How to Make a Bow in Minecraft : Materials, Crafting Guide, How to Use & FAQs × Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects Create Edit Log in Manage your profile Editing Story Queue Video Queue Editing Stats Writer Home SEO Redirection Admin Gaming Wiki Edits Taxonomy Home Edit Site Menu Mapping Dashboard Tag Pages Community Social Feed Queue Feed Center Notification Center Affiliate Home Manage Pages Bottom Tagline Dash Timeless Stories Logout Minecraft Wiki How to Make a Bow in Minecraft Minecraft Wiki 833 pages • Updated: Oct 07 Enchantments Mods Tutorials Passive Mobs Neutral Mobs Hostile Mobs Boss Mobs Other Mobs Crafting Potions Smelting Tools Armors Consumables Dimensions Overworld Nether The End Sky Dimension Projects In: Tools, Minecraft Items How to Make a Bow in Minecraft Edit Improve this page There are two types of attacks in Minecraft. The first is melee which includes swords and punching. The second in ranged. There are two ways of doing ranged damage. One is by using a trident, but the other is by using a bow. Bows are great in Minecraft whether it be to kill a creeper before it can explode or hitting mobs from afar so they can’t become aggressive and attack you. This guide will teach you how to easily craft a bow. Required Items to Make a bow - 3 Sticks - 3 String How to Make a Bow in Minecraft In a Nutshell To make a bow, open the crafting table UI. Place three strings in the third column of the crafting grid. As for the three sticks that remain, place one each beside the strings in the first and third row. The last stick will be placed in the first box of the second row. Now simply click the bow and drag it into your own inventory. Step-by-Step Guide with Pictures Here is the step-by-step pictorial guide you need to follow to Make a Bow in Minecraft: Step-1 Making a bow in Minecraft is very simple and it only requires two goals. The first goal is to get sticks. This is really easy though because all you have to do is to break one block of wood. Step-2 Once you have this block of wood, you need to make it into wooden planks. One piece of wood will make four wooden planks. Step-3 From these four wooden planks, you need to craft sticks. Two wooden planks will make four sticks. You only need three sticks to make a bow so you will have one stick leftover. Step-4 Now that you have your sticks, it’s time to move to get three pieces of string. Obtaining three pieces of the string is very easy. There are two ways to do it. The first way is to kill a spider. Spiders are mobs that only spawn at night. Step-5 The other way to obtain a piece of string is to craft a sword and break a cobweb with it. Cobwebs normally spawn in abandoned mineshafts or dungeons. Breaking a cobweb with a sword will drop one piece of string. Step-6 Once you have your sticks and string, all you have to do is craft the bow. You need to make sure you have a crafting table for this though because it requires a 3x3 crafting grid. If you need any help making a crafting table, you can check out this article. In the 3x3 grid, you want to place the sticks on the left along with the string in the right column of the crafting table. You can easily follow the recipe below. Explainer Video FAQs Q1 How do you make a Netherite bow A. Currently, there is no Netherite bow in the game as of version 1.16. Q2 Can a bow have mending and infinity A. A bow can have many enchantments including mending and infinity. Mending will make it so whenever you obtain experience, the bow will fix itself. The infinity enchantment allows for you to only hold one arrow in your inventory, instead of having 64. Conclusion Now that you know how to craft a bow, it is highly suggested that you add it to your arsenal. Bows are great weapons to use when you want to hit an enemy from far away. Use your bow to kill creepers without them exploding, or having a one on one fight with a skeleton. Just be careful you don’t shoot yourself with it! Other Minecraft Guides How to make a crafting table in MinecraftHow to make a fence in MinecraftHow to make a furnace in MinecraftHow to make a smoker in MinecraftHow to make a torch in MinecraftHow to make green dye in MinecraftHow to make banner in MinecraftHow to make a boat in MinecraftHow to make piston in MinecraftHow to make an armor stand in MinecraftHow to make the smooth stone in Minecraft Thanks! Help us improve this page Edit Rate this Content! Thanks! 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