Fletcher's Trestle — 2.4.0

Trade Secrets. Villagers now deal in modular gear, flax is something you can actually find out in the world, and two arrow bugs are dead.

🤝 Villager trades

• The Fletcher sells modular weapons. Its vanilla bow and crossbow trades are gone; replaced with fully assembled modular bows and crossbows, complete with randomised limbs, riser, and string just as the modular arrow had replaced the vanilla one. The Expert and Master tiers sell enchanted ones, using vanilla's own enchantment roll and pricing.
  • Parts come from the material registries, so a modpack's materials show up in trades automatically.
  • Tuning lands between 55% and 90% a bought weapon can be good, but a good run at the Fletching Table and a little bit of skill sill is better.
• The Fletcher sells Flax String, so you can buy a bowstring outright.
• The Shepherd sells Flax, and buys your surplus back.

Villager trades are rolled when a villager takes its profession, so you'll need a freshly-professioned villager to see these.

🌾 Flax you can find

• Flax, Flax String, and Flax Seeds now generate in village chests (fletcher, shepherd, and the farming houses), plus shipwrecks, pillager outposts, and the village temple.
• A fletcher's chest is the jackpot: 85% chance for 2–5 Flax String usually enough to string a bow the moment you find it.

⚖️ Bowstring rebalance

• Flax String → 0.85x velocity (was 1.3x). It's farmable, renewable, and shaky on an overdraw now it's genuinely the budget option rather than a straight upgrade.
• High Tension → 1.4x velocity (was 1.8x), still 2 durability per shot.

🎯 Bug fixes

• Fast arrows no longer swerve and teleport. A High Tension shot flies past the speed vanilla's spawn packet can describe (it clamps each axis to 3.9), which rotated the velocity the client received so the arrow appeared to curve off course and then snap onto the target. Arrows now send their true velocity, so what you see is the shot you actually took. (Damage and range were always correct; only the visuals were wrong.)
• Homing arrows no longer jitter. The serrated fletching's homing ran on both sides and could pick different targets on client and server. It's now server-authoritative and always tracks the nearest target.

📖 Guidebook

• New entries for the Fletching Table, the Dipping Vat, and Villager Trades, and a rewritten Flax Farming entry covering every way to get flax.