Bowcraft and fletching
A bowyer makes bows and crossbows from boards, shafts from boards, and arrows and crossbow bolts from shafts and feathers. The rules are the ones of every craft: see Carpentry for the chance, failures, exceptional items, the maker’s mark, tools that wear out and Make last.
How to make bows and arrows
Section titled “How to make bows and arrows”- Carry fletcher’s tools in your backpack, or in a bag inside it. Bowcraft needs no workbench.
- Double click them. The crafting gump of bowcraft and fletching opens.
- Pick the wood with Change, as a carpenter does: plain boards by default, or a kind of wood that asks for as much Bowcraft/Fletching as it asks Carpentry of a carpenter, and colours the bow.
- Press the button before a recipe, or open its page. Make last repeats it: an arrow is made one at a time.
Shafts, arrows and bolts stack, so they are never exceptional nor marked, and making them does not wear the tool. They take the colour of the wood picked: oak shafts stack only with oak shafts.
The recipes
Section titled “The recipes”9 recipes in four groups, converted from UOX3:
| Group | Recipe | Bowcraft/Fletching | Takes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weapons | Bow | 30 to 70 | 7 wood |
| Weapons | Crossbow | 60 to 100 | 7 wood |
| Weapons | Heavy crossbow | 90 to 130 | 10 wood |
| Weapons | Composite bow | 70 to 100 | 7 wood |
| Weapons | Repeating crossbow | 90 to 100 | 10 wood |
| Weapons | Yumi | 90 to 100 | 10 wood |
| Shafts | Shaft | 0 to 40 | 1 wood |
| Arrows | Arrow | 0 to 40 | 1 shaft, 1 feather |
| Crossbow Bolts | Bolt | 0 to 70 | 1 shaft, 1 feather |
UOX3’s batches of five, twenty and fifty are left out: Make last makes them one after the other. Kindling is left out too: a blade already hacks it off a tree (see Lumberjacking).
Change the rules
Section titled “Change the rules”- The recipes are
data/crafts/fletching.toml. - The tools are the templates with
script_id = "fletching_tool"(scripts/items/fletching_tool.lua); the rules arescripts/common/crafting.lua.
Existing roots
Section titled “Existing roots”mgctl init never replaces a file you may have changed. Copy from the distribution data/crafts/fletching.toml,
scripts/items/fletching_tool.lua and templates/items/skills/tools/fletching.toml, or give
script_id = "fletching_tool" to your fletcher’s tools. The Repair item button needs scripts/common/repair.lua and the scripts/gumps/craft_menu.lua of this version.
Repair
Section titled “Repair”The crafting gump has a Repair item button, as carpentry’s: see Carpentry.
Not yet
Section titled “Not yet”Making a number of arrows at once, and the bows of later eras. Feathers come only from the fletcher’s starting items: no vendor sells them and birds cannot be carved yet.
See also
Section titled “See also”Made with ❤️ by Tom
