If a player has an odd number of absorption points, the last heart on their health bar turns yellow
If a player has an odd number of absorption points, the last heart on the health bar will turn yellow and you'll appear to lose an absorption heart.
I encountered this bug first on a custom server, then also reproduced it in vanilla single-player.
Example steps:
- Apply /effect @p absorption 600 5
- /tp ~ ~10 ~ , or any other way to take some odd amount of damage
- Notice your last heart turns yellow.
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If a player has an odd number of absorption points, the last heart on their health bar turns yellow
If a player has an odd number of absorption points, the last heart on the health bar will turn yellow and you'll appear to lose an absorption heart.
I encountered this bug first on a custom server, then also reproduced it in vanilla single-player.
If a player has an odd number of absorption points, the last heart on the health bar will turn yellow and you'll appear to lose an absorption heart.
I encountered this bug first on a custom server, then also reproduced it in vanilla single-player.
Example steps:
- Apply /effect @p absorption 600 5
- /tp ~ ~10 ~ , or any other way to take some odd amount of damage
- Notice your last heart turns yellow.
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You actually get the correct amount of absorption, it's just displayed incorrectly. See MCPE-20520.
This is the exact same issue as MCPE-20520. Since that ticket has more a more precise description, more general repro steps, more votes, and already has a duplicate linked, I've asked for this ticket to be resolved as a duplicate report.
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Can only confirm it on freshly created worlds where you never died before. Seems to be fixed after death
This appears to be a duplicate of https://bugs.mojang.com/projects/MCPE/issues/MCPE-19483
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I can still reproduce this in 1.14.60.
The JIRA ticket hasn't been updated since August 2021 and the latest version listed is 1.17.10.20 Beta. Resolving as Cannot Reproduce.
Probably was fixed in 1.18.30 with the other damage related changes.