Arrows sometimes do not collide with entities and either fly through them or bounce off them as if they were holding up a shield even though they are not, this has been occurring when skeletons are shooting arrows at players and when players have been shooting at monsters. Example of what’s happened: I shot an arrow at a zombie, it went all the way through the zombie’s stomach and hit a creeper behind it, the zombie took no damage and the arrow was not a piercing arrow.
This issue has been occurring on a fabric server which was updated to 1.21.6 but there are no server-side mods installed so I am assuming it is a vanilla minecraft bug because if no mods are installed, nothing would be causing this issue.
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I can 100% confirm this bug exists and consistently affects the game. I’m playing Minecraft 1.21.6 and particularly noticeable when using an arrow when I’m hunting Creepers.
20% of the time the arrow will either go straight through the mobs hitbox or actually bounce off the mob and it even damaged me! This makes fighting creepers especially dangerous on Hardcore and would like to bump the post to hopefully get a fix as it makes gameplay much more stressful since it’s combat related.
Bow enchants:
Infinite
Unbreaking III
Flame
Power 4
Noticed projectile deflect from creepers.