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MC-253657

Ender dragons take knockback from wardens' sonic boom attacks

The Bug:

It's important to note that wardens cannot deal damage to ender dragons using their sonic boom attack and this is an intentional game mechanic as stated in MC-250255, however, it seems rather strange that ender dragons still receive knockback from wardens' sonic boom attack. One would expect that if no damage is dealt, no knockback would either.

When the warden(s) attack the ender dragon, it takes knockback, which it shouldn't normally take from anything. I know this scenario would probably never even happen in a survival game, but still. 

Steps to Reproduce:

  1. Summon some wardens and an ender dragon.

  2. Allow the wardens to get angry and attempt to attack the ender dragon.

  3. Wait for one of the wardens to perform a sonic boom attack on the ender dragon.

  4. Take note of how the ender dragon doesn't take damage which is intentional (MC-250255) but still receives knockback from the attack which doesn't seem right.

Observed Behavior:

Ender dragons take knockback.

Expected Behavior:

Ender dragons would not take knockback.

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Comments 5

That bug report seems to be mainly about the damage, not the knockback.

If the knockback wasn't intended, mojang would've changed that and resolved the report as fixed instead.

Better to be safe than sorry so I'm marking this as confirmed as I was able to reproduce the potential problem here. I've made some slight alterations to this ticket; I hope this is okay. 🙂

Can confirm in 24w45a.

Krystian Laubach

(Unassigned)

Confirmed

Platform

Low

Mob behaviour

warden

1.19, 1.19.2

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