Midas Touch Bow

Quickstart

1. Craft the Midas Touch Bow at a crafting table using the recipe below.
2. Hold it in your hand and hold the use button (right-click on PC, or hold the interact button on console/mobile) to draw the bow.
3. Release to fire a Midas arrow.
4. Watch every solid block within a 5-block sphere of the impact point turn into gold blocks.
5. Be ready for Mining Fatigue — each shot applies 10 minutes of the effect to you, so plan your mining before firing.

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Overview

The Midas Touch Bow is a powerful, late-game ranged weapon with a unique twist: instead of dealing conventional damage, it reshapes the world itself. Every arrow fired turns whatever it hits — terrain, structures, anything solid — into solid gold. The trade-off is steep: each shot saddles you with Mining Fatigue for a full ten minutes, making it harder to dig up all that gold you just created.

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What It Adds

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Abilities And Mechanics

Gold Conversion

When a Midas arrow lands — whether it hits a block or an entity — every non-air, non-liquid block within a 5-block radius sphere of the impact point is instantly replaced with gold blocks. This works on stone, dirt, wood, ores, and virtually any other solid block. Liquids (water and lava) are left untouched.

Mining Fatigue Penalty

Each time you fire the bow, you receive Mining Fatigue I for 10 minutes (12,000 ticks). This significantly slows your ability to break blocks, including the gold you just created. Plan accordingly — fire first, wait for the fatigue to wear off (or bring milk buckets) before mining your haul.

Bow Behaviour

The Midas Touch Bow handles exactly like a standard bow:

• Hold the use button to charge the shot.
• Release to launch the arrow.
• The arrow travels as a real projectile, subject to gravity and distance — aim accordingly for longer shots.

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Crafting And Obtaining

The bow is crafted at a crafting table. It requires rare, high-value materials, reflecting its power:

Ingredients at a glance:

• 2× Totem of Undying
• 2× Stick
• 1× Gold Ingot
• 1× Enchanted Golden Apple

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Progression And Strategy

• Ore farming: Fire into a hillside or underground ravine to convert a large sphere of stone and ores into gold. Let the fatigue expire, then mine at will.
• Milk buckets: Drinking milk removes Mining Fatigue instantly. Carry a few buckets so you can start mining immediately after each shot.
• Enchanting: The bow uses the bow enchantment slot and has an enchantability of 25, so it accepts all standard bow enchantments (Power, Flame, Infinity, etc.) at an enchanting table or anvil.
• Repairing: Each gold ingot repairs 192 durability at an anvil. With 768 total durability, four ingots fully restore a broken bow.
• Avoid friendly structures: The conversion has no block whitelist beyond liquids — it will gold-ify your base if you fire near it, so aim away from anything you want to keep.
• Late-game use: Given the expensive crafting cost (Totems of Undying + Enchanted Golden Apple), this bow is a late-game tool. Use it to rapidly generate gold for trading, building, or further crafting once you've secured the necessary materials.