Skeleton horses with SkeletonTrap:1 spawned naturally in my world which has had gamerule doMobSpawning false since its creation. ( Gametime is about 2970313, difficulty was HARD )
These SkeletonTrap horses successfully spawn skeletons.
Can confirm this by manually spawning horse:
/summon EntityHorse ~ ~ ~ {SkeletonTrap:1}
It will instantly trigger.
Confirmed they are aggressive, and the skeletons will despawn from the horses if difficulty is changed to Peaceful.
Trapped horses trigger when in Peaceful difficulty, however no skeletons are on the horses.
Additional useful information:
Lightning does not affect the SkeletonTrap horses. The mechanic is 100% proximity based.
Reproduce: Spawn a SkeletonTrap horse away from you, within vision, run this command with that being the closest horse to you:
/execute @e(type=EntityHorse,c=1) ~ ~ ~ /summon LightningBolt
_except use brackets [ ] instead of parenthesese ( )_
You will see this horse not expand out with or without skeletons. Instead, if it is not raining or in water, you will see it burn.
Further confirm by approaching the horse and seeing it trigger and expand.
The effect is not lightning; it only looks like lightning.
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@Sonic Thank you, I did not see those when I searched... probably due to the short title preview in search side panel. HOWEVER:
That is slightly different as this is done in clear weather. The other implies that a thunderstorm is needed which is not the case at all. Furthermore this ticket gives reproducible methods as well as more thorough information about the mechanics and how they interact with others. (e.g. Peaceful)
In addition, trapped horses do not respond to LightningBolts at all. The mechanic merely appears to be a lightning bolt. This can be confirmed by the other tickets which show this untrapping effect not influencing other lightning-responsive mobs, the lack of fire on the mob / surrounding area, and the fact that if you summon one of these horses away from you then /execute a LightningBolt summon to it, nothing happens except it burns. Move closer and it triggers. Those other similar tickets are frankly inaccurate and spread false information which will only delay the resolution process.
Dupe of MC-89064