When a cauldron is filled with lava, the hitbox of the lava extends past the bottom of the cauldron’s hitbox. This makes it so that entities can be affected by the lava from below the cauldron despite not coming into contact with any lava.
When a cauldron is filled with lava, the hitbox of the lava extends past the bottom of the cauldron’s hitbox. This makes it so that entities can be affected by the lava from below the cauldron despite not coming into contact with any lava.
Duplicate of MC-297593. This issue was fixed in 25w31a,