Main page/Guides/Skill guides/Fletching

This is the Regular Fletching Guide, the guide for Ironman/ Hardcore Ironman players is found Here.

Fletching is a skill which allows the player to create various types of ranged weapons and their ammunition. The products of this skill are primarily used in the combat skill, Ranged.

Getting Supplies

To train Fletching, all you need is a knife, and some logs.

The knife is very easy to obtain. Just Teleport to Edgeville by using the home teleport in your spellbook, and buy one from the general store, located north west from the teleport spot, for 100gp.

As for the logs, there are three ways to obtain them.

• Chop them yourself using the Woodcutting Skill.
• Buy logs from other players.
• Completing the 'Make the Cut' task by reaching 99 Woodcutting. (Can only be done once)

Experience Tables

Making Bows

Unstrung Bows can be made by using a knife on the log that you are using.

Below is a table of all fletchable bows, their level requirements, and the amount of XP they reward you with after being made:

Bow type	Name	Level Needed	XP Given
	Arrow Shaft	1	400
	Shortbow	5	400
	Longbow	10	800
	Oak Shortbow	20	1,280
	Oak Longbow	25	2,000
	Willow Shortbow	35	2,640
	Willow Longbow	40	3,280
	Maple Shortbow	50	4,000
	Maple Longbow	55	4,640
	Yew Shortbow	65	5,440
	Yew Longbow	70	6,000
	Magic Shortbow	80	6,640
	Magic Longbow	85	7,280

Bolt Tips

Adding Bolt Tips to Bolts is another way to train Fletching, and can actually be faster than using logs, a huge benefit to using this method, is that you can be doing this anywhere. Even while training another skill. The only downside to this method is that getting the required materials can be quite time consuming.

Each Bolt Tip requires a specific Bolt in order to be made, you can find which metal bolt goes with which Bolt Tip in the table below.

Bolt	Equipment	Level Needed	XP Given
	12 Bronze Bolts + 12 Opal Bolt Tips	11	2,000
	12 Steel Bolts + 12 Red Topaz Bolt Tips	48	5,000
	12 Mithril Bolts + 12 Sapphire Bolt Tips	56	6,000
	12 Mithril Bolts + 12 Emerald Bolt Tips	58	6,000
	12 Adamant Bolts + 12 Ruby Bolt Tips	63	6,000
	12 Adamant Bolts + 12 Diamond Bolt Tips	65	7,000
	12 Runite Bolts + 12 Dragon Bolt Tips	71	8,000
	12 Runite Bolts + 12 Onyx Bolt Tips	73	9,000

Fastest Way to 99

The table below shows which bows to make and when to switch in order to make reaching your goal of 99 as easy as possible:

Levels	Bow Type	Name	Logs Needed
1 - 5		Arrow Shaft	1
5 - 10		Shortbow	2
10 - 20		Longbow	5
20 - 25		Oak Shortbow	4
25 - 35		Oak Longbow	10
35 - 40		Willow Shortbow	9
40 - 50		Willow Longbow	25
50 - 55		Maple Shortbow	25
55 - 65		Maple Longbow	78
65 - 70		Yew Shortbow	81
70 - 80		Yew Longbow	261
80 - 85		Magic Shortbow	226
85 - 99		Magic Longbow	1,561

You would need to fletch roughly 48,077 Magic Logs in order to achieve 350 million Firemaking Experience, from level 99. 46,287

Useful Items and Boosts

Picture	Item/Boost	Effect	How to Obtain
N/A	Knowledge Effect	All experience gained will be increased for the next 10 minutes for normal donators and 20 minutes for super donators.	Go to the Donator Zone, in the building to the west of the bank and click on the Defence Totem (Knowledge effect).
N/A	Bonus Experience	All experience gained will be multiplied by 3 until the bonus experience runs out.	Logging in every day grants 200k Bonus Exp. Every 10th vote streak rewards you with 500k Bonus Exp. Purchace 1m Bonus Exp for 5k premium points.
N/A	Monthly Bonus	All experience gained is multiplied by 1.25	Play during the 1st to the 5th of every month.

The Skill Cape

If you reach level 99 in Fletching, you can talk to the Wise Old Man at home to obtain the Skill cape. He is located at home, in the building north of the bank.

The 99 cape costs 150K Gp and comes with a matching hood. Both the Fletching cape and hood give +9 bonus to all defense stats.

If you reach 350m experience in the Fletching skill you will also unlock the ability to buy the Master Fletching Cape. It is exactly the same as the normal Skill cape. However, you can adjust the trim colour to whatever you like. This cape costs 2.5m Gp.