# Description<\/p>\n
Wither Skeletons guard the Nether Fortress with their menacing Stone Swords.
\nThat’s all well and good, until you start killing a couple and your inventory is suddently filled with a dozen of half-broken stone swords.<\/p>\n
Given that by the time you reach the Nether, you probably have higher tier tools than stone (and stone isn’t really hard to come by), the fact that Wither Skeletons drop their swords is mostly useless and will only clog your inventory for no reason.<\/p>\n
This datapack fixes it by setting their drop chances to 0 for their weapon.
\nNote that if a Wither Skeleton was to pickup a sword dropped by a player (say you got killed and one of them picked up your diamond sword), the Wither Skeleton would still drop it normally.<\/p>\n
# Performances<\/p>\n
This datapack has been optimized to have minimal impact on performances, logic is run every 1s and only runs on Wither Skeletons in the Nether Dimension and marks already checked skeletons with a tag to not re-process them. <\/p>\n
# Issues \/ Bugs
\nFeel free to report issues on the Github project page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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