[MC-17254] Zombies stop targeting villagers when attacked by snow golems

Since the snapshot 13w18 and the resolution of the bug MC-590 (Mobs not realizing they killed their attacker and trying to attack empty space), the zombies now stop targeting villagers as soon as a snow golem attack them.
They didn't react towards snow golems before when the were chasing a villager.
That's a big issue for mob sorter, because the only way to nicely separate them is to use :

snow golem for the skeletons
villagers for the zombies
cats for the creepers

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MC-15112 Zombies retaliate when only hitten in Creative Mode Resolved

Comments 5

Tails 2013-06-04T12:40:53Z

Duplicate of MC-15112.

aymeric pierre 2013-06-04T12:49:59Z

I'm sorry but I don't see any relation between MC-15112 and this report. + the fact that what I described happened both in survival and creative (that's not the case for MC-15112), and doesn't concern skeleton at all.

Tails 2013-06-04T12:52:42Z

MC-15112 is the result of trying to fix MC-729: after beeing hit by another mob while chasing a target instead of changing the target zombies currently staying neutral to everything.

aymeric pierre 2013-06-04T12:55:59Z

Ok I see but in this case, the zombie doesn't go neutral at all. He just change his target from villager to golem. That wasn't the case before, and that wasn't mentioned in the changelog of the snapshot 13w18a.
I'll follow the issue MC-15112 and see if this behavior change when mojang will fix it.

Tails 2013-06-04T12:58:17Z

The zombie not chasing the golem is a bug, see MC-729. But in 13w18 it was not completely fixed (still open).