The sniper duel achievement on PS4 is no longer possible as it requires shooting a skeleton 50 blocks or greater. De spawn rules in 1.16 update or later de spawn mobs before they can be 50+blocks away.
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I didn’t think of that. I will try that and see how it goes.
GoldenHelmet
This affects sim4 worlds on all platforms, and therefore also all Realms.
It does not make sense that you would have to get within a few blocks to name tag a skeleton then back off 50 blocks to shoot it, to get the achievement.
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That adds another layer of complicated to this as I was not aware that the despawn rules were affected by chunk simulation. My simulation distance on my PlayStation world is 8 chunks (I believe). I was maybe 40-45 blocks away from stuff and watching it despawn the other night. I will have to check my simulation, but I am sure it set at 8.
It is possible that I misunderstood the rules of the new despawn mechanics. I’m also not sure of how to upload screenshots from my PlayStation to show what I am saying. But I can figure it out if that would help you.
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Affects 1.16.100 (Realms and other worlds with sim dist 4)
this may still be possible by nametagging the skeleton