How To Create Bow And Arrow In Minecraft

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Crafting a bow and arrow in Minecraft allows you to begin fighting with a ranged weapon. Bows are fun to fight with and relatively easy to craft. Later on, bows can be enchanted. Read on to figure out exactly how to craft a bow and arrow from raw materials.

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Make sure you have a crafting table built. Crafting tables can be made by placing a block of wood in the 2x2 crafting area, making 4 wooden planks. These 4 wooden planks are placed in the crafting area again, giving you a crafting table.
- Crafting tables can be placed on the ground. They show a 3x3 grid in which many of the game's item can be made.
- Crafting tables can also be found in villages.
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Make sure you have your materials. In order to craft a bow, you will need:
- 3 Sticks
  - In order to make sticks, you need two wooden planks.
  - In order to make wooden planks, you need wood.
- 3 Strings
  - You can get string by killing spiders. It is common for spiders to drop 0 to 2 strings at a time, so you may have to kill more than one spider in order to get string.
  - You may also find string by searching a mine for a web and breaking it.
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Arrange your sticks in the crafting table grid. Arrange your sticks in the following triangle pattern in order to begin crafting a bow:
- In the upper 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one stick in the middle
- In the middle 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one stick on the right
- In the bottom 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one stick in the middle
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Arrange your strings in the crafting table grid. Arrange your strings in the following straight line pattern in order to finish crafting a bow:
- Make a straight line descending down the left of the grid, using three strings
5

Craft your bow. Click on the craft button in order to turn the raw materials into a bow.

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Make sure you have your materials. In order to craft an arrow, you will need:
- 1 Stick
  - Sticks are made by turning wood blocks into wooden planks, and wooden planks into sticks.
- 1 Flint
  - Flint can be found by mining gravel. When mining gravel, there is a 10% chance that a piece of flint will drop instead of a gravel block.
- 1 Feather
  - Feathers can be found by killing chickens.
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Arrange your items in a straight descending line in your crafting table. Place the items in the following way to craft an arrow:
- In the upper 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one flint in the middle
- In the middle 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one stick in the middle
- In the bottom 1/3 of your crafting table grid, place one feather in the middle
3

Craft your arrow. Click on the craft button in order to turn the raw materials into four arrows.

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Do arrows do more damage than swords?

Yes, arrows can do more damage than swords in Minecraft when used with full power.
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How do I use a bow and arrow?

Select the bow and arrow and hold right click to pull back the bow. Release to fire. You must have arrows to use a bow and arrow.
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How do I make a bow and arrow?

Use a Crafting table. You put the stick in the middle, then the flint on top, then the feather down to get 4 arrows.
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How do I use a bow and arrow together?

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You need to have an arrow in your inventory, then shoot the bow. The arrow should immediately be nocked.
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When damaged, is there a way to fix a bow?

Yes, with an anvil. Put a damaged bow in one box, then another in the second box. In the third box, a fully-repaired bow will be shown.
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How do I enchant a sword in Minecraft?

You have 2 choices. 1 you can craft a enchanting table and put it in the enchanting table in the first box put your sword in and in the second put lapis in it and you will get some enchantments. Click the enchantment you want and then click the bottom to get the enchantment. Option 2 is that you can craft a anvil and make a book of your choice for the enchantment then in the first box but your sword in it and the second box put the book that you have with it and then you have enchanted the sword.
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How do I make a chest in Minecraft for the Xbox 360?

Get a crafting table and put wood planks everywhere except the bottom row. Then click the small box to get your chest.
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How do shields work in Minecraft?

If a skeleton is about to shoot you, hold down right-click and it will block the arrow.
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Can I enchant arrows?

You can enchant bows, but you cannot enchant arrows in unmodded versions of the game.
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How do I use a bow and arrow?

Press and hold right click, and let go to shoot. The longer you hold, the more powerful it becomes.

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You can also get a bow from a hostile mob. Look for a skeleton at night. Kill it, then check its drops. Grab the bow it has dropped. The bow will usually be damaged.
You could change the settings to 'peaceful' mode to get the items immediately.
On Minecraft PC, you can craft 8 arrows with a lingering potion to create 8 tipped arrows. Tipped Arrows give the potion effect to anything they hit.
Use a bow for hunting down creepers. Since creepers generate deadly explosions in close proximity, firing a bow from a farther distance allows you to kill them without harming yourself.

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Be careful when trying to kill spiders. You don't want to get killed.
Attacking when they jump is effective.

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To make a bow in Minecraft, place 3 sticks into the grid on your crafting table, with one stick each in the top and bottom rows of the middle column, and one stick in the middle row of the far right column. Next, place 3 strings into the first column of the crafting table, then click the craft button. To make arrows for your bow, place your ingredients into the middle column, with a flint at the top, a stick in the middle, and a feather on the bottom. Click the craft button to create 4 arrows. If you want to learn how to collect the materials for your bow and arrow, keep reading the article!

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