Arrow Smithing: Beyond Flint

Arrow Smithing: Beyond Flint

Why limit yourself to flint? You've smelted iron, mined diamonds, and braved the Nether — your arrows should keep up. Arrow Smithing: Beyond Flint adds element-headed arrows — Iron, Copper, Gold, Diamond, and Netherite — each with its own damage and personality. Enter the metal ages, one arrowhead at a time.

or vanilla %%MD1%% (`minecraft:tipped_arrow`) or vanilla %%MD1%% (`minecraft:spectral_arrow`) — those items and their default recipes stay as in vanilla.

This mod adds separate Spectral metal arrows items. Spectral metal arrows use glowstone dust with a metal arrow to produce arrows that apply the Glowing effect on hit — recipe type `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow`.

Arrow Stats

| Arrow | Damage | Special | |-------|--------|---------| | Iron | 2.5 | — | | Copper | 2.0 | — | | Gold | 1.0 | — | | Diamond | 3.0 | — | | Netherite | 3.5 | — |

Vanilla arrow damage is 2.0 for comparison. any is a any: a Piercing crossbow applies extra pierce to any arrow it fires, including all `asbf` metal arrows.

Crafting Recipes

All shaped metal-arrow JSON files live under 4 arrows. Recipes yield 4 arrows with stick middle-center and feather bottom-center.

Iron Arrow

Uses 3 iron nuggets across the top row (like flint in the vanilla recipe):

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ Iron Nugget│ Iron Nugget│ Iron Nugget│ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Stick │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Feather │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 4× Iron Arrow ```

Copper Arrow

Same grid as iron (stick center, feather bottom), but the top row depends on your game version:

- 3× copper ingots — 3× copper ingots (`minecraft:copper_nugget` exists). - 3× copper ingots — 3× copper ingots on the top row (same shape; higher cost — copper nuggets do not exist on those versions). Use the JAR built for that patch.

Diagram shows the copper ingots nugget layout; on copper ingots jars, put copper ingots in those three top slots instead.

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ Copper Nug.│ Copper Nug.│ Copper Nug.│ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Stick │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Feather │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 4× Copper Arrow ```

Gold Arrow

3× gold nuggets across the top row (same layout as iron):

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ Gold Nugget│ Gold Nugget│ Gold Nugget│ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Stick │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Feather │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 4× Gold Arrow ```

Diamond Arrow

top-center in the top-center slot:

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ │ Diamond │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Stick │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Feather │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 4× Diamond Arrow ```

Netherite Arrow

Uses ingots across the top row (netherite ingots are not used — vanilla has no netherite nuggets):

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │Neth. Scrap │Neth. Scrap │Neth. Scrap │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Stick │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Feather │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 4× Netherite Arrow ```

Spectral metal arrows (glowstone dust)

Mirrors vanilla spectral arrow crafting: `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow` in a cross around `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow` in the center. Output: `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow` arrows of that metal. On hit, applies the `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow` effect for 10 seconds (200 ticks), same as vanilla spectral arrows. The spectral arrow retains its metal's base damage. Recipe type: `asbf:spectral_metal_arrow` (datapack: `data/asbf/recipe/spectral_metal_arrow.json`).

``` ┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐ │ │ Glowstone │ │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ Glowstone │Metal Arrow │ Glowstone │ ├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤ │ │ Glowstone │ │ └────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘ → 2× Spectral [Metal] Arrow ```

All spectral metal arrows share the same yellow spectral texture (item and entity) regardless of metal type — matching vanilla spectral arrow visuals.

Compatibility & installation

Use a JAR built for your 1.21.11 Minecraft patch (1.21.11, 1.21.11, or 1.21.11–1.21.11). Which versions exist and how they are validated: 1.21.11.

Java 21 Fabric Loader Java 21, Fabric API for that game version, Java 21.

Build or grab a JAR: Build or grab a JAR:. Maintainer-facing versioning, layout, and backlog: %%MD1%%.

Planned Improvements

- 26.x support - Potion-based tipped metal arrows - Fletcher villagers selling metal arrows (and the aforementioned tipped metal arrows) - Metal arrows wielded by hostile mobs

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