(Also reported for Java Edition at MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
(These steps only show the issue because of MCPE-153740, so if that bug is fixed then you will need to use the alternate steps below.)
Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
Turn off mobgriefing
Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
Switch to survival.
Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see MCPE-78714.)
Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
Turn off mob griefing.
Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
Linked issues
discovered while testing 2
relates to 2
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This bug along with MCPE-153299 made it difficult to set up an enderman -> wither rose farm as shown here: https://youtu.be/ZuTKV5D8rvw. We discovered that wither roses were not dropping because the explosion happening near the endearmen’s head was not doing enough damage to kill them directly despite them having only 1 hp after the fall, and was instead causing them to be killed by the wither effect, which does not trigger dropping roses.
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Could you please attach a behavior pack that makes fireballs summonable?
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Here is a pack
[media]This issue is also the cause of this counterintuitive behavior: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEKuYMCSdCrrAxwpo9dh8ykzO6NvNgkWb
Although that's a Java video it works the same in Bedrock.
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We've discovered that creeper explosions are much more dangerous all of a sudden. And if explosion damage at feet level is more lethal then that explains this as creeper explosions start from their feet(ish).