Minecraft 1.5.2, Minecraft 1.6.1, Minecraft 1.6.2, Minecraft 1.6.4, Minecraft 13w37b, Minecraft 13w39b, Minecraft 13w41a, Minecraft 1.7.4, Minecraft 14w02c, Minecraft 14w03b, Minecraft 14w04a, Minecraft 14w04b, Minecraft 14w05a, Minecraft 1.7.5, Minecraft 14w11b, Minecraft 1.8, Minecraft 1.8.8, Minecraft 15w38b, Minecraft 15w39a, Minecraft 15w39b, Minecraft 15w39c, Minecraft 15w40b, Minecraft 15w41b, Minecraft 15w42a, Minecraft 15w43a, Minecraft 15w43b, Minecraft 15w43c, Minecraft 15w44a, Minecraft 15w44b, Minecraft 15w45a, Minecraft 15w46a, Minecraft 15w47a, Minecraft 15w47c, Minecraft 15w49b, Minecraft 1.8.9, Minecraft 15w50a, Minecraft 15w51b, Minecraft 16w06a, Minecraft 16w07b, Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 1, Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 4, Minecraft 1.9, Minecraft 1.9.2, Minecraft 1.10.2, Minecraft 16w32a, Minecraft 16w32b, Minecraft 16w33a, Minecraft 16w35a, Minecraft 16w43a, Minecraft 16w44a, Minecraft 1.11 Pre-Release 1, Minecraft 1.11, Minecraft 16w50a, Minecraft 1.11.2, Minecraft 17w06a, Minecraft 17w14a, Minecraft 17w15a, Minecraft 17w16a, Minecraft 17w16b, Minecraft 17w17a, Minecraft 1.12 Pre-Release 2, Minecraft 1.12 Pre-Release 3, Minecraft 1.12 Pre-Release 5, Minecraft 1.12 Pre-Release 6, Minecraft 1.12 Pre-Release 7, Minecraft 1.12, Minecraft 1.12.1 Pre-Release 1, Minecraft 1.12.1, Minecraft 1.12.2 Pre-Release 1, Minecraft 1.12.2, Minecraft 17w50a, Minecraft 18w01a, Minecraft 18w02a, Minecraft 18w03b, Minecraft 18w05a, Minecraft 18w07c, Minecraft 18w08b, Minecraft 18w09a, Minecraft 18w16a, Minecraft 18w22c, Minecraft 1.13-pre1, Minecraft 1.13-pre6, Minecraft 1.13-pre8, Minecraft 1.13, Minecraft 18w31a, Minecraft 1.13.1, Minecraft 1.13.2-pre1, Minecraft 19w07a
Fix Version/s: Minecraft 19w14a

Type: Bug
Reporter: Swekob Assignee: [Mojang] Bartosz Bok
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 120
Labels: armor, axe, bow, breaking, carrot_on_a_stick, elytra, hoe, particle, pickaxe, shield, shovel, sound, sword, tilling, tool, tools

Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MC-5580 Armor doesn't make breaking sound Resolved
is duplicated by MC-31094 Hoe Breaking Sound Missing Resolved
is duplicated by MC-51218 Hoes dont have breaking sound Resolved
is duplicated by MC-85998 Shovel makes no breaking sound when b... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-93568 When the subject broken,do not produc... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-97418 No sound effect plays when tool breaks Resolved
is duplicated by MC-98135 Sound for when an item/armor breaks i... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-98969 Item Breaking Particles/Sound not pla... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-101284 No sound for tool breaking Resolved
is duplicated by MC-109261 Missing sound when tools and weapons ... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-109310 After breaking a wooden pickaxe, I di... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-110090 No tool / weapon breaking particles a... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-110256 Armor/Tools dows not have a sound whr... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-110301 Pickaxe Breaking Sound effect Resolved
is duplicated by MC-110621 1.11 Tools / Weapons Sound Resolved
is duplicated by MC-110720 No sound for breaking tools Resolved
is duplicated by MC-111531 Item Breaking sounds not working/Playing Resolved
is duplicated by MC-111644 Error playing the sound Resolved
is duplicated by MC-111808 There is no sound when weapons or too... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-112167 Tool Break Sound - cant hear Resolved
is duplicated by MC-112227 Tools/Weapons breaking bug. Resolved
is duplicated by MC-112262 When a tool breaks it does not make a... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-114492 Tools don't make a break sound when t... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-115755 Tools Break don't play the sound when... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-116236 Sounds of items and armor breaking is... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-116474 Sound for pickaxe crash has missed! Resolved
is duplicated by MC-116657 Broken tools make no sound. Resolved
is duplicated by MC-117840 No tool breaking sound Resolved
is duplicated by MC-118982 Tools have no breaking sound anymore Resolved
is duplicated by MC-123354 Tool breaking animation and sound glitch Resolved
is duplicated by MC-4975 Item Break Sound Not Playing Resolved
Relates
relates to MCPE-32355 No breaking sound for tools/armor Resolved
CHK:
Confirmation Status: Confirmed
Game Mode: Survival
Category:
(Unassigned)

 Description   

The bug

Multiple breakable items that gets broken doesn't neither play a sound nor show any particle effect.

Item Breaking sound Breaking particles Break method
Shovels Hit mob, till, break block (16w43a)
Pickaxes Hit mob, break block (16w43a)
Axes Hit mob, break block (16w43a)
Hoes Hit mob, till
Swords Hit mob
Shears Shear sheep
Bow Shoot
Shield Damaged when blocking
Fishing Rod Reel in (item, block, mob)
Flint and Steel Set fire
Carrot on a Stick - - Can't break (MC-112630)
Armor (Helmet, Chestplate, Leggings & Boots) Damaged when wearing
Elytra Glide fly

Comment by user iluvredwall - 17/Aug/13:

Item breaking sounds of all types are triggered client-side when the game damages and breaks an item, but the server also detects the same conditions to tell other clients to play the item breaking sound.
For example, when you mine a block of stone with your pick, the client realizes that you've broken a block, then damages the client-side version of the pick. The client then realizes that the pick has no durability remaining and plays the break animation and sound. When the server realizes that you've mined the piece of stone, it also damages the server-side version of your pick and detects that you've broken your pick, so it sends packets telling other clients (but not your client) to play the item breaking sound at your location.
With armor, the game damages the armor when it calculates the protection that it gives. However, these calculations are only done server side, so the client never tries to damage its own armor--it just updates the player's inventory according to the server's inventory-change packets, and as such never plays the armor breaking sound and animation.

I assume that similar issues cause hoes and carrots on sticks not to play their item breaking sounds as well.



 Comments   
Comment by not mario [ 18/Mar/20 ]

Sorry, I was using a texture pack

Comment by [Mod] Pokechu22 [ 18/Mar/20 ]

Please create a new report for that (as far as I can tell, there isn't one). We prefer a new report for unfixed parts of a bug that affects multiple situations to reopening the old one, because reopening it quickly makes things confusing.

Comment by Pedro P [ 07/Sep/18 ]

Affects 1.13.1

Comment by Kraif [ 25/Aug/18 ]

Confirmed for 1.13.1.

Comment by AJMFactsheets [ 16/Jul/18 ]

Still affects 1.13-pre8, tested the shield.

Comment by CreeperMagnet_ [ 05/Jul/18 ]

Affects 1.13-pre6. Please keep the issue updated accordingly.

Comment by [Helper] Lord_Quadrato [ 01/Jun/18 ]

Elytra does not make breaking sounds. I tested with subtitles on

Comment by Greg Milson [ 29/May/18 ]

This is partially fixed in 18w21b, when a tool breaks, it plays the break sound but no break particles appear.

Comment by [Mod] violine1101 [ 29/Apr/18 ]

German121314, 1.12.2 is already marked as affected.

Comment by German [ 29/Apr/18 ]

Affects 1.12.2

Comment by [Helper] Lord_Quadrato [ 26/Apr/18 ]

Confirmed for 18w16a. Tested with all mentioned tools.

Comment by [Mod] violine1101 [ 09/Apr/18 ]

This is the tracker for Java Edition. For Bedrock Edition, plese go here: MCPE tracker

Comment by Tim Pratt [ 09/Apr/18 ]

I've experienced this also playing on Windows 10 with the new version, 1.2.13. I still hear the sound with the breaking of shovels, but not the pick or axe.

Comment by CreeperMagnet_ [ 02/Mar/18 ]

Affects 18w09a.

Comment by DuckDuckLoop [ 21/Feb/18 ]

Affects 18w07c

Comment by CreeperMagnet_ [ 06/Feb/18 ]

Still affects 18w05a, please update!

Comment by joshi77 [ 31/Dec/17 ]

If you have that issue on 1.8 then delete the 1.8.json in the index folder.

Comment by fescar [ 13/Nov/17 ]

Confirmed for 1.12.2

Comment by KDT [ 26/Jun/17 ]

Confirmed for 1.12 full release

Comment by user33 [ 01/Jun/17 ]

Confirmed for 1.12 -pre 7

Comment by Zed Ontargs [ 30/May/17 ]

Possibly useful debug info: OTHER players breaking their tools makes a sound in LAN games, but my own tools do not. The server is telling my client about their sounds, but neither the server nor the client are telling me about my own sound.

Comment by MightyPork [ 17/May/17 ]

This was still in 1.12pre2. Have not tested 1.12pre3 yet, but don't see it mentioned is the bugs list

Comment by Loek van Vucht [ 26/Apr/17 ]

Confirmed for 17w17a.

Comment by Fabian Röling [ 19/Apr/17 ]

Yes, it is, as you can see in the list. And in the future it would be better if you were specific what versions exactly you tested. Makes it more clear that no version was forgotten.

Comment by WolfieTundra [ 19/Apr/17 ]

This is confirmed on 1.12 snapshots and 1.11.X

Comment by JoePCool14 [ 19/Jan/17 ]

Confirmed on 1.11.2.

Comment by Dylan [ 17/Dec/16 ]

Confirmed in 16w50a

Comment by user-f2760 (Inactive) [ 24/Nov/16 ]

Is already marked as affected...

Comment by Carl Pickl [ 24/Nov/16 ]

Confirmed in 1.11, noticed when using stone pickaxe no sound would play when tool breaks.

Comment by Dylan [ 14/Nov/16 ]

Confirmed in 1.11

Comment by Dylan [ 08/Nov/16 ]

Confirmed in 1.11-pre1

Comment by Mark Loya [ 07/Nov/16 ]

Confirmed for 16w44a. Noticed it first when mining stone with stone pickaxe. Was able to duplicate bug with additional tools.

Comment by Zed Ontargs [ 27/Oct/16 ]

Confirmed for 16w43a. I was testing the fixed unbreaking calculation, and noticed that my pickaxes silently disappeared when they broke.

Comment by dodo comododo [ 20/Oct/15 ]

In my 15w42a single player, my stone axe makes breaking noise

Comment by [Mod] Sonicwave [ 05/Oct/14 ]

Confirmed for 1.8.

Comment by Sam Bone [ 05/Jul/14 ]

I never let my tools break except on hard core, so if a tool gets low, I just toss it into a chest. Now, I've been playing hardcore and been noticing certain tools do and don't make a noise.

Comment by Rando Jones [ 30/Jan/14 ]

Yes, this is still an issue in 14w05a, for hoes at least (I just checked it).

Hoes don't play a break sound when you use up the last point of their durability (0 of x points left) tilling dirt. Other tools (pickaxe, shovel, axe, sword, ...) don't play a break sound or break animation when using the last of their durability attacking a mob, but do both when breaking blocks with them.

Comment by Michael Plantz [ 10/Oct/13 ]

This bug is still around in 13w41a

Comment by me [ 16/Aug/13 ]

Yes, this is indeed still an issue. :/

Item breaking sounds of all types are triggered client-side when the game damages and breaks an item, but the server also detects the same conditions to tell other clients to play the item breaking sound.
For example, when you mine a block of stone with your pick, the client realizes that you've broken a block, then damages the client-side version of the pick. The client then realizes that the pick has no durability remaining and plays the break animation and sound. When the server realizes that you've mined the piece of stone, it also damages the server-side version of your pick and detects that you've broken your pick, so it sends packets telling other clients (but not your client) to play the item breaking sound at your location.
With armor, the game damages the armor when it calculates the protection that it gives. However, these calculations are only done server side, so the client never tries to damage its own armor--it just updates the player's inventory according to the server's inventory-change packets, and as such never plays the armor breaking sound and animation.

I assume that similar issues cause hoes, fishing rods, and carrots on sticks not to play their item breaking sounds as well. (As far as I know, those are the only four items to suffer from this issue.)

Comment by [YT]ZeBests [ 27/Dec/12 ]

Not only hoe, but other tools as well. I've experienced sword and a shovel so far.

Comment by Tails [ 19/Dec/12 ]

Affects armor aswell, adjusted title. And yes, both particle effect and sound.

Comment by [Mod] CubeTheThird [ 08/Nov/12 ]

Now do you mean that one of the two occurs? That either the sound doesn't play, or the particle effect doesn't show? I tried it just now, and the sound did play, but the particle effect did not show.

Comment by Daniel Lance [ 08/Nov/12 ]

Also experienced this issue just now. Tilled a dirt block and without any warning I was bare handed.

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