Undead mobs are being annoyingly flame retardant

[DaveYanakov]

Does anyone know why this happens? Some of the skeletons that were wandering around burned normally. Another skeleton wandering around my yard started burning after I shot him with an arrow, then stopped burning and required a second shot to kill. These three bastards started burning consistently around the third swat with an axe.

Spoiler

Show

[Taleric]

Woah they are starting to evolve!

I will have to put a bunch of half slabs down like that but otherwise my mobs get crispy. Is weather a consideration? Looks pretty bright but desert storms would still put them out?

[DaveYanakov]

Bright sunny days. I've only had a few storms so far and expect this sort of thing to occur at those times

[Daisjun]

Yeah looks as though the slabs are the problem. Mobs don't appear to burn on any blocks that are half height just like they can't spawn on them.

Further info: http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1hd5zc/

'This happens due to mobs checking if there are any blocks preventing them from burn, and since they are inside a block, they don't burn, this probably also happens with stacked snow and soulsand'

Hitting them flings them into the air and they're subject to normal burn rules, once they touch back down they're safe again.

Confirmed in vMC 1.5.2 as well, this is a vanilla bug.

[DaveYanakov]

Guess I need to push forward on getting the hoho installed then