It should be possible, but is considered a bug currently. You can however equip a skeleton's offhand with a custom arrow. But the skeleton will not be able to shoot that arrow as of yet. Best to wait until a full release of 1.9 is completed to see if it fixed by then, if not equip a skeleton get a report and send in a bug, if it hasn't yet been listed. Skeletons should be able to shoot from their offhand, but as tested by a Reddit user, has come up as a Bug, the arrow was equipped but no effects were given.
This should give you plenty of time to build the most of your map, then you can then finally use the map around 1.9 if the feature has then been fixed.
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Apparently in the 1.9 snapshot, you can make skeletons use custom arrows. How would I do this (if there is indeed a way)?
I wanna know too!
Makin' a map, so this would be useful.
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Oh, ya know how it might work? Put the arrows in the skeleton's offhand.
Sorry I can't test that at the moment, tho, 'cuz I'm on a chromebook.
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Nope. I was wrong.
Life is mean.
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I do know it's possible, but how?
Goodness, how one-sided this is...
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It should be possible, but is considered a bug currently. You can however equip a skeleton's offhand with a custom arrow. But the skeleton will not be able to shoot that arrow as of yet. Best to wait until a full release of 1.9 is completed to see if it fixed by then, if not equip a skeleton get a report and send in a bug, if it hasn't yet been listed. Skeletons should be able to shoot from their offhand, but as tested by a Reddit user, has come up as a Bug, the arrow was equipped but no effects were given.
This should give you plenty of time to build the most of your map, then you can then finally use the map around 1.9 if the feature has then been fixed.
As suspected.
Changed my mind as to the concept of my first public map, tho.
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