Fletching
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The Fletching skill involves the making of bows and arrows. The products of this skill are primarily used in the Ranged skill. It also provides material with relatively high alchemy prices, so its products are often used to train Magic as well.
At higher Fletching levels, the skill can be trained without losing any coins, although a decent amount of working capital is very useful. A general rule of thumb for fletchers is to wait until you hear 3 "plucks" of the log being stringed to know when you're done. This is an especially helpful tip for those who tend to be multitasking on other things when fletching. The plucking noise only applies to unstrung bows being strung though. Generally, however, each 5 logs that are fletched result in one plucking sound. Since 14 is the number most commonly used for fletching (14 of one type of log, 14 bowstrings), around 3 plucks are needed. Of course, if you are just cutting the logs with your knife then all you need to do is wait until you do not hear any more animation of the cutting to check back on your character. The current minimum requirement to be ranked (at approximately rank 1,972,178) on the hiscores for Fletching is level 30.
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[edit] Materials used
[edit] General
| Picture | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Knife | Knives are used to whittle wood into unstrung bows or arrow shafts. You can find one in the Lumbridge Castle basement. | |
| Beaver | Beaver can act as a knife. To fletch with beaver you use your log on your beaver. You will need 33 summoning to summon this familiar. Current Price for Beaver pouch: 1176 coins. | |
| Chisel | Used to cut gems the second time into bolt tips. | |
| Logs | Logs are obtained from trees via the Woodcutting skill or bought from fellow players or the Grand Exchange. | |
| Sacred clay fletching knife | Knife is obtained from Stealing Creation with 20 Stealing Creation Points, They are used to cut logs. They give +100% experience bonus, or double XP. It disintegrates after a certain amount of Fletching experience is gained using it. | |
| Volatile clay fletching knife | Knife is obtained from Stealing Creation with 20 Stealing Creation Points, They are used to cut logs. They give +120% experience bonus, or 2.2 XP. It transforms back to seed after a certain amount of Fletching experience is gained using it.When Transforming, it transforms into a random volatile tool and uses 10% of its charges. |
[edit] Making weapons
[edit] Bows
| Picture | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Bow strings | Bowstrings are one of the materials used to make bows. They can be spun from flax. | |
| Flax | Flax can be picked in Seer's Village, in the Taverley courtyard right next to the fountain, on the Lunar Isle, directly south-east of The Grand Tree, and in Lletya. It can be spun into a bowstring on a spinning wheel. There is a spinning wheel on the 2nd floor of the house north of the churchyard. Spinning flax gains 15 Crafting experience. There is also one on Neitiznot, which is the closest one to a bank. Another spinning wheel can also be found on the second floor of Lumbridge Castle, which is just downstairs from a bank. |
[edit] Crossbows
| Picture | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Crossbow strings | Crossbow strings are one of materials used to make crossbows. They can be spun from sinew and tree roots below magic trees. | |
| Crossbow stocks | Fletched from logs and are used in the production of crossbows. Most can also be purchased at the crossbow stall in Keldagrim. | |
| Metal Limbs | Smithed from metal bars, metal limbs are used in the production of crossbows. Most can also be purchased at the crossbow stall in Keldagrim. | |
| Sinew | Sinew can be made by using a piece of raw beef with a range and choosing to make sinew. |
[edit] Making projectiles
[edit] Arrows
| Picture | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Arrow heads | Arrow heads can be bought in a ranging shop or smithed. 15 arrowheads can be made from each bar. | |
| Arrow shafts | Arrow shafts can be made by using a knife on a some logs. 15 shafts can be made from each pile of logs. | |
| Grenwall spikes | Grenwall Spikes can be used as an alternative for arrow shafts. These can be obtained by hunting Grenwalls | |
| Feathers | Feathers can be acquired by killing chickens. Chickens drop an average of about five feathers each. Feathers can also be bought in various places such as Shantay Pass, Fishing Guild, Lumbridge Fishing Shop, Port Sarim, Shilo Village, Ava's Arrow Shop, and various other places. Each shop has a player stock of 1000 feathers, and feathers can be bought for 6gp to 7gp each. You can use coloured feathers for this too, but they are more expensive most of the time. You can get coloured feathers from hunting. | |
| Nails | Smithed from metal bars, nails are used in the production of Brutal arrows. | |
| Wolfbone Tips | These can be made by using wolf bones with a chisel. They are used to create Ogre arrows. |
[edit] Bolts
| Picture | Item | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Barbed bolt tips | Barbed tips are rewards from the Ranging Guild minigame. | |
| Feathers | Feathers can be acquired by killing chickens. Chickens drop an average of about five feathers each. Feathers can also be bought in Port Sarim, the Fishing Guild, and Shantay Pass. Shantay no longer has unlimited stock, though feathers can still be bought for as low as one gold each. | |
| Gem bolt tips | Gem bolt tips are attached to finished bolts (use feathers with unfinished bolts) to make gem tipped bolts. They can be made by using the gem with a chisel. Every gem in RuneScape, including the Shilo Gems, can be made into gem tips. | |
| Pearl bolt tips | Pearl bolt tips can be made by using a oyster pearl with a chisel. | |
| Unfinished Bolts | Unfinished bolts can be smithed from metal bars. Each bar can smith 10 of these. |
[edit] Darts
| Picture | Item | Notes |
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| Dart tips | Dart tips can be smithed from metal bars. Players get 10 dart tips every bar. | |
| Feathers | Feathers can be acquired by killing chickens. Chickens drop an average of about five feathers each. Feathers can also be bought in the Fishing Guild, Shantay Pass, Shilo Village shop and Port Sarim. |
[edit] Making the items
[edit] Weapons
[edit] Bows
To fletch bows, a player must use a knife on a log to whittle a short bow or long bow of that wood. Then, bow string must be attached to the unstrung bow. Bows, especially Yew longbows and Magic longbows, are frequently high alched as a means of income or magic xp.
| Bow | Level | Experience (unstrung) | Total Experience |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shortbow | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Longbow | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Oak shortbow | 20 | 16.5 | 33 |
| Oak longbow | 25 | 25 | 50 |
| Comp ogre bow | 30 | 45 | 90 |
| Willow shortbow | 35 | 33.3 | 66.6 |
| Willow longbow | 40 | 41.5 | 83 |
| Maple shortbow | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Maple longbow | 55 | 58.3 | 116.6 |
| Yew shortbow | 65 | 67.5 | 135 |
| Yew longbow | 70 | 75 | 150 |
| Magic shortbow | 80 | 83.3 | 166.6 |
| Magic longbow | 85 | 91.5 | 183 |
Players may now gain twice the normal experience per log that is made into a bow (u) with the new Sacred clay fletching knife that is awarded through the minigame, Stealing Creation, it costs 20 points to obtain. However, the knife will disintegrate after 500 uses.
[edit] Crossbows
To make a crossbow, the player must first use a knife with a log to make a Crossbow stock. Then, the player needs to add some crossbow limbs (Made via Smithing). Finally, the player must string it with a Crossbow string.
| Crossbow | Stock Material | Level Needed | Exp for Stock/Stringing | Exp For Limbs | Total Exp |
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| Bronze Crossbow | Normal | 9 | 6 | 12 | 24 |
| Blurite Crossbow | Oak | 24 | 16 | 32 | 64 |
| Iron Crossbow | Willow | 39 | 22 | 44 | 88 |
| Steel Crossbow | Teak | 46 | 27 | 54 | 108 |
| Mithril Crossbow | Maple | 54 | 32 | 64 | 128 |
| Adamant Crossbow | Mahogany | 61 | 41 | 82 | 164 |
| Rune Crossbow | Yew | 69 | 50 | 100 | 200 |
[edit] Projectiles
[edit] Arrows
To fletch regular arrows, use a knife on logs to create arrow shafts. Each log yields 15 arrow shafts. Add feathers and arrow heads.
Achey logs can be whittled into Ogre arrow shafts. Each achey log yields between 2 and 6 arrow shafts. Four feathers are needed for each shaft. The shafts may be tipped with wolf bone arrow heads or with nails. Ogre shafts tipped with nails are called "brutals" and are especially useful for killing Zogres. Any type of metal may be used for the nails.
The following table shows experience per item made, although 15 items are made at a time.
| Arrow | Level Needed | Experience | Experience for 15 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrow shafts | 1 | 0.33 | 5 |
| Headless arrows | 1 | 1 | 15 |
| Bronze arrows | 1 | 2.6 | 39 |
| Ogre arrows | 5 | 3.8 | 57 |
| Iron arrows | 15 | 3.8 | 57.5 |
| Steel arrows | 30 | 6.3 | 95 |
| Mithril arrows | 45 | 8.8 | 132 |
| Broad arrows1 | 52 | 15 | 225 |
| Adamant arrows | 60 | 11.3 | 169.5 |
| Rune arrows | 75 | 13.8 | 207.4 |
| Dragon arrows | 90 | 16.3 | 244.5 |
1Broad arrows can be made after buying the knowledge with Slayer reward points.
[edit] Bolts
Bolts are made by using a metal bar at an anvil while you have a hammer in your inventory. This grants smithing experience. The bolts created in this process are unfinished and still require fletching (they need feathers). This part provides the fletching experience. Bolts are also the fastest way to acquire xp, and you will not lose much money. It's also great combined with smithing
The following table shows experience per item made and per 10 items made (the amount made per metal bar).
| Bolt Type | Required Fletching Level | Experience (per bolt) | Experience (per 10 bolts) | Profit (per bolt) |
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| Bronze bolts | 9 | 0.5 | 69 | |
| Opal bolts | 11 | 1.6 | 16 | 7 |
| Blurite bolts | 24 | 1 | 10 | N/A |
| Kebbit bolts | 32 | 0.97 | 5.8 (per 6 bolts) | 26 |
| Iron bolts | 39 | 1.5 | 15 | 10 |
| Pearl bolts | 41 | 3.2 | 32 | 3 |
| Long kebbit bolts | 42 | 1.33 | 7.89 (per 6 bolts) | 60.83 |
| Silver bolts | 43 | 2.5 | 25 | 0 |
| Steel bolts | 46 | 3.5 | 35 | 5 |
| Red topaz bolts | 48 | 3.9 | 39 | 7 |
| Barbed bolts | 51 | 9.5 | 95 | 0 |
| Mithril bolts | 54 | 5 | 50 | 7 |
| Broad-tipped bolts* | 55 | 3 | 30 | 18 |
| Sapphire bolts | 56 | 4.7 | 47 | |
| Emerald bolts | 58 | 5.5 | 55 | 24 |
| Mithril grapple | 59 | 59 | 590 | |
| Adamantite bolts | 61 | 7 | 70 | 13 |
| Ruby bolts | 63 | 6.3 | 63 | 46 |
| Diamond bolts | 65 | 7 | 70 | 33 |
| Runite bolts | 69 | 10 | 100 | |
| Dragon bolts | 71 | 8.2 | 82 | 521 |
| Onyx bolts | 73 | 9.4 | 94 |
*Broad bolts may be made after buying the knowledge with Slayer reward points.
[edit] Darts
You can fletch darts by adding feathers to a smithed dart, noted that finishing Tourist Trap Quest is needed for making these.
| Dart | Level Needed | Experience Given |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze dart | 1 | 1.8 |
| Iron dart | 22 | 3.8 |
| Steel dart | 37 | 7.5 |
| Mithril dart | 52 | 11.2 |
| Adamant dart | 67 | 15 |
| Rune dart | 81 | 18.8 |
| Dragon dart | 95 | 25 |
[edit] Training
[edit] Level advancement
See the Fletching training article for a detailed guide on training the Fletching skill.
[edit] Fletching in the correct environment
A one-click bank can provide a minor advantage while fletching. These bank chests are at:
- Castle Wars
- Soul Wars lobby
- Culinaromancer's Chest in Lumbridge castle cellar
- Duel Arena
- Neitiznot
- Shantay Pass
At Yanille's bank in world 132, there was a player made fletching guild where people could fletch and talk. The population of the bank has since gone down because of the Unbalanced Trade Removal update on 2 January 2008 which has made it harder to trade supplies for longbows or sell longbows which used to be a popular method of training fletching very quickly.
Fletching at one-click banks at minigames is also a very good idea so if you get bored, you can have something to do right away to get away from fletching.
[edit] Fletching through the Grand Exchange
To make a profit by fletching, buy flax (now 74 gp each) and yew logs (now 465 gp each) in the Grand Exchange. Make yew longbows, spinning the flax at whatever wheel you like. The cost to make is 539, and they sell for 679. They are in demand now and will sell. You will make 140 gp per bow. A slightly less profitable method is buying yew logs and bow strings (165) straight from the Grand Exchange making only 49 coins.
(The best place would be on the second floor of the Lmbridge Castle. Go to your bank [3rd floor] get some Flax out, then go down [2nd floor] and spin it on the wheel)
[edit] Time
It doesn't take very long to train Fletching up to 99. The advice is, from 70 to 99, to make Yew longbow (u) and then string them. Sell them in the Grand Exchange, making a small profit from when you buy Yew logs and bow strings. If you want to make more money, make your own bow strings by flax.
[edit] Temporary boosts
- You can drink Orange spicy stew for a boost ranging from -6 to 6.
- A Fletching potion will raise your fletching by 3.
- A Fletching skillcape will raise your fletching by 1 when operated.
[edit] 99 Fletching
[edit] Trivia
- When Jagex updated the chat filter at one time, which broke the communication from Classic to RS2, "fletching" was accidentally censored in chat (because it resembled the word "felching").
- When the string-x feature was added, it actually made fletching slower since the string-x was slower what players could manually do (since the feature is automatically used and cannot be disabled). However, most players consider this a worthy trade-off since it made fletching less physically tiring on their fingers.
- 39 People have 200M XP in fletching, the 3rd most for any skill.
- As of 13 October, 2009, 81,940 players have 99 fletching, making it the 3rd most popular 99 skill.
[edit] See also
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