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
• Items requiring special resources are reserved for later immersion, town upgrades, book skills and or special quests.
• 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

Craftable Items

Item	Skill required
Kindling	0.0
Shaft	0.0
Arrow	0.0
Crossbow Bolt	0.0
Bow	30.0
Composite Bow	50.0
Long Bow	40.0
Great Bow	75.0
Crossbow	50.0
Heavy Crossbow	70.0
Repeating Crossbow	75.0
Shepherd's Crook	75.0
Quarter Staff	73.6
Gnarled Staff	75.0
Wooden Shield	52.6
All Bark Armor Pieces	75.0
All Leaf Armor Pieces	75.0

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!

Wood Type	Skill required	Wood Properties	Equivalent Ore	Seed Color	Wood Location	Failure Rate
Rose	65%	100% Physical, +100 Durability, -50 required Str	Dull Copper	Red	North of Briar Hollow	55%
Maiden Hair	70%	80% Physical, 20% Cold, +50 Durability	Shadow Y	ellow	Enchanted Forest (SE Briar)	45%
Singing	75%	70% Physical, 10% Poison, 20% Energy	Copper	Blue	Zanzibar Mountains	50%
Juniper	80%	60% Physical, 40% Fire	Bronze	Bright Red D	ark Forest	45%
Winged Spindle	85%	100% Physical, +40 Luck	Gold	Bright Yellow	Hills of Dana/Liche Pit	80%
Witch Hazel	90%	50% Physical, 30% Cold, 20% Energy	Agapite	Purple	Moors/Centaur Camp	50%
Elder	95%	40% Physical, 40% Poison, 20% Energy	Verite	Orange	Sylvan Meadows	75%
Fir	99%	40% Physical, 10% Fire, 20% Cold, 10% Poison, 20% Energy	Valorite	Green	NE Hamelin	75%

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.