Mobs suffocate when their eye level is inside solid blocks.
Therefore in cases where the eye height of the mob lies outside of its collision box, the mob doesn't need to be inside a block to take damage from it.
This can lead to mobs weirdly taking damage or dying.
Affected Entities
Mob/Entity | Eye Position | Comment |
|---|---|---|
Baby/Grown Chicken | ❌ | Suffocating below blocks |
Baby Mooshroom/Cow | ❌ | Suffocating below blocks |
Baby/Grown Horse/Donkey | ❌ | Suffocating below blocks, also see MC-76050 for donkeys |
Baby/Grown Llama | ❌ | Suffocating below blocks: comment |
Fox | ❌ | Suffocating below blocks |
Baby Turtle | ❓ | Suffocating below blocks but eye Position seems fine. See MC-142711 |
Cod | ✔ | Fixed by moving eye height down, see MC-126144 |
Baby Sheep | ✔ | Fixed by moving eye height down |
Baby Giant | ✔ | Fixed by removing baby giant? |
Screenshot of affected mobs.
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Ideas to fix this
Manually move the eye position for the hand full of affected mobs (seems what has been done and is reasonable)
Adjust the suffocation rule to only trigger when eye height and collision box are inside blocks
Force the collision box to grow to include the eye height
Force the eye height to snap into the collision box
This issue was split off MC-50367.
Linked issues
is duplicated by 37
MC-48215
Chickens suffocating in 1 block high spaces
Resolved
MC-49617
Suicide Chickens
Resolved
MC-52117
Chickens suffocate when under 1 block.
Resolved
MC-54490
chickens getting hurt when they jumps under a 1 high block tunnel
Resolved
MC-56654
14w20b Jumping chicken suffocates if hits head.
Resolved
relates to 6
MC-50367
Bad hit boxes and eye positions
Resolved
MC-48376
Baby chicken hitbox taller than 1/2 block
Resolved
MC-134755
All short mobs drown just below the surface of water
Resolved
MC-142711
Baby turtles take damage when pushed against ceiling
Resolved
MC-149877
Baby foxes suffocate when jumping under blocks
Resolved
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Comments 6
As of 19w03a, giants no longer have the zombie's AI (or any for that matter), making the baby giant now impossible to spawn.
This is fixed for every other mob, but it still happens with chickens and baby turtles in 1.14 Pre-Release 1.
Panda4994
migrated
As mentioned this issue is split up from MC-50367.
The following duplicates should ideally be duplicates of this issue instead of MC-50367: MC-141479, MC-134538, MC-133517, MC-133487, MC-129765, MC-121527, MC-118161, MC-116796, MC-115333, MC-114803, MC-112231, MC-109898, MC-109044, MC-108530, MC-108017, MC-106308, MC-103748, MC-103725, MC-101823, MC-99792, MC-98667, MC-93073, MC-92789, MC-84339, MC-71543, MC-70852, MC-69595, MC-59636, MC-48215,
Also these two related issues of MC-50367 should also be related this one: MC-142711, MC-134755
If any moderator got time and/or tools to do that, that would be awesome 🙂
The length of the list of duplicates goes to show that this (clearly defined and easy to fix) part of the MC-50367 is an actual annoyance to players.