Longbow
Longbows are a sniper variant of the bow that does more damage to far-off targets and less damage to closer targets.
Longbows have an extra 4 arrow strength to targets further than 20 blocks from the shooter, and have 1 less arrow strength to targets within 20 blocks away from the shooter.
Arrow damage is based on bow charge, and it scales massively. To put this into perspective, the Power V enchantment increases arrow strength by 2.5, making a long-ranged attack with a longbow equivalent to Power VIII, while also stacking with Power and Archer and Ranger armor damage bonuses.
Longbows can be crafted with the shown recipe, allowing for use of any wooden planks.
Like vanilla bows, longbows cannot be repaired aside from combining two together in an anvil, or using the Mending enchantment.
Since using a longbow properly means only long-ranged attacks can reach you, Archer or Ranger armor with Projectile Protection are most effective. Especially considering Ranger armor makes reaching perching spots for sniping far-off targets safer.
The Infinity enchantment may surprisingly be better than Mending for longbows, since some may struggle with aim from such far distances and thus will waste more arrows.
Because of how rare close-ranged combat will likely be for a longbow user, Totem of Irregularity choice is really up to what is preferred!
- Skeletons may spawn occasionally wielding longbows instead of regular bows, however this is purely cosmetic and Skeletons are unable to benefit from the increased damage effect.