Runescape Fletching Guide

1. Introduction To Fletching
Fletching is one of the most respected skills in Runescape because of its fast xp gain, makes a lot of money and can make you rich with the right skills. So do you want to know what fletching is? Well Fletching is a skill that lets you make your own ranging weapons, including special bolts, arrows, bows, and darts. And all you just need is an axe (for cutting trees) and a Knife for your basic equipment.

2. Skills Needed To Do More In This Skill
The skills you mostly want to have since these will make fletching easier are woodcutting (to get the wood), smithing (to get the arrow heads, etc.), mining (getting ores for bars), combat (to get the feathers from the chickens!), and magic (to alch the bows for $).

3. Making Arrows
First off you will have to start to make arrows. (When you cut one log you will get 15 arrow shafts per log.)

Get your woodcutting axe to cut a normal tree
After that get your knife out and use the knife on the log and you will get a menu up and pick the arrow shafts. Then get feathers from chickens, kill them, take their feathers and use the shafts on the feathers or vice-versa. Go get your pickaxe and go mine tin and copper ores (id this is your first time) and make them into bars and smith them into arrow tips (requires 5 smithing). Finally use the arrow tips on the headless arrows and you got your arrows!!! Here is a table of all the other arrows and what smithing levels you need to smith the arrow heads.

Arrow Table
Pic Name Fletching lvl Exp. Lvl for Smith

15 Arrow shafts 1 5 N/A

15 Headless Arrows 1 15 N/A

15 Bronze Arrows 1 39.5 5

15 Iron Arrows 15 57.5 20

15 Steel Arrows 30 95 35

15 Mithrill Arrows 45 132.5 55

15 Adamant Arrows 60 165 75

15 Rune Arrows 75 225 90

4. Making Bows
Well when you finally reach level 5 you can start making bows! Making bows is one of the most simplest thing to do and gets your XP up fast by doing this. This is how most people make most of there money and get millions of gp!!!! So here below is how to make bows.

At level 5, start by getting a full inventory of normal logs Then get your knife out of the bank and cut all of the logs into unstrung short bows Go to Seers Village and pick flax and after go to a spinning wheel and spin the flax (lvl 5 crafting required) to make bow string Use the bow string with the bow and to make a strung short bow Bow Table Pic Name Fletching lvl Exp.

Short bow 5 10

Long Bow 20 20

Oak Short Bow 33 33

Oak Long Bow 25 50

Willow Short Bow 35 66.5

Willow Long Bow 40 83

Maple Short Bow 50 100

Maple long Bow 55 116.5

Yew Short Bow 65 135

Yew Long Bow 70 150

Magic Short Bow 80 166.5

Magic Long Bow 85 183

5. Making Special Bolts
Think only fletching is for making arrows and bows? Wrong!!! You can also make special bolts that is more powerful then the regular bolt. You can make 3 different bolts: Opal Tipped, Pearl Tipped, and Barbed Tipped Bolts. Below is 3 small guides how to make them.

Note: You can only get normal bolts from the archery shops in Varrock and Catherby, as well as from monster drops. Also respawns are in some laces in the wilderness.

Opal Tipped Bolts:

Go to Shilo Village and mine some of the gem rocks there. You will need to have finished the Shilo Village Quest to get in. Use a chisel with the Opal(s) to cut, and once more to make Opal Tips. You get 2 tips per gem. Use the Opal Tips with some normal bolts, and you'll have Opal Tipped Bolts.

Pearl Tipped Bolts:

Go fish some Oysters (hard to get some that have a pearl in them, but just keep trying). When you have an Oyster with a pearl in it, use a chisel on it and you'll get a pearl. Use the chisel on it again and you'll have some Pearl Tips. Each pearl gives 2 tips. Use the Pearl Tips on a normal bolt, and you have some Pearl Tipped Bolts. Barbed Tipped Bolts

Go to the Ranged Guild and shoot at the targets until you have 140 tickets. Go exchanged your tickets for 30 Barb Tips. Use your Barb Tips on some normal bolts, and you'll have some Barbed Tipped Bolts.
Bolt Table
Pic Name Fletching lvl Exp.

2 Opal Tipped Bolts 17 6

2 Pearl Tipped Bolts 33 12.5

30 Barbed Tipped Bolts 51 95

6. Making Darts
Darts is the last item that you can make in Fletching. People don't really make darts since they are hard to make but not that hard since all you have to do is get some dart tips and put some feathers on them.

Note: You need to have done Tourist Trap Quest to make Darts.

Darts-Table
Pic Name Fletching lvl Exp. Smithing lvl

Bronze Darts 1 18 4

Iron Dart 22 22 19

Steel Dart 37 75 34

Mithrill Dart 52 112 54

Adamant dart 67 150 74

Rune Dart 81 188 89

7. Training Fletching
So.. do you want to know where the best place to train fletching at huh? I will give it to you since you all read my article on fletching.

Level-1-10
I know you think I am crazy bout making shafts is the fastest way. Just go to Draynor Forest and cut trees there but don't forget to bring your knife.

Levels-10-25
Making Long bows are going to be the easiest way to get to level 25. go to Draynor Forest and cut trees there.

Level-25-40
Make Oak long bows in? guess? Draynor Forest.

Level-40-55
Make Willow long Bows next to Draynor Market.

Level-55-70
Make maple Long Bows at Seers Village

Level-70-99
Now you can make Yew Long Bows at Seers Village