Arrow+ — Build Your Own Arrows

Arrow+ expands Minecraft archery with customizable arrows crafted from vanilla materials. Combine a head, a shaft and fletching to change how your arrows hit and fly—all in a crafting table.

Build for damage, longer shots, a flatter trajectory or underwater combat. No smeltery or special workstation is required.

Customize Every Part

Arrowheads

Heads determine base damage, ignition and effects on hit. Choose from 19 heads, including flint, copper, iron, diamond and netherite.

Shafts

Shafts change launch speed and gravity. Copper and iron offer more range than wood, while a netherite shaft trades range for higher impact damage and a steeper drop. Bamboo offers lower gravity at the cost of speed.

Fletching

Fletching changes air resistance, underwater resistance, accuracy and gravity. Use a regular feather, try phantom membrane for reduced drop and tighter spread, or craft kelp and prismarine fletching for better underwater performance.

Mix parts freely to find a combination that suits your bow and playstyle.

Simple Crafting

Place your ingredients in one vertical column:

1. Top: Arrowhead material
2. Middle: Shaft
3. Bottom: Fletching

Some materials, such as sticks, bamboo, bone, paper and phantom membrane, work directly as parts. Metal and gem shafts, along with special fletching, have their own crafting recipes.

Flint with a regular stick and feather still makes vanilla arrows. Swap either part to create a modular flint arrow.

Hold Shift over arrows and materials to see their stats. Compact tooltips show the essentials, while expanded tooltips explain damage, speed, drop, drag and spread.

More Ways to Use Your Arrows

• Add potion effects while keeping your chosen head, shaft and fletching.
• Fire Arrow+ arrows from bows, crossbows and dispensers.
• See arrow colors change on your bow as you draw it.
• Use JEI to browse materials and recipes, including combinations with different parts.
• Add Fletching Recipe to craft arrows at the Fletching Table for double the output.

Datapack Customization

Heads, shafts and fletching are defined through datapacks. Modpack creators can adjust existing materials or add new ones without writing Java code.

Customize damage, ignition, effects, launch speed, gravity, air and water resistance, accuracy, colors and crafting output.

Visit the Arrow+ Wiki for recipes, material stats, an interactive arrow builder and datapack documentation.

Versions and Installation

The modular arrow system is available on Fabric and NeoForge starting with:

Install the Arrow+ file matching your Minecraft version and mod loader. Fabric installations also require Fabric API. JEI and Fletching Recipe are optional.

Older Arrow+ releases use different crafting and customization systems. Select the matching documentation using the wiki’s version switcher.

When updating from an earlier Arrow+ build on the same Minecraft version, existing arrows migrate to the modular system while preserving their counts, potion contents, custom names and custom data. Back up your world before updating.

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