[MC-6264] Skeleton doesn't take damage

when in one deep water i hit a skeleton with a stone sword and it didn't take damage no matter how many times i hit it

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Did the skeleton turn red? Were you close enough?

Joseph Mitchell 2013-01-10T20:49:48Z

no the skeleton did not turn red and i was less than one block away

Duplicate of MC-2713.

David Kinder 2013-06-30T15:28:43Z

I'm having the same issue in 1.6.1 (the latest version of Minecraft). I had the same bug, it happened to me twice. https://mojang.atlassian.net/browse/MC-19906