I play on a mushroom island with two friends, where we only have unechanted iron gear. I went AFK for at most two minutes, to then realize it had started to thunder and a skeleton trap spawned right in my face, triggering immediately. Because I was AFK, the skeletons killed me and all of my items despawned because it's nearly impossible to face four skeletons with enchanted gear using only your fists.
A simple solution to this problem would be making it so that a skeleton trap can only spawn at least 24 blocks away from the player, like hostile mobs.
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This seems like it is working as intended. Occasionally you will get unlucky (or lucky depending on how you look at it) and this could happen but it adds a sense of insecurity to the player during thunderstorms.
I think it's a feature request, as nothing says they shouldn't spawn close to the player. You just got "lucky"