Ender pearls can teleport entities inside solid blocks

I've been hoping this would get fixed for ages now.
My problem is that players can pick up (steal) items on the other side of solid walls with ender pearls! 😞

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This is a feature request more than a bug report. The enderpearl teleports you to it's own location. Since the enderpearl is smaller than the player the player gets partially stuck inside the block they are teleporting to. If the player crouches he will be stuck in the block. This is a feature of the game and is programmed this way.

This is more of a feature request and should be posted on the official minecraft suggestions reddit here: www.reddit.com/r/minecraftsuggestions

Firstly, version 1.7.9 is affected.
Secondly, how is getting stuck in a block and dying a feature of Ender Pearls? It's one thing to die from the intentional teleport damage, it's another thing to be whisked into a wall and have no chance for escaping. Ceilings especially are almost guaranteed deaths if they're thick. It makes Ender Pearls nearly useless in certain areas.

If Mojang intended Ender Pearls to be buggy like this, then I'd like to hear from them, because I just don't understand why anyone would think that's a good idea.

Okay perhaps not a feature but it's working as intended. The position of the player is set to the position of the enderpearl. That's what the enderpearls do still.

Ceilings aren't garunteed death if you use a single enderpearl and it is your own fault if you use multiple, get stuck in a wall and die.

Enderpearls aren't unusable/useless if you know how to use them and this brings far more uses than it does otherwise. Like for example teleporting above bedrock in the nether and allowing you to get through, otherwise impassable regions.

I didn't use multiple ender pearls. I threw a single pearl at the ceiling above a loft I made (I was below and on the side of the loft so I wanted to hit the ceiling then fall down onto the loft floor). I began suffocating and died.

Two other friends and I have all died from suffocation using ender pearls in the same week. I guess we're all idiots, but I figured there'd be more than zero block checking. A TON of other Minecraft functions check all sorts of things before making a final decision. Why not a basic head-is-not-suffocating check? Check 1 up/down/4cardinalDirs and if they fail, just give up and let the person die.

Tested this, and prooven!

When going upwards this allows players to pass trough all blocks, including bedrock and barrier blocks. This can cause serious issues in adventure maps that use enderpearls.

Being able to travel through solid blocks should definitely be considered a bug. It doesn't matter if some people find it useful, it's a ridiculously powerful exploit and must be fixed.

Actually I think I glitch into solid blocks more often than not when I use ender pearls, because I don't use them that often. When I do it's usually a terrible idea. Just yesterday, in 1.8.7, I threw 2 ender pearls about 10 meters in front of me, on flat grassland, and I got stuck in the ground 1 block down. Fortunately I wasn't suffocating like normal, but instead I was being attacked by a mob of spiders at night, so I had to frantically decide to attack or dig myself out. Sure, it probably only happened because I threw 2 instead of 1, but man, well over half the time I use them something goes wrong.

Video showcasing this bug: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzedT86R6nc

I'm surprised this ticket is open since 2012 and the issue still isn't fixed, it's so annoying :S

Checked after enderpearl-related update. Spam-clicking enderpearls no longer works. You can not get through most of the solid blocks.

Problem still occurs with thin blocks such as doors, glass panes and fences. This most likely means that this problem will occur with anything with the size less than one whole block.

New video for the 15w34d update: https://youtu.be/qBflXPGcvx4

Whoops. Removed 1.8.8 by accident. Put it back now.

@Ruudiluca So you are saying that on the current latest snapshot clipping through cielings is no longer possible?

To put this a different way, It's only possible to clip through thin walls such as the ones shown on your video?

@Dylan Calaf Latham: I believe that is correct. I used the normal method of trying to get through the ceiling, but couldn't do it. The usual method relies on the user spamming ender pearls. However, there is now a cool-down on ender pearl usage. This means that the usual spamming method no longer works.

Have you seen another way to get through ceilings with ender pearls?

@Ruudiluca Yeah, but it envolves plugin usage. We are talking about pure Vanilla here 😛

That's some real good news.

Still in 16w05b

Confirmed in 16w07a

Confirmed for 1.11-pre1.

Confirmed for 1.11.

Confirmed for 17w06a.

Confirmed for 17w15a.

Confirmed for 1.12-pre2.

Merging issue: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-117537 Here.
As sugested by @SunCat, I'm leaving some aditional issues related to enderpearl clipping here. I would appreciate if @Ruudiluca added them to his ticket.

Additional info (MC: 1.11.2):

• Players can also still clip through solid thick blocks using enderpearls, if the blocks form a corner.
  Video detailing the additional clipping issues:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G2pCZB0PxA

Sure, I went ahead and added your info.

Confirmed for 1.12.

Can confirm for 1.12.1.

Confirmed for 1.13.1.

So lucky for finding this bug soon enough for me to permanently banned Ender Pearl out of my survival world. At least until I can fix it. My world doesn't use chest lock. 

Confirmed for 1.13.2 and 19w09a

Confirmed for 1.14

Affects 19w38b, can I request ownership?

I tested this on 1.14.4,  and you can use this to go on top of the nether. This is a really nasty bug, since you can get stuck up there if you have no ways to kill yourself, and no ways to build a portal! If you're not on hard difficulty, you can't starve to death either.

I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be able to get up there at all in survival mode, especially since it can ruin your game if you do.

This bug is such a classic. Maybe it's about time we consider it part of the gameplay.

This ticket stays open until either the bug no longer happens or Mojang decides to close the ticket.

I find it quite funny to see this bug still going on. It would be interesting to see it get Mojang acknowledgement some time. 

Wow! I just noticed that this is the oldest open issue here. Cool. 

@Ruudiluca If you mean the oldest bug, I just did a search for very old OPEN bug reports, and found some even older results than this bug: 

https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MC-2110?jql=project%20%3D%20MC%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20%3D%20Open%20AND%20created%20%3E%3D%202010-10-01%20AND%20created%20%3C%3D%202012-11-05%20ORDER%20BY%20created%20DESC

But even so, yeah, this bug is still pretty old.

MC-4 is the oldest still open ticket.

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Confirmed in 20w16a

This also works with non transparent blocks, but it is a bit harder to do. You have to sprint then, because the blocks pushes you out. If you sprint, you are stronger than the block and can also glitch through.

Confirmed in 1.16 Pre-release 2. 

Quite an old bug here 🙂. This one can particularly affect negatively the gameplay in some game modes which are very common amongst the community such as factions.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre3.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre4.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre6.

Confirmed in 1.16-pre7.

Confirmed in 1.16.1 and 20w27a

In 20w29a

actually that isn't a bug that happens sometimes when teleport any way

Can confirm in 1.16.2

I can confirm this is still occurring frequently in 1.16.40, three of us on my LAN game raided end cities for about two hours. My friend ended up in a wall when he threw an ender pearl at a wall onto the ledge of an end city. I ended up in a wall twice during our raids. It seems to only happen if the pearl is thrown at a wall and ledge that are close together or where a wall meets a floor of some kind. I hope this helps narrow down the bug. Working on recreating and catching it on video.

@unknown I think you are talking about bedrock. This one is a Java Bug. If this is present on bedrock then go over to that tracker and report it there (if it isn't reported already)

Oh silly me, I just noticed that. I'll take this to the bedrock bugs.

Can confirm in 20w48a.

Can confirm in 20w49a.

Can confirm in 20w51a. I'd like to request ownership of this ticket since the report has been inactive since January 2020.

I'm still here

It doesn't always have to have a corner even. I glitched into a wall for no reason with ender pearls and I was just trying to get out of the water.

Can confirm in 21w03a. Requesting ownership.

Can confirm in 21w05a.

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Can confirm in 21w06a.

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Can confirm in 21w08b.

Can confirm in 21w11a.

Relates to MC-106151 and MC-201040.

Can confirm in 21w15a

Can confirm in 21w17a.

can confirm in 21w18a

Can confirm in 21w19a, 21w20a, and 1.17 pre-release 1.

Can confirm in 1.17

Can confirm in 1.17.1.

I am able to confirm this behavior in 21w39a. Here are some extra details regarding this issue.

The Bug:

Ender pearls can teleport players inside of blocks.

Steps to Reproduce:

• Build the setup as shown in the attachment below.

• Stand on the diamond block as close as possible to the polished andesite wall.

• Obtain an ender pearl and look at the point where the diamond block comes into contact with the polished andesite blocks.

• Throw an ender pearl and walk forward.

Observed Behavior:

Ender pearls can teleport players inside of blocks.

Expected Behavior:

Ender pearls would not be able to teleport players inside of blocks.

Can confirm in 21w40a.

Can confirm in 1.18.1.

Can confirm in 1.18.2.

Can confirm in 1.19.

Can confirm in 1.19.1.

Can confirm in 1.19.2.

Can confirm in 23w06a

Is this an intended feature since the bug is so old.

Priority assigned -> not intended.

Is this still an issue in 24w37a?

I can no longer reproduce this in 24w37a. I also cannot access the nether roof using ender pearls anymore.

Why was the reporter changed? Change it back to me.

I can still reproduce this behavior in 24w37a although it is now much harder to reproduce.

@unknown I transferred ownership of this report to myself since you were inactive until this moment since 2021.

May be harder to reproduce due to MC-276716.