[MC-119372] Guardians and elder guardians render outside of their hitboxes when looking up or down

The Bug:

Guardians and elder guardians render outside of their hitboxes when looking up or down.

Steps to Reproduce:

Summon a guardian and elder guardian looking down by using the commands provided below.

/summon minecraft:elder_guardian ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1b,Silent:1b,Rotation:[0f,75f]}

/summon minecraft:guardian ~ ~ ~ {NoAI:1b,Silent:1b,Rotation:[0f,75f]}

Enable entity hitboxes by pressing "F3 + B".
Take note as to whether or not guardians and elder guardians render outside of their hitboxes when looking up or down.

Observed Behavior:

Guardians and elder guardians render outside of their hitboxes.

Expected Behavior:

Guardians and elder guardians would not render outside of their hitboxes.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 4

MC-262940 Guardians don't rotate around the center of their hitbox Resolved

MC-208253 Elder Guardians can clip through blocks, because their model is barely fixed to their hitbox Resolved

MC-172823 elder guardian bugs Resolved

MC-297525 Guardian model becomes extremely disjointed from hitbox Resolved

relates to 2

MC-262805 Players that are swimming render outside of their hitboxes when looking up or down Open

MC-50367 Bad hit boxes and eye positions Resolved

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Comments 22

Devilcrusher D 2017-07-15T13:13:18Z

i think, this is like an animation for an attack, like a iron golem trows up his arms. But when in this animation, the hitbox doesnt change.
They must remove the animation, the change of hitbox because of the animation would be much more difficult i think.

[Mod] bemoty 2017-08-11T10:58:46Z

Can confirm for MC 1.12.1.

Kevin Posey 2018-07-29T15:49:37Z

Confirmed for 1.13

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-18T12:36:52Z

Confirmed for 1.13.1-pre1

[Mod] Asteraoth 2018-08-22T19:04:25Z

Confirmed for 1.13.1

12 more comments

kasamikona 2019-02-17T17:16:14Z

I've identified the cause of this.
All entity models are created 1.5 blocks below where they should render, and then moved up by a little over 1.5 blocks in the rendering process. I don't know why it's done this way but it is. The issue is, the guardian model does not set a pivot/rotation point, and it defaults to [0, 0, 0] (relative to the entity position) which is above where the model is. When the model is rendered, everything is shifted up 1.5 blocks, putting the model in the correct place, but the pivot point is now at [0, 1.5, 0] which is way too high.

The correct location for the pivot, in my opinion, would be at 0.5 blocks above the bottom of the guardian, or 1.0 blocks below the default pivot.

In MCP 1.12.2 naming the code solution would be, in the constructor of net.minecraft.client.model.ModelGuardian, the following line needs to be added:

this.guardianBody.setRotationPoint(0.0F, 1.0F, 0.0F);

(entities are modelled upside-down so using a positive value here shifts the pivot point downwards from its default)

Frostbite 2019-10-26T00:54:30Z

Can confirm for 19w42a

Avoma 2021-01-28T16:13:24Z

Can confirm in 21w03a.

Avoma 2021-02-08T08:53:46Z

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Avoma 2021-02-17T13:14:06Z

Can confirm in 21w06a.

Avoma 2021-02-22T12:30:52Z

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Avoma 2021-03-28T19:07:40Z

Can confirm in 21w11a. Relates to MC-156595.

Brevort 2021-06-04T23:08:17Z

Can confirm in 1.17-rc1.

Avoma 2021-06-18T08:44:27Z

Can confirm in 1.17.

Avoma 2021-08-05T16:27:12Z

Can confirm in 1.17.1.

Avoma 2021-10-14T11:18:34Z

I'd like to request ownership of this ticket since the current reporter has been inactive for several years. I'm willing to continue to provide all of the necessary details and will keep this report updated accordingly.

[Mod]Les3awe 2021-10-14T11:49:46Z

@@unknown, completed.

Avoma 2021-10-14T11:50:24Z

Thanks, greatly appreciated. 😃

[Mod] Jingy 2023-09-29T02:02:22Z

Can confirm in 1.20.2

Minecraft386882 2024-11-19T14:43:04Z

Confirmed in 24w46a

AmyMialee 2024-11-22T23:09:25Z

Confirmed on 1.21.4 Pre-Release 1

ouroya 2025-05-06T19:37:08Z

can confirm in 1.21.5