Minecraft arrows with custom effects, choose what tipped arrow you shoot

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I'm building on a custom map and want to have custom arrows with special effects, like an explosive arrow, a thunder arrow and more… I know I can use tipped arrows with diffrent potion effects and have a tipped arrow with instant damage effect as an explosive arrow, and an tipped arrow with poison effect as an thunder arrow…

I'm not really sure how to separate the tipped arrows from each other but I'm pretty sure I can do it with NBT, because tipped arrows with diffrent potion effects have diffrent NBT's? I really hope they have 🙂

I also am wondering how can I make it so the player is able to choose what tipped arrow the bow will shoot. I tested to have some random tipped arrows in the inventory and it looks like it shoots a random arrow. 🙁

My idea is to have it like when the player throws the bow it changes what arrow it shoots, but I don't know how to do that… I know how to detect when the player throws the bow but how to change what arrow the bow shoot!!

If you know a data-pack that can do this, please send a link to it 🙂

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You have to do this with commands! There are no explosive arrows in minecraft, I think this video may be what your looking for :)

you can change the end of the command to Thunder, TNT, Even pigs or other animals!

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I think I have it. The operation requires four commands, not counting the fill clock. The arrow will still exist but will spawn fireworks that explode immediately.

Type this in chat:

/scoreboard objectives add ground dummy ground

1st Command Block on fill clock:

/scoreboard players set @e[type=Arrow] ground 0 {inGround:0b}

2nd Command Block on fill clock:

/scoreboard players set @e[type=Arrow] ground 1 {inGround:1b}

3rd Command Block on fill clock:

/execute @e[type=Arrow,score_ground=0] ~ ~ ~ summon FireworksRocketEntity ~ ~ ~ {LifeTime:-1,FireworksItem:{id:401,Count:1,tag:{Fireworks:{Explosions:[{Type:0,Flicker:0,Trail:0,Colors:[0],FadeColors:[0]}]}}}}

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I hope this helped and that this was what you were looking for.

Minecraft – How to select flying arrows by NBT data given to them in item form

Adding Tags to the item will not be set as the entity's Tags data. All the item data itself will be lost except for Potion and CustomPotionEffects, which are copied to the arrow entity if existent.

Tipped arrows will be necessary, but you can apply custom effects to reduce any issues should it strike a player or mob, such as setting the duration to 0. Currently the Instant Healing effect does not function on tipped arrows, but you may need to switch to something else should it work in the future.

The amplifier would be how you'd differentiate arrows from one another.

Example arrows to provide:

/give @p minecraft:tipped_arrow 64 0 {CustomPotionEffects:[{Id:6b,Duration:0,Amplifier:0b}]}

/give @p minecraft:tipped_arrow 64 0 {CustomPotionEffects:[{Id:6b,Duration:0,Amplifier:1b}]}

Then you'd label those arrows based on the effects it has, with the amplifier making each one unique:

/scoreboard players tag @e[type=Arrow,tag=!tntarrow] add tntarrow {CustomPotionEffects:[{Id:6b,Duration:0,Amplifier:0b}]}

/scoreboard players tag @e[type=Arrow,tag=!custom2] add custom2 {CustomPotionEffects:[{Id:6b,Duration:0,Amplifier:1b}]}

And finally, target based on that label:

/say @e[type=Arrow,tag=tntarrow] is a "tntarrow".

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