I've been getting poisoned by Puffer fish while traveling in a boat with a chest several times now. I've never had it happen in the regular boat, so I'm not sure if it was intended.
MC-256920
Players can be poisoned by pufferfish while inside boats
Resolved
Works As Intended
0
(Unassigned)
Confirmed
Hitboxes, Mob behaviour
boat, pufferfish
1.19.2, 1.19.3 Release Candidate 3, 1.19.3, 1.19.4
Retrieved
Confirmed. I think pufferfish are intentionally designed to attack a given entity that is within a certain distance of them, however, I don't call the shots on what is or isn't intentional though; that's Mojang's decision.
This can also be reproduced with normal boats and isn't just exclusive to chest boats so I've updated this ticket accordingly. This may also be a product of MC-80877.