Additionally, skeletons with this issue will never prioritize bows. As in, you could spawn one in holding a piece of dirt and nothing else and it will still refuse to pick up any bow dropped to it. as seen in the attached clip (1.21.1) I summoned two skeletons with CanPickUpItems set to true, with one holding a stone block and the other holding nothing. The one holding nothing picked up the bow, the one with the stone did not.
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Additionally, skeletons with this issue will never prioritize bows. As in, you could spawn one in holding a piece of dirt and nothing else and it will still refuse to pick up any bow dropped to it. as seen in the attached clip (1.21.1) I summoned two skeletons with CanPickUpItems set to true, with one holding a stone block and the other holding nothing. The one holding nothing picked up the bow, the one with the stone did not.
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