The bug
Upon respawning / loading the world, the old damage tilt is used when taking damage from certain non-directional damage sources (e.g fall damage, drowning, fire damage) until the player takes damage from a damage source that produces the new screen tilt (e.g hurt by a zombie).
How to reproduce
Respawn and use flint and steel on the floor and walk into it
Notice that the old damage tilt is used
Shoot yourself with a bow and arrow whilst burning
Notice how the damage tilt is immediately changed - the initial directional damage tilt from taking damage from the arrow repeatedly continues while burning even though the player is no longer taking damage from the arrow
Linked issues
is duplicated by 8
MC-259257
Camera Tilt From Damage Direction Persists When Taking Self Or Environmental Damage
Resolved
MC-259413
Damage tilt is in direction of last damage source for non directional damage
Resolved
MC-259441
Damage wobble shows wrong direction of falling damage
Resolved
MC-259493
Damage tilt don't reset when damaged by a non-directional attack
Resolved
MC-259536
Damage not from entitys won't show direction if player never got any damage from entity
Resolved
relates to 2
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Comments 16
The title is a bit misleading but still i can confirm. Apparently non-entity caused damage doesn't register the direction.
The camera is supposed to only tilt to the sides when taking damage from non-directional sources, the bug here is actually that it gets stuck tilting in the last direction you got hit from. The original behavior (from before damage tilt broke in 1.3) was that non-directional damage sources would randomly tilt the screen either left or right, so I'd imagine that behavior should just be brought back. I recorded a couple videos of the current (bugged) behavior and the old behavior.