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Quote from DaRkMaStEd

Just a mod that adds whatever comes into my mind, so i could be walking around on minecraft world and the be like huh that would be cool and then add it. And splitting arrows is awesome!

I found a bug bow take durability damage and the vanilla bows don't!

Oh, that's probably because I made the splitting arrows give bows more damage (assuming I understand you correctly). I guess I should turn that down a bit.

Edit: About your mod, that's pretty much how this started out. I was just starting modding Minecraft, and I thought, "there's this quiver texture sitting around being useless, why not play around with it?"

Did you install it the way it says in the first post? (extract the contents of my zip into minecraft.jar after installing Forge)

lol, the 15-splitting arrows are nuts. (And no, they're not craftable, I just made a command you can use to get arrows with a specified amount arrows they'll split into. :D)

Edit: It's just way too much fun to shoot a 25-splitting ender arrow at the ground... It makes you teleport all over the place and makes a ton of particles. It bugs out if I fire too many and teleports me into the ground, though.

New release!

Download link: Better Bows 1.1 for 1.5.2

Version 1.1 changes:
New features:

• Splitting arrows. They can be crafted from any type of arrow to have between 2 and 15 arrows in them. see first post for more information.

Other changes:

• Made the longbow use a 16x16 icon when it isn't being held.
• Vanilla arrow uses different Item class now, expect a message when loading a world about it, but it shouldn't cause any problems.
• Blaze powder crafts 2 arrows.
• Improved potion arrow name localization to translate as much as possible.

Bugs fixed:

• Selected one-sized stacks not getting fired sometimes in arrow type mode.
• Skeletons' bows not having strings.
• Bows taking damage in creative mode.
• Quivers crafting with 6 damage rather than maximum amount (so that they appear empty).

Have fun!

Whoops, sorry, just realized I forgot to set it to public. Try it again. I guess that's yet another problem with using Google Drive - it automatically sets my files to private. *goes to check if there's a setting*

Really? 0.o Let me test it out...

Edit: Do they spread out at all if you go way up in the air?

Edit again: You're right, I'll turn it back up. I guess I set it to a value just a bit too low when I was testing large numbers of arrows.

I've updated the download link with a new version that doubles the spread. I've also updated the messages the /splitarrow command outputs to be clearer.

Quote from DaRkMaStEd

I redownloaded and it didnt seem to make much of a diference but i found a fully charged bow dosnt have veary much spread but a not so charged bow spreads alot more.

Yeah, the less velocity they have the longer they'll take to hit the ground and therefore the more effect the spread will have. </complicatedExplanation>
I mainly tested them to be used as a somewhat close-range shotgun to use on mobs.

@Jbaren, thanks!

I thought about them before, I don't feel like adding crossbows to this would be good because there are so many crossbow mods already that are more in-depth than I would probably make mine. Dunno, maybe I'll change my mind later.

It seems that there's an issue with my custom bow renderer and one of the latest versions of Forge that makes the bows not animate. I'll have to investigate it tomorrow (I should be in bed right now :P), but if you want to play with the animations in the meantime, you can downgrade back to Forge v7.8.0.684 (that's the version I've been developing it on).