How To Make Exploding Arrows In Minecraft: Java & BedRock

Minecraft has been an incredibly popular and wonderful game with all kinds of possibilities.

Minecraft has a beautiful procedurally generated world to create and build your own designed house, farms, and animals. However, in this Minecraft world of yours, things can get pretty hostile and dangerous sometimes as it is filled with zombies, creepers, and other enemy mobs that will try to attack you.

Hence you need weapons!

Among them is an arrow. An arrow will act as ammunition for the bows, crossbows, and dispensers.

However, in this crazy world of yours, Arrows can also modify to imbue status effects on players and mobs.

In this blog, we will guide you on how to make explosive arrows in Minecraft.

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What is Exploding Arrow Command?

The Exploding Arrow Command indicates the block will make your arrows explode when they change their position to InGround.

After you release your arrow and hit some block and stick in it. You need to input some command blocks in the Repeat mode and the Needs Redstone mode.

So, basically, Give yourself a command block – input the command in the command block and Activate the command block.

Get Exploding Arrows In Minecraft Bedrock Edition

As you well know, there is no direct exploding arrow as an item. All you need to do is use commands by enabling cheats to make one.

Go to Settings > Game > Cheats: On.

Note: Any command you type must begin with a /

Follow the Step-by-Step Guide:

Pull up your command bar (key bind for the command bar is C, /or ~ or )
Enter: /give @s command_block
Next, get a Redstone repeater and a Redstone comparator in your inventory.
Put down your command block and enter the following:
Block Type: Repeat
Condition: Unconditional
Redstone: Always Active
Select Command Input and input:
testfor @e[type=arrow].
You need to Keep a Redstone comparator in front of the command block and then, put another 2 Redstone repeaters in front of them in a line.
Place another command block in front of the Redstone repeaters, and repeat by placing another Redstone repeater followed by another command block.
In the command closest to the first block, input the following:
Block Type: Impulse
Condition: Unconditional
Redstone: Needs Redstone
Choose Command Input and enter the following:
execute @e[type=arrow] ~~~ summon tnt_minecart~~ ~ mincraft:on_instant_prime
For the final command box, you need to follow the same but in the command enter:
kill @e[type=arrow]
Finally, when you fire, your arrows will now explode!

Exploding Arrows In Minecraft Java Edition

Get a command block @p command_block
Place it on the ground
Right-click it to open the command block available options.
In the command block options, locate the console command.
Enter this command: /execute at @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}] run summon tnt
Next, get another new command block and place it on top of the previous command block (hold shift to place)
Open the block and input the command inside the same console command menu.
/kill @e[type=arrow,nbt={inGround:1b}]
After you are ready, place a lever on the initial first command block
Next, Activate the lever for the arrows from the crossbow or bow to have an explosion effect similar to the TNT in Java Minecraft.

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Command for explosive arrows

So, in summary commands for exploding arrows includes execute @p ~ ~ ~ execute @e[type=arrow,tag=boom,rm=5] ~ ~ ~ testfor @e[family=mob,r=5] for a repeating command block and @e[type=arrow,tag=boom] ~ ~ ~ summon ender_crystal ~ ~ ~ minecraft:crystal_explode then have a repeating block to execute @p ~ ~ ~ tag @e[type=arrow,r=5]

The arrow will explode when shot at a mob, it will not explode within 5 blocks of you.

So, in other words, it won’t kill you.

This will only work if it hits the top of a block, so if it shoots into a wall or ceiling it won’t explode.

Well, if you have followed all the above steps correctly, your arrow will now be explosive. Do you know any other neat tricks to make an exploding arrow? Leave a comment below and share it with your fellow Minecrafters!

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