When you remove a skeleton's bow by using commands and change your gamemode to survival, the skeleton can still shoot at you even without a bow.
You can reproduce this problem by using the command below to change the skeleton's weapon to a stone:
/replaceitem entity @e[type=skeleton] slot.weapon.mainhand 0 stoneLinked issues
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BDS-3955
Some skeletons have no bows when they shoot in 1.16.0.55
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MCPE-23292
Skeletons can shoot without a bow
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MCPE-25751
Skeleton Combat
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MCPE-29019
skeletons and strays shooting with every item and witherskeletons can't shoot with bow if you use /replaceitem command
Resolved
MCPE-42038
Skeleton Shoots Without Bow
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Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Working as Intended.
Due to the way the Bedrock code base game engine is designed, if you wish to change the weapons used by mobs, the mobs' behaviour will need to be changed with an add-on/behaviour pack.
More information regarding add-ons can be found at https://minecraft.net/en-us/addons/
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Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Working as Intended.
Due to the way the Bedrock code base game engine is designed, if you wish to change the weapons used by mobs, the mobs' behaviour will need to be changed with an add-on/behaviour pack.
More information regarding add-ons can be found at https://minecraft.net/en-us/addons/
Quick Links:
📓 Issue Guidelines – 💬 Community Support – 📧 Feedback – 📖 Game Wiki
Affects 1.14
I do not think this should be closed as "intended feature" - working with command blocks in adventure maps, i think it should not overwrite the behavior of ALL mobs of that type in that world.
In my case, i need to have the entity not use a bow. In the Java edition, removing the bow of a skeleton makes it attack in a similar fashion to a zombie. This should be possible without the need of addons.
Skeletons actually have a melee mode that can be activated by using spawn events... And it doesn’t actually work. This definitely is not working as intended.
In 1.16, they fixed this with adding them being able to pick up swords and Armor. They now melee attack you if not using a bow.
In 1.16, they fixed this with adding them being able to pick up swords and Armor. They now melee attack you if not using a bow.