Minecraft:Arrow

Template:For Template:Infobox item entity An arrow serves as ammunition for Minecraft:bows, Minecraft:crossbows, and Minecraft:dispensers. Arrows can be crafted into Minecraft:spectral arrowsTemplate:Only and Minecraft:tipped arrows to give Minecraft:status effects to Minecraft:players and Minecraft:mobs.

Obtaining

Picking up arrows

Arrows shot by players can always be picked up in Minecraft:Creative mode.

An arrow cannot be picked up by a player in Minecraft:Survival or Minecraft:Adventure mode if:

• It is shot by a Minecraft:player in Minecraft:Creative mode.
• It is shot by any Minecraft:mob able to shoot arrows, such as Minecraft:skeletons, Minecraft:strays, Minecraft:pillagers, or Minecraft:piglins. This includes mobs that do not shoot arrows in normal gameplay, such as Minecraft:illusioners and bow-wielding Minecraft:wither skeletons.
  • This is the case even in Creative mode.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• It is shot with an Minecraft:Infinity-enchanted Minecraft:bow.
• It is one of the two extra arrows shot with a Minecraft:Multishot-enchanted Minecraft:crossbow.

Arrows that are stuck in a player cannot be retrieved, and the player does not drop them when killed.

After a Minecraft:tipped arrow has been in the ground for Template:Convert or more, it becomes a regular arrow and can be picked up as one.

Villager gifts

Template:IN, arrows can be obtained as a reward item from Minecraft:fletcher Minecraft:villagers when the player has the Minecraft:Hero of the Village status effect.

Bartering

Template:IN, arrows can be obtained through Minecraft:bartering with Minecraft:piglins, and have a ~8.53% (Template:Frac) chance to give the Minecraft:player 6-12 arrows.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Arrows can be used to craft the two variants of arrows, spectral arrows and tipped arrows. Template:Crafting usage

Cauldrons

Template:Main Template:IN, arrows can be used on cauldrons that contain Minecraft:potions to create Minecraft:tipped arrows.

Behavior

Spawning

An arrow entity spawns when an arrow item is shot out of a Minecraft:bow, Minecraft:crossbow, Minecraft:dispenser, or a bow- or crossbow-wielding mob. Arrow entities spawn with a starting velocity calculated using the following process:

• The direction of the velocity is set as the facing vector of the entity that shot it, or the vector pointing straight out of a dispenser.
• The magnitude of the velocity is set as 0 to 3 for bows depending on how far they're drawn, 3.15 for crossbows, and 1.1 for dispensers.
• A random vector is added to the previously determined velocity. This vector ranges from <math display="inline">-0.0172275\cdot\text{inaccuracy}</math> to <math display="inline">0.0172275\cdot\text{inaccuracy}</math> on every axis. Inaccuracy is 1 for bows and crossbows, and 6 for dispensers.

Because crossbows shoot slightly faster arrows than bows but have the same inaccuracy, crossbows are actually more accurate because their randomness is smaller in proportion to their total velocity.

Critical arrow

Template:For Arrows fired by players from crossbows (or bows at Minecraft:critical charge) leave a trail of crit particles behind them. Critical arrows deal random damage, between Template:Hp and Template:Hp for bows at critical charge, and between Template:Hp and Template:Hp for crossbows.

Movement

An arrow entity follows this list of steps in order when calculating its movement each game tick:

• If it is intersecting a block's collision box, its inGround NBT value is set to true.
• If it is on fire and in rain, water, or powder snow (including cauldrons containing water or powder snow), its fire is extinguished.

• If inGround is true:

• If it is no longer intersecting a block's collision box:

• inGround is set to false.
• Its velocity in each axis is multiplied by a random number from 0 to 0.2.

• Otherwise, it ticks its despawn timer.

• If inGround is false:

• It calculates collisions with blocks and entities:

• It sets its target position to its current position plus its velocity.
• It performs a raycast from its current position to the target position, checking for blocks to hit. If the raycast hits a block, the target position gets set to the point that was hit.
• It performs a raycast from its position to the target position, checking for entities to hit.

• If a block was found and no entity was found, handle effects from block collision:

• The block is activated, if applicable. For example, targets and wooden buttons are activated here.
• The arrow's velocity is set to the target position minus the arrow position.
• The arrow is moved directly away from the target position by 0.05 blocks
• inGround is set to true.
• crit is set to false.
• PierceLevel is set to 0.

• If any entity was found, handle effects from entity collision:

• If the entity is an Minecraft:Enderman, it is skipped.
• The arrow attempts to damage the entity. See the Damage section for more information. If the damage fails:

• If the entity has the deflects_projectiles tag, the arrow's velocity is rotated a random angle about the Y axis and scaled by 0.5.
• Otherwise, its velocity is multiplied by -0.1.

• Its velocity vector is added to its position vector.
• Its velocity vector is multiplied by 0.99 if it's in air or 0.6 if it's in water (this is the "drag").
• 0.05 is subtracted from its velocity vector's y component (this is the "gravity").

The arrow movement (when not stuck in a block) can be solved as a recurrence relation to obtain the following formulas:

<math display="block">\vec{V_t} = 0.99^t\cdot\left(\vec{V_0}+\begin{bmatrix}0\\5\\0\end{bmatrix}\right)-\begin{bmatrix}0\\5\\0\end{bmatrix}</math>

<math display="block">\vec{P_t} = \vec{P_0}+100\cdot(1-0.99^t)\cdot\left(\vec{V_0}+\begin{bmatrix}0\\5\\0\end{bmatrix}\right)-\begin{bmatrix}0\\5t\\0\end{bmatrix}</math>

Where <math display="inline">\vec{V_t}</math> is the velocity at tick t and <math display="inline">\vec{P_t}</math> is the position at tick t. These formulas can quickly calculate the position and velocity at a future tick t given an initial position and velocity. To make them work for arrows in water instead, change 0.99 with 0.6 and 100 with 2.5.

Calculators/Projectile motion

Damage

The damage an arrow inflicts on an entity depends on the damage NBT tag, the crit NBT tag, and the arrow's speed. However, Template:In, arrows shot from a dispenser do not scale damage with speed.

The damage NBT tag is determined by the item that shot it: It is 2 for everything except bows enchanted with Minecraft:Power, in which case it's <math display="inline">2.5 + \frac{\text{power level}}{2}</math>.

The crit NBT tag is given to all arrows shot out of crossbows or fully charged bows.

The damage inflicted on an entity is <math display="inline">\text{damage NBT tag }\cdot\text{ speed}</math>, rounded up to a whole number. If the arrow has the crit NBT tag, it does an additional random amount of damage between 0 and <math>\frac{\text{damage}}{2}+2</math>.

Average damage (fully charged bow, point-blank range)

Source	Damage tag	Crit tag	Starting speed	Average damage
Bow (Power I)	3	Yes	<math display="inline">3\pm0.0172275\times\sqrt{3}</math>	Template:Health
Bow (Power II)	3.5			Template:Health
Bow (Power III)	4			Template:Health
Bow (Power IV)	4.5			Template:Health
Bow (Power V)	5			Template:Health
Bow	2			Template:Health
Crossbow			<math display="inline">3.15\pm0.0172275\times\sqrt{3}</math>	Template:Health
Dispenser		No	<math display="inline">1.1\pm0.103365\times\sqrt{3}</math>	Template:Health

Common properties

Arrows shot from a bow with the Minecraft:Flame enchantment, or shot through Minecraft:lava or Minecraft:fireTemplate:Verify, catch on fire and show an appropriate animation until they pass through water or rain. They can set other entities they hit on fire for up to 5 seconds (inflicting up to Template:Hp of fire damage)Template:Citation needed, as well as ignite Minecraft:TNT, Minecraft:candles, and Minecraft:campfires.

File:ArrowShotInTree.png

An arrow shot in a tree

Arrows also stick into blocks they come in contact with and remain there for one minute before disappearing. Such arrows may be retrieved. The 1-minute despawn timer is then refreshed, meaning it takes another minute for the arrow to despawn.

Arrows can get visually stuck in players Template:In, although not any mobs. They appear as regular arrows regardless of type.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

• Steve covered in arrows
  Steve covered in arrows
• Alex covered in arrows
  Alex covered in arrows

If the arrow has any custom potion effects (NBT tag CustomPotionEffects), all potion effects, including vanilla potion effects (NBT tag Potion) are removed 30 seconds after the arrow stops moving.

An arrow shot at a Minecraft:chorus flower or Minecraft:decorated pot breaks the block; a chorus flower drops itself, while a decorated pot shatters into Minecraft:pottery sherds and/or Minecraft:bricks along with dropping any of the items stored inside.

Arrows stuck in blocks drop to the ground in a sharp arc if their supporting blocks are destroyed. Such arrows can still damage entities.

Redstone circuits

An arrow can activate a Minecraft:wooden button, Minecraft:wooden pressure plate, a Minecraft:tripwire, or a Minecraft:target. An arrow continues to power these blocks until it is removed, either due to despawning, or being picked up. Target blocks emit a redstone pulse for one second, as opposed to the static depressed state of the other switches. Non-wooden switches are not affected by arrows.

Mobs immune to arrows

A few mobs cannot be shot using an arrow, because the arrow either disappears or it gets deflected. This includes:

• Minecraft:Endermen - even while immobile, the enderman is immune to damage from arrows;
• Minecraft:Breeze;
• Minecraft:Wither under half health, when it gains wither armor;
• Closed Minecraft:shulkers;
• Minecraft:Ender dragon, while sitting on top of the Minecraft:exit portal.

Data values

ID

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Metadata

Template:IN, arrows use the following item data values: <section begin="metadata"/>

Arrow	Regular	Extended	Enhanced (Level II)
Template:ItemSprite Arrow	0	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Splashing	1	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Tipped Arrow (Mundane)	2	3	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Tipped Arrow (Thick)	4	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Tipped Arrow (Awkward)	5	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Night Vision	6	7	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Invisibility	8	9	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Leaping	10	11	12
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Fire Resistance	13	14	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Swiftness	15	16	17
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Slowness	18	19	43
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Water Breathing	20	21	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Healing	22	N/A	23
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Harming	24	N/A	25
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Poison	26	27	28
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Regeneration	29	30	31
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Strength	32	33	34
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Weakness	35	36	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Decay	37	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of the Turtle Master	38	39	40
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Slow Falling	41	42	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Wind Charging	44	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Weaving	45	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Oozing	46	N/A	N/A
Template:ItemSprite Arrow of Infestation	47	N/A	N/A

<section end="metadata"/>

Entity data

Arrows have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

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<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/arrow
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/projectile

<section end="entity data"/>

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Videos

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History

Historical sounds

Sound	From	to	Pitch
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Trivia

• By default, arrows fly slightly offset to the right. If the player stands close to a wall and fires several arrows without moving the crosshair, the arrows cluster around a point slightly to the right of the crosshair. If the player switches their main hand to be the left hand in options, the arrows instead cluster to the left.
• Arrows fired at Minecraft:Nether portals often skip through the portal block completely and fail to collide, thus continuing through to the opposite side of the block.
• Arrows stuck in blocks vibrate upon a world reload.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Gallery

Renders

• An arrow caught on Minecraft:fire.
  An arrow caught on Minecraft:fire.

Screenshots

• Purple arrows in Minecraft Classic.
  Purple arrows in Minecraft Classic.
• Examples of custom arrow types using Template:Cmd.
  Examples of custom arrow types using Template:Cmd.
• Some arrows stick into Minecraft:sugar canes. This no longer works since Java Edition Beta 1.6.
  Some arrows stick into Minecraft:sugar canes. This no longer works since Java Edition Beta 1.6.
• Many arrows stuck in the player, seen through the Minecraft:inventory screen.
  Many arrows stuck in the player, seen through the Minecraft:inventory screen.
• Minecraft:Searge with a bunch of arrows summoned above him.
  Minecraft:Searge with a bunch of arrows summoned above him.
• Minecraft:Alex shattering a decorated pot with an arrow.<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/bats-pots-and-competitions</ref>
  Minecraft:Alex shattering a decorated pot with an arrow.<ref>https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/bats-pots-and-competitions</ref>

External links

• Template:Mcnet