A skeleton spawner is set up in my world as a mob farm. Recently I noticed that all skeletons spawned are plain skeletons. This is after confirmation of several hours of play. There are no enchantments on bows and skeletons do not have any armor.
If required or requested I can provide seed and coordinates as well as images and video.
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@Gavin
Seed 1441467095
Pictures added as attachments. Pictures were taken 10/4/21 after a few minutes in my world and the spawner running and then after about an hour. Picture file names are the date and then timestamp.
Yeah skeletons have spawned naturally with enchanted gear. I want to do more testing, but I am still working on my trading hall which is off screen.
I have just tested my own skeleton spawner XP farm (also Win10, also 1.17.32). My very first spawn had one with a golden helmet. After killing a total of around 60, I had 5 gold helmets, 3 gold chestplates, 1 gold leggings, and 1 gold boots.
Do you have any behavior packs active? Do you have, or have you ever had, Education Edition toggled on in this world? Any experimental features? What difficulty level is it set to?
Update: Three of us have now tested the issues you described. All of us are getting enchanted bows and armor. One of us even tested your seed with Hard difficulty.
It was suggested that the symptoms you described are normal behavior in a world set to Easy difficulty. If that was the cause for you, please let us know so we can close this ticket.
I think I resolved the issue! Those notes you made about difficulty made a lot more sense especially after I was working on my trading Hall... I was set to Easy mode for the longest time. Lost a good villager to the conversion process. Once I reset to Hard mode everything worked as expected... My apologies for the foolish ticket.
Actually, could you provide pictures and/or a seed? That would be very helpful