MC-209784Baby drowned can spawn as chicken jockeys, causing chickens to float in the oceans
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Baby drowned sometimes spawn as chicken jockeys, which causes them to dismount the chicken, chicken just ascends and start randomly swimming around on the sea surface.
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Baby drowned spawns as chicken jockey while they shouldnt
Pretty straight forward, baby drowneds sometimes spawn as chicken jockeys, which causes them to dismount the chicken, chicken just ascends and start randomly swimming around on the sea surface
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Baby drowned can spawn as chicken jockeys, causing chickens to float in the oceans
Pretty straight forward, baby drownedssometimes spawn as chicken jockeys, which causes them to dismount the chicken, chicken just ascends and start randomly swimming around on the sea surfaceThe bug
Baby drowned sometimes spawn as chicken jockeys, which causes them to dismount the chicken, chicken just ascends and start randomly swimming around on the sea surface.
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I've been trying to get a drowned chicken jockey to spawn, with little success. I'm aware that a naturally spawned chicken jockey will separate into a chicken and baby drowned, see also MC-209784. As far as I know from the MC gamepedia wiki, this is expected behavior.
So I have been using a second mechanic to get a baby drowned jockey, by having the spawned baby drowned check for a nearby unoccupied chicken. This mechanic has worked for baby zombies and baby zombified piglin. Sadly, as seen in the attached picture, the drowned jockey spawn for this second mechanic seems bugged. There you can see that the baby drowned is standing inside the chicken, rather than mounting it.
Note: for command block-spawned drowned, the naturally spawned drowned jockeys are persistent: they don't separate into a chicken and drowned. Also, command block-spawned baby drowned will easily hop onto a chicken.
Steps to Reproduce:
- Make a water column above a river biome, allowing drowned to spawn. Here I used flowing water.
- Have a nearby chicken (or several) placed on glass blocks, making sure the glass doesn't touch the water.
- In 0.25% of the spawns, a baby drowned will spawn that should attempt to mount a chicken.
Observed Results:
The baby drowned spawns at the location of the chicken, but does not mount it.
Expected Results:
The baby drowned should mount the chicken and become a chicken jockey.
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Duplicate of MC-209784.
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Yup, this is a duplicate of MC-209784 and is happening because drowned are able to spawn as chicken jockeys.
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dupe of MC-209784
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It is not really a problem, but yeah pretty weird
Can confirm that this is an issue, although this may be intentional. Also affects 20w51a.
Affects 1.17 per
MC-228442.Can confirm in 1.17.1.
Can confirm in 1.18 Release Candidate 3.
affects 1.17
Code analysis (Mojang mappings, 22w12a):
Drowned#finalizeSpawn(...) extends Zombie#finalizeSpawn(...), and there is no check in the latter method to verify the entity type before setting it to a chicken jockey. Therefore, baby drowned can spawn as chicken jockeys.
Can confirm in 1.19.4
Affects 1.21