Bears and wolves run away cowardly until they die at 1.20

[smith]

Bears and wolves run away cowardly until they die at 1.20, just throw lots of spears at them. It's just insulting to animals, especially in survival mode.

[Snowydeath11]

Animals typically do this when gravely injured and did it in 1.19 as well as far as I can remember. They also do this in real life in case you've never encountered a wild animal.

[smith]

5 hours ago, Snowydeath11 said:

Animals typically do this when gravely injured and did it in 1.19 as well as far as I can remember. They also do this in real life in case you've never encountered a wild animal.

Now they run away immediately, throw spears and you won't get damaged by predators.

[Brady_The]

40 minutes ago, smith said:

Now they run away immediately, throw spears and you won't get damaged by predators.

This bug was reported on Github, so technically the developers should probably be aware of this issue.

[Snowydeath11]

18 hours ago, smith said:

Now they run away immediately, throw spears and you won't get damaged by predators.

Ohhh, I haven't experienced this yet so I didn't know, sorry for making the assumption that you were talking about them running like they used to!

[redram]

This is pretty much a matter of tuning.  What was done, was that it was made so that mobs - upon being damaged, if the player is not in their detection range - they run in a random direction.  This is meant to prevent what used to be the case, where they would just stand in place and get hit over and over.  At least if they move immediately, you have to re-adjust your aim.  So, it's kind of a matter of finding the perfect balance of detection range and targeting (in)accuracy.  Right now our focus is still on getting the rest of the update (the story part) completed, so we're slower than normal on addressing the bug reports this time around.

[Brady_The]

9 hours ago, redram said:

if the player is not in their detection range

That's not entirely true, though. Compare

v1.19.8:

vs v1.20.0-pre

[smith]

9 hours ago, redram said:

This is pretty much a matter of tuning. ...

In Brady_The's video, the bear just runs away.

[Thorfinn]

Huh. Just last night, I did the same thing with wolves, and about a third of the time they ran towards me.

Bears, could be. I hammered out an agreement with bears in my world. I run, and they don't catch me. Works for us.

But that could still be just fine-tuning. The flee percentage might be set too high. More likely, the behaviors were re-coded, and the old numbers don't have the same meaning in the new algorithm. If I had a nickel...