[MC-58312] Tamed dogs will track skeletons through walls and not follow player.

Wolves will immediately aggro and track skeletons through walls even without line of sight or a valid path. If wolves are tamed, they will continue to track the skeleton instead of following the player. This only seems to affect skeletons, not other hostile mobs. Is reproducible.

Related issues

is duplicated by

MC-98766 Dog stuck staring at dirt because skeleton is under it

MC-118414 Wolves attacking wrong location

relates to

MC-55661 Animals don't teleport to Player when target is air block

MC-110253 Untamed wolves try to attack skeletons they can't "see"

Attachments

FaintTatteredAnglerfish.webm

Comments

migrated 2014-06-20T20:32:09Z

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migrated 2014-06-20T20:37:08Z

can reproduce as well, worth noting dogs will not tp to player either, although they respond to sitting.

http://gfycat.com/FaintTatteredAnglerfish
Video showing bug in action. Attached .webm also.

qmagnet 2014-06-22T14:32:01Z

Confirmed. I have had reports of this in my map testing.

migrated 2014-06-22T15:26:28Z

Confirmed. It's annoying when my wolf stops attacking skeletons in the killing chamber because it could see through the ground and saw a clogged skeleton in the spawner room, trying to attack it.

migrated 2014-07-10T00:42:15Z

still present in 14w28a

migrated 2014-08-09T04:09:45Z

Confirmed in 14w32d

migrated 2014-08-19T01:10:02Z

And in 14w34b. One way to justify a WAI is that the dogs can smell the skeletons.

Sonicwave 2014-09-21T03:45:52Z

Confirmed in 1.8 in Creative. A wolf started chasing after a skeleton and did not even teleport to the player even when 50+ blocks away until it killed the skeleton.

migrated 2015-06-24T17:42:08Z

1.8.7
Confirmed tamed dogs see skeletons through solid walls. However, dogs will teleport to me even if they are trying to kill the unreachable skeleton.

Perhaps the teleport error was related to the old bug where animals would not teleport into air blocks, and there is no grass in superflats?

Sonicwave 2015-11-22T22:18:49Z

Confirmed for 15w47c. The wolves still don't teleport to the player while hostile at a skeleton, despite MC-55661 being fixed.

They will also chase after (but not be able to damage) NoAI skeletons that spawned from MC-91290.

migrated 2016-03-03T21:54:53Z

Confirmed for Minecraft 1.9

wobst.michael 2016-10-25T16:38:38Z

Is this still an issue in the most recent versions (currently that is 1.10.2, or 16w42a) of Minecraft? If so, please update the affected versions and help us keeping this ticket updated from time to time. If you are the owner/reporter of this ticket, you can modify the affected version(s) yourself.