Hi. Damaged Bows don't work when you try to create dispensers. The recipe book doesn't recognise them as being bows and if you try and manually add them, to the crafting recipe, the output button isn't available.
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MCPE-52571
Can't make a dispenser
MCPE-55506
Cannot craft dispensers with bows that have less than 100% durability
MCPE-56022
Dispensers must now be made with new bows; skeleton drops won't work
MCPE-59784
Unable to Craft Dispensers with Damaged Bows
MCPE-60085
Cannot craft dispenser using worn bow...only new bow
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Hmmm... But before 1.13 it worked. Maybe that was the glitch lol
[Mod] Umija5895M
According to the Wiki https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Dispenser damaged bow is supposed to be allowed in crafting dispenser. However, enchanted bow is not supposed to be allowed.
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Can confirm this problem. The crafting table will no longer even recognize damaged bows as bows, and you must craft a new one from sticks and string to make a dispenser.
I've always used damaged bows, non-enchanted skeleton drops, to craft dispensers. There was a glitch in 1.12 that caused my Power V enchanted bow to be used once in making dispensers (which also happened to a few of my friends, as well), so I've since taken to removing my good bow from my inventory before crafting dispensers.
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Also, for the record, the damaged bows I tried crafting into dispensers were all dropped by skeletons post-1.13 update.
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I usually get mine by fishing and then stripping them down in a grindstone. I'm on a mushroom island so string is hard to come by. They were all collected post 1.13 but are just useless now 😞
PikaBlu
This also happens in 1.13.1. I added an image of me attempting to craft a Dispenser using a damaged bow and it clearly does not work. I know this worked before 1.13.0 as I similarly used Skeleton drops to make mine, I didn’t test this in 1.13.0 though but finally did now.
GoldenHelmet
On the bright side, since 1.13 bows drop like crazy now, so you can just repair merge a few together to get full durability. I’m pretty sure it still adds up to more craft-ready bows now than before 1.13. Just more tedious with all the inventory shuffling.
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Yup my husband reminded me of that today. I've been just burning them as fuel lol. The grindstone repairs is an excellent work around for now 🙂
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I'm having the same problem on Xbox One realm. I don't know if it was Bedrock specific, but I have always been able to craft dispensers using damaged bows but you had to craft them manually (not in the recipe book) but now there isn't even an output. If you have to craft unused bows, what's the point of collecting damaged bows then?
PikaBlu
Still exists in 1.14.0.
PikaBlu
Still exists in 1.14.1.
PikaBlu
Still exists in 1.14.20.
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Fixed in beta 1.15.0.51
[Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay)
Resolving issues that were marked as fixed in the 1.15 and 1.16 Betas, now that 1.16.0 is being released.
This is not a bug, dispensers were always made with a fully repaired bow.