Arrow

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An arrow serves as ammunition for bows, crossbows, and dispensers. Arrows can be crafted into spectral arrows‌^{[Java Edition only]} and tipped arrows to give status effects to players and mobs.

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

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

• It is shot by a player in Creative mode.
• It is shot by any mob able to shoot arrows, such as skeletons, strays, pillagers, or piglins. This includes mobs that do not shoot arrows in normal gameplay, such as illusioners and bow-wielding wither skeletons.
  • This is the case even in Creative mode.^[1]
• It is shot with an Infinity-enchanted bow.
• It is one of the two extra arrows shot with a Multishot-enchanted crossbow.

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

After a tipped arrow has been in the ground for 600 game ticks (30 seconds) or more, it becomes a regular arrow and can be picked up as one.

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–17", "chance": 0.4794666666666667, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–17", "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 1, "structure": "Jungle Pyramid", "container": "Dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 0.391435011269722, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–10", "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–8", "chance": 0.28490028490028485, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor pot" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–8", "chance": 0.31004057600000007, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–14", "chance": 0.37281466804405383, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.23252875118681526, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fletcher's chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": 4, "chance": 0.2747977375984192, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–17", "chance": 0.44077588319736705, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "12–25", "chance": 0.33668648071940255, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–17", "chance": 0.4794666666666667, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–17", "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "10–22", "chance": 0.1123595505617978, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "10–28", "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 1, "structure": "Jungle Pyramid", "container": "Dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–7", "chance": 0.391435011269722, "structure": "Pillager Outpost", "container": "Chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 0.13793103448275867, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Chamber dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–8", "chance": 0.37846630400000003, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Vault and reward chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "5–10", "chance": 0.5508401920438958, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Entrance chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "2–8", "chance": 0.28490028490028485, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor pot" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–8", "chance": 1, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Corridor dispenser" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "4–14", "chance": 0.37281466804405383, "structure": "Trial Chambers", "container": "Supply chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.23252875118681526, "structure": "Village", "container": "Fletcher's chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": 4, "chance": 0.2747977375984192, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

{ "item": "Arrow", "stacksize": "1–3", "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

In Java Edition, arrows can be obtained as a reward item from fletcher villagers when the player has the Hero of the Village status effect.

In Bedrock Edition, arrows can be obtained through bartering with piglins, and have a ~8.53% (⁴⁰⁄₄₆₉) chance to give the player 6-12 arrows.

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

In Bedrock Edition, arrows can be used on cauldrons that contain potions to create tipped arrows.

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An arrow entity spawns when an arrow item is shot out of a bow, crossbow, 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 to 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.

Arrows fired by players from crossbows (or bows at critical charge) leave a trail of crit particles behind them. Critical arrows deal random damage, between 6HP👁 ❤️
👁 ❤️
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and 11HP👁 ❤️
× 5.5 for bows at critical charge, and between 7HP👁 ❤️
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and 11HP👁 ❤️
× 5.5 for crossbows.

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 false:

• 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:

Where is the velocity at tick t and 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.

The damage an arrow inflicts on an entity depends on the damage NBT tag, the crit NBT tag, and the arrow's speed. However, in Bedrock Edition, 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 Power, in which case it's .

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

The damage inflicted on an entity is , 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 .

Arrows shot from a bow with the Flame enchantment, or shot through lava or fire, 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 4HP👁 ❤️
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of fire damage)^{[citation needed]}, as well as ignite TNT, candles, and campfires.

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 in Java Edition, although not any mobs. They appear as regular arrows regardless of type.^[2]

• 👁 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.

If a player has more than one type of arrow in their inventory then the arrow fired will be chosen in the following order:

1. Any arrows in the off-hand
2. Slots 1 to 9 in the hotbar in order
3. Top left to bottom right in the players inventory

An arrow shot at a chorus flower or decorated pot breaks the block; a chorus flower drops itself, while a decorated pot shatters into pottery sherds and/or 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.

An arrow can activate a wooden button, wooden pressure plate, a tripwire, or a 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.

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

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

Java Edition:
In Java Edition, arrows use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

In Bedrock Edition, arrows use the following item data values:

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Issues relating to "Arrow" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• 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 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.^[4]

• 👁 An arrow caught on fire.
  
  An arrow caught on fire.

• 👁 Purple arrows in Minecraft Classic.
  
  Purple arrows in Minecraft Classic.
• 👁 Examples of custom arrow types using /give.
  
  Examples of custom arrow types using /give.
• 👁 Some arrows stick into sugar canes. This no longer works since Java Edition Beta 1.6.
  
  Some arrows stick into sugar canes. This no longer works since Java Edition Beta 1.6.
• 👁 Many arrows stuck in the player, seen through the inventory screen.
  
  Many arrows stuck in the player, seen through the inventory screen.
• 👁 Searge with a bunch of arrows summoned above him.
  
  Searge with a bunch of arrows summoned above him.
• 👁 Alex shattering a decorated pot with an arrow.[5]
  
  Alex shattering a decorated pot with an arrow.^[5]

• 👁 An arrow as seen in Minecraft Earth
  
  An arrow as seen in Minecraft Earth

• "Taking Inventory: Arrow" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, February 4, 2021.