katuma/CraftBukkitPlusPlus — comment on commit bbd59d46294a7d48c12e0619b0ecd089bfd25f85
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By katuma:

It was long-standing artifact with cbpp item merging which seems to be fixed now, though not entirely vanilla behaviour. Vanilla creepers will destroy items dropped earlier (usual scenario - get killed by a skeleton, a hissing creeper comes along and destroys your items). Only exception is for items dropped when you die in that explosion.

btw, this fix introduced another bug - there is no explosion sound/particles emited at all, creeper just disappears. This is purely cosmetic, block damage is done and items are kept.