How to Make a 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.

Recipe

Making a Bow

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.

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.

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

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

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

Making Arrows

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.

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