[MC-49174] Mobs spawned with /summon take drowning damage immediately

Create a volume of water with "/fill ~ ~ ~ ~4 ~4 ~4 water".

Stand underwater and summon a mob using the /summon command. (The bug does not effect spawn eggs.)

The mob will start taking drowning damage immediately, instead of having a "breathing time" as it usually does.

Linked issues

duplicates 1

MC-78527 Mobs are summoned with their "Air" tag set to 0 Resolved

Comments 6

Skylinerw 2014-03-02T14:10:55Z

Can confirm. A work-around is to manually apply the "Air" tag (defaulted to 300):

/summon Creeper ~ ~ ~ {Air:300}

Deleted account 2014-05-06T11:19:52Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version 14w18a / Launcher version 1.3.11 or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Itouch2 2014-05-11T12:08:09Z

Confirmed for 14w19a.

ChocolateChip Cookies 2014-07-02T16:59:51Z

Confirmed for 14w26a.

Sonicwave 2014-09-21T03:12:40Z

Confirmed in 1.8.

Torabi 2015-04-17T17:14:48Z

@unknown stated that this is intended behavior on MC-78527. If you want them to not immediately begin drowning, you should give the mob some air using a dataTag in the summon command. For example:

/summon Pig ~3 ~ ~ {Air:300s}