MCPE-153770Explosions do the most damage at the feet
(Also reported for Java Edition at MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
(These steps only show the issue because of MCPE-153740, so if that bug is fixed then you will need to use the alternate steps below.)
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)
Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
Linked Issues
discovered while testing3
MC-249996
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Created Issue:
Explosions do the most damage at the feet
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summond at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summond at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
(Also reported for Java Edition at
MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.Steps to reproduce
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
relates to
discovered while testing
(Also reported for Java Edition at
MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.Steps to reproduce
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
(Also reported for Java Edition at
MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.Steps to reproduce
(These steps only show the issue because of
MCPE-153740, so if that bug is fixed then you will need to see the alternate steps below.)
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
(Also reported for Java Edition at
MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.Steps to reproduce
(These steps only show the issue because of
MCPE-153740, so if that bug is fixed then you will need to see the alternate steps below.)
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
(Also reported for Java Edition at
MC-249996.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.Steps to reproduce
(These steps only show the issue because of
MCPE-153740, so if that bug is fixed then you will need to use the alternate steps below.)
- Give yourself high level health boost and instant health effects so you have lots of hearts.
- Turn off mobgriefing
- Make a ghast containment cage of some kind and summon/teleport a ghast inside of it.
- Switch to survival.
- Tank shots standing still, and while walking backwards away from the ghast. (Note that if you start to take non-damaging hits, that is a separate bug that can be worked around by changing position slightly between shots: see
MCPE-78714.)Expected result
You take more damage from shots while standing still because they hit near the center of your body.
Observed result
You take more damage from shots while walking backwards because they hit nearer to your feet.
Alternate steps
- Make fireballs summonable using a behavior pack.
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon fireballs at ~~~ and at ~ ~1.68 ~
Expected result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ do more damage.
Observed result
The fireballs summoned at ~ ~ ~ do much more damage.
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Bedrock Edition ghast fireballs only deal explosion damage. This is affected by difficulty level and makes ghast fireballs stronger on hard difficulty and weaker on easy difficulty compared to Java. In Java Edition ghast fireballs always deal 6 projectile damage on a direct hit regardless of difficulty. In Java Edition they only deal explosion damage to mobs within the explosion radius of the fireball that are not directly hit, probably because the projectile damage occurs first and then triggers damage immunity. However, in Bedrock Edition explosion damage from a direct hit to the head is about 7.25 on hard and 3.25 on easy. A direct hit lower on the body (e.g. if you tank a shot while walking backwards) can do > 10 damage on normal or hard (relates to MCPE-153770).
This issue is plausibly part of the cause of MCPE-78714. See my the comment on that report.
(Also reported for Bedrock Edition at MCPE-153770.)
Explosion damage scales based on how close the damaged entity is to center of the explosion. However, the position of the entity is handled naively, with the result that higher damage is done by explosions centered closer to the entity's feet.
Steps to reproduce
- Turn off mob griefing.
- Place a solid block above your head, so that you are standing in a 2-block-high gap between 2 sold blocks.
- Summon a fireball at ~~~, then look down and punch it.
- Summon a fireball at ~ ~1.68 ~, then look up and punch it.
Expected result
The fireball summoned at ~ ~1.68 ~ does more damage because it explodes closer to the center of the body and/or the head.
Observed result
The fireball summoned at ~ ~ ~ does much more damage, almost 5x.
We've discovered that creeper explosions are much more dangerous all of a sudden. And if explosion damage at feet level is more lethal then that explains this as creeper explosions start from their feet(ish).
This bug along with MCPE-153299 made it difficult to set up an enderman -> wither rose farm as shown here: https://youtu.be/ZuTKV5D8rvw. We discovered that wither roses were not dropping because the explosion happening near the endearmen’s head was not doing enough damage to kill them directly despite them having only 1 hp after the fall, and was instead causing them to be killed by the wither effect, which does not trigger dropping roses.
Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been temporarily closed as Awaiting Response.
Could you please attach a behavior pack that makes fireballs summonable?
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Here is a pack Summonable ghast fireballs.mcpack
This issue is also the cause of this counterintuitive behavior: https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxEKuYMCSdCrrAxwpo9dh8ykzO6NvNgkWb
Although that's a Java video it works the same in Bedrock.
Thank you for your report!
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