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A way to quickly switch between different types of arrows

Tipped arrows are quite interesting weapons, but they are not used much because it is too difficult to switch between the different types.  To solve that, bows should have a data tag for what type of arrow they shoot.  When the bow is first crafted, it shoots regular arrows.  If you run out of arrows, it should keep whatever type of arrow it used before.  If you run out of the type of arrow you had been using, but have another type of arrow, it will use the current rules too choose between them.  Most importantly, however, if you hold the alt key while holding a bow/crossbow, the hotbar will no longer display the first nine slots of your inventory, but instead the first nine varieties of arrows in your inventory.  You can then scroll or use the hotkeys to select which arrow to fire.

I hope you add this because it would make tipped arrows a lot more useful, especially the ones that give positive effects, because switching arrows, looking up, and hitting yourself with a weak shot would now be easier and quicker.

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    Interesting idea! With the only way to switch between arrows being to shove them into the offhand or to shuffle through until your tipped arrows are first (which is not intuitive at all), being able to switch as soon as you draw your bow would work wonders!

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    The bow shoots arrows in the order that they appear in your inventory. If you have a stack in you off hand it shoots them first, then your hotbar left to right then the inventory left to right, top to bottom. So if you want to switch between two types easily have them in your hotbar and put the one you in your off hand. Hope this helps.

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    We have the same problem on other platforms... What button do you suppose would allow us to cycle through arrows? L2 (and the corresponding button on each device) goes largely unused but it is how we draw a bow...

    What if instead of allowing us to punch things with the bow, we can cycle through our arrows using the mining button and use the bow like normal, or we cycle through with the drawing button (L2) and instead fire with the mining button (R2)

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    You can try holding the bow in your off-hand and using the mouse wheel to select the Tipped Arrow you want to use.

     

    This should fire the Tipped Arrow selected by the mouse wheel.