when you have a damaged bow in your inventory and the materials to craft a dispenser if you use the recipe book and you find the recipe in the bow it will not say its craftable even though you can craft dispensers with Damaged bows
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We're tracking this issue as MC-123002, so this ticket is being resolved and linked as a duplicate.
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Duplicates MC-123002.