When the devs made the new Elytra hitbox so that you could fly through 1 block tall spaces, they forgot the other issue with the hitbox: it didn't extend the length of the player when flying. As a result, the hitbox is just a cube at the feet, so archers still can't reliably shoot at a gliding player. This NEEDS to be fixed, along with a HOST of other bugs. Use the filter "voter = Milo359" to see which issues I am watching, and you will see what I am talking about. Even look at the resolved ones, because they have been resolved incorrectly. Please don't let these bugs just sit here until release, when you will have to do a patch update because "the game wasn't as stable as you thought it would have been".
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It's supposed to be like that
All hitboxes have a square footprint. They do not rotate.
Then it would be 2x2 blocks and people would complain about not fitting through 1 wide gaps.
This would create further complications. The current hitbox is how Mojang decided to fix another bug, asking for a change to that is a feature request, which isn't welcome on this bug tracker.
Fine, reopened. I doubt it will get changed, though.
The reason is as I mentioned before:
The reason is that players can fly diagonally, and hitboxes in minecraft can only be rectangular, that'd result in a hitbox the size of a spider
Grum has show interest in changing the hitbox system from AABB to OBB, but until then it's intended behaviour
And if you read my enthire comment, you'd see that grum has show intrest in changing the hitbox system
Erik Broes
The reason is that playsers can fly diagonally, and hitboxes in minecraft can only be rectangular, that'd result in a hitbox the size of a spidar