(update down below)
hey guys! this is my first time reporting a bug so i hope i'm doing everything alright, not really a computer whizz. i'm playing on windows 11 and my game is up to date and i have never had any mods installed. i won't attach a save file bc i will be restarting the day in hopes of getting a different outcome. so now to my report:
I am currently doing the prismatic jelly quest by the wizard. i found the slime, i slayed the slime (it got checked off in the quest aswell) but it did not drop me the prismatic jelly, it dropped me a magnetic ring.
noteable things:
i slayed it with a sword (dwarf sword) i got through spawning it with the item code (no mod, just naming my new chicken the item code when buying it), so i don't think there is a way i could have obtained that sword through proper gameplay at this point (desert and ginger island not unlocked yet)
i slayed it pinned to a wall so idk if potentially the jelly is somehow stuck in the abyss
i got my first ten hearts with npc's today
i saw maru's ten heart event today
i completet a quest from seb to get him refined quartz today
i did not interact with the wizard since the stardew valley fair
--- UPDATE ----
so, restarting the day worked, i found the slime again, this time i got the prismatic jelly. the most noteable difference, and what i think caused the issue, is that this prismatic jelly did not have a gold star on its antenna, just a regular green blob. the star ones as far as i'm aware are the ones that drop weapons and rings (i originally thought the prismatic slime alwys has the star on its head), i assume the bug is that normally those slimes can not turn into the prismatic one (as far as i'm aware the way the prismatic one works it randomly picks a slime that turns into a prismatic one and it just happened to be a gold star one this time, which it shouldnt be)
other than that the two things i did differently this time was i did not put anything in the selling bin and i did not place a bottle of wine into the enchanter's bundle, if somehoe those things can be related.
hope this bug report helped somehow