Yes, that’s probably the same issue (I didn’t test different parts of its body). Sorry for the duplicate.
Yes, particles appear when the hit connects, and I believe it made a sound like I was hitting it, but it took no damage. It was consistent across different test worlds as well.
FPS in 1.16.5: ~537
[media][media][media]FPS in 1.17.1: ~325
OS: Windows 10 Pro 20H2 (build 19042.1083)
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9700k CPU @ 3.60GHz
Graphics card and driver version, as reported by the game: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti/PCIe/SSE2, 3.2.0 NVIDIA 471.11