Fletching

This crafting skill was transferred over from Grimmwold. The skill generally functions like the base UO Fletching skill but has some additions and reductions. Bowcrafting from advanced woods is currently disabled and need a design review before being implemented.

• You must be near a tillering board to make items with bow craft. There is a tillering board in the crafting area.
• Items take longer to craft as per the Crafting Design document.
• SE Items have been removed
• ML Items are not yet implemented
• Fletchers will now receive 4 shafts per log when making shafts. Fletchers will now receive 2 arrows per crafting cycle instead of one, but it will also use 2 shafts per cycle

Bowcrafting or Enhancing with Advanced Woods

Not yet implemented, requires a design review

Different woods can used to create bows or staves using the Tree Whispering book skill of Lumberjacking. While it requires lumberjacking skill to harvest advanced woods, it only takes bowcrafting to craft with them. Bows can either be first crafted with ordinary wood and then enhanced, or just straight crafted from the advanced wood.

Uncrafted bows gained as loot can be enhanced, but bowcrafting enhancements run the same risk as it does with smithing - the item can be lost in the process. Failure rates (which will destroy the item selected for enhancement) when enhancing with GM Bowcrafting are estimated at 50%, with a likely fail rate of 75% for Elder and Fir, and 80% for Winged Spindle (luck). For our mathematicians, that gives a potential crafter less than a 7% chance to craft an exceptional winged spindle great bow!

Side note

While Bark and Leaf armor can be made with bowcrafting, BARK armor cannot be enhanced at all period, Leaf armor requires ingots, making it strangely only enhanceable by blacksmiths. -Edit- At current, neither Bark nor Leaf armors may be enhanced.

Bowcrafting Black Slayer Bows

Black slayer bows have all the same stats as a standard short bow and cannot be enhanced. Special short bows (that appear exactly like normal ones, but with a higher strength requirement) can be looted from the corpses of Jukas. Double click the bow while in your pack and target a gear (which are crafted by Tinkers). This will create a black slayer bow with a randomized slayer property. This crafting does not use an in-game menu or GUI, but does require GM Bowcrafting.