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MC-9388

Baby mobs cannot swim

Create a 1 block deep water filled area, surrounded by 2 block high walls, so chickens must swim. Throw chicken eggs agoinst wall and hatch a few chicks. They will swim for a short time, but will then drown. In earlier versions they would swim forever.

Linked issues

MC-9492 Baby animals can't swim / drown Resolved MC-9696 BABY CHICKENS DO NOT SWIM ONCE WALKING Resolved MC-10283 Baby chickens unaffected by flowing water. Resolved MC-12070 baby Chicken Resolved MC-12556 Baby chickens drown Resolved

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Confirmed, but I don't know if this is intended.

I guess that is so that some automatic chicken farms are nerfed.

Confirmed - if this is intended it really sucks, in the real world chickens can reproduce without human intervention so WHY should the Minecraft masters want to ruin chicken farms

In the real world, chickens wouldn't be able to swim forever, whether baby or adult 😛

Whether in the ocean or a one-block-deep pool, baby chickens die within a minute. Baby pigs and cows sink and die almost immediately in the ocean. Baby villagers survive to adulthood while bobbing in the ocean – animals should dos the same. [Notes from MC 9492]

I suggest checking to see if this is an unintended consequence of shrinking the hit boxes of the babies. Perhaps they share code for swimming and don't float high enough to breathe.

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Is that a baby wolf not swimming? If so, my fix above is still valid.

Question to all, since the hit box is too low to collide with the water, if you place fences (hit box extends into the above block) on the bottom of water, can someone confirm babies swim? This might work as a temp fix for some cases.

Ethan "derdiggermunster" Gardener

I've just seen a baby chicken float above the water. It bobbed up and down as normal, but barely touched the water itself. If this is because of the sticky motion I described in MC-70700, I can imagine a baby chicken could get stuck below the water's surface and drown.

I think it is fixed in 1.8, but in my opinion it shouldn't of.. babies cant swim in real life.

Confirmed proper behavior for all baby mobs; All babies correctly swim when standing on a block under water, unlike previous versions.

Please reopen this!!! This is reappearing in 1.13. Though baby animals seems to float on water (They will try to get to the surface), they are just perfectly submerged a little bit below the surface and it is enough to drown them)

Edit: Just found out and created a similar but not identical issue in 1.13: MC-134755 I confused that with this issue.

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Adult mobs are not affected. It affects all baby mobs at all water depths

John A Dunne

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Confirmed

Snapshot 13w06a, Minecraft 1.5, Snapshot 13w11a, Minecraft 1.5.1, Snapshot 13w16b, ..., Minecraft 14w21b, Minecraft 14w25b, Minecraft 14w26b, Minecraft 14w26c, Minecraft 14w30b

Minecraft 1.8

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