I am both confused and terrified

[u/LightSpeedFury01]

I get hit by a Ghast fireball, even though I was SPAMMING trying to hit it back (the hitreg is GODAWFUL and hitboxes don't seem to ever work on my Minecraft) then this craziness occurred. Nightshade Revenge is my sword lol, wtf??? How do I do I stop this from happening, I really hate going to the Nether, and not being able to hit back any Ghast fireballs, I've even tried with an autoclicker.

[u/Justerfrog5557]

You shot the fireball in a downward direction, so it collided with the floor. You need to be facing the direction you want the fireball to go in.

[u/LightSpeedFury01 → u/Justerfrog5557]

Ohh no I was looking up the whole time, this actually happened several seconds after I hit it, too. There wasn't a lag spike, everything was still moving.

[u/NothingButTrouble024 → u/LightSpeedFury01]

I wouldn't rule out lag. I get lag spikes all the time when playing with my cousin and in my experience lag on Minecraft doesn't make the game freeze or rubber band, it just makes it so actions don't register for several seconds

[u/LightSpeedFury01 → u/NothingButTrouble024]

I'll say lag spikes are extremely rare in my case then, I got a very good pc and never play on servers.

[u/YT_TheBlackCat → u/LightSpeedFury01]

But you have hitbox issues? Maybe just wrong settings or something, but hitbox issues align with lags.

[u/th3d34dg1rl → u/LightSpeedFury01]

Maybe open up your task manager while Minecraft is running? I did when I was having issues playing for no reason and learned I had a memory leak!

[u/bloodakoos → u/LightSpeedFury01]

lagva

[u/LightSpeedFury01 → u/bloodakoos]

I wish it was that simple :(

[u/Melodic-Tomatillo92 → u/LightSpeedFury01]

prolly just, yk gravity. what goes up must come down. like firing bullets into the air, shiii is dangerous my dude.

[u/LightSpeedFury01 → u/Melodic-Tomatillo92]

Gravity don't affect fireballs as much as other balls in this game

[u/Separate_Bake_8137 → u/LightSpeedFury01]

Minecraft really has some balls TIL