When using a grindstone to disenchant a bow, XP is earned but the original bow remains enchanted.
Original description:
I’m unable to craft a bow at all. I’m trying to complete the dispenser achievement. Once I get the 3 string and 3 sticks, and craft the item, the materials leave my inventory, but no bow is placed in my now empty inventory. When disenchanting one of my previous bows on a grindstone, it becomes stuck in the grindstone and becomes an exploit for gaining xp as it gives you xp for disenchanting it, However it still has all of them on the bow.
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After carefully studying this and all its duplicate reports, I have come to the conclusion that they all describe the same issue, which is that the grindstone was not consuming its input items and therefore they could be disenchanted repeatedly, giving the player some XP and a new disenchanted item each time. One of the duplicates, MCPE-74060, provided a link to OMGChad's video showing this bug in action. At the end of the video, OMGChad demonstrates that the bug was no longer present in the 1.15.0.7 Beta. All but one of the duplicates reported the bug in either 1.13 or 1.14, so this is consistent with a fix being applied in the 1.15 retail release.
The exception is MCPE-103333, which was closed as a duplicate of this report. However, that one reports a bug happening in 1.16.40 Hotfix and 1.16.61 for PS4, and after studying it it doesn't appear to be the same bug after all.
So I am taking the following actions:
Resolve this report as Fixed with no fix version or date, as 1.15 can no longer be entered as a fix version.
Remove the Private security tag from this report so that reporters of the duplicate reports can see what was done.
Add a comment to each of the duplicate reports referring them here for resolution.
Split MCPE-103333 off from this aggregation and make it a separate issue.
I believe this is actually two separate bugs. The bug with crafting the bows (and many other items) is already being tracked as MCPE-56118, so we will disregard that part of the report.