So, I was in the wastelands (with nobody near me) at night. I was in a forest when I got the message signaling the arrival of a Marlix. As I had never seen them in their natural habitat (only in the mob arena) I decided to look for the "Eerie Presence." However, I could not find it and decided to alert that new thread that helps people kill bosses. Two seconds after I decided to do this, I was told that the Marlix had fallen. This was weird, but I went around looking for drops anyways. I found nothing. Did the Marlix suffocate or something? Was there a bug or glitch? Was a Marlix even ever there? Please help.
Apparently all enraged mobs (bosses included) take fire damage now. It's a bug, and I think aikar's on it.
We actually released an update about an hour ago that included this fix. Let us know if you see it happen again.
I remember that update! I thought I lost my horse because I left her on another res by accident because I was practicing for races! But she's okay!
Thank you.. I was wondering why the Zombie I was stalking across the desert the other day in SMP6 Wasteland fell over dead before I was able to shoot it.. Would that bug also explain the enraged creeper that I saw that disappeared/despawned and then reappeared a few minutes later and greeted me not with fire but a nuclear missile crammed down its gullet..? That also happened the same day as the dying enraged zombie.. xD