a question about arrows : V - Skyrim

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:11 am

The solution is to never miss a shot. Get practicing.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:08 am

hello eveyone!
I already posted something like this but now I know a lot more, so this new post:
I was wondering if the arrows you shoot and miss stay there for ever, or go away eventually.
So I went to riverwood and started shooting arrows at a wooden object, I noticed that after a few arrows the first ones dissapeared!
No problem I thought, but then I shot some at riverwood, went back to helgen, shot some more until they started to dissapear in helgen and then I
went back to riverwood, where all the arrows were still there. Then I went back to helgen, waited for way over 30 days there, and then went into a dungeon, waited for over 30 days there as well, and went back to riverwood, the damn arrows were still ALL there. I really need to know how to 'cleanse' skyrim of my arrows I shot all over the place.
can someone please help me?
thanks a lot in advance,
a fellow skyrim player

You need to get out more.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:22 am

You need to get out more.

and you're an attention [censored] :smile:

rimes with more

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:59 am

The solution is to never miss a shot. Get practicing.

But all of that practicing will mean a lot of misses and strays and ... I think me head will explode.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:39 am

BTW, someone mentioned in another thread yesterday that bound arrows don't cleanup either, can anyone else confirm this? My character just started using bound bow a bit recently, but if it means littering arrows that I can't even police myself ...

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:51 pm

Logic dictates that the arrows will remain as long as it takes the body to respawn; the respawn rate appears to be proportionate to the amount of items looted off the body, so ipso facto if you loot all the items from the posts and walls after you kill them the faster the arrows will disappear.

» Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:28 pm

LOL! Yeah from the start I learned to clean up arrows after battles, because I needed them first off, and second, a lot of time the enemy arrows were better than my own. But save file bloat and corruption is the largest reason to play janitor. I know I have found arorrow many many game hours after retrurning to a previously location of a battle. And many times they are sticking straight up so they are easier to pick up. It's as if the devs want to remind you to pick up your trash. Although many times arows get stuck in the terrain and can't be picked up until you leave and return to the cell (or reload).

More importantly, why do we care about loose arrows?