The bug
When shooting the crossbow, it doesn't shoot any type of arrows. Neither in creative or survival it works. It removes the arrow from inventory, when in survival, but doesn't shoot one.
It works only, if it has been enchanted. Also after shooting one arrow with enchanted crossbow, it also stops shooting arrows as well for some time being.
UPDATE: It's related to chunks performance, apparently arrows weren't shot while my chunks were set to maximum (32).
Related issues
is duplicated by
MC-137468
Ballista won't shoot unless you wait the entire reloading sound before releasing RMB.
MC-137484
CrossBow Glitches sometimes and doesnt shoot and wastes the arrow or the firework
MC-137632
Firing air from crossbow while in creative
MC-137646
Arrows don't shoot, teleport, disappear and appear "in space".
MC-137679
Crossbow does not fire when I tap the fire button
MC-137753
Crossbows will load but not fire
MC-137990
Crossbow does not shoot often.
MC-148596
loaded crossbow sometimes do not fire
MC-148617
crossbow won't shoot
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Uriel Salischiker
How long are you loading the crossbow for? Arrows only shoot when fully charged
Can you provide a video?
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@Urielsalis I'm loading it until it has stopped doing the load and goes to straight aiming. I found out crossbow works only with enchants, the one without enchants doesn't shoot any arrows.
I'll try to provide a video as soon as I can.
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A video has been attached.
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there seems to be a delay between actually loading the cross bow and the animation. if you keep loading it for a while after the animation stops(and you hear the sound), it works
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I've actually tested it again couple of times, I waited a little bit longer and after clicking the bow to shoot, it still didn't shoot the arrows.
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I suspected it could be related to chunks, apparently I'm right. For some reason from 14 to 32 chunks it makes the singleplayer loading very laggy and shooting is also delayed, happens too late or not at all. At the time of bug I had my chunks set maximum (32), which made laggy in loading chunks. Animals etcetera moved, but arrows weren't shot by the crossbow only, I also tried regular bow at the time and it worked fine.
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Could be related to chunks, but the bug occurred for me when my chunks were set to 10. That could be because my computer is rather slow, but I don't know.
wobst.michael
Anyone still experiencing this issue in the latest snapshot?
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I'm experiencing it in 18w47a.
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Experienced this issue in 18w50a.
coschevi
Anybody still experiencing this bug?
TheBoy358
Hmmm it seem to be fixed but it almost caused by MC-138550.
coschevi
Yes, I think it is a lag-related issue, not a crossbow-specific issue. Closing it until proven otherwise 🙂
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this is happening on 16.5 (its a online server) is this just server lag?
Edit: it just shows that i lose arrows if i grab them it sets it back
edit: i killed a few at one of my farms and its fixed now it was just server lag