I was playing minecraft 1.9.4 when I realized that when an arrow is deflected by a shield your armor still loses durability despite you not having taken any physical damage. I found this quite odd and figured it must be glitch and not intentional because it doesn't seem at all realistic.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Equip new undamaged armor.
2. Equip a shield.
3. Spawn a skeleton.
4. Let the skeleton shoot you while you are blocking with the shield so that the arrow is deflected (make sure you are in survival during this).
5. Check armor to see if any durability has been lost.
Thank you!
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Sorry, duplicate of MC-98796, if you have not, please use the search function in the future.
My apologies. I did in fact do an extensive search beforehand to see if anyone else reported this glitch but MC-98796 never came up. I'll look harder next time. Thank you!
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