I have also been experiencing this problem while making an iron golem farm, where the village spawns cats which drop into a water stream and fall onto magma blocks. None of the cats die, adult or kitten, until they are nudged by the player or other entity. They also appear to loose some of their ai and can no longer path-find. This also works on camp fires and wither roses. edit: never mind after further testing the carpets do not give consistent results. And I can confirm that carpets fix both the damage and path finding problems. This can be readily replicated with a system similar to the second picture spawning multiple cats specifically. (v 1.14.60)
I have also been experiencing this problem while making an iron golem farm, where the village spawns cats which drop into a water stream and fall onto magma blocks. None of the cats die, adult or kitten, until they are nudged by the player or other entity. They also appear to loose some of their ai and can no longer path-find. This also works on camp fires and wither roses. edit: never mind after further testing the carpets do not give consistent results.
And I can confirm that carpets fix both the damage and path finding problems.This can be readily replicated with a system similar to the second picture spawning multiple cats specifically. (v 1.14.60).