Can I please just smith arrows? : V

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:55 pm

Its all I want in life! Its so frustrating, especially when the only way (to the best of my knowledge) to get daedric arrows is to delve into a long ass dwemer city and kill one of those giant bastards and hope luck is on your side. [censored] i say.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:40 am

If you're on PC yes, there's a mod for this.

Otherwise no.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:19 pm

What beths excuse on not including this in the game?

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:23 am

What beths excuse on not including this in the game?

DLC.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 2:51 pm

I have never understood this either. We can craft bows ...but not arrows?? That just doesn't make any sense.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:59 am

What beths excuse on not including this in the game?

same excuse they had for not being able to enchant them

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:28 am

I don't understand it either.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:16 pm

I really, really hope console versions get silver weapon crafting, arrow crafting and an assorted amount of other stuff I found quite weird to not be craft-able as well that I can't place my finger on right now..

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:03 pm

Every game has limitations. Some are easier to understand than others. My bet is that each arrow is an item, and the crafting protocol can only create a single item rather than a stack. So instead of giving you the ability to craft a single arrow, they just took it off the list.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:41 pm

DLC.

answer for why everything is not in this game...

Every game has limitations. Some are easier to understand than others. My bet is that each arrow is an item, and the crafting protocol can only create a single item rather than a stack. So instead of giving you the ability to craft a single arrow, they just took it off the list.

for loop?

for(int i=0; i pc_add_to_inventory(arrow_fabricator());

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:03 pm

See... you're rewriting the protocol. It's all together possible that that part of the code is off limits to the person putting in the items to be crafted.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:53 am

Every game has limitations. Some are easier to understand than others. My bet is that each arrow is an item, and the crafting protocol can only create a single item rather than a stack. So instead of giving you the ability to craft a single arrow, they just took it off the list.

Except you can buy and sell things in stacks, so... no?

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:41 pm

I feel the lack of little detail like this really puts me off from owning the console version. The more and more I play it the more and more I want to sell it and get it on PC instead. Infact... I may just do that very soon.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:26 am

A mechanic would have to be introduced that allowed Stack Crafting, other wise making arrows would become real tedious real fast.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:57 am

A mechanic would have to be introduced that allowed Stack Crafting, other wise making arrows would become real tedious real fast.

I'd still wager the majority of archers would rather have the ability to craft single arrows rather than not be able to at all.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:39 am

A mechanic would have to be introduced that allowed Stack Crafting, other wise making arrows would become real tedious real fast.

Craft 20 arrows at once by default fixes the problem. Or 10 if the material used makes more sense that way.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 10:37 am

Every game has limitations. Some are easier to understand than others. My bet is that each arrow is an item, and the crafting protocol can only create a single item rather than a stack. So instead of giving you the ability to craft a single arrow, they just took it off the list.

There are mods for arrow crafting, so it is possible.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:46 am

It's very easy to make a mod that allows for arrow crafting. They can be crafted in stacks. I, for example, created this functionality in one of my own mods. One steel ingot and one piece of firewood makes 10 steel arrows. Same thing for other types (just using different ingots). Added it to the craftables, and I was good to go.

So. There it is. There's no technical reason Bethesda couldn't make this a part of the core game. Will they? Who knows what they were thinking when they left it out. Maybe they have a reason.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:03 am

See... you're rewriting the protocol. It's all together possible that that part of the code is off limits to the person putting in the items to be crafted.

How is that rewriting the 'protocol' ?

Neither of us know how the API works, but I would think crafting would basically have a table of types (as keys) with the requirements for each object then each object could return a creator function.

As for being 'allowed' this is not a class III medical device, its just a game. They are allowed to do what they want. I don't think fletching has to be much different from ammunition creating in FONV. But there I go again, comparing Skyrim to a finished project.

/me ducks...

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 3:51 pm

I want to smith arrows as well, we could smith arrows (or have them smithed), in The Shivering Isles.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:57 am

How is that rewriting the 'protocol' ?

Neither of us know how the API works, but I would think crafting would basically have a table of types (as keys) with the requirements for each object then each object could return a creator function.

As for being 'allowed' this is not a class III medical device, its just a game. They are allowed to do what they want. I don't think fletching has to be much different from ammunition creating in FONV. But there I go again, comparing Skyrim to a finished project.

/me ducks...

Spoiler

Bolded Part: Because you are speaking against his video game deity, Skyrim. Anything that is against it is an affort to said deity.

Yes, it could be just like ammunition crafting.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 12:30 pm

Curved Arrows.... curved arrows.....

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 11:14 am

Every game has limitations. Some are easier to understand than others. My bet is that each arrow is an item, and the crafting protocol can only create a single item rather than a stack. So instead of giving you the ability to craft a single arrow, they just took it off the list.

Yeah, but if you craft a ring you get 2 for every ingot. So that is not it.

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:03 am

Its all I want in life!

I'm very much hoping this is an exaggeration....

» Tue Jun 12, 2012 5:23 pm

Isn't there an arrow "Crafter" in Solitude next to the blacksmither? I mean I know you cant use it in the game ( at least on the console), but I too would like to be able to craft my own arrow's I think it would be great!!