The Crossbow Bench

The Crossbow Bench

The workstation where bows become crossbows and where crossbow attachments are fitted. Introduced in the 2.1.0 Marksmanship update.

Obtaining

Crafting

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Slots

The bench has three slots:

1. Input — a Modular Bow (or a finished crossbow to take apart).
2. Attachment — an optional attachment (e.g. a Scope or Magazine).
3. Trigger — a Mechanical Trigger.

How it works

A "fitting" model — nothing is ever consumed or duplicated:

• Bow + Trigger → Crossbow. Place a Modular Bow and a Mechanical Trigger to assemble a Modular Crossbow.
• Place a crossbow back in and it unpacks into its parts, so you can swap pieces.
• Remove the trigger and the crossbow reverts to a plain bow.
• Attachment slot installs (or removes) an attachment onto the crossbow as a component.

Attachments

Attachments are data-driven (crossbow_attachment datapack registry), so modpacks can add their own. Two ship by default:

Attachment	Type	Made from	Effect
Scope	Optic	Spyglass	Aim-down-sights zoom, reduced sway and inaccuracy. Toggle with V (default).
Magazine	Mechanism	fletcherstrestle:magazine	Loads multiple bolts and fires them one per click; reload takes longer.

Crafting the Magazine

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Attachment types

• Optic — sights/zoom (one optic at a time).
• Mechanism — changes the firing/reload behaviour (one mechanism at a time).

Each attachment definition can set stats such as zoom, sway_multiplier, inaccuracy_multiplier, reload_multiplier, and magazine_size. See Developer API & Tags for the JSON format.

Technical Details

• Block Entity: fletcherstrestle:crossbow_bench
• Datapack registry: fletcherstrestle:crossbow_attachment