Bow and arrow combat too boring for you? Well, we probably have the solution for you! Bow Overhaul aims to make using bows more exciting and skillful by providing a bonus for better accuracy and disadvantages to using bows in close-range and while wearing heavy armor. In addition, a quiver is added to make inventory management a bit easier and adds new bows and arrows more in-line with the vanilla tools and weapons. Also, pretty much everything can be disabled, you could completely strip it down just to let you modify arrow damage or speed or just add headshots. Note: If you make custom head hitboxes for a mod's mobs, please share them! If you send them to me, I will happily include them in my defaults for innate mod support! Also, you will be added to the mcmod. Core Mechanics: Headshots - Arrows are now able to score headshots for increased damage generally speaking. Each mob's and the player's head hitbox is determined by property files, where each head's size, position, and damage modifiers can be set. Damage modifiers for headshots and non-headshots may also be configured for each arrow and bow. Defaults are included for all vanilla mobs, and mod-added humanoid mobs should be handled fairly well they will get the same hitbox as zombies, skeletons, etc. When a headshot is scored, a burst of critical particles will explode from that head. You will see these coming out of your face if a headshot is scored on you. Arrow ramp-up - Arrows deal less damage to enemies that are too close. By default, arrows need to travel 10 blocks from their initial position in order to deal full damage. This distance can be configured for each arrow and bow. Additions: Bows - Adds five new bows corresponding to the five standard tool materials. Ammo in quivers will be shot before ammo loose in your inventory, with the quiver equipped in your chestplate slot being used first. Quivers may also be crafted on to some chestplates generally only light armor , so you don't have to sacrifice armor. By default, G opens your highest priority quiver's inventory a quiver can also be opened by right-clicking with it , while R swaps the active slot in your current quiver, which is rendered on the left side of your screen by default. Quivers attempt to absorb picked up ammo to replenish spent ammo. This functionality does not work on vanilla arrows, however. Arrows - Adds six new arrows corresponding to the five standard tool materials, plus a flint arrow that replaces the vanilla arrow by default. The recipes for these arrows are essentially the same as the vanilla arrow's recipe, but only yields two arrows for each crafting. Defensively, it is the same as iron armor a heavy armor , but it is more durable and enchantable. In addition, a quiver can be crafted on to a studded leather chestplate. This armor is crafted with studded leather, which is made out of leather and chainmail leather and iron ingot, if chainmail is disabled. When crafted this way, they are only usable by bows and dispensers. Snowballs can be crafted into their ammo version freely, but splash potions require one string for each potion. However, they are only automatically generated for entities which extend EntityArrow. Feel free to add your own files here, such as for fireballs, snowballs, splash potions, etc. Just be sure to get the entity's savegame id correct in the new files! Draw speed and maximum draw power can also be configured for each bow type. Bow stats can also be overridden on a specific bow through NBT data. It will print information to your console and render imaginary bounding boxes. Known Issues: I haven't gotten around to adding a renderer for equipped quivers. You do get a placeholder armor mesh for just the plain quiver when equipped, however. This causes passive mobs' head hitboxes to be in the wrong location visually until the entity moves again. Vanilla bow and arrow replacement is not complete - Bows can be equipped on and then dropped by skeletons, and could appear as mod-added drops. Both can still appear as villager trades and chest loot. Mod-added recipes may still include the vanilla bow or arrow as inputs or outputs. Comments Now that Ive played around with it a bit, it seems the draw speed line doesnt change the animation's draw speed, but how little drawing you have to do for it to shoot out farther and straighter. After flipping through the wall of text, it says that arrows have ramp up too. So, I assume changing them to 0 removes the ramp up damage reduction completely. This should honestly be a quick main config file change, instead of per arrow. It seems I cant shot at all unless Im using vanilla arrows. Like, I had an iron bow and Iron arrows and couldnt shoot at all. Ah well, didnt need those arrows anyway. And the recipes for them are pretty bad, thank you based minetweaker.
