Tinkers' Construct

Bows

Variants

• Crossbows are the small variant, designed for high speed arrow launching and fireworks
• Longbows are the large variant, designed for high damage projectiles
• There are not modifiable arrows. You can use vanilla arrows, or arrows from other mods such as Archer's Paradox.

Materials

• Bow materials are a distinct set of materials from melee/harvest materials. This means while there are many common materials, there are some unique bow materials and some unique melee/harvest materials.
  • Notably, there are no stone or osmium (compat) bows, while bows uniquely have access to bamboo and aluminum (compat)
  • In total, we have 18 bow materials, plus 5 bowstrings so far. Additional materials are planned.
  • We also have 12 compat bow materials which are enabled if a mod adds the relevant materal
• Bow limbs affect bow durability, accuracy, drawspeed, and arrow velocity (which in turn affects damage)
• Bow grips affect bow durability, melee attack damage, and accuracy
• Bow limbs, grips, and bowstrings all add traits designed with ranged weapons in mind

Modifiers

• Support all existing modifiers related to durability
• Most right click interaction modifiers work on bows, but are activated on left click instead
• Experienced and looting are both available, affecting monsters killed by arrows fired from this bow
• Diamond boosts bow projectile damage, longbows can receive power to further boost projectile damage
• Netherite boosts arrow velocity
• Emerald boosts bow accuracy. Trueshot and blindshot increase or decrease accuracy further
• All bows can receive fiery (flame), punch, freezing, piercing (not vanilla), impaling (piercing in vanilla), and necrotic to boost arrows
• Bows can also receive multishot, crystalshot (infinity), and quivers
• Crossbows can receive quickcharge to boost drawspeed and receive sinistral to allow better crossbow dual wielding
• Longbows can receive scope to zoom in on the target

Modifier changes

• Instead of lustrous (platinum) boosting mining speed of ores (which overlapped a lot with blasting or melting), it now causes ores to drop bonus nuggets
• Zoom is now an upgrade, and can be applied to any tool that supports right click interaction to make it act like a spyglass
• Soulbound now will keep armor and the offhand items in the same slot upon respawn
• Fix deletion bug with shift clicking items into pockets or other inventory modifiers

Unarmed

• Chestplates can now receive melee modifiers to boost left click attack without needing to apply unarmed. This means it only costs upgrade slots to have good left click damage
• If you wish to punch with the offhand, you now apply the ambidextrous modifier, any tools that had unarmed applied before this update will automatically receive ambidextrous in its place

Smeltery

• Smeltery detection logic has been improved to better work with future multiblocks. This shouldn't cause any broken smelteries, but may change the block marked as "invalid" during building
• Pewter now is alloyed from tin +lead if tin is available, for compatibility with Alomancy. If no tin is available, it will continue to use iron + lead.
• Allow casting potions and tipped arrows.
• Fix stack size 1 slimy bottles not returning their bottles when drunk.

Books & Language

• Guidebooks have all been updated with information on crossbows and longbows
• Big thanks as usual to Shiny for helping keep the books up to date
• Fix various typos and inaccuracies from older content
• Update Japanese Translation (thanks TwelveYO21)
• Update Chinese Translation (thanks Cactusstudent and ChuijkYahus)
• Add a new translation key for the format of a tool name, to allow languages to change the separator or switch the order of the words if desired

JEI

• Tools in JEI now show variants for binding only materials
• Fix tools in modifier recipes not showing the focused tool (showing all valid tools instead)
• Fix usage on a slimeskull not showing valid modifiers

Misc

• Slimy ferns and saplings can now be placed in flower pots
• Fix free sponge when removing modifiers using venom
• Fix occasional loss of sponge when using wet sponge to remove modifiers
• Fix AOE block breaking not spawning particles for all the blocks
• Fix item deletion when using a bundle to take items out of the crafting station
• Fix various crashes and otherwise unwelcome behavior when opening our UIs in spectator mode. Please let us know if any blocks do not work as expected.
• Fix modifier log missing texture config being ignored.

API & Internal

Rework modifier priority

• Modifiers with the same priority now fallback to the order they were added.
• As a result of this change, tools that have internal modifiers like tilling now use the craftable one instead as the new modifier overrides it
• Many internal modifiers will also show in the tooltip now instead of being hidden
• You can use the modifier worktable to resort modifiers to choose which modifiers act
• Some modifier priorities may need to be adjusted as part of this change for those that should have consistent behavior
• Firestarter modifier now exposes the light_fire tool action. If you make a mod that adds extra behavior to flint and steel, check for that tool action for tinkers compatability. If you do not know how tool actions work, ask on our discord.
• Added block transform modifier hook for addons wishing to add modifiers that run post block transform

Modifier hooks

• New mergable system for modifier functions
• Use registerHooks to implement the hooks on a modifier
• In the future, will make it easier to write JSON modifiers as we migrate existing hooks
• Currently, all hooks using the old system have been migrated, as well as various new methods
• Pay attention to deprecations on methods to keep track of what has been migrated
• Implement hook fired post block transform (thanks Pyre540)

Stat type fallbacks

• Trait JSON now supports two custom internal types, tconstruct:melee_harvest and tconstruct:ranged which act as a fallback for any stat types in that group.
• If a stat is missing a specific trait set, it will try the fallback before the default traits.
• Addons can register their own fallbacks for custom stat types they add

Left click modifiers

• Bows and longbows support running modifiers on left click
• Any interactions that require holding down right click cannot be used on left click, but most other modifiers can be implemented
• You likely will want to migrate any existing interaction modifiers to the new hooks to get support

Tool tags

• Deprecated one handed and two handed, that system while nice in theory ended up being too cumbersome
• Added interactable left, interactable right, and interactable armor for the three types of tools that can run interaction hooks. The hooks also now pass a parameter for the type. By default, anything using the deprecated one handed or two handed tags are added to interactable right
• Added ranged tags for bows, longbows, and crossbows