Arrows should leave a mark.

Warden being struck by multiple arrows

Lodged is a small Vanilla+ NeoForge mod that improves upon arrow rendering and impact.

Arrows can stay lodged in living entities, carry their original item data, drop from slain targets, break on impact, and even be pulled out of your own player model from the inventory screen. The mod also adds an optional bleeding system, so sharp hits and risky arrow removal can become more than a one-time damage number.

It is meant to make ranged combat a little grittier without replacing Minecraft's core combat loop.

Arrows can be tracked after hitting living entities
Tracked arrows can drop when the target dies
Player, mob, Infinity, and creative arrows can each be controlled separately
Spectral and tipped arrow data can be preserved for recovery
Arrows can break on entity or block impact (configurable)
Players can remove lodged arrows from their own inventory preview
Removal success can vary by body part
Having too many lodged arrows can cause mild dizziness until some are removed
Arrows that hit player legs can briefly apply Slowness
Failed removal can break the arrow, hurt the player, and apply bleeding
Bleeding can come from arrow removal, broken arrow impacts, or tagged/enchantment-based weapons
Bleeding supports configurable blood particles, data-driven blood colors, stacked duration, and stronger late-stage damage
Optional Simple Blood compatibility can add matching ground decals when Lodged blood drops land
Armour, undead mobs, skeletons, and immune entities can all be configured
Slimes, magma cubes, and armour stands are denied by default
Skeletons, golems, slimes, magma cubes, blazes, breezes, guardians, and armour stands are bleeding-immune by default

features

What Changes In Game

A player removing lodged arrows from their inventory preview

Lodged Arrows

When supported arrows hit living entities, Lodged can remember the arrow and where it landed. Non-player entities can show synced lodged arrows to nearby players, while players can keep arrow data for removal and recovery.

By default, the mod tracks up to 8 arrows per entity. Player-fired arrows can be recovered from killed targets with a 35% chance per tracked arrow.

Supported arrow types:

Arrow type	Notes
Regular arrows	Supported for tracking, recovery, breakage, and player removal
Spectral arrows	Supported and recoverable as spectral arrows
Tipped arrows	Preserved when original item stack recovery is enabled
Infinity arrows	Disabled for recovery by default, configurable
Mob-fired arrows	Disabled for recovery by default, configurable
Creative arrows	Disabled for recovery by default, configurable

Arrow Recovery

If arrow recovery is enabled, tracked arrows can drop when the living entity they are lodged in dies. The mod can preserve the original arrow item stack, allowing recovered tipped and spectral arrows to retain their data rather than becoming normal arrows.

Default recovery behaviour:

Arrow recovery is enabled
Player arrows can be recovered from entity death drops
Each tracked arrow has a 35% recovery chance
Mob arrows are not recovered unless enabled
Infinity arrows are not recovered unless enabled
Creative arrows are not recovered unless enabled
Original arrow item data is preserved

Player Arrow Removal

Players can remove arrows stuck in their own body from the inventory player preview.

Open your inventory, rotate the player preview if needed, and click a lodged arrow. A successful removal gives the arrow back when that arrow type is recoverable. A failed removal breaks the arrow, can deal damage, and can apply bleeding.

By default, carrying 4 or more lodged arrows, or reaching 50% of the configured tracked-arrow limit, applies Lodged's custom Dizziness effect. It uses a subtle border vignette, slight red tint, and gentle first-person screen wobble that grows stronger as more arrows lodge. Removing arrows drops you below that threshold and lets the effect fade.

By default, arrows that hit a player's legs apply vanilla Slowness I for 40 ticks. Leg shot Slowness can be disabled, and both its duration and level are configurable.

Default removal chances:

Body part	Default success chance
Head	35%
Chest	65%
Arm	85%
Leg	85%

Infinity-generated arrows have their removal success chance halved by default when Infinity recovery is enabled.

Default dizziness behaviour:

Lodged arrow dizziness is enabled
Dizziness starts at 4 lodged arrows or 50% of max tracked arrows
Each additional lodged arrow increases the effect strength, up to a capped maximum
Dizziness refreshes once per second with a short 80-tick custom effect duration

Arrow Breakage

Arrows can break immediately on impact instead of sticking around forever.

Default breakage behavior:

Entity impact breakage is enabled
Block impact breakage is enabled
Mob arrow breakage is enabled
Regular player arrows have a 2% impact break chance
Mob arrows have a 0% impact break chance by default
Infinity arrows have a 0% impact break chance by default

configuration

Bleeding

Lodged includes a configurable bleeding mob effect.

Bleeding can be applied by failed arrow removal, successful arrow removal, broken arrow impacts, or qualifying weapon hits. By default, enchantments in Lodged's bleeding enchantment tags can cause bleeding, while the item-tag weapon rule is disabled until you enable it.

Default bleeding behaviour:

Bleeding is enabled
Pulling lodged arrows can cause bleeding
Enchantment-tagged weapons can cause bleeding
Weapon-item-tag bleeding is disabled by default
Full armour prevents normal bleeding by default
Partial armour reduces bleeding chance by default
Undead can bleed only if included in Lodged's undead bleeding tag
Skeletons do not bleed by default
Skeletons, golems, slimes, magma cubes, blazes, breezes, guardians, and armour stands are in the bleeding immune tag by default
Lodged blood particles are enabled by default in world and on the inventory player preview
Simple Blood compat ground decals are enabled by default when Simple Blood is installed
Endermen, endermites, shulkers, and the Ender Dragon have purple blood by default
Spiders have medium green blood by default, and wardens use teal blood by default
Simple Blood compat decal chance and scale can be tuned

When Simple Blood is installed, Lodged can spawn Simple Blood ground decals from landed Lodged blood drops. The decals use the same data-driven blood color as Lodged's own particles, so custom mob blood colors carry across both systems. Lodged blood particles and Simple Blood compat decals can be disabled separately.

Default bleeding damage:

Setting	Default
Weapon or broken-arrow bleeding duration	120 ticks
Arrow-removal bleeding duration	200 ticks
Maximum bleeding duration	1200 ticks
Strong bleeding threshold	600 ticks
Normal bleed pulse	1 damage every 100 ticks
Strong bleed pulse	2 damage every 80 ticks

Configuration

Main config file:

Singleplayer/client: config/lodged.json5
Dedicated server: <server root>/config/lodged.json5

The in-game config screen is powered by owo-lib and Mod Menu integration.

Major systems can be tuned or disabled:

Arrow recovery
Recovery chance
Maximum tracked arrows per entity
Player, mob, Infinity, and creative arrow recovery
Arrow item stack preservation
Stuck-arrow despawn prevention
Entity denylist
Arrow breakage on entities and blocks
Player arrow removal
Removal success chances by body part
Removal failure damage
Lodged arrow dizziness thresholds and duration
Leg shot Slowness duration, level, and enablement
Bleeding rules
Bleeding duration, damage, Lodged particles, Simple Blood compat particles, Simple Blood decal chance and scale, data-driven blood colors, and armour behaviour

Tags and Pack Support

Lodged includes data-driven tags for pack makers and modpack authors.

Entity tags:

lodged:bleeding_immune
lodged:bleeding_skeletons
lodged:bleeding_undead

The default lodged:bleeding_immune tag includes entities like skeletons, golems, slimes, magma cubes, blazes, breezes, guardians, and armour stands. Datapacks can add to it or replace it like any normal Minecraft entity type tag.

Blood color files live under data/<namespace>/lodged/blood_colors/*.json. Each file can target entity type IDs or entity type tags:

{
  "color": "#B36BFF",
  "entity_types": [
    "minecraft:enderman",
    "#minecraft:raiders"
  ]
}

Blood colors apply to Lodged blood particles, inventory-preview blood, and Simple Blood ground decals spawned by Lodged.

Item tags:

lodged:bleeding_weapons

Enchantment tags:

lodged:bleeding_living
lodged:bleeding_undead

These tags let packs decide which entities can bleed and which weapons or enchantments can trigger bleeding.

A player bleeding after removing a lodged arrow

Compatibility

Lodged is designed to work with vanilla-style combat and projectile behaviour instead of replacing entity classes.

Supports vanilla arrows and spectral arrows, have not tested modded arrows
Uses synced arrow data for client visuals and player removal
Integrates with Simple Blood when installed by spawning matching ground decals from Lodged blood drops
Does not replace Minecraft's living entity classes

Compatibility may vary with mods that heavily replace projectile impact handling, living-entity rendering, inventory screens, particles, or stuck-arrow behaviour.

Version and Loaders

NeoForge 1.21.1 - active development
Forge - not planned
Fabric - not planned
Older Minecraft versions - not planned

credits & license

Modpacks

You may use this mod in modpacks, videos, servers, and other projects. A link back to the Modrinth page is appreciated.

Credits

Created by me :D

License

Feel free to use this mod in modpacks, videos, etc. Just provide a link back to this page if possible :)

Please don't port this mod without express permission from me.

For any general queries/unlisted questions, DM me on Twitter (@prodbyjvn) / Discord (ijvn).

Warning: this mod ONLY exists on Modrinth & CurseForge as of May 2026. Any sites hosting this mod outside of Modrinth/CurseForge are not official releases.