[MC-101062] Endermen become hostile toward a player when looked at during the day

The bug

Endermen will be provoked by a player that looks at them, even during the day.

What I expected to happen was:

The enderman would remain neutral as it did in previous versions.

What actually happened was:

The enderman became aggressive.

How to reproduce

Find an enderman (either through natural spawn or /summon enderman)
Wait for it to become daytime (or use /time set noon)
Look at it (make sure you are in either survival or adventure mode and at most 64 blocks away)

→ ❌ The enderman becomes aggressive

Linked issues

relates to 1

MC-103263 Endermen keep teleporting back onto magma blocks right after Resolved

Comments 9

Sonicwave 2016-07-20T06:18:20Z

Does this issue still happen to you in 1.10.2?

Issac 2016-07-20T15:49:25Z

In creative mode it does, In survival mode they are just trying to murder me still

bob 2016-11-06T11:10:58Z

Is this still an issue in the latest snapshot 16w44a? If so please update the affected versions.

This is an automated comment on any open or reopened issue with out-of-date affected versions.

Issac 2016-11-19T23:26:15Z

endermen teleporting seems to be working now, but they are still trying to murder me in broad daylight in survival

Alugia 2017-08-29T23:02:26Z

Can't reproduce

violine1101 2017-08-29T23:21:39Z

I'm able to reproduce, not sure whether this intended though.

Jon1337 2018-07-27T17:11:47Z

In what versions they remained neutral when looked at during the day?

carpet0928 2018-07-27T22:10:45Z

@unknown, they remained neutral in versions 1.8 and prior. If you look at the report history, you can see I actually deleted that info, but I can re-add it if it helps 🙂

Jeremy Currier 2019-04-27T21:12:33Z

It doesn't matter if its day or night. If you look an endermen in the eyes, it will provoke it. This is just how endermen have always worked. Tested it in 1.9 and they do it and all versions preceding it will do it as well.