Fletching - Making Bows

To make a bow, you must use your knife on a set of logs. When the Fletching menu appears, you can choose to make either a shortbow or longbow. Depending on your choice, you will make an unstrung bow, which will replace the set of logs that were used during the Fletching process.

Note: If you want to make several of the same object, simply right-click and select the number you wish to produce from the list shown.


Now it is time to string your bow. If you have achieved a Crafting level of ten, then you will be able to create your own bowstrings.

For information on how to make bowstrings, please see the Crafting section of the manual.

If you do not have enough experience to craft your own bowstrings, you may be lucky enough to find some in a general store, otherwise you will need to find someone skilled enough to make them for you.

Once you have a bowstring, use it on your unstrung bow to complete the bow.

Below is a table of each bow type with the Fletching level required to make them:

Bow	Required Level	Experience Gained (Unstrung)	Experience Gained (For Stringing)	Experience Gained (Completed)
Shortbow	5	5	5	10
Longbow	10	10	10	20
Oak shortbow	20	16.5	16.5	33
Oak longbow	25	25	25	50
Composite ogre bow	30	45	45	90
Willow shortbow	35	33	33	66
Willow longbow	40	41.5	41.5	83
Maple shortbow	50	50	50	100
Maple longbow	55	58	58	116
Yew shortbow	65	67.5	67.5	135
Yew longbow	70	75	75	150
Magic shortbow	80	83	83	166
Magic longbow	85	91.5	91.5	183

With wolf bones in your inventory, cut down an achey tree and use your knife to fletch the logs into an unstrung bow. The wolf bones will be used in the Fletching process. Then use a bowstring with the unstrung bow to make a composite ogre bow.

The composite ogre bow is the only bow that can fire brutal arrows. You can not make these bows until you learn how to during the Zogre Flesh Eaters quest .

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