Crafting

Bowcraft

Make bows, crossbows, shafts, arrows and bolts, with a saw or a fletcher's knife.

Group

Crafting

Title it gives

Bowyer

Grows your stats

Dexterity (60%), Strength (40%)

Head start

No people starts with it

How it grows

Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try at a recipe trains it, more for harder recipes. Failures teach too.

All your skills together hold 700 points. Set Bowcraft to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.

Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Dexterity (60%), Strength (40%).

Titles

When Bowcraft is your best skill, it names you:

• 30 Neophyte Bowyer
• 40 Novice Bowyer
• 50 Apprentice Bowyer
• 60 Journeyman Bowyer
• 70 Expert Bowyer
• 80 Adept Bowyer
• 90 Master Bowyer
• 100 Grandmaster Bowyer

What you can make (12)

Below the first number you can't make it; at it you succeed half the time; at the second, every time. A failed try loses half the ingredients.

Ammunition

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
arrows ×10	0 to 35	10 arrow shafts1 iron ingots	Anywhere
blunt arrows ×10	10 to 50	10 arrow shafts1 board	Anywhere
crossbow bolts ×10	15 to 50	10 arrow shafts2 iron ingots	Anywhere
barbed arrows ×10	20 to 60	10 arrows1 iron ingots	Anywhere
fire arrows ×10	30 to 70	10 arrows2 sulfur ash	Anywhere
frost arrows ×10	30 to 70	10 arrows1 frostwood boards	Anywhere

Bows

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
bow	15 to 60	7 board	Anywhere
composite bow	50 to 95	9 board2 cut leather	Anywhere

Crossbows

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
crossbow	30 to 75	7 board3 iron ingots	Anywhere
heavy crossbow	55 to 100	10 board5 iron ingots	Anywhere
repeating crossbow	60 to 100	9 board4 iron ingots1 silver ingots	Anywhere

Shafts

Makes	Skill	Needs	At
arrow shafts ×10	0 to 30	1 logs	Anywhere

More in the guide: Crafting · All skills