Custom bows

[hardy ermine]

Is there any easy way to make custom bows? With the possibility to use the vanilla animations

[cyan zinc]

You can use the minecraft:shooter component and use the bow attachable file to get started

[hardy ermine]

Yea, that is pretty much what I did.

"minecraft:shooter": {
                "ammunition": [
                    {
                        "item": "minecraft:arrow",
                        "use_offhand": true,
                        "search_inventory": true,
                        "use_in_creative": true
                    }
                ],
                "max_draw_duration": 1,
                "scale_power_by_draw_duration": true,
                "charge_on_draw": false
            },``` I have this in the item file and I have the attacable for the bow with the same id but nothing happens. Am I missing something?

[cyan zinc]

Could you be more specific on "nothing happens"

[hardy ermine]

Well, the bow won't shoot.

[cyan zinc]

You need the use_modifiers component as well

[hardy ermine]

Yes, I have that too.

            "minecraft:use_modifiers": {
                "use_duration": 32
            },```

But when I right click the bow just doesn't do anything

[cyan zinc]

It doesn't shoot any arrows? Are you holding right click then letting go? What is your format version?

[hardy ermine]

Yes, haha. I shot a bow before ;D, the format version of the item is 1.16.0

{
    "format_version": "1.16.0",
    "minecraft:item": {
        "description": {
            "identifier": "pb:crystalized_bow"
        },
        "components": {
            "minecraft:shooter": {
                "ammunition": [
                    {
                        "item": "minecraft:arrow",
                        "use_offhand": true,
                        "search_inventory": true,
                        "use_in_creative": true
                    }
                ],
                "max_draw_duration": 1,
                "scale_power_by_draw_duration": true,
                "charge_on_draw": false
            },
            "minecraft:use_modifiers": {
                "use_duration": 32
            },
            "minecraft:hand_equipped": true,
            "minecraft:max_stack_size": 1
        }
    }
}``` here is the item file

And here is the attachable

{
    "format_version": "1.10.0",
    "minecraft:attachable": {
        "description": {
            "identifier": "pb:crystalized_bow",
            "materials": {
                "default": "entity_alphatest",
                "enchanted": "entity_alphatest_glint"
            },
            "textures": {
        "default": "textures/entity/3D_Items/crystalized_bow",
        "enchanted": "textures/misc/enchanted_item_glint"
      },
      "geometry": {
        "default": "geometry.crystalized_bow"
      },
            "animations": {
        "hold_first_person": "animation.skeleton_head.hold_first_person",
        "hold_third_person": "animation.skeleton_head.hold_third_person"
      },
      "scripts": {
        "animate": [
          {
            "hold_first_person": "context.is_first_person == 1.0"
          },
          {
            "hold_third_person": "context.is_first_person == 0.0"
          }
        ]
      },
            "render_controllers": [
                "controller.render.item_default"
            ]
        }
    }
}```

I'll worry about the draw animation later, for now I want to make it shoot an arrow haha

[cyan zinc]

Update your item code to 1.20.80

[hardy ermine]

Yep, that worked haha

Thanks Smokey a lot

[jaunty horizon]

Does the use_animation component still work, I’ve tried using it on my bow but it doesn’t seem to be working

[cyan zinc]

It works yes

[jaunty horizon]

hmm

What’s wrong here?

also my mesh is being annoying as well

When I scale it by 2

The width goes up by 2 as well whilst in the model file it stays at 1

It looks as it should in blockbench too

But in game it’s too thick

[jaunty horizon]

Sry idk how to send text as json on disc