Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27831234-20160828061725/@comment-26122855-20160828203018

Commandogregor1234 wrote: A simple fix for the range of archers is to double the range of bows, which I want badly!

As for a barrage of arrows: that'd be hard to do and mostly in efficient, considering each NPC and mob in MC takes time before you can hit it again. It's stupid but its core MC coding, blame Mojang. Doing an instantaneous barrage/arrow storm would just register one or two hits, making the concept obsolete. That's why if you have a bunch of archers most arrows will "bounce" off the target.

EDIT: I must've partially misread your second article. That may be possible, though I doubt it. You have to remember we are still in 1.7.10, before Mojang decided to make timers on attacks. I've been hit plenty of times at the same instant by arrows, and while I'm on my rant, why do Urk crossbowers shoot as fast as a normal bow when we have to sit and load ours? Because that's bull.