[MC-132968] Splash/lingering potions of Harming do not damage or kill any form of coral

The bug

Potions of harming damage all living animals. Since corals are animals, one may therefore expect that throwing splash potions of instant damage of them would kill them and cause them to transform into a dead coral block. This does not happen.

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Comments 17

MGPlayzYT 2018-07-07T10:11:10Z

I agree. This should be a feature, but this isn't a bug.

CreeperMagnet_ 2018-07-09T22:13:47Z

This is a feature request. Corals are a block, not an entity at the moment, so adding this would require creating new code for this "bug".

Plus, corals aren't exactly animals. I'm not even sure it makes sense for harming to affect them.

user-f2760 2018-07-09T22:21:09Z

Corals actually are animals; just not mobs in-game.
This is being left open for mojang to decide for.

Skylinerw 2018-07-09T23:02:37Z

I'd also like to point out that there is already a case of splash potions affecting blocks in some manner: water splash potions removing fire blocks.

Ahmet Çavuş 2018-08-03T01:26:08Z

It isn't same as putting off a fire. That would also require splash potion harming grass or other plants, since they are "alive" too. But in the game code, they sre just blocks. So, your "bug report" makes no actual sense, since it's not a bug.

7 more comments

muzikbike 2018-09-14T07:53:47Z

Grass clearly isn't an animal.

Jon1337 2019-12-06T14:20:39Z

Still in 1.15 Pre-Release 6

Jongseo Park 2020-05-14T02:16:14Z

To achieve that would require extensive modification, either in the way blocks work, or in the way corals are treated, if they change how blocks work, that would be catastrophic as that would mean that Mojang would likely need to re-program how blocks work entirely, if they change how corals work, by either making them as block entity like signs or chests, or making them a full-on entity like armor stands, it would cause extreme lag, as corals would spawn in large quantities, and a full-on entity like an armor stand do not stack, so it would make it impossible to stack corals on top of each other, and they would now be affected by gravity, and it would probably be a nightmare to program them to "die" when they are outside of water (and if they do become a full-on entity, it would be impossible to use /fill command or use worldedit on corals).

Skylinerw 2020-05-14T05:27:22Z

@unknown: there is already a case of splash potions affecting blocks: fire blocks. Fire blocks/coral blocks, are not and do not need to be block entities or regular entities for this to work in the same manner.

edelewill 2020-07-14T20:55:46Z

Confirmed/Reproduced in 20w28a.

muzikbike 2020-07-14T21:32:36Z

Even though I obviously already had 20w28a marked as affected?