Fletching Guide

Made By: Ssjshadi

Last update: June 19, 2005

1. Introduction To Fletching
2. Skills Needed To Do More In This Skill
3. Making Arrows
4. Making Bows
5. Making Special Bolts
6. Making Darts
7. Training Fletching
8. Alchemy Guide
9. Zogre Fletching
10. Fletching Item Locator
11. Miscellaneous Infomation

1. introduction To Fletching

Fletching is one of the most respected skills in Runescape because of its fast xp gain, makes a lot of money and can make you rich with the right skills. So do you want to know what fletching is? Well Fletching is a skill that lets you make your own ranging weapons, including special bolts, arrows, bows, and darts. And all you just need is an axe (for cutting trees) and a Knife for your basic equipment.

2. Skills Needed To Do More In This Skill

The skills you mostly want to have since these will make fletching easier are woodcutting (to get the wood), smithing (to get the arrow heads, etc.), mining (getting ores for bars), combat (to get the feathers from the chickens!), and magic (to alch the bows for $$).

3. Making Arrows

First off you will have to start to make arrows. (When you cut one log you will get 15 arrow shafts per log.)

1. Get your woodcutting axe to cut a normal tree
2. After that get your knife out and use the knife on the log and you will get a menu up and pick the arrow shafts.
3. Then get feathers from chickens, kill them, take their feathers and use the shafts on the feathers or vice-versa.
4. Go get your pickaxe and go mine tin and copper ores (id this is your first time) and make them into bars and smith them into arrow tips (requires 5 smithing).
5. Finally use the arrow tips on the headless arrows and you got your arrows!!!

Here is a table of all the other arrows and what smithing levels you need to smith the arrow heads.

Arrow Table

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.	Lvl for Smith
	15 Arrow shafts	1	5	N/A
	15 Headless Arrows	1	15	N/A
	15 Bronze Arrows	1	39.5	5
	15 Iron Arrows	15	57.5	20
	15 Steel Arrows	30	95	35
	15 Mithrill Arrows	45	132.5	55
	15 Adamant Arrows	60	165	75
	15 Rune Arrows	75	225	90

4. Making Bows

Well when you finally reach level 5 you can start making bows! Making bows is one of the most simplest thing to do and gets your XP up fast by doing this. This is how most people make most of there money and get millions of gp!!!! So here below is how to make bows.

1. At level 5, start by getting a full inventory of normal logs
2. Then get your knife out of the bank and cut all of the logs into unstrung short bows
3. Go to Seers Village and pick flax and after go to a spinning wheel and spin the flax (lvl 10 crafting required) to make bow string
4. Use the bow string with the bow and to make a strung short bow

Bow Table

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.
	Short bow	5	10
	Long Bow	20	20
	Oak Short Bow	33	33
	Oak Long Bow	25	50
	Willow Short Bow	35	66.5
	Willow Long Bow	40	83
	Maple Short Bow	50	100
	Maple long Bow	55	116.5
	Yew Short Bow	65	135
	Yew Long Bow	70	150
	Magic Short Bow	80	166.5
	Magic Long Bow	85	183

5. Making Special Bolts

Think only fletching is for making arrows and bows? Wrong!!! You can also make special bolts that is more powerful then the regular bolt. You can make 3 different bolts: Opal Tipped, Pearl Tipped, and Barbed Tipped Bolts. Below is 3 small guides how to make them.

Note: You can only get normal bolts from the archery shops in Varrock and Catherby, as well as from monster drops. Also respawns are in some places in the wilderness.

Opal Tipped Bolts:

• Go to Shilo Village and mine some of the gem rocks there. You will need to have finished the Shilo Village Quest to get in.
• Use a chisel with the Opal(s) to cut, and once more to make Opal Tips. You get 2 tips per gem.
• Use the Opal Tips with some normal bolts, and you'll have Opal Tipped Bolts.

Pearl Tipped Bolts:

• Go fish some Oysters (hard to get some that have a pearl in them, but just keep trying).
• When you have an Oyster with a pearl in it, use a chisel on it and you'll get a pearl. Use the chisel on it again and you'll have some Pearl Tips. Each pearl gives 2 tips.
• Use the Pearl Tips on a normal bolt, and you have some Pearl Tipped Bolts.

Barbed Tipped Bolts

• Go to the Ranged Guild and shoot at the targets until you have 140 tickets.
• Go exchanged your tickets for 30 Barb Tips.
• Use your Barb Tips on some normal bolts, and you'll have some Barbed Tipped Bolts.

Bolt Table

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.
	2 Opal Tipped Bolts	17	6
	2 Pearl Tipped Bolts	33	12.5
	30 Barbed Tipped Bolts	51	95

6. Making Darts

Darts is one the last item that you can make in Fletching. People don't really make darts since they are hard to make but not that hard since all you have to do is get some dart tips and put some feathers on them.

Note: You need to have done Tourist Trap Quest to make Darts.

Darts Table

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.	Smithing lvl
	Bronze Darts	1	18	4
	Iron Dart	22	22	19
	Steel Dart	37	75	34
	Mithrill Dart	52	112	54
	Adamant dart	67	150	74
	Rune Dart	81	188	89

7. Training Fletching

So.. do you want to know where the best place to train fletching at huh? I will give it to you since you all read my article on fletching.

Level 1-10
I know you think I am crazy bout making shafts is the fastest way. Just go to Draynor Forest and cut trees there but don't forget to bring your knife.

Levels 10-25
Making Long bows are going to be the easiest way to get to level 25. go to Draynor Forest and cut trees there.

Level 25-40
Make Oak long bows in… guess… Draynor Forest.

Level 40-55
Make Willow long Bows next to Draynor Market.

Level 55-70
Make maple Long Bows at Seers Village

Level 65-99
Now you can make Yew Long Bows at Seers Village

And if you want to know where the best place to fletch is at the southeastern part of Tree Gnome Stronghold since they got Spinning Wheels Flax and yew and Magic trees. plus there is a bank near by. Just to let you know...

8. Alchemy Guide

You heard about the items you can make but sill hadn't heard how to make the money that can make you rich? If you do magic you know what I am talking about. The best way to make money is by.... Alching your bows. All you need is level 21 magic for low alch and/or level 55 for High Alch and some nature and fire runes. The fastest way to do this is to get all your bows in notes and then fletch them so you dont waste your time go back to your bank

Alchemy Table

9. Zogre Fletching

Well, there is now a new fletching items after you have finished the Zogre Flesh Eaters Quest. Their are two new fletching items... well actual eight items if you count the bows.The items are the Composited Ogre Bow and the 'Brutal' Arrows. Below is two small guides on how to make them and what items you need

'Brutal' Arrows

1. Start by first getting some achey logs, lots of feathers, a knife, hammer, and nails
2. Then use your knife on the achey logs to get arrow Shafts
3. When you have done that use the feathers (it takes about 4 fethers per shafts) to make headless arrows
4. Then get your nails and hammer. (You'll need your hammer to put the nails into the shafts) Then use the nails on the headless arrows to have a 'Brutal' Arrows

Composite Ogre Bow

1. First get these items: wolfbones, a achey log, a knife, and bowstring
2. When you got the items above cut the achey logs into unstrung bow (you have to have the wolf bones in your inventory)
3. Then use a bowstring on the unstrung bow and you will have a Composite Orge Bow

Composite Orge Bow

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.
	Composite Orge Bow	30	?

' Brutal' Arrow Table

Pic	Name	Fletching lvl	Exp.	Lvl for Smith
	Bronze Brutal	7	1.5	4
	Iron Brutal	18	2.6	19
	Steel Brutal	33	5.2	34
	Black Brutal*	38	6.3	N/A
	Mithrill Brutal	49	7.5	54
	Adamant Brutal	62	10.2	74
	Rune Brutal	77	?	89

*You find the Black nails in coffins and by killing Zogres

12. Fletching Item Locator

Well Mugol wanted me to add a section about where to find the equipment or items you use in Fletching. So use the links below to get to the section on where the items are located.

• Knife
• Flax
• Spinning Wheel
• Rare Trees
• Feathers

Knife

• In Lumbridge, Behind the Lumbidge Castle
• On Karamja isaland(f2p), Inside the General Store (I think they sell them too)
• In the new Orge Area (Dont know what the name is) there is a shop called Uglug's Stuffsies. You can buy a Knife their for about 6 gp

Flax

• There is a feild of flax in Seers Villagw
• There flax scattered about in the tree Gnome Stronghold
• You Can pick flax around the fountain at the Traverly (not recommended to go here to pick flax)

Spinning Wheel

When you are looking for a spinning wheel it will have icon on the runescape map and it will look like this: and that will mean that a Spinning wheel is located in there.

• In Barbarin Village next to the Helm Store
• Inside the Crafting Guild
• Sothern Falador, next to the Chainmail Shop
• In Lumbridge in the Lumbridge Castle on the Second floor
• Southern-most building in Rellekka
• In Seers Village, west of the party Hall, on the second floor
• There is one in Sophanem
• There are three Spinning Wheels in Tree Gnome Stronghold, in the southeastern part of this land

Rare Trees

These three trees, Maple, Yew, and Magic trees have an icon like this: and it means that it is a rare tree.

• There are some magic trees just west of the Rangers Guild
• South of the Sorcerers' Tower is a mgic tree
• There is some Magic Trees in the Southern part of the Tree Gnome Stronghold
• There is a group of Maple Trees just above McGrubers Woods
• There are some more Maple Trees just west of the Legends Guild
• There are some MORE Maple Trees West of Sinaclairs Mansion
• By the Entrence to the Edgeville Dungeon in Edgeville, there are two yew trees there
• There are three Yew Trees south of Falador
• There a yew Tree North of Port Sarim
• There is a couple of Yew Trees scattered about in Drynor Forest
• There is a bunch of Yews in and around Varrock
• There is one Yew Tree South of the Melzars Maze
• South of the flax Feild is a group of yew Trees
• In The Tree Gnome Stronghold there are yew trees scattered in there

Feathers

To get feathers you will need to kill chickens for their feathers. They are not that hard to kill...

• There are chickens in the farm that is just east of Dranyor Village
• There are some more chickens north of Lumbridge
• You can find chickens at the Champions Guild
• in Hemster there are chickens scattered about the place
• there is a pen full of chickens south of Falador
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11. Miscellaneous Infomation

There is a couple of quest that can give you Fletching xp. They are: Big Chompy Bird Hunt, The Fremennik Trails, Legends Quest, The Temple of Ikov, Tourist Trap, Zogre Flesh Eaters, and One Small Favor.

If someone can email me at ssjshadi@yahoo.com or contact me on runescape under the player name ssjshadi and give me the xp in the question marks, add anything that can be useful in this guide, or if I missed anything in the Item Loacator Guide I will gladly give you credit in this guide.

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