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Craftsman's bows

by Chuzume · for Minecraft

A small mod that adds four ranged weapons with a vanilla Minecraft feel.

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14 mo agoLast updated
CC-BY-SA-4.0License
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About Craftsman's bows

From Modrinth

A small mod that adds four ranged weapons with a vanilla Minecraft feel.

Craftsman's Bows

This is a simple and small mod that adds some vanilla-style ranged weapons.
I made this as a mod creation and Java coding practice.

With the Sinytra Connector,this mod also work with NeoForge!

Items

Shortbow

Shortbow
  • Faster charge, shorter range, and less damage
  • Movement speed doesn't decrease while drawing, and you can even sprint.

Longbow

Longbow
  • Slower charge, longer range, and more damage.
  • If you do not charge it to the maximum, the arrow's flight distance will be greatly reduced.
  • The screen zoom while drawing is stronger than with a normal bow.

Shot Crossbow

Shot Crossbow
  • A crossbow that fires five arrows at once.
  • It cannot be fired unless the bow is drawn all the way back.
  • Shot arrows ignore enemy invincibility frames.
  • You can't expect much accuracy and the range is short, but it is very powerful at close range.
  • Although it looks like a crossbow, the enchantments it can apply are bow enchantments.

Repeater Crossbow

Repeater Crossbow
  • A crossbow with incredible rapid-fire.
  • Shot arrows ignore enemy invincibility frames.
  • When you aim it, it will begin charging, and after a while it will continue firing arrows.
  • Once charging is complete, you will be unable to move at all.
  • It is awful to use, and it uses a lot of arrows, but it has incredible destructive power.
  • Although it looks like a crossbow, the enchantments it can apply are bow enchantments.

Burst Arbalest

Burst Arbalest
  • It can be charged up to 9 times.
  • Shot arrows ignore enemy invincibility frames.
  • It has relatively good distance and accuracy.
  • When release it, it will fire arrows equal to the number of charges.
  • In short, it's a less extreme repeater crossbow.

Used assets

Sounds in the "erdie" folder: by Erdie

Sounds in the "dungeons" folder: from Minecraft Dungeons by Mojang

Modpack

If you want to use this mod in a modpack, please let me know.

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 9 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.21.8.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Weapons, items & crafting

New weapons, gear, items and the recipes to make them.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Craftsman's bows as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Fabric
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.21.8 and 8 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorChuzume, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseCC-BY-SA-4.0Free

Craftsman's bows, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Craftsman's bows?

Modrinth lists Craftsman's bows as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric.

Is it free?

Yes. Craftsman's bows is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is CC-BY-SA-4.0.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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