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Attack dummy

I think there could be an attack dummy or scarecrow crafted from hay bales, wool, and sticks When you hit the attack dummy or scarecrow with a sword, axe, trident, or any weapon it will act like a mob, but cannot move and dosent take knockback. It plays a little animation instead when you hit it and depending on how hard the hit was the more it sways. Arrows will stick inside of it like how players get arrows stuck in them, the scarecrow also is effected by channeling, flame, and fire aspect. But whenever you hit the scarecrow a little number showing how much damage you dealt pops out. So you can see how much damage you can deal. The attack dummy can also give out a redstone signal if you hit it with a melee attack And the signal can scale with damage done to it. To break a dummy you need to mine the bottom part with any tool which will take a few seconds
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    It could give off XP, but I feel like that could be exploited for an XP farm

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    When you hit it, it gives off a signal between 1 and 15 depending on how much damage you deal. If you placed a comparator next to it it would give a different signal depending on what you hit it with. Fist would be 1 the 6 swords would go from 2-7, trident(melee) 8, trident(ranged) 9, the bow would be 10, crossbow 11, firework 12, axe 13, hoe 14, pickaxe 15.

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    Scarecrows/dummys exist in pillager outposts, they just don't do anything but provide hay bales for food

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    also if you give a dummy items they won't break and if you give it a shield it will use it

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    It could just be an armor stand with the features you suggest, also it should break the same way a block does instead of an entity, so that you don't have reposition your armor stand every time you train. There could also be a version of it that can take knockback.

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    it may also have redstone output depending on how much damage you will deal if it's not a dummy

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    Perhaps along with outputting the damage amount to redstone and detecting the weapon used with a comparator, when inputted a redstone signal it could also attack the closest mob in front of it (with a range of 3 blocks) using a weapon you give it (like how you give a weapon to an armor stand to hold) sort of like a dispenser that can use melee items. To make it not too OP the weapons would lose durability when it attacks.