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I've noticed that the extended range seems to be no more than 18 blocks. I'm not sure if each broken villager has their own incorrect detection range, but at least on some of my villagers they could not detect an iron golem past 18 blocks (below them). It also seems to me that the behavior is caused at birth (maybe also natural spawning?) rather than loading/unloading.

Can confirm for 1.18.2 and 1.19/1.19.1/1.19.2

This bug also applies to other entities (e.g. armor stands). I find for entities with a thicker hitbox, it works better to shoot the arrow slightly offset from the hitbox instead of directly at it.

I suspect the bug is due to the original arrow being deleted, then a new arrow spawned slightly ahead so the velocity is preserved.