Skyrim #143: Crafting Arrows : V - Skyrim

» Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:15 am

I agree that they should have made it possible to make arrows - perhaps lots of other things as well - but arrows are certainly not rare. I've got untold hundreds of arrows on me.

It's a lot easier to just hoard every arrow you come across now that they don't weigh anything.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 5:39 pm

you can already craft bows, crafting arrow would not change the ballance

They said they wanted arrows to be rare. This was one of the things they actually managed to get somewhat right. I have no doubt that if they added the feature in as part of a DLC, it would become an arrow printing machine that spews out 99 daedric arrows at will.

Epic fail

I got:
1000 iron arrows
1000 steel arrow
3000 elven
300 dwarven
300 orcish
50-100 glass
50-100 ebony
not much daedric, maybe 20

the problem is the merchant inventory respawn
if I really wanted to I could probably get 1000 daedric

but I m overpowered already

Then the requirements for making daedric arrows should be tougher than other arrows. Something along the lines of 100 daedric arrows = 15 ebony ingots and 3 daedra hearts.

you probably mean 3 daedra hearth per arrow
and maybe some rare variety of wood, hard to find in the forest ....

in fact, the wood used for the arrow, and the feather used, as well as complicated mixtures to glue everything together
is key to arrow making. saw a documentary on arrow & bow making in ancient egypt. verry interesting

I agree on the need for rare quality arrow, but currently they failed

I hope they don t pull out a horse armor on us, in the form of a fletching dlc
that would be ridiculous, considering how quickly modders did it

all they need to do is turn trees into harvestable trees, have more birds (and feathers)
and add the recipe and some sort of workbench

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 12:14 pm

Consoles.

I thought people realized that there are these things called PS3's and XBOX 360's.

I think my grandma used to have something like those. Can't remember, too long ago.

Anyway the PC master race cares not for the suffering of lesser races.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:19 pm

I think my grandma used to have something like those. Can't remember, too long ago.

Anyway the PC master race cares not for the suffering of lesser races.

This made me laugh. :rofl:

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:14 pm

Intentionally negative thread titles aside, I have some constructive criticism. :shifty:

We can chop wood.

We can collect feathers.

We can mine metals.

We can smith items.

We cannot combine these things to create arrows or bows.

This is absurd that we have all of the features needed for arrows and bows, but not actually create them. I would like to be able to make my own arrows, because it would help me role play a self sufficient hunter. It would also be useful for creating arrows that are somewhat difficult to find, like Daedric arrows. I believe the ability to smith bows and arrows could be included as part of a DLC or expansion. Does anyone else wish Skyrim gave you the ability to make arrows and/or bows?

Discuss! :starwars:

You shall call the perk Fletching!!

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 4:00 pm

Oh now that is funny. :bunny:

» Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:43 am

More like fail #4530

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:59 pm

Irrelevant. All arrows in Skyrim just sooner or later end up in the knee's of guards.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 7:13 pm

Irrelevant. All arrows in Skyrim just sooner or later end up in the knee's of guards.

LULZ so funneh.
No.

» Wed Jun 20, 2012 12:41 am

Anyway, you have 3 options as a console user:

1. Exploit NPC training archery. Actually not so much of an exploit, more like rubbish collecting to reduced save bloat.

http://www.gamefront.com/skyrim-infinite-free-arrows-exploit/

2. Do the same as above, except with companions. Your companions also have infinite ammo. So they will start giving you free arrows to loot on dead enemies.

3. Export your save game and use a savegame editor or if it is not out, memory hex edit it manually on a friend's/dad's/murdered neighbor's computer. Just remember to dump the 1 ebony ingot and 5 firewood and 20 iron arrows (or whatever you think is the correct exchange rate) for every 20 ebony arrow you acquire.

» Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:36 am

LULZ so funneh.
No.

Someone had to say it...

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:14 pm

HA arrows rare...

That's just what I was thinking.

Maybe they didn't implement fletching because they initially wanted arrows to be hard to come by. Then (as I knew would happen) somewhere along the line they lost their nerve or changed their minds and made arrows abundant.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 9:58 pm

WTF are you talking about? You can craft bows.

As for arrows, just find a guard and pull it out of his knee. Bad joke aside, I agree we should be able to craft arrows.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:11 pm

WTF are you talking about? You can craft bows.

Not wood bows. It's insane that you can't make a bow with all of that wood you chop.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 11:38 pm

It's a lot easier to just hoard every arrow you come across now that they don't weigh anything.

Granted. I've discussed that in another thread. I think a little research showed they should probably be about .9 ounces, I think. A little over a dozen arrows to a pound. That would let you keep quite a few arrows while making sure two thousand of them would still eat up quite a chunk of your carry-weight.

Not wood bows. It's insane that you can't make a bow with all of that wood you chop.

Well, to be fair, a good composite bow can take quite a while to craft, up to a year's time, which is a bit much even compared to the other items you can craft. Although I guess even a sword or axe would take quite a while to make in reality.

» Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:26 am

HA arrows rare...

I have 8000 arrows of various types in storage.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:04 pm

Well, to be fair, a good composite bow can take quite a while to craft, up to a year's time, which is a bit much even compared to the other items you can craft. Although I guess even a sword or axe would take quite a while to make in reality.

Armor suits can take years to make as well. Realism isn't present anywhere in the Smithing skill, come to think of it.

» Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:13 pm

Armor suits can take years to make as well. Realism isn't present anywhere in the Smithing skill, come to think of it.

Yeah, granted they've entirely removed the time aspect from it, which is justifiable in the interest of playability. Although I could see an argument being made to have it take a little time if they really wanna reduce how fast people are likely to level up smithing. Look at how hard it is to level Restoration, at least according to what I've been seeing others say about Skyrim, and from what I experienced in Oblivion. It would be a simple, easy and elegant way of "nerfing" smithing just a bit in terms of rate of leveling while still allowing a smithing skill of 100 to be valuable in a way comparable to a heavy armor skill of 100 or a one-handed skill of 100 and the like.