Fletching

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 Wild Boar, Sinuous Ice Adder, 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.

In order to cap a bow you would need to have at least 600 ranks in that particular bow.

Hunters Longbows can only be made by Rangers who have achieved thier 100th Circle and have over 300 mech lore.

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

Arrows are different

The following was provided by MIZOSHIRI1 dated 7/6/2007 5:48:14 PM (in this authors opinion extremely good, non-biased work)

Alright, here's some preliminary data. Preliminary because I didn't set up variables to record the body part hit, or total number of kills.

Sample size for each arrow is 305. (large enough to show a trend hopefully, small enough to not drive me crazy.)

Arrows appraisals:
Mistwood:
You are certain that it could do:
heavy puncture damage
fair slice damage
moderate impact damage
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows are extremely weak, and are in pristine condition.
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows weighs exactly 3 stones.
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows are worth exactly 625 lirums.

Pine:
You are certain that it could do:
heavy puncture damage
fair slice damage
moderate impact damage
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows are extremely weak, and are in pristine condition.
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows weighs exactly 3 stones.
You are certain that the basilisk head arrows are worth exactly 50 lirums.

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Test results: Total shots: 305

Hit type	# of hits (mistwood)	% of total shots	# of hits (pine)	% of total shots
Misses	2	0.66%	5	1.64%
Grazing/glancing etc	5	1.64%	4	1.31%
Light	1	0.33%	6	1.97%
Good	2	0.66%	17	5.57%
Solid	3	0.98%	6	1.97%
Hard	3	0.98%	11	3.61%
Strong	5	1.64%	17	5.57%
Heavy	6	1.97%	25	8.20%
Very Heavy	15	4.92%	27	8.85%
Extremely Heavy	28	9.80%	36	11.80%
Powerful	24	7.87%	25	8.20%
Massive	129	42.30%	80	26.23%
Awesome	9	2.95%	6	1.97%
Vicious	5	1.64%	7	2.30%
Earth-shaking	8	2.62%	3	0.98%
Demolishing	11	3.61%	7	2.30%
Spine-rattling	6	1.97%	3	0.98%
Devastating	12	3.93%	2	0.66%
Overwhelming	4	1.31%	4	1.31%
Obliterating	6	1.97%	3	0.98%
Annihilating	1	0.33%	1	0.33%
Cataclysmic	2	0.66%	1	0.33%
Apocalyptic	22	7.21%	12	3.93%

• All percentages rounded to nearest hundredth.

I didn't record number of kills, but I did notice a significant number of 1-shot kills with the mistwood arrows and while there were none with the pine arrows.

Make up your own mind. This data is not spun in any way. If you don't like the results, go make your own.

-Gavyn

--Deke 23:32, 1 July 2008 (CDT)--Deke 16:16, 9 September 2007 (CDT)

A note on "Capping" by Ssra

(Please note that Ssra is explaining why the cap for fletched arrows was implemented--this is not an explanation on why to cap your arrows)

- Why cap? I will best try to explain by stating how arrow capability is modified by the combat system. When you fire an arrow at a target, the damage properties of the arrow are modified based on a multiplier. The multiplier is based solely the type of bow you're using. For example, a fletched ebony longbow has a higher multiplier than an ebony short bow. Taking into consideration the extremes -- fletched bow + fletched arrow -- this puts the capability of bows outside intended bounds. The damage properties you appraise are actually a minimum -- not the normal or maximum. The "great slice" arrow you fire can actually be a "bone-crushing slice" arrow based on the bow you're using. Collectively, considering all ranged combat modifiers, it's simply out of balance and must be fixed. --Ssra