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Fletching is the process of creating an arrow for use in archery. It commonly associated with making bows. A Fletcher is one who makes arrows, while a bowyer is one who makes bows.
Bow Making
Tools needed to make a bow:
Knife (skinning or carving will do) – to make detailed cuts and shaping
Wood shaper – to shape the wood
Steps to make a bow:
1. Forage a limb for making the bow from – Limbs must be from one of the wood types listed below (if making a short bow you will need a stick, not a limb)
2. With the wood shaper SHAPE LONGBOW FROM LIMB (if making a short bow, replace LONGBOW with SHORT and LIMB with STICK)
3. Continue to SHAPE LONG FROM LIMB
4. When prompted switch to the knife and continue with SHAPE LONG FROM LIMB
5. Continue to switch back and forth between the wood shaper and the knife until the bow is completed.
Arrow Making
Tools needed to make arrows
Knife (skinning or carving will do) – to make detailed cuts and shaping
Wood Shaper – to shape the wood
Feather Flights – to stabilize the arrow in flight
Flight Shears – to shape the feathers for maximum flight and accuracy
Flight Glue – to adhere the flights to the shaft
Arrowhead – the striking point of the arrow (different types inflict different damage)
Steps to make an arrow:
1. Forage a stick for making the arrow from – Limbs must be from one of the wood types listed below
2. With the stick in left hand and knife in right SHAPE SHAFT FROM STICK
3. SHAPE SHAFT FROM STICK
4. Put knife aside, take your wood shaper
5. SHAPE SHAFT
6. Put shaper aside, take knife
7. NOTCH MY SHAFT WITH MY KNIFE
8. NOTCH MY SHAFT WITH MY KNIFE
9. FLETCH MY SHAFT
10. Put knife aside, take flights
11. FLETCH MY SHAFT
12. Take glue
13. FLETCH MY SHAFT
14. Put glue aside, take shears
15. FLETCH MY SHAFT
16. Put shears aside, take arrowhead
17. Affix my arrowhead
Arrowhead Making
Tools needed to make an arrowhead
Weapon – to pound the shape of the arrowhead
Tusk/Tooth/Fang – object to create arrowhead from
Steps to make an arrowhead:
1. With the weapon in your right hand and the Tusk/Fang/Tooth in the left POUND MY <item> INTO ARROWHEAD
2. POUND MY ARROWHEAD INTO ARROWHEAD
3. Repeat #2 until complete.
Added Information
At current there are different types of flights in shops around Elanthia. At this time there is nothing out there that says any one of these flights is better for the arrow’s overall performance
At current there are different types of flight glues in shops around Elanthia. At this time there is nothing out there that says any one of these glues is better for the arrow’s overall performance as flights have not been known to fall off an arrow.
Not all teeth can be made into arrowheads. Currently the only ones that can be pounded into an arrowhead are the Sinuous Elsralael, Sleek Hele'la and the Lesser Dusky-Scaled Basilisk.
Your Mechanical Lore skill plays into your success of making the bow or arrow, if you see the words "You fear" during a step the bow (or arrow) has been ruined.(CURRENTLY UNCONFIRMED, Fletching 2.0 may have removed the fact it's ruined but may not have removed the messaging)
In general to be able to "cap" a basilisk arrow you would need to have 300 in your overall bow skill and a perfectly arranged 100 part fang. To do it with Mistwood or Silverwood shafts you would need over 600 in overall bow. The same applies to making bows.
Hunters Longbows can only be made by Rangers who have achieved thier 100th Circle.
Wood Type List
Wood types that can made into bows or arrows: (in order of difficulty easiest to hardest)
Pine
Spruce
Apple
Alder
Ash
Birch
Fir
Cherry
Hickory
Cedar
Ebony
Elm
Mahogany
Maple
Oak
Rosewood
Teak
Walnut
Willow
Redwood
Yew
Mistwood
Osage
Bloodwood
Copperwood
Silverwood
Arrowhead Appraisal List
Arrow Type | Puncture | Slice | Impact | Location | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Broad-Barbed | Fair | Low | Moderate | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Silver-Tipped | Heavy | Poor | Poor | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Serrated-Bodkin | Fair | Low | Low | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Stone-Tipped | Poor | Poor | Moderate | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Razor-Edged | Low | Moderate | Poor | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Razor-Tipped | Moderate | Low | Poor | Shard Survival Shop | Sold as arrowheads and premade arrows |
Needle-Bodkin | Moderate | None | Poor | Aesry Halfling Burrow | |
Triple Fluted | Fair | Fair | Poor | Aesry Halfling Burrow | |
Broadhead | Fair | Poor | Poor | Aesry Halfling Burrow | |
Blunt Flint-Tip | None | None | Fair | Aesry Halfling Burrow | |
Long Arrows | Fair | Poor | Poor | Leth Bowyer | |
Barbed | Fair | Fair | Poor | Leth Bowyer | |
Arrows (just plain arrows) | Moderate | Poor | Poor | Leth Bowyer | |
Warhead | Moderate | Poor | Poor | Leth Bowyer | Arrowheads Only |
Broad-Tip | Poor | Low | Moderate | Leth Bowyer | Arrowheads Only |
Bishop | Fair | Low | Poor | Leth Bowyer | Arrowheads Only |
Basilisk Head | Heavy | Fair | Moderate | Made Only | Arrowhead made from Basilisk Fang |
Hele'la Head | ??? | ??? | ??? | Made Only | Arrowhead Made from Hele'la Tooth |
Elsralael Head | ??? | ??? | ??? | Made Only | Arrowhead Made from Elsralael Tusk |
Longbow Appraisal List
Name | Balance | Suitedness | Price | Location | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
a willow longbow branded with the Ranger guild crest | Reasonably | Fairly | 61020 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
an ebony longbow inlaid with jade wolves | Fairly | Fairly | 51865 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
a balanced competition longbow | Reasonably | Fairly | 139810 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
a forester's bow | Reasonably | Reasonably | 25005 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | Load time reduced by 1 second |
a hunter's longbow with an ivory grip shaped like a wolf's head | Fairly | Fairly | 18411 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
an ebony longbow inlaid with silver wolves | Fairly | Fairly | 51865 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
a lemon-backed hickory longbow | Fairly | Fairly | 2730 Dok | Aesry Halfling Burrow | |
an ash longbow | Reasonably | Reasonably | 175 Kro | Leth Bowyer |
Composite Bow Appraisals
Name | Balance | Suitedness | Price | Location | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
a hunter's reflex bow with a jade grip carved into the shape of a raccoon | Fairly | Reasonably | 31349 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
an osage orange flat bow with a rough hemp grip | Fairly | Reasonably | 21828 Dok | Shard Survival Shop | |
a tamarisk plains bow with flowing strands of white owl feathers and agate beads | Fairly | Reasonably | 17617 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a tamarisk plains bow with a cascade of silvery goshawk feathers and cinnabar beads dangling from the grip | Fairly | Reasonably | 15845 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a silverbirch plains bow tipped with switches of jet-beaded chestnut horsehair | Fairly | Reasonably | 15004 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a white oak plains bow wrapped with chestnut horsehair twined through bone beads | Fairly | Reasonably | 15347 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a silverbirch savannah bow wrapped in leather thongs suspending two lapis-beaded bird skulls | Fairly | Reasonably | 20430 Dok | Horse Clan | |
juniper savannah bow with a cascade of russet hawk feathers and jet beads dangling from the grip | Fairly | Reasonably | 15347 Dok | Horse Clan |
Short Bow Appraisals
Name | Balance | Suitedness | Price | Location | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
sniper's short bow dyed a deep forest green Reasonably Fairly | Reasonably | Fairly | 10824 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a black oak steppe bow wrapped with grey horsehair twined through polished vertebrae | Reasonably | Fairly | 5298 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a juniper steppe bow with a silver-beaded black horsehair grip | Reasonably | Fairly | 5398 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a silverbirch saddle bow wrapped with flaxen horsehair braided through carved cinnabar beads | Reasonably | Fairly | 5298 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a white oak steppe bow with an agate-beaded bird skull set at each tip | Reasonably | Fairly | 8965 Dok | Horse Clan | |
a tamarisk saddle bow with a braided plumegrass grip | Reasonably | Fairly | 4822 Dok | Horse Clan | |
an osage heartwood saddle bow inlaid with linked circles of dark horn and pale bone | Reasonably | Fairly | 8537 Dok | Horse Clan |