Still happens in 14w26c
Blah: It is not the resource pack. It still happens on Default only
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Seems to be fixed in 1.6.2, but there was nothing in the change log so it may have been an accidental fix.
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This happens to players as well, and is extremely annoying in PvP
It was my client being glitchy. I restarted and it happened again, but I restarted it a second time and it was fixed. Sorry.
I've found this on many multiplayer servers and in my singleplayer world when I went exploring in the nether
Yes, it still seems to be an issue in the current Minecraft version. I have not seen death messages for "<player> fell off a ladder" and "<player> fell off some vines" as well as some others do not appear to display in the game. These are the death messages in the EN_US.lang file in the 1.8.jar:
death.fell.accident.ladder=%1$s fell off a ladder
death.fell.accident.vines=%1$s fell off some vines