[MCPE-231568] Directional Behavior of Pistons when pushing blocks with mobs on top

Entities move differently depending on the direction faced by the piston pushing the block below them.

(Note: this behavior is inconsistent in many ways, e.g. pushing entities more than 1 block or immovable entities on honey blocks)

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duplicates 1

MCPE-171680 Entities on top of or inside a moving block often move farther than the block and may fall through blocks as a result Open

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GoldenHelmet 2025-11-14T04:13:45Z

The directionality described here is more of an additional info about (MCPE-171680) than a separate bug, so I am resolving this report as a duplicate. The armor stands move exactly 1.5 blocks instead of 1 block per that report. They fall off in two of the four directions because moving exactly 1.5 blocks distance from the center of a block positions an entity on the adjacent block in two directions and two blocks over in the other two directions. That is,

0.5 - 1.5 = -1.0
0.5 + 1.5 = 2.0

The entity that gets displaced to 2.0 falls off the block that was pushed from 0 to 1.