User talk:Simons Mith

Mobs + water bugs
I hit a confusing mix of mob and water bugs today.

Colliding with mobs in boats is known to sometimes be fatal. Happened to me again today, but this time I was pretty much stationary, and I think a tame wolf either fell on me from a height of about 4 blocks, or rammed me. To narrow down the bug, I need to try ramming various mobs that haven't been in the water for very long, ramming mobs that have swum a considerable distance, and ramming at high speed, or ramming an injured mob, and seeing which combos are fatal.

Tamed animals (cats and wolves) seem either to arrive sitting when they teleport, or sit when they get to land. Background: I had a house on a small island in the ocean biome. I think the island may have been too small, because none of my six newly-tamed or bred cats and two pet wolves would teleport to me there even after I'd had enough time to go home and sleep there overnight. So I set off in a boat and led them there, me in the boat, them swimming, and pushing me along so that none of them got left behind. We passed a small island on the way back, and several of the animals sat down when they got to it, without me telling them to.

At this point I had to fight a skeleton, which injured me then was attacked and distracted by a wolf. It hit the wolf several times, then I killed the skeleton, then I reboarded my boat, then it appears a wolf (probably the injured one) killed me either by falling on me, ramming me, or surfacing from underneath. The other alternative is that I bumped into a nearby land overhang at the wrong point, but something in that sequence triggered the 'insta-kill if you're in a boat and something touches you' bug, and I'm not sure what. Being touched by a damaged wolf? Re-boarding a boat then getting touched? Being fallen on? I'm logging it now before I forget the sequence.

I think i know what happened, cats and dogs wont teleport if you are the chunks they are on if they are unloaded, they also wont teleport if you are in water more than one block deep. So, i recommend that occasionally when traveling over oceans to make small islands so your pets will teleport to you. I don't know about that glitch that killed you. 68.2.171.84 02:01, 25 May 2012 (UTC)