[MC-497] Shooting an enderman with an arrow will stop it from being aggroed. Created: 25/Oct/12  Updated: 14/May/17  Resolved: 08/Dec/12

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft: Java Edition
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Minecraft 1.4.2
Fix Version/s: None

Type: Bug
Reporter: Duke Bammerfire Assignee: Unassigned
Resolution: Cannot Reproduce Votes: 0
Labels: None
Environment:

N/A


Confirmation Status: Unconfirmed
Game Mode: Survival

 Description   

If you look at or hit an enderman and it becomes aggroed, shooting it with an arrow will cause it to teleport away like it does when it takes environmental damage.



 Comments   
Comment by EvilSeph (Warren Loo) [ 08/Dec/12 ]

Shooting at Endermen don't cause them to lose their aggro, they just teleport away and find some other angle to rip you apart from. Don't blink.

Unable to reproduce the reported issue in any case.

Comment by Simons Mith [ 03/Nov/12 ]

I'm finding that, at least in daylight (e.g. on the surface in a plains biome), endermen become deaggroed every time they teleport for any reason.

Comment by sciguyryan [ 25/Oct/12 ]

I think is more that they are hit by the projectile and then teleport as a result. Not that they aren't hit at all. At least that is what I am seeing in the code.

It seems like it is intended but hopefully someone from Mojang will come and let us know for sure.

Comment by gmxgeek [ 25/Oct/12 ]

If they are taking damage from bows, that could be considered a bug, since endermen aren't supposed to be able to be hit by projectiles.

Comment by sciguyryan [ 25/Oct/12 ]

This seems to be intended behaviour since an arrow is an indirect attack method and the code causes it to teleport randomly in such an instance.

Comment by Duke Bammerfire [ 25/Oct/12 ]

The Enderman will still take damage, and get caught on fire if you are using a Flame bow. That doesn't seem like it would be intentional.

Comment by gmxgeek [ 25/Oct/12 ]

This behavior is intentional, iirc. Endermen cannot be hit by projectiles, regardless of whether they are aggro'd or what the source of the projectile is.

EDIT: Does it actually deaggro, or just get lost in caves or something?

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