Tempest Bow

Tempest Bow

Release: 0.4.0-alpha.1
Tier: Tier 3

The Tempest Bow is a storm-powered bow designed around extremely fast firing and actual vanilla lightning.

Not fake particles.

Not cosmetic lightning.

Actual Minecraft lightning.

Current Balance

• Durability: 1000
• Enchantability: 15
• Full draw time: 0.25 seconds / 5 ticks
• Tempest damage bonus: +14
• Repair material: Copper Ingot

Draw Speed

The Tempest Bow reaches a full-strength draw after only 5 game ticks, or 0.25 seconds.

Once the threshold is reached, the shot is treated as a fully charged vanilla bow shot.

Releasing too early does not produce a normal full shot.

Tempest Damage

A marked Tempest arrow receives +14 damage before normal armor mitigation.

This allows normal bow damage, Power, armor, and other vanilla mechanics to remain relevant.

Ability — Lightning Impact

A Tempest arrow summons real vanilla lightning when it impacts something.

The target does not need to be an entity.

Mob        → ⚡
Player     → ⚡
Wall       → ⚡
Tree       → ⚡
Roof       → ⚡
Ground     → ⚡
You missed → still ⚡

The lightning appears at the arrow's exact impact location.

Each Tempest arrow can summon lightning only once.

Vanilla Lightning Behaviour

Because the bolt is a real vanilla Lightning Bolt entity, normal Minecraft lightning behaviour and side effects are preserved.

This is intentional.

Ammunition

The Tempest Bow uses normal vanilla bow ammunition.

Repair Material

Copper Ingot

Yes.

Copper.

You knew those stacks would become useful eventually.

Enchantments

The Tempest Bow uses the bow enchantment family alongside durability-compatible enchanting.

Recipe

D L D
S B S
  C

• D — Diamond
• L — Lightning Rod
• S — String
• B — Bow
• C — Copper Ingot

Totally Intentional Feature

A Tempest Bow held in the offhand can affect arrows fired while another bow is used.

This was discovered during development.

It survived.

Therefore:

feature.

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