Mobs can not use boats cause the dual wielding, neither shields or typed arrows(typed arrow affect only skeletons). What about making Archer zombie?
When mobs are on boats they can not control the boat, the don't have dual wielding like players. The zombie in the image just is looking to his right even if the player is on other direction.
I summon a boat with passenger zombie and I tried to make him to attack me or follow me using the boat but he can't. Mobs are not able to control boats
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Actually they HAVE been able to control boats. Due to the changes, mobs can no longer control boats. This is definitely a valid bug, especially since mobs can now manually get in boats without the /summon command. Someone please validate this report.
If they were able to control boats before it wasn't an official feature. Which version was that in, anyway?
It was in 1.8. It was even added in 14w06a as one of the features. http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Boat#Trivia "If a mob is stacked on top of a boat in water (such as with the /summon command), the boat can be controlled by that mob."
What exactly is the issue here? Please describe the bug in detail and provide steps to reproduce.