Arrow & Slots

A lightweight Minecraft archery helper that lets you focus on aiming, not inventory management.

Description

When you draw a bow, Arrow & Slots automatically picks the arrow from the hotbar slot directly above the bow. No more swapping items mid-fight—your ammunition always matches the weapon you are holding.

• Works on dedicated servers (the logic runs server-side).
• Works in single-player because the integrated server handles it.
• Also available as a Paper plugin for Bukkit-based servers.

Supported Platforms

Project Layout

ArrowMod/
├── common/        Shared code used by Fabric and NeoForge
├── fabric/        Fabric loader entry point
├── neoforge/      NeoForge loader entry point
├── paper/         Paper plugin entry point
├── build.gradle   Root build configuration
└── settings.gradle

Supported Versions

The jar is compiled against MC 1.21.1 with official Mojang mappings. All injected code is wrapped in try-catch with require = 0 on Mixin targets so it degrades gracefully instead of crashing if an API changes between versions.

If you hit issues on a newer MC version, rebuild the mod against that version's toolchain — the Mixin target (Player#getProjectile) and class names are stable across all supported versions under official mappings.

Requirements

• Java 21 or newer
• Gradle 8.11+ (wrapper included)

Building

./gradlew build

Built artifacts will be in each subproject's build/libs/ directory.

Development Run Configurations

Generate run configs for your IDE with:

./gradlew genIntelliJRuns
# or
./gradlew genEclipseRuns

You can also run a client/server directly from the command line:

./gradlew :fabric:runClient
./gradlew :fabric:runServer
./gradlew :neoforge:runClient
./gradlew :neoforge:runServer

License

MIT