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**I posted this in Runescapes Skills Forums, so It's set up for those forums so I don't have to do it all over again.**
Post 1 = <Intro>
Fletching is a great skill in Runescape. It's fun, and a quick way to make money. If you just want to make money, arrows is the best bet, but remember, not all arrows can be used on F2P. Fletching is for members only, but all arrows up to and including adamant can be used on F2P. This guide will take you through the different types of fletching items you can make in the game, it will show you how to do, and where to do it.
What is fletching then? Well, fletching is a skill, which allows you to make the items used in ranging. the higher your fletching skill is, the more cool stuff you can make. Anyways, as said, fletching is a skill where you can make items for ranging such as bows, arrows, special bolts and darts.
Firstly, the most important tool in fletching is a knife. These can be found many places in Runescape. One of the places you can find knives is just south of the Lumbridge castle, there should be one on the ground there.
##Contents##
Post 1 = Intro
Post 2 = Why Fletching?
Post 3 = Making Bows
Post 4 = Making Arrows
Post 5 = Making Bolts
Post 6 = Making Darts
Post 7 = Minners Fletching Tips
Post 8 = Problems?
Post 2 = <Why Fletching?>
"Why fletching?" You ask. Well for one thing, it's one of the fastest skills to raise and makes a bit of $$$ on the side. And once your high you will rocket up.
Fletching is my highests kill, and I want to share my favourite skill with you all. Many beleive Fletching is just another skill that's boring. And I may as well jsut get 70 so I can make Yew Long's to High alch. But I say. "May as well have a skill at 99, It doesn't take that long." Fletching is cheap, and fast to raise. Hope you enjoy it as much as me.
Post 3 = <Making Bows>
Making bows is fairly easy. All you have to do is cut some wood and use a knife on it. After using your knife on the log of wood you will have to choose to either make a short or long bow. Then you will have an unstrung short/long bow in your inventory instead of that log. To get a string for your bow, you'll have to do some crafting. Go to either the Gnomes Stronghold, or Seers Village and pick some flax, then go to a spinning wheel (can be found in both Gnomes and Seers) and spin your flax by using it with the wheel. You will now have a bow string, which you just use on your unstrung bow, and VOILA! you have a bow all ready for use.
Please note that the experience points (exp) are for a fully done bow. If you want the exp for making an unstringed bow, divide the exp by 2 (example: You get 100 total exp for making a Maple Short, that's the same as 50 for making an unstringed, and 50 for stringing.)
##Bows Experience##
**Bow type - Lvl required - experience gained**
Shortbow - lvl 5 - 10 xp
Longbow - lvl 10 - 20 xp
Oak Shortbow - lvl 20 - 33 xp
Oak Longbow - lvl 25 - 50 xp
Willow Shortbow - lvl 35 - 66.5 xp
Willow Longbow - lvl 40 - 83 xp
Maple Shortbow - lvl 50 - 100 xp
Maple Longbow - lvl 55 - 116.5 xp
Yew Shortbow - lvl 65 - 135 xp
Yew Longbow - lvl 70 - 150 xp
Magic Shortbow - lvl 80 - 166.5 xp
Magic Longbow - lvl 85 - 183 xp
Post 4 = <Making Arrows>
Arrows are not as fun to make as bows, but you can get a lot of cash for them. You'll however need a good amount if you really want cash. What you do is go to a forest (Lumbridge-Draynor is the best), and cut a whole bunch of trees. Watch out for the random events though, because these might break your axe, and then you'll just have to spend time putting it back together. Anyways, just cut some normal trees, use your knife on the logs, and make some arrow shafts.
When you have the shafts you'll have to add some arrow heads to them. You get these from smithing (see smithing guide for more information on levels needed etc.), and some feathers. You need 1 shaft, 1 head and 1 feather for an arrow. Might sound like a lot, but the best thing is: You get experience points from all of it!
##Arrows Experience##
**Please note that the exp for the arrows include cutting of the logs and feathering.**
**Arrow type - Lvl required - experience gained**
15 Arrow shafts - lvl 1 - 5 xp
15 Headless Arrows - lvl 1 - 15 xp
15 Bronze Arrows - lvl 1 - 39.5 xp
15 Iron Arrows - lvl 15 - 57.5 xp
15 Steel Arrows - lvl 30 - 95 xp
15 Mithrill Arrows - lvl 45 - 132.5 xp
15 Adamant Arrows - lvl 60 - 165 xp
15 Rune Arrows - lvl 75 - 225 xp
Post 5 = <Making Bolts>
You might now be thinking something like "hmm, but we cant make bolts"... And that would be true, however, you can make special bolts. These have a greater effect when you shoot them, just like higher lvl arrows have. There are 3 types of special bolts, Opal Tipped Bolts, Pearl Tipped Bolts and Barbed Tipped Bolts. Below is 3 small guides to making each of them.
Note: You can get normal bolts from the archery shops in Varrock and Catherby, as well as from monster drops. They also respawn some places in the wilderness
##Bolts Experience##
**Bolt type - Lvl required - experience gained**
2 Opal Tipped Bolts - lvl 17 - 6 xp
2 Pearl Tipped Bolts - lvl 33 - 12.5 xp
30 Barbed Tipped Bolts - lvl 51 - 95 xp
Post 6 = <Making Darts>
Darts are not that often used in ranging, and the only real reason for that is that they are hard to make. Well... Not that hard... All you need is to smith some dart tips and add some feathers to them, and you have the darts. So all you need to do is go to an anvil, smith the dart tips and use some feathers on them.
##Darts Experience##
**Dart type - Lvl required - experience gained**
Bronze Dart - lvl 1 - 18 xp
Iron Dart - lvl 22 - 32 xp
Steel Dart - lvl 37 - 75 xp
Mithrill Dart - lvl 52 - 112xp
Adamant Darr - lvl 67 - 150 xp
Rune Dart - lvl 81 - 188 xp
Post 7 = <Minners Tips>
Lvl 1~10 = Arrow shafts are the way to go... Even though these don't give much exp, its the fastest way. Just go to Draynor Village and make the shafts in the forest there.
Lvl 10~20 = Now that your 10 Fletching and can't beleive how fast that took, it's time to start making bows. Start at Draynor Village Cutting normal logs and make Normal Longbows. Fast and easy exp.
Lvl 20~35 = There are several locations with multiple oak trees, so make Oak shorts/longs until level 35.
Lvl 35~70 = Making Willow shorts/longs. Go to either the trees south-west from the draynor bank, or the ones north-west from the Seers bank. Or you can buy them all. There's alot of ppl selling Willow heaps in f2p. Keep making these till 70.
Lvl 70~85 = Now your 70, you have it easy. Fast exp. I'd suggest you string Yew long (u) till 85. There is ussually people paying, 1k Yew long (u), 1k Bowstrings and 50-100k cash for 1k Yew longs. Just keep trading them. I string about 3k Bows an hour, but only cut 1500 Yew logs an hour. So stringing bows is way faster. If you string the bows as fast as me. You will be getting 225k an hour. Fast hey!!!
Lvl 85~99 = You can keep continueing stringing Yew Long's if you wish, or you can move to Magic Longs. Not many ppl trade supply's for Magic Longs, thats the bad thing. So you will have to make the full bows. I suggest you buy magic logs 1kea & Bowstrings 175ea. Then Fletch the Magic longbows and sell for 1350ea. Thats 170k profit per 1k.
Post 8 = <Problems>
If you find any problems with this guide plz post them so I can fix, thank you.
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you can't do a fletching guide!! I made one!! :p
