Bow

• General

Bow
Basic Information
Type	Weapon
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No
Trading
Bought by	None
Sold by	Traders
History
Added in	Unknown

There are a lot of different bows in Middle-earth (see list below). The bows behave just like the vanilla Minecraft bow, but with varying loading speed, power, enchantability, and durability.

Often, certain mobs in this Mod will be equipped with a type of bow as their weapon. These mobs include Rohirrim bowmen, Gondor archers, Rangers of the North, and Wood-elf scouts. Some mobs (Elves or Rangers) will use a bow for long range combat and switch to a melee weapon during close combat.

In addition, there is a different variant of the bow in this Mod. See crossbows for more information.

In Public Beta 21, all the bows already in the mod were changed to longbows, and some factions (i.e. Gondor and Rohan) received new longbows. However, the change to longbows did not change the strength of the bows from what it was before.

More infomation about bows and crossbows can be found in this blog post.

List of Bows

Note that there are 20 in-game ticks per second.

List of Bows
Crafting Recipe	Durability	Stats
Elven Bows
Galadhrim Crafting	300	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Galadhrim Crafting	900	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 16 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Lindon Crafting	1050	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 16 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Rivendell Crafting	1050	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 16 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Wood-elven Crafting	750	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 14 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Dorwinion Crafting	750	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 8-13 ( to ) 120%
Orc Bows
Orkish Crafting	600	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 7-12 ( to ) 113%
Morgul Crafting	825	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 30 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Gundabad Crafting	750	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 30 8-13 ( to ) 120%
Utumno Bow cannot be crafted.	600	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Bows of Men
Any Haradric Crafting	600	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 25 7-12 ( to ) 110%
Rhûnic Crafting	600	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 16 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Rohirric Crafting	525	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Any Gondorian Crafting	675	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 7-12 ( to ) 113%
Ranger Crafting	525	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Crafting	384	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 20 6-11 ( to ) 100%
Dalish Crafting	450	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 30 8-14 ( to ) 125%
Gondorian Crafting	600	Draw Time (ticks) Ranged Damage Range 16 6-11 ( to ) 100%

Arrows and Bolts

Orkish and Near Harad factions, as well as Half-trolls can craft poisoned arrows and bolts on their crafting tables.

Orkish or Haradric Crafting

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Orkish or Haradric Crafting

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Trivia

The anglo-saxon yr-rune ᚣ (= letter Y) means "bow". Tolkien used those ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ for some texts in the initial drafts of "The Lord of the Rings", later on, he replaced them by cirth runes.

“	ᚣ The bow is a source of joy and honour to every prince and knight; it looks well on a horse and is a reliable equipment for a journey.	”
–Old English rune poem