MCPE-13214Creepers Blow up 5+ blocks away from you.
I know they added Creepers having a bigger explosion.. But they should only explode being within 2 blocks from you. Now they blow up 5 or more blocks away from you. And when I was in a fence the creeper on the other side blew up all my animals I wasnt near the creeper. Should be 2 blocks away for the creeper to explode. Thanks, MinerGirl98
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Creepers Blow up 5+ blocks away from you.
I know they added Creepers having a bigger explosion.. But they should only explode being within 2 blocks from you. Now they blow up 5 or more blocks away from you. And when I was in a fence the creeper on the other side blew up all my animals I wasnt near the creeper. Should be 2 blocks away for the creeper to explode. Thanks, MinerGirl98
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Fixed in 0.16.0
Duplicate of MCPE-13214
Duplicate of MCPE-13214
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I think this is strongly related to (if not a dupe of) MCPE-13214.
Maybe there was a change in regard to mob difficulty in the new update. What difficulty were you on?
Hi I always have my diffuclty on hard or all the way up. I'm not sure if its part of the update or a bug but its terrible. They blow up so far away from you. I tried to hit one and run and it still blew up, and I was at least 5 blocks away from it. Thanks.
Based on some quick testing, using creeper eggs in a flat world converted to survival hard difficulty, the only way I could spawn a creeper from an egg and keep it from blowing up was to be running backwards while I drop the egg. Also, I can confirm that creepers now ignite when you are less than 2 blocks away even if they have no way to get to you (I trapped the creeper with fencing and slowly moved close). I expected if the creeper couldn't physically reach the player, then it would not ignite.
Hi rplaptham so are you saying that the creeper blew up when it was more than 2 blocks away from you? I play in survival and stacked 5 dirt blocks under me and it still blew up. Also I was in a witch hut and it was in the water under me and blew up the whole front of the hut. I was definitely more than 2-5 blocks up and away.
Cleaning up old issues, please reply if affecting 0.14.3 or later.
Affects 0.15.0. (Tested on Windows 10.) A Creeper ignited and blew up when I got within a 5-block radius of him. Makes it extremely difficult to fight Creepers without a bow.
Still affects 0.15.1 (tested on Win 10 PC)
As soon as I get within 5 blocks of the creeper, it starts to explode.
In what seems to be related (or at least introduced at the same time), the new Creeper AI has an odd behavior in that a locked-and-following Creeper can drift left (its right) into a wall or other opaque obstacle and get stuck, still locked and attempting to track but unable to avoid the obstacle by backing up or moving right (its left). Not that I want to increase the lethality of these new-and-improved Creepers, but if the proximity issue gets fixed, it follows that they ought to be able to avoid simple obstacles in their pursuit of death and destruction.
This still happens on v0.15.90 on Galaxy S5 phone. Creeper blew up 3 blocks in front (horizontal) of me as I approached it slowly. I also had a creeper >4 blocks below and 1 block behind me blow up.
Please reply and update affected versions if you're still able to reproduce this issue.
Seems fixed in 0.16.0 on iOS and Android. Melee combat is now once again possible, provided that you see the Creeper before it sees you. Creeper doesn't start to detonate until closer than an adept/well-timed sword can strike. This significantly improved game play. Nice work.