To make the material easier to understand, at the bottom of the page there is a video instruction on how to make a bow and arrow in Minecraft.
The world of Minecraft is teeming with different creatures, ready to tear you to pieces at any moment. It is especially dangerous at night and in caves, fortresses and castles. Among other things, when you kill monsters, you may receive valuable resources that can be spent on crafting. What to do? How to protect yourself and, if something happens, defeat any opponent? Naturally, an ordinary sword is not enough here! After all, it is effective only in close combat, and in battle with some monsters, for example, ghasts and efreets, it can be very difficult to close the distance. So, we present to your attention the best assistant in the fight against monsters - the bow! Let's figure out how to craft a bow.
Collection of necessary resources
To make a bow, we will need:
- 3 sticks, we make bow sticks from boards of any type;
- 3 threads, we knock out the threads from the spiders.
However, the following arrows must be included with the bow:
- They can be knocked out of skeletons;
- Craft from feather, stick and silicon. Flint for arrows falls when mining gravel, and feathers are knocked out of chickens.
How to craft a bow and arrow in Minecraft
Crafting a bow:
- We lay out the threads in any side column;
- We place the sticks with a sort of arrow, which is directed away from the threads.
That's it, the onion is ready! What, are you already planning to mow down crowds of zombies and skeletons? And what to shoot with?
Crafting arrows:
- The central column is filled from below with feathers;
- In the middle are sticks;
- On top is silicon.
Now we have everything we need to conduct long-range combat.
Archery in Minecraft
It would seem that shooting from a bow is quite simple - press the right button and the arrows will fly straight to the target. In earlier versions of Minecraft this was the case, the bow looked like a kind of machine gun. However, now the situation has changed radically: the bow string must be pulled, the greater the tension, the more damage is caused. If you overexpose the bowstring, the accuracy of the shot will decrease.
How to make a bow and arrow in Minecraft video
This way we learned how to make a bow and arrow and also learned the basics of archery. I hope you enjoyed this article and learned a lot of new and useful information! Enjoy your journey through the world of MineCraft!
Bow without arrows
Bow ID: 261.
NID: bow.
Bow - English name Luke in Minecraft.
Damage (Attack damage) - from 1 () to 10 ().
Durability - 385.
with arrows in Minecraft is a weapon whose purpose is to hit the enemy from a distance. It is advisable to use the bow against hostile mobs that pose a danger to the player nearby, or that themselves attack from afar. This definition includes ghasts, creepers, spiders, skeletons, wither skeletons and skeleton riders. Against Endwalkers, archery is a futile exercise due to the teleportation capabilities.
The player has two bows in his hands
How to make a bow in Minecraft?
Onions are good both in battle and in cabbage soup (pun intended).
In order to make a bow, you will need to get three threads and three sticks in Minecraft. The crafting recipe is obvious and can even be called intuitive.
There is another way to make a bow in Minecraft. If you have two damaged bows, then by placing them in the workbench, you will receive one. But at the same time, another 5 percent is added to the sum of the strength of two bows placed in the workbench. You need to know that any charm will be lost.
Is it possible to get a bow in another way without using a workbench? Yes, it's possible. In short:
- As a drop after defeating some mobs.
- Buying with emeralds.
- Fishing.
Onions in crafting recipes
The bow is tight, but the husband is not strong (proverb).
It’s strange or, on the contrary, logical, but onions are present in such a crafting recipe as creating a dispenser.
Dispenser
Onions can be used as fuel in a stove. Whether you need to use this or not, there is such an opportunity, for example:
Charcoal
Bow is a weapon in Minecraft
You can’t bend an onion the other way (proverb).
In order to shoot a bow, you must first pull the bowstring by holding down the right mouse button and then release it. The stronger the tension, the further the arrow flies and the greater the damage. This is what it looks like on the table:
| Tension time | Damage |
| 0 - 0.2 s (small) | 1 () |
| 0.3 - 0.9 s (average) | 6 () |
| 1 + s (full) | 9 () |
| critical hit | 10 () |
After version 1.0.0, the bow has durability. It may not be entirely correct to compare melee weapons to bows. But you can just look at some of their characteristics.
| Weapon | Strength | Damage | All damage |
| 385 | 1 - 10 | ||
| Golden sword | 33 | 4 () | 132 |
| Wooden sword | 60 | 4 () | 240 |
| Stone sword | 132 | 5 () | 660 |
| an iron sword | 251 | 6 () | 1506 |
| Diamond Sword | 1562 | 7 () | 10934 |
Bow and arrows can be enchanted.
Armed with bows are: the player and two armor stands.
Enchanted weapons in the game
From a bow - not us, from a squeak - not us, but to drink and dance - you can’t find anything against us (proverb).
Enchanted weapons in Minecraft should increase their effectiveness. What can you come up with with bows? Since version Minecraft 1.1, the following enchantments for bows have been added: “fire arrow”, “efficiency”, “strength” and “infinity” (names may vary slightly). In version 1.4.6, it became possible to enchant a bow to be “indestructible” on an anvil and with an enchanted book.
| Weapon | Name | What gives |
| Strength Unbreaking |
With some degree of probability, the strength will not decrease. | |
| Force Power |
Additional damage. | |
| Reclining Dropping Punch |
Dropping the target. | |
| Burning Arrow Ignition Flame |
Sets fire to arrows. | |
| Infinity Infinity |
Arrows are not wasted. But to shoot you need at least one arrow. | |
| Repair Mending |
Uses experience to repair an item in your hands or armor slots. |
At the very beginning, it is more advisable to enchant the bow for “strength” and “durability”.
What types of arrows are there?
Who cares what, but the arrow cares about the bow (proverb).
Speaking about bows, we can’t help but say a few words about arrows. A separate material will be devoted to how to make them, their features and effectiveness. Here it is appropriate to present a table, the content of which speaks for itself and, in our opinion, is understandable.
| Name | Effect | Note |
| Arrow | ||
| Spectral Arrow | Other name: Spectral Arrow | |
| Night Vision Arrow | Night vision (0:22) | |
| Night Vision Arrow | Night vision (1:00) | |
| Invisibility Arrow | Invisibility (0:22) | |
| Invisibility Arrow | Invisibility (1:00) | |
| Jumping Arrow | Bouncing (0:22) | |
| Jumping Arrow | Jumpiness (1:00) | |
| Jumping Arrow | Jumpiness II (011) | |
| Fire resistance boom | Fire resistance (0:22) | |
| Fire resistance boom | Fire resistance (1:00) | |
| Swift Arrow | Speed (0:22) | |
| Swift Arrow | Speed (1:00) | Another name is Speed Arrow. On use: +20% speed. |
| Swift Arrow | Speed II (0:11) | Another name is Speed Arrow. On use: +40% speed. |
| Slow Arrow | Slowdown (0:11) | |
| Slow Arrow | Slowdown (0:30) | On cast: –15% speed. |
| Poisoning (0:05) | ||
| Poison Arrow | Poisoning (0:11) | |
| Poison Arrow | Poisoning II (0:02) | |
| Regeneration Arrow | Regeneration (0:05) | |
| Regeneration Arrow | Regeneration (0:11) | |
| Regeneration Arrow | Regeneration II (0:02) | |
| Arrow of Power | Power (0:22) | On cast: +3 damage |
| Arrow of Power | Strength (1:00) | On cast: +3 damage |
| Arrow of Power | Power II (0:11) | On use: +6 damage |
| Arrow of Weakness | Weakness (0:11) | On cast: –4 damage |
| Arrow of Weakness | Weakness (0:30) | On cast: –4 damage |
| Arrow of Luck | Luck (0:37) | When used: +1 luck |
When an arrow flies through lava, it becomes fiery and can set the enemy on fire. But such an arrow cannot set fire to blocks or burn objects, and will not cause additional damage. Although, at the same time, it activates THT. After some time it will go out. This differs from burning arrows fired from a bow with a fire enchantment, which will burn forever until they disappear.
Minecraft developers have invented many weapons to defeat mobs. One of the most effective in battle and easiest to craft is the bow. It allows you to hit monsters at long distances, causing them significant losses. Making a bow is done by using the required number of threads (web) and sticks. Another alternative way to master this weapon is to defeat skeleton archers. A bow will be an effective weapon only if you have arrows. If the battle is going to be “hot”, enchant the bow with the “infinity” spell.
Materials for onions - craft
To make a bow you will need three threads and the same number of sticks. The first ones appear in the player when a web is destroyed by a sword during the day, which appeared as a result of sweeping away spiders overnight, or when defeating a spider in the forest (cave) at night. The second ones are obtained from boards. Just two blocks of boards and the stick is ready.
Work at the workbench
Having received the necessary materials, we load them into the workbench grid. We arrange them like this:
- first row - thread, stick, then an empty cell;
- second row - thread, empty cell, then stick;
- third row - thread, stick, then an empty cell.
Another way of arranging materials is a mirror of the first. It looks like this:
- first row - empty cell, stick, then thread;
- second row - stick, empty cell, then thread;
- third row - empty cell, stick, then thread.
The result of the two methods is similar - a ready-made weapon for distant targets.
Video guide:
How to make a bow in Minecraft?
The Minecraft game has a wide variety of weapons, from a sword to a nuclear bomb. You can play as a swordsman or an archer, and also build various traps and tricks. However, not every player knows how to craft this or that weapon. Especially at first, the question arises of how to make a primitive bow in Minecraft and what are its characteristics.
Let's consider these issues in more detail.
How to make a bow in Minecraft
Onions in Minecraft are made from two simple ingredients
- A stick that is made from two boards;
- And a thread that can be obtained from dead spiders. Perhaps it is better to use a sword to kill spiders.
In the crafting window, these ingredients must be placed in a certain order: three threads are located vertically in the right or left extreme row of the window, and three sticks in the remaining cells in the form of a triangle. Visually it resembles an onion.
The bow is also used by skeletons, however the arrows from a skeleton bow cannot be collected if they hit you, but after killing a skeleton the arrows can often drop. Very rarely a bow drops from a skeleton. This is another way to get it.
Characteristics and features of a bow in Minecraft
To shoot a bow, you need arrows, which can be crafted or collected from dead skeletons. By holding down the right mouse button, you will draw the bowstring and be able to shoot. The range and damage of the arrow depends on the tension. Here are a few features and characteristics of the bow:
- The maximum tension of the bowstring gives damage of 4.5 hearts, at half the tension - 3 hearts;
- The bow has a certain strength and breaks over time;
- The bow is useless against the Endwalkers;
- Arrows are affected by gravity, so for distance shooting it is better to aim above the target;
- The bow can be enchanted for fire damage, strength, and other enchantments. Moreover, up to the 9th level of the player character, the bow will be enchanted only to “strength I”;
- The maximum flight distance of an arrow on a plane is 50 blocks;
- Very, very rarely, skeletons may drop a bow with an enchantment;
- If you shoot an arrow through lava blocks, it will catch fire and set fire to any mob. However, it will go out over time, unlike arrows enchanted to fire, which burn forever until they disappear.
By using these interesting features, you will be able to play more efficiently with your bow.
Are you tired of melee weapons and want to defeat your enemies from a distance? Does the creeper explode, preventing you from even striking? Then the best weapon for you is a bow. The bow is one of the easiest weapons to create in Minecraft, and after reading the article, you will learn how to make it.
Making a bow
To make a bow you will need: three threads and three sticks. Sticks can be obtained from two boards; to do this, you need to cut down a log and make boards from it.
Also, when tree leaves are broken, there is a possibility of sticks falling out.
To get the thread, you need to kill several spiders. The web may not always fall out, but there is also a chance that two threads will fall out instead of one.
A longer way to get threads is to go down abandoned mines or find spider spawns, but again, you might get lucky.
All necessary resources have been obtained. We put everything we got on the workbench in the right order, and we get a wonderful ranged weapon (see Fig. 1).
Picture 1
The bow is a ranged weapon that uses arrows. Arrows can be obtained in several ways.
Arrows
The fastest way to get arrows is to destroy skeletons, but this method can be dangerous, and it’s not a fact that you’ll be able to get away with it after getting what you want. Therefore, there is a safer way, for example, fishing with a fishing rod or creating on a workbench.
The first method is quite long and grueling, so let’s consider a faster and safer one.
To create arrows we will need:
- Flint
- Sticks
- Feathers
To mine silicon, you need to dig gravel; gravel is most often found between rocks and the ground, both in mountains and in caves. A few blocks of dug up gravel will give us a chance of obtaining silicon.
Also, mined gravel can be placed in the world and dug up again, silicon also falls out.
To get feathers, you need to kill a couple of chickens (see Fig. 2), since feathers do not always fall out of a killed bird. The chicken dies with one blow from an iron sword, so there should be no difficulty.
Figure 2
And, in order not to disturb the natural balance, do not forget to feed several pairs of animals with seeds, which can be obtained by breaking the grass.
The extraction of sticks has already been discussed above in the article, the method is the same: we chop it, make boards, put it on a workbench.
After extracting the necessary resources, we place them on the workbench and get four arrows from each craft (see Fig. 3).
Figure 3
Now you know how to make a bow in Minecraft, as well as how to make ammunition for it. Now you are not afraid of creepers and zombies, the killing projectile will reach everyone.
