[MCPE-35647] Blazes attack range too low

Steps to reproduce

In a flat creative world, make a 4-block tall pillar.
Spawn a blaze on the pillar.
Move >50 blocks away.
Switch to survival mode.
Approach the blaze slowly.

Expected result

The blaze starts shooting at you at 48 blocks away (MC-112013)

Actual result

The blaze targets you at 48 blocks away (shown by its flaming up) but then stops, and does not shoot at you until you are within 16 blocks.

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You may notice that the blaze has very slow attacks and range. he does not attack with the fireball, even far away though and he may still detect us

Device: LG K10

Linked issues

relates to 1

MCPE-50207 Mobs have short follow/target range Open

Attachments

Comments 6

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2019-08-22T11:08:05Z

Cleaning up old tickets: This ticket has not been updated recently (~7 months+) so is being closed as Cannot Reproduce. If you feel this is still a valid issue and is affecting the most recent versions, then please comment, or create a new ticket following the Issue Guidelines.

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Walter Brown 2020-06-13T21:00:49Z

I am still experiencing this issue in 1.14.60

Walter Brown 2020-06-30T02:16:10Z

Still not fixed in 1.16.20.50

GoldenHelmet 2021-08-10T07:43:59Z

Reopening because this is still an issue. The vanilla entities\blaze.json gives targeting and follow ranges of 48 blocks, but the ranged attack radius is only 16 blocks. This was reported as a bug in Java Edition in 2014 at MC-51266 and fixed in December 2016 (see MC-112013).

Natthan 2021-09-18T14:25:17Z

Affects 1.17.40.20

SassiestTable55 2025-06-17T15:43:12Z

The attack range is lengthened, which is very unfriendly to mobile players.