I created the Wither in survival in a cave system. It does the initial explosion when generated and breaks surrounding blocks. Then it rises and stops at the cave ceiling and just hangs out there. It shoots the skulls but is stationary. Once I get it to half strength, it falls to player level and flys, but it doesn't break any blocks. It still shoots the skulls, but wont fly into the cave wall destroying blocks like it used to. It drops the star when defeated. But I use the wither to break hundreds of blocks for me so I dont have to mine them. Since the 1.8.0 update, it seems to have gotten lazy. I want to be lazy.
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Feels like the blast power of the heads has been massively nerfed, a trapped wither in cobble can't even break out.
That's my biggest issue. I'd spawn him under ground and have a huge cavern afterward. Now I can stand in 2x2 hole in stone and he wont even touch me. I end up with a hallowed out area that could have been mined in 2 minutes.
This bug has been reported to our internal bug tracker for further testing and a fix. It is scheduled to be fixed in one of the future updates (no specific date can be provided).
Getting similar results in SSP and SMP
The wither can be trapped in obsidian easily