[MC-14539] Skeletons, bogged, and strays can shoot behind themselves when their movement speed attribute is set to zero

The Bug:

Skeletons, bogged, and strays can shoot behind themselves when their movement speed attribute is set to zero.

Steps to Reproduce:

Summon a skeleton that has its "minecraft:generic.movement_speed" attribute set to "0.0" by using the command provided below.

/summon minecraft:skeleton ~ ~ ~ {attributes:[{id:"minecraft:movement_speed",base:0.0d}],equipment:{mainhand:{count:1,id:"minecraft:bow"}}}

Switch into survival mode, walk behind the skeleton, and watch it closely.

Observed Behavior:

Skeletons, bogged, and strays can shoot behind themselves.

Expected Behavior:

Skeletons, bogged, and strays would not be able to shoot behind themselves.

Linked issues

is duplicated by 2

MC-24881 Skeleton shoot without facing the target Resolved

MC-234563 Skeleton shoots sideway arrows. Resolved

Attachments

MC-14539.mp4

Comments 22

Talven81 2013-11-26T23:10:17Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 1.7.4 / Launcher version 1.3.8 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Deleted account 2014-03-23T23:25:50Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version *14w11b / Launcher version 1.3.11 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Deleted account 2014-05-25T07:37:58Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 14w21b / Launcher version 1.4.4 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

FaRo1 2016-10-15T16:07:18Z

I would say this is a duplicate of MC-88491. That one is newer, but also more general.

bob 2016-11-06T01:12:07Z

What does blocked by mean?

12 more comments

SunCat 2016-11-06T08:24:11Z

@unknown, it means that this ticket can't be reproduced/fixed because of the issue that blocks it.

bob 2016-11-06T11:04:33Z

I see, thank you

tryashtar 2017-08-27T22:05:54Z

I don't understand this report.

Is it reporting that skeletons can face backwards (away from their target) but still shoot forwards (towards their target)?

If so, I can't reproduce in 1.12.1. Let me know if you can – this ticket hasn't been updated for a while.

Conem 2020-06-08T13:27:52Z

I can't reproduce this in 1.16 Pre-release 2. The skeleton won't let me get behind him. Second opinion?

j_p_smith 2020-06-10T17:15:10Z

Confirmed in 1.16 Pre-release 3.

Godly 2020-06-17T22:26:30Z

It seems that the skeleton needs to successfully be able to pathfind to another block in order to properly face its target. When you do not allow the skeleton to do so, it cannot face the correct way while aiming. Confirmed in 1.16 Pre-release 8 with both iron golems and players.

This bug is basically unfixable, however, because rotation is part of mobs' pathfinding. This means that mobs turn to face the direction to which they are pathfinding. This is apparent in the bug where mobs turn around randomly and do 360s, looking for a block to pathfind to, before finding a block and moving there. It would take massive changes in the game's code to be able to fix this bug by separating the rotation and movement packets.