Invisible armor stands cannot be hit

Dupe of MC-65532.

Confirmed for

• 1.8.6 No kind of damage can destroy it, neither arrows, hits, explosions... and the Invulnerable tag is 0

Well, this is annoying.

Invisible armor stands can ONLY be invulnerable, as others have said.

I'm not sure why armor stands would not be hurt by punching anyways as Searge would suggest.... just seems like an arbitrary and unneeded exception, considering that the invulnerable tag can be set. I'm not sure what purpose having an invisible armor stand non-punchable but say hit with a sword or arrow, would really serve that couldn't be achieve some other way (testfor item stand, when false check player's selected item for sword or bow?).... or even if there was why this would be the default state.

Like a lot of Mojang's decisions, there is absolutely no use for this one. They have a tag specifically for preventing damage, and then they ignore it. And they only ignore it for the one entity, other entities can be damaged perfectly well while invisible. This sort of decision making is what makes me worried about Minecraft's future.

By the way mods, this is a dupe of MC-65532. Although since Searge commented on this report, maybe it should be the main one.

Is there a particular reason anyone is worked up over this? What use are you hoping to put invisible armor stands to that is frustrated by them being invincible? Yes, this is less flexible. Yes, it's inconsistent. @unknown had a particular use case in mind for invisible armor stands, and being able to damage them wasn't useful, so he just made them automatically invincible, rather than require the use of that tag as well. Basically, he made one use case require less work, at the cost of flexibility. Now, I agree that's kind of out of the norm for Minecraft, and maybe in conflict with the spirit of the game. But nobody's going to convince him of that by arguing semantics or trying to twist his words. I think the best chance you have of changing his mind is to propose something cool that you could do with invisible armor stands if they weren't invincible.

Well I doubt he actually reads the comments, but for example, it makes it impossible to use them as left click-detectors.

Im working on a Counter Strike type mini-game and i want so of the iron bars from the ventilation to break when the ArmorStands inside them are killed so having ArmorStands take damage while invisible would be a necessity for me.

So I was working on throwable TNT in Minecraft 1.14 when I came across this issue. I would really appreciate it if you guys could make it vulnerable when invisible cause, in my case, I shoot snowballs and use the armour stand to track said Snowball. Now when I spawn TNT where the snowball lands I would expect the armour stand to be destroyed by the TNT, however, since it doesn't do that, I have to now use the long way with the "OnGround" tag and a scoreboard which just takes more time and cmd blocks to set up, and becomes a severe pain when you try making it multiplayer friendly (I'm not even going to try and think about it lol).

On the flip side (if it were changed to vulnerable), to make it invulnerable, it would take a single tag.

So I would love it if you guys could make it vulnerable.