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More Bows for 1.7.10 - Beta 1!

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@NeRdTheNed NeRdTheNed released this 30 Oct 05:41

I started work on this port more than a month ago, when I was putting together a modpack for 1.7.10. After noticing that More Bows was on Github, I reasoned that it would be relatively easy to port it forwards from 1.6.2 to 1.7.10, which turned out to be not so true :D

Feature list of this port so far:

  • All the bows are working! Currently there are some minor differences, but they should all function about the same as the original mod.
  • The ender bow now doesn’t freeze the game when shooting with it! I'm very happy to say that this bow is now finally functioning as intended after only 8 years.
  • Additionally, if you save and reload a world, you don't loose your bonus arrows! This was a very minor issue, as it normally wasn’t possible due to the game-freezing properties of the ender bow.
  • Your FOV now "zooms in" when drawing back any of the custom bows, just like the vanilla bow! (The "bow stretch" animations aren’t timed right, but I'll iron that out soon.)
  • Expanding on the seemingly previously unimplemented source code iDiamondhunter posted, there are now particle effects when a mob is hit by an arrow shot from an ender or fire bow! For a bit of fun, if you left click with the ender bow in your hand, you also create particle effects. Particle effects are sent to all connected players by the server, so other players can see your super cool shots as well!
  • Also from the posted code, some bows now have a rarity associated with them!
  • Probably a few things I forgot to document.

Things that aren’t complete yet:

  • The frost arrow is currently being rendered as a snowball, as a placeholder until I decide what to do with it. I'm not sure if the original "snow cube" was intended to look like it did, due to it actually being the placeholder default entity renderer.
  • Your bonus ender arrows will currently damage you if you get hit by them!
  • If possible, I'll restore the feature showing how much you've drawn your bow in your hotbar.
  • Some very small differences around enchantability, potentially draw time etc, which will be investigated further.
  • Configuration files.

If you want to use this beta release, simply download the file named "MoreBows-1.0.0-beta.1.jar".

(Technical side note: All attached .jar files were re-compressed with AdvanceCOMP's advzip. The command used was "advzip --shrink-insane --iter 99999 -p -z *.jar", which removed roughly 2kB from each file. The difference between using "--iter 999" and "--iter 99999" is in the tens of bytes, and is really not worth it.)