BetterArrow

Arrows shot by a moving player inherit that player's motion, so strafing, jumping and sprinting shots stay consistent with where the archer is heading. The mod also exposes a set of tunable values, including initial velocity, gravity acting on the arrow and how the arrow behaves in air and in fluids, which lets server owners and modpack authors rebalance archery for survival, PvP or other play styles.

Trails are optional and come in two visual styles, a clean sci-fi look and a cinematic one, meant to make trajectories easier to read and to help with screenshots and clips. Trail display is controlled by the arrowTrailMode game rule: 0 turns trails off, 1 shows them on arrows only and is the recommended setting, and 2 extends them further. Enabling trails requires operator permission on the server.

BetterArrow is client and server, so the server and every player need the mod. It is released under the MIT License and is open source, with a public source code repository and issue tracker. Files are published for NeoForge only, for 1.21.1, with 1.1.1 as the latest build, dated 2026-08-25. The mod is generally compatible with most others, but another mod that heavily rewrites projectile logic can conflict with it.