As I was exploring the lush caves I've noticed many bats setting themselves on fire with either lava or fire.
I tried to reproduce this by setting fire near a lava lake and spawning a few bats and surely enough most of them flew right into the fire/lava
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We're tracking this issue in MC-161690, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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