Archery Revamped

The Ultimate Vanilla-Friendly Archery Overhaul!

Archery Revamped expands Minecraft's ranged combat with new enchantments, specialised arrows, configurable projectile physics, a complete fletching system, and much more.

What does it add?

Enchantments

Ricochet (I–V)

Makes all arrows shot bouncy!

Each level allows one additional bounce.
Arrows lose velocity after every bounce (Configurable).

Ricochet off a wall

Overdraw (I/II)

Overcharge your bow for a more powerful shot!

Continue charging after the bow would normally be fully drawn.
Damage increases while overcharging (Configurable).
Excessive overcharging will:
- Damage the player.
- Damage the bow.
- Auto-fire a shot.

Longshot (I)

Makes long-distance shots deal increased damage.

Damage increases based on distance travelled:

16 blocks: 1.5× damage
32 blocks: 2× damage
48 blocks: 2.5× damage
64+ blocks: 3× damage

These values may be altered for balancing.

Fracture (I/II)

Multishot mid-air!

Splits based on arrow speed (Configurable).
The levels work as follows:
- I: Spawns 2 new arrows, splitting at ±15°.
- II: Spawns 3 arrows, splitting at 0° and ±15°.

Enchant disabled by default for balancing.

Burst (I–III)

Turns your bow into a burst rifle!

Additional arrows are fired at the same speed with a delay between each shot (Configurable).
Spawns +1 arrow per level.
Acts like firing multiple arrows normally, consuming durability and ammunition for each shot.

Enchant is slightly buggy, as later arrows may spawn at an angle, but it still works.

Sharpshooter (I–III)

A leggings enchantment designed for mobile archery.

Reduces the movement slowdown caused by drawing ranged weapons.
Higher levels allow increasingly free movement while aiming.

Enchant is disabled by default and may be reworked or removed.

Arrows

Custom Arrow System

All bow and crossbow shots use Archery Revamped's custom arrow system!

Preserves vanilla arrow damage and critical hits.
Supports Power, Punch, Flame, Piercing, Multishot and Infinity.
Preserves normal pickup behaviour.
Custom arrow data persists through saving and chunk unloading.

Ender Arrow

Teleport wherever your arrow lands!

Teleports the shooter to the impact location.
Performs safe teleport checks.
Includes teleport particles and sounds.
Works with bows and crossbows.

Impulse Arrow

Launch everything away from the impact!

Pushes nearby entities away.
Impact radius can be changed (Configurable).
Knockback strength can be changed (Configurable).
Includes splash-style particles and sounds.

Explosive Arrow

An arrow carrying a rather unfriendly payload!

Explodes on impact.
Explosion size can be changed (Configurable).
Works with bows and crossbows.

Sticky Arrow

Slow down whatever you hit!

Applies Slowness to living entities.
Slowness duration can be changed (Configurable).
Slowness strength can be changed (Configurable).

Physics Settings

Arrow Physics

Change how arrows behave in flight!

Change how quickly arrows fall (Configurable).
Change how quickly arrows lose speed through drag (Configurable).
Change overall projectile speed (Configurable).
Change firing randomness/spread (Configurable).
Change maximum falling speed / terminal velocity (Configurable).
Change how long arrows remain active (Configurable).

Default settings remain close to vanilla Minecraft.

Experimental Features

These features are functional, but are still being improved and may contain bugs.

Trajectory Visualisation

See exactly where your arrows are going!

Shows a pre-shot aiming preview.
Shows the actual path travelled by fired arrows.
Predicts the arrow's future path while it is flying.
Predicts block and entity impacts.
Predicts Ricochet bounces.
Uses smooth thin-line rendering instead of particles.
Old sections of trails fade away first.
Finished trails fade out after around 10 seconds.
Uses no particles or preview entities.
Can be enabled or disabled with commands.

Velocity Colour Visualisation

Visualise the arrow's speed along its trajectory!

Faster arrows appear red.
Slower arrows appear blue.
Can be enabled or disabled (Configurable).
Disabled by default.

Fletching Table

The Fletching Table finally has a use!

Adds a custom Fletching Table GUI.
Uses a familiar smithing/anvil-style layout.
Includes a crafting progress bar.
Includes a crafting animation.
Correctly handles stacked inputs and outputs.
Remaining items are returned when closing the GUI.

Special Arrow Recipes

Arrow + Ender Pearl → Ender Arrows
Arrow + Feather → Impulse Arrows
Arrow + Gunpowder → Explosive Arrows
Arrow + Honeycomb → Sticky Arrows

Tipped Arrows

Tipped Arrows can also be created using the Fletching Table.

Combine Arrows with a Potion.
Potion effects are preserved correctly.

The Fletching Table UI and recipe system are planned for significant improvements in future updates.

How to Obtain Everything

Enchantments

Archery Revamped enchantments can be obtained through the vanilla Enchanting Table.

Structure Loot

Custom enchanted books can also appear in late-game structures!

End Cities
Bastions
Ancient Cities
Trial Chambers
Nether Fortresses
Strongholds
Woodland Mansions

Special Arrows

Special arrows can be crafted using the custom Fletching Table.

Fletcher Trades

Fletchers can sell special arrows at multiple villager levels.

Cartographer Trades

Cartographers can also sell special arrows.

Weaponsmith Trades

Weaponsmiths can sell useful arrow ingredients:

Ender Pearls
Gunpowder
Honeycomb

Cleric Trades

Clerics can sell:

Potions
Arrows

Configuration

Archery Revamped is highly configurable for both singleplayer and multiplayer!

Config file:

config/archery_revamped-config.json

Settings include:

Arrow gravity
Arrow drag
Projectile speed
Projectile randomness
Terminal velocity
Arrow lifetime
Ricochet velocity loss
Overdraw damage
Special arrow effects
Explosion size
Impulse radius and strength
Sticky Arrow duration and strength
Enchantment settings
Fletching settings
Trajectory settings
Trajectory colour visualisation
Other balancing options

Cloth Config

Installing Cloth Config API adds an in-game configuration screen.

Hot Reloading

Config changes can be applied without restarting Minecraft using:

/archeryrevamped reload

Commands

General

/archeryrevamped help
/archeryrevamped reload
/archeryrevamped config

Physics

/archeryrevamped physics get
/archeryrevamped physics reset
/archeryrevamped physics gravity
/archeryrevamped physics drag
/archeryrevamped physics speed
/archeryrevamped physics randomness
/archeryrevamped physics terminal_velocity
/archeryrevamped physics lifetime

Other

/archeryrevamped trajectory
/archeryrevamped regular infinite_levels

Compatibility

Archery Revamped has optional compatibility with:

Cloth Config API
Mod Menu
Just Enough Items (JEI)
Roughly Enough Items (REI)
EMI

These are all optional and are not required to use Archery Revamped.

JEI, REI and EMI can display Archery Revamped Fletching Table recipes.

Other versions

I am planning to backport and forward port to 1.21.1 and 26.1+, but have no plans to port to Forge. You are welcome to port the mod yourself; add credits in the description.

Future Development

Future updates are planned to add and improve:

More arrows
More enchantments
New bow types
Fletching Table improvements
Quality-of-life features
Mod compatibility
Improved models and textures
Additional progression

A full development roadmap is available on Github.