[MCPE-43530] Endermen immediately start moving after being looked at instead of freezing and staring back at you

Repost of MC-71256 for Bedrock Edition. More information and comments may be available there.

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The Bug

When you stare at endermen, instead of stopping, staring, and then attacking you only when you look away, they immediately charge at you.

Expected behavior

When looking at an enderman it would wait until I looked away to attack.

How to reproduce

Spawn a enderman and stare at it to anger it
The enderman will charge at you instead of engaging in the original "staring contest" behavior

Video

Video comparison of expected/actual behavior can be found here (with timestamp):
https://youtu.be/bx1Jeo2KVFM?t=995

Related issues

is duplicated by

MCPE-23680 Endermen don't freeze when looked at - they attack immediately instead

MCPE-171223 Endermen wont stay still if you stare at them

MCPE-172433 Endermen doesn´t stop when u look at their eyes

MCPE-179075 Staring at an Enderman persistently does not freeze it in place

Attachments

Bedrock (1).mp4

Java (1).mp4

Comments

migrated 2019-03-21T00:10:18Z

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migrated 2019-08-29T17:56:40Z

Affects beta 1.13.0.9

migrated 2019-10-22T09:10:11Z

This feature was later reverted on java

migrated 2020-03-27T23:02:29Z

Affects Beta 1.16.0.51

migrated 2020-09-30T07:47:46Z

Affects 1.16.200.55 Beta.

migrated 2021-04-30T01:38:46Z

Affects 1.17.0.52 beta

[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay) 2021-08-20T14:40:43Z

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DeeFeeCee 2022-09-05T20:49:33Z

Affects 1.19.20

migrated 2023-07-11T18:49:02Z

Affects 1.20.10 hotfix

migrated 2024-02-14T04:02:20Z

Affects 1.20.60 hotfix

migrated 2024-02-15T17:45:58Z

Affects 1.20.62 hotfix and 1.20.70.24 preview

X1Crafts 2025-01-08T21:26:46Z

Now that Endermen correctly have a delay before becoming hostile after looking at them (as of the 1.21.60.25 Preview), this parity issue should be reconsidered as it still affects the 1.21.51 Hotfix and the 1.21.60.25 Preview. The fix of MCPE-23544 makes this issue much easier to reproduce and much more noticeable.

Eckosoldier can be seen unintentionally reproducing this bug in the most recent Preview here.