[MC-3059] Projectiles can pass through thin surfaces Created: 15/Nov/12  Updated: 02/Oct/24

Status: Reopened
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.4, Minecraft 1.4.7, Snapshot 13w06a, Minecraft 1.5, Minecraft 1.5.2, Minecraft 1.6.2, Minecraft 1.6.4, Minecraft 13w38a, Minecraft 13w38b, Minecraft 13w38c, Minecraft 14w04b, Minecraft 1.7.10, Minecraft 14w30b, Minecraft 14w30c, Minecraft 1.8-pre1, Minecraft 1.8-pre2, Minecraft 1.8, Minecraft 1.8.1-pre1, Minecraft 1.8.9, Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 2, Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 3, Minecraft 1.9 Pre-Release 4, Minecraft 1.9, Minecraft 1.9.1 Pre-Release 1, Minecraft 1.9.1 Pre-Release 3, Minecraft 1.9.1, Minecraft 1.9.2, Minecraft 1.10, Minecraft 1.10.2, Minecraft 16w32a, Minecraft 16w32b, Minecraft 16w33a, Minecraft 16w35a, Minecraft 17w06a, Minecraft 1.12.2, Minecraft 1.13-pre6, Minecraft 1.13.1, 1.15.2, 20w12a, 20w13b, 1.16.1, 20w27a, 20w30a, 1.16.2 Pre-release 1, 1.16.2 Pre-release 2, 1.16.2 Pre-release 3, 1.16.2 Release Candidate 1, 1.16.2 Release Candidate 2, 1.16.2, 1.16.3 Release Candidate 1, 1.16.3, 1.16.4 Pre-release 1, 1.16.4 Pre-release 2, 1.16.4 Release Candidate 1, 1.16.4, 20w45a, 20w46a, 20w48a, 20w49a, 20w51a, 21w03a, 21w05b, 21w06a, 21w07a, 21w08b, 21w10a, 21w11a, 21w13a, 21w14a, 21w20a, 1.17.1, 21w39a, 1.18 Pre-release 5, 22w06a, 22w14a, 1.19, 1.19.1 Pre-release 5, 1.19.2, 1.19.3, 23w06a, 1.19.4, 1.20, 1.20.1, 23w32a, 23w33a, 23w35a, 1.20.2 Pre-release 2, 1.20.4, 23w51b, 1.21.1, 24w40a
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: [Mod] markderickson Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Unresolved Votes: 41
Labels: arrow, bow

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Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MC-100308 You can shoot through walls Resolved
is duplicated by MC-107078 Glitches Resolved
is duplicated by MC-108576 If a player is standing against a win... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-108993 Skeleton graphically shoots through c... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-114277 Shoot Through Block's Resolved
is duplicated by MC-169051 Arrows can activate pressure plates w... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-267547 Arrows can pierce glass panes and hit... Resolved
is duplicated by MC-3206 Able to shoot arrows through walls Resolved
Relates
relates to MC-268468 Fireballs and wind charges can be hit... Open
relates to MC-93478 End Portal teleport range is too larg... Resolved
relates to MC-2310 Wrong attack radius calculation damag... Resolved
relates to MC-101015 Can use dismount to go through the wall Resolved
relates to MC-264915 Some mobs can still attack you throug... Resolved
relates to MC-265029 Projectiles can enter the portal thro... Resolved
relates to MC-269921 Wind charges can be thrown though cor... Resolved
relates to MC-1297 You can attack and be attacked throug... Resolved
CHK:
Confirmation Status: Confirmed
Category:
Entities, Hitboxes, Projectiles
Mojang Priority: Normal
Area: Gameplay

 Description   

The bug

Bows can be used to attack through thin surfaces such as doors, fences and glass panes. This also applies to other projectiles, such as tridents, snowballs, eggs, ender pearls, fireballs, and fishing bobbers.

How to reproduce

  1. Attract a zombie, spider, or angry zombie pigman to a closed door. (These mobs will press right up against the door rather than just standing on the adjacent block.)
  2. Fire a charged arrow at the door. (Back out of right-click range or turn aside at first so that you don't open the door instead.)
  3. The arrow may hit the mob. (It can depend on how the exact distance and power; it is more reliable with doors than fences.)

I would expect the arrow to always hit the door, as melee attacks do.



 Comments   
Comment by syarumi [ 02/Sep/23 ]

This is an issue that affects most, if not all projectiles. You can reproduce this with arrows, tridents, snowballs, eggs, ender pearls, shulker bullets, small fireballs, or even the fishing rod's bobber (haven't tested llama spit).

As someone noted previously, part of the fired projectile's hitbox sits inside the block it intersects, and thus it intersects the entity that is behind the other side of the block, getting hit. This might also be the cause of MC-2164.

The expected here would be that the projectile hitbox would only collide and stop at the very boundary of the block so it doesn't get any further, this is how most entities behave when colliding with blocks.

Comment by AMGAMES04 [ 23/Aug/23 ]

Can confirm in 23w33a

Comment by Jon1337 [ 09/Aug/23 ]

In 23w32a

Comment by Jon1337 [ 08/Jun/23 ]

In 1.20

Comment by Brain81505 [ 11/Feb/23 ]

Can confirm in 23w06a

Comment by TomatoClownfish [ 27/Jan/23 ]

Can confirm in 1.19.3.

Comment by Dschinghis Khan [ 20/Jul/22 ]

Can confirm in 1.19/1.19.1-pre5.

Comment by [Mod] Avoma [ 18/Feb/21 ]

Can confirm in 21w07a.

Comment by [Mod] Avoma [ 05/Feb/21 ]

Can confirm in 21w05b.

Comment by [Mod] Avoma [ 22/Jan/21 ]

Can confirm in 21w03a.

Comment by [Mod] Avoma [ 17/Jan/21 ]

Relates to MC-1297.

Comment by Jon1337 [ 06/Jul/20 ]

Affects 20w27a

Comment by Jon1337 [ 28/Mar/20 ]

Affects 20w13b

Comment by Jon1337 [ 21/Mar/20 ]

Confirmed for 20w12a

Also affects glass panes

Comment by Kraif [ 29/Aug/18 ]

Confirmed for 1.13.1.

Comment by Connor Steppie [ 07/Jul/18 ]

Affects 1.12.2

Comment by Connor Steppie [ 06/Jul/18 ]

Affects 1.13-pre6

Comment by SunCat [ 08/Jun/16 ]

Still in 1.10

Comment by [Mod] Les3awe [ 17/Apr/16 ]

Possible cause:

Grum:
Arrows have a bounding box that is much bigger than you think and actually sit inside a block.

link

Comment by user-f2760 (Inactive) [ 25/Mar/16 ]

Would the same be for fences?

as is stands now it doesn't make sense you can shoot trough it when standing next to it, but not when fired from a distance

he actually likes this feature

it has been reported for a long time now, without being resolved, so it can safely be concluded that this is not intended, and no feature

Comment by Bren Rado [ 25/Mar/16 ]

@FVbico: Would the same be for fences? Because The Papa is a good friend of mine, and he actually likes this feature, he used it in one of his singleplayer worlds.

Comment by user-f2760 (Inactive) [ 22/Mar/16 ]

The Papa reminder, the door can be retexured, like the spruce door, then it doesn't make sense, the current way of arrows (from a distance) sticking in the door rather then going trough looks more intended to me then making it able to go trough

Comment by The Papa [ 22/Mar/16 ]

@SunCat: See @Bren Rado's latest comment.
@KingSupernova: It doesn't make sense that the arrow can go through the door, but it does make sense for the arrow to go through the holes in the door, because it is being realistic, the same for fences.

Comment by KingSupernova [ 18/Mar/16 ]

@Bren Rado

The bug isn't that it can go through the holes, the bug is that it deals damage though the solid block.

Comment by Bren Rado [ 17/Mar/16 ]

Not completely sure this is a bug as it makes sense you can do that, because there are holes in both.

Comment by KingSupernova [ 17/Mar/16 ]

There are a number of bug reports about attack radius that are all very similar. MC-2310, MC-18326, MC-50668, MC-63965, MC-71834, and MC-74907 are all about the attack radius of mobs extending through blocks. (Some mobs are more bugged then others, but it’s the same basic problem). There are also a few related issues:

MC-1297 is the same as the above, but for players.
MC-3059 is the same as the above, but for arrows.

Most or all of these reports should be consolidated into one, as they are all caused by the same base issue.

Comment by SunCat [ 12/Mar/16 ]

Still in 1.9.1-pre3

Comment by SunCat [ 09/Mar/16 ]

Still in 1.9.1-pre1

Comment by SunCat [ 27/Feb/16 ]

Still in 1.9-pre4

Comment by SunCat [ 24/Feb/16 ]

Still in 1.9-pre3

Comment by SunCat [ 23/Feb/16 ]

Confirmed for 1.9-pre2
foltrox Why?

Comment by Bren Rado [ 13/Feb/16 ]

This is an intended feature.

Comment by user-57e18 (Inactive) [ 26/Jun/15 ]

I think this relates to MC-2310 because what is probably happening in both is that the attack IN GENERAL is just going through the door.

Comment by Dlawso the Really Lucky Rabbit [ 19/Oct/14 ]

Actually, Mojang is developing both 1.8.1 and 1.9:

We're currently working on both 1.8.1 (eta: soonish) & 1.9 (eta: not so soonish). 1.8.1 is bugfixes/optimizations, 1.9 is [stuff and things]

https://twitter.com/dinnerbone/status/519828872834326528

Comment by [Mod] Sonicwave [ 19/Oct/14 ]

Umm 1.9 isn't even being developed yet (the snapshots are for 1.8.1).

Comment by Matthias roostai [ 19/Oct/14 ]

any picture s of 1.9?

Comment by [Mod] Sonicwave [ 16/Oct/14 ]

Confirmed for 1.8 and 1.8.1-pre1.

Comment by Aaron Rhodes [ 15/Sep/14 ]

@Kevin Reid
It doesn't matter whether the mob is shot with an arrow or melee attacked through the door, or if they can be hit through a corner, because it is the same glitch that causes these things to happen, which is the hitboxes going through the door or diagonal corner.

Comment by Aaron Rhodes [ 04/Sep/14 ]

This glitch is related to the villagers being killed by a zombie through a door and the likely reason is the hitbox. There is another glitch with fences if you point the cursor at one with a bow and try to fire an arrow, it does the placing a block animation instead of charging the bow.

Comment by Tom Shea [ 28/Aug/14 ]

I just tried it and I could only hit the mob when he was standing up against the door. (Like when you can see his hands coming through the door model.) I tested all of the various doors and it was the same. Locke is correct on this... likely the hitbox coming through the door.

As an archer I can say that with the exception of the steel door... if you fire an arrow at it and a person is standing against it on the other side.... they're going to have a bad time. I would say this is working as intended, actually.

Comment by [Mod] Sonicwave [ 28/Aug/14 ]

Confirmed for 1.8-pre2, same as stephen locke said.

Comment by Kevin Reid [ 26/Jul/14 ]

Confirmed for 14w30c.

Comment by Kevin Reid [ 26/Jan/14 ]

Confirmed for 14w04b.

Comment by user-571ee (Inactive) [ 16/Nov/12 ]

From my point of view this is a very cool feature and not a bug. I can shoot through doors! How awesome is that?

Comment by Kevin Reid [ 15/Nov/12 ]

This is specific to arrows. Clarifying the description a bit. (There is a case where you can melee-hit mobs through diagonal corners, which is not what I'm reporting here.)

Comment by stephen locke [ 15/Nov/12 ]

The mobs hit box is likely going through the door itself. You should also be able to punch the mobs through the door. other wise it could be a problem with the arrow hit box going through the door itself. Testing now.

Comment by [Mod] CubeTheThird [ 15/Nov/12 ]

Can confirm. Not sure it's a bug though...

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