Skeleton's shot in Normal difficutly is excesive fast. With diamond armor enchanted with protection III all pieces, and full food, one skeleton, has killed me into 1 minute. Skeleton's bow is not enchanted.
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I was 5 block of distance, and normal is not much difficult for me. In 1.4.6 i used to play in Hard, and rarely i dead.
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