Fletching

Fletching is the art of creating arrows and darts. A person who is very skilled at fletching can impart a natural +5 bonus to the arrows/darts that they create. A person who is very unskilled at fletching can impart a natural -5 "bonus" to the arrows/darts that they create.

Note: This article is still very much a work in progress.

Supplies

• A handaxe based weapon for chopping wood into shafts
• A dagger or hook-knife based weapon for cutting shafts
• Some wood
• Some fletching glue
• Some fletchings
• A bow or crossbow for arrows or bolts respectively
• A dart if you are making darts
• (optional) A drill, if you will be using arrowheads
• (optional) Some arrowheads or caps for arrows or bolts respectively
• (optional) Some paint
• (optional) A paintstick

Process

The process for creating an arrow, bolt, or dart varies slightly. The instructions below cover an arrow, which has all the require steps for producing any of the three, but the other two will no require all of these steps. This will be expanded in time, but basically:

• With wood and handaxe out: cut arrow shafts with my handaxe from my wood. This produces one ore more shafts for your use.
• With a single arrow shaft and your dagger: cut my shaft with my dagger. This pares down the shaft.
• If you want to use paint or a paintstick, then now is the time.

• Paint should be applied before paintsticks.

• To paint the shaft, paint my shaft with my paint.
• You will have to wait for the paint to dry before you can do anything else with the shaft. This takes approximately 10 - 15 seconds.

• Paint sticks can be used to add cresting or banding to an arrow.

• To apply a band, paint my shaft with my paintstick.
• After applying that paint, you will have to wait for it to dry. Like above, this takes approximately 10 - 15 seconds.
• You can apply bands 2 - 3 times (need to check which) and have multiple bands of the same color or multi-colored bands.

• With the cut shaft and your dagger: cut nock in my shaft with my dagger.

• If you didn't paint your shaft, you will have to do this twice as it asks you to confirm.

• With the nocked shaft and your bow out: measure my shaft
• With the measured shaft and your dagger out: cut my shaft with my dagger
• With the trimmed shaft and a bottle of glue: put glue on my shaft

• Note that after applying the glue, you have approximately 30 seconds to apply the fletchings before the glue will dry and you will have to reapply the glue.

• With the shaft with glue on it and a bundle of at least 3 fletchings: put fletching on my shaft.

• After you apply the fletchings, you will have to wait for the glue to dry. This takes approximately 30 seconds from the point that the glue was applied.

• After the fletchings are done, you can either carve a tip for the arrow or apply and arrowhead/cap on it.

• To use an arrowhead or cap:

• With your drill and the shaft in your hands: turn drill on my shaft.
• With your shaft and your arrowhead or cap: Turn arrowhead/cap on my shaft.

• To carve a tip:

• With the shaft and your dagger in your hand: Cut my shaft with my dagger.
• You will have to perform the above step twice to confirm that you really want to cut the tip and not to apply an arrowhead or cap.

Congratulations, you've created an arrow.

Available Materials

Plain Wood

• All the fletching shops carry various sizes of regular wood that can be purchased.
• You can forage for sticks in certain areas around towns (look for forests).
• The Kobold Mine has a supply of sticks and logs that can be used.
• Firewood dealers will sell you logs that you can use.

Magical Wood

Woods come in three sizes: stick (S), branch (B), or limb (L), where stick is the smallest and limb is the largest.

Wood

Landing

Solhaven

Ice Mule

Ta'Vaalor

Sylvarraned

River's Rest

Teras Isle

S

B

L

S

B

L

S

B

L

S

B

L

S

B

L

S

B

L

S

B

L

Carmiln

X

X

X

X

X

Deringo

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Faewood

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Ironwood

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Kakore

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Messile

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mossbark

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Rowan

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Villswood

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Arrowheads and Caps

Landing

• a steel broadhead arrowhead
• a mithril conical arrowhead
• an ora swept arrowhead
• an imflass arrowhead
• a vultite triangle-bladed arrowhead
• a steel broadhead cap
• a mithril conical cap
• an ora swept cap
• an imflass cap
• a vultite triangle-bladed cap

Fletchings

Landing

• a bundle of fletchings (plain, don't show up)
• a bundle of plain white fletchings
• a bundle of dingy grey fletchings
• a bundle of light brown fletchings

Custom Fletchings Sometimes custom fletchings can be found in boxes as treasure. There are also merchants (such as Surriel) who will make custom colors for you. A number of merchant events have also distributed special fletchings.

Paints and Paintsticks

Generally all paint and paintsticks come in 30 uses. Some treasure found ones can come in uses of 100 or more.

Paints Available in All Towns

• bright golden
• fiery orange
• (more)

Paintsticks

Custom Paints and Paintsticks Sometimes custom paint or paintsticks can be found in boxes as treasure. There are also merchants (such as Surriel) who will make custom colors for you.

Notes

• The enchant of an arrowhead and of a wood will not stack. The highest enchant will be used. The +5 from being a master fletcher will stack though. So it is possible to make upto 5x arrows.

Reference Links

Archery Shop Listing from Keelty's Glade

Official Simutronics Guide - This is somewhat out of date because it does not include the most recent changes to fletching.