Mob Arrow Pickup

Mob Arrow Pickup

In vanilla, every arrow shot by a skeleton or pillager is gone for good. Mob Arrow Pickup lets you collect them, with a chance you control.

Features

• Pick up mob arrows: arrows from skeletons, strays, pillagers, bogged and modded archers can be collected from the ground.
• Balanced by a chance: default 25%, rolled once per shot. Set it to 0 for vanilla, 1 for every arrow. No infinite arrow farms.
• Zero lag: one lightweight event listener. No ticking, no mixins, no stored data.
• Safe by design: tridents are excluded, arrows set by other mods are never overridden, and chunk reloads never re-roll arrows.
• Datapack-friendly: tags decide which projectiles are recoverable and which mobs are excluded.
• Server-side logic: install it on the server. Optional on the client (adds the in-game config screen).

Config

mob_arrow_pickup-server.toml (world’s serverconfig folder, or Mods → Mob Arrow Pickup → Config):

Tags

• #mob_arrow_pickup:recoverable_projectiles: projectile types that can become pickable (default: arrows and spectral arrows).
• #mob_arrow_pickup:excluded_shooters: mobs whose arrows are never made pickable (default: empty).

Requirements

NeoForge for Minecraft 26.1+ (Java 25).