[MCPE-992] Mobs can't move through deep water

All the animals in my world seem to have a preference for sea over land... please fix! Means I have to dive underwater to collect drops and difficult to herd.

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MCPE-431 Animals don't leave the water Resolved

MCPE-588 Animal weird spawning Resolved

MCPE-725 Swimming animals.staying on water everytime. Resolved

MCPE-744 Animals spawn in water? Resolved

MCPE-934 Mobs will not move through stationary water blocks (id 9) Resolved

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Michelle 2012-09-19T04:00:36Z

I also noticed and am frustrated with this tendency. I thought animals like and spawn on grass only to see them constantly swimming. It makes it difficult like mentioned to sheer sheep since have to dive for wool after locking the sheers on em long enough. Then is a big task to coax the sheep on land long enough to eat grass before returning to the water. Think this would make it hard for chickens to lay eggs too if that is possible. (I'm on ios ipod G4)

michał szewczyński 2012-09-19T14:20:03Z

It may be connected with a world renderer annoyance - world like 256x256 should not have much water, instead more land (it will be easier to find mushrooms, cacti etc if there will be more land). So if you somehow got a world with extreme lot of water then they will spawn on woter. But it's only my thoughts. and i noticed it too. diving just to get my food...

Do 2012-09-19T17:50:21Z

It sure seems like they get "stuck" in the water to me. Makes me wonder if they are looking at the elevation of the underwater terrain and deciding it's too steep to navigate, as if it were above ground, or something similar...

Troy Parry 2012-09-25T16:38:51Z

Animals in water surely are annoying. Need to make them smarter than that. They should be attracted to grassy areas, and possibly wheat plantations.

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Avlor 2012-10-04T02:42:29Z

My animals seem to prefer water too. I've pushed animals to shore while swimming. Then I was able to sheer a sheep that had been at sea most of it's life. Some of the "rescued" animals just jumped right back into the water. Silly creatures!

Troy Parry 2012-10-04T03:53:28Z

Yeah, I had 2 chickens in the ocean which I spent 30 mins trying to get into a pen just outside the water. As soon as I get them to land, they just jump back in the water and swim back to the same place! (so I just killed those 2 suckers, so annoying). Argh, chickens are the hardest animal to round up. Need to lure them with wheat!

Enzo Villegas 2012-11-18T03:41:42Z

Happens to me all the time, in different worlds and mcpe versions, this must be solved now!

GuysImTristan 2012-11-20T10:02:33Z

Hatest bug ever!

GuysImTristan 2012-11-20T10:04:15Z

So will mojang will fix this freaking bug that bug happens on the first passive mobs 😛

GuysImTristan 2012-11-20T10:06:13Z

Fix this!!!

Tracy Dao 2012-11-28T04:07:10Z

good point, its werid how animals stay in water all the time.

kumasasa 2012-12-12T19:47:14Z

Reopened / Pulled out of archive.

Do 2012-12-12T19:59:19Z

I made a little progress in testing this and wrote some comments on MCPE-934. I'll probably link the rest of these tickets as duplicates of that one eventually...

Madison 2012-12-13T01:16:08Z

I think it's because of this issue...https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MCPE-934

mike 2013-01-20T19:08:06Z

It all makes sense that the mobs would act that way since they forget there AL when in stationary water. The lands should have less water per meter (block) anyways.

Jon Morgan 2013-01-31T20:16:42Z

I think the world needs less water(maybe only 10% water) but at the edges have water like on classic.

Cultist_O 2013-02-16T21:36:19Z

Ya, it seems that mobs fail to understand their position when they are in deep water or lava, which results in them not moving.

Ryan Meppelink 2013-02-28T17:01:09Z

I've been working on my farm and having animals in the water maks them much easier to trap and push trough long tunnels 😃

Tails 2013-04-10T16:22:39Z

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft version? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

mike 2013-04-10T19:16:38Z

It is still a problem in 0.6.1, although mobs can get out of stationary water if land is near. Mobs in oceans, though, don't move.

Kieran Kelly 2013-04-23T01:29:28Z

This has been an issue ever since pocket edition was released

Cameron Johnson 2013-08-03T23:27:28Z

Yea, when I spawn animals in the water, they act like if there were "Bobbing" on that level of water. Anyone get what I'm saying?

mike 2013-08-04T12:15:34Z

This is an issue when with 0.7.0 and 0.7.1 . I'm not sure about 0.7.2, but if someone would like to add if they have that version. Also, it says on the wiki that it was intentional that mobs are attracted to water.

Vegard Bakke 2013-08-12T12:50:32Z

I can confirm that cows, pigs, sheep and chickens stay in the water in version 0.7.2 alpha.

(Only on rare occasions, a couple of them manage to exit the water themselves.)

Anher Vel 2013-08-16T02:21:29Z

also in 0.7.3!!!!

Vegard Bakke 2013-09-03T12:25:31Z

The bug still applies to v.0.7.4.

tommo 2013-09-03T12:40:40Z

We will redo the AI system to port the new PC code to MCPE in either 0.8 or 0.9, it will probably be fixed in those versions!

jan kowalski 2013-09-10T16:59:40Z

I have exactly the same problem. Only animals on the sea....

Luis Robles 2013-09-10T18:49:32Z

So with the AI system, mobs will walk over deep water, and hostile mobs will be more intelligent!? :O

michael cooke 2013-09-15T21:32:48Z

Does this mean mobs can wear armour and hold items

mike 2013-09-16T11:01:21Z

No, unless Mojang decides to add it as a feature. Mob AI is basicly how mobs behave after they are spawned in, such as how they move and react to different circumstances.

1234567 2013-09-23T17:34:57Z

The bug is in 0.7.5.

Vegard Bakke 2013-09-30T07:52:25Z

Yiihaaaa! We're all looking forwards to go shearing the sheep and still keep our boots dry!

Thank you! : )))

tommo 2013-10-02T14:02:12Z

It isn't fixed yet, hopefully it will be fixed for 0.8 though.

Caleb Stewart 2013-10-03T10:45:31Z

A really annoying bug, hard to get wool because once I sheer the sheep it won't go back to land to eat and if I eventually push it back it goes back in before eating :/

Vegard Bakke 2013-10-03T12:11:35Z

Please, if proper AI handling is too much work to make it into 0.8, then please make a quick fix in 0.8.

If any mob falls into water, and a land block is nearby, make the mob go to the land block and not to another water block.

Won't be as realistic, but at least the most voted bug can be ticked as fixed. Then improvements can be added in 0.9.

Victor Tran 2013-10-04T00:28:14Z

😞
This bug is getting a little annoying. I have WAY too many animals in the water - including a brown sheep. (Just to clarify, this one was naturally spawned - no mods) It gets annoying because you can't get the sheep to regrow their wool until they find grass.

Oh, and Vegard's idea is a pretty good idea. At least any new coloured/colored (Australian English!) sheep will not get stuck in the water.

tommo 2013-11-21T15:06:32Z

New AI!