Using cloth to make arrows instead of fethers

[vv [FuMM]]

Any one created a recipe to do this? I'm thinking using a piece of cloth etc to make an arrow is a good idea. Only using feathers dosn't seem that realistic to me.

Any suggestions of recipe? should a 1 cloth,1 wood and one arrow head be used or do people think cloth is too common and it should be 2 clothe etc?

If no one has I'll cut and paste something soonish.

[13334436565]

unless you are growing a cotton field... cloth would run out fast. 1000 arrows goes pretty quick but getting 1000 cloth in a whole game is about par. Assuming you take down every camp site and military tent to get the cloth from it... but if there is more than one person playing you would all end up starving for cloth. Every couch, bed, clothing item... I think you would still end up starving for cloth in a couple weeks.

[RageMojo]

plastic would make more sense than cloth fletching. You have it backwards, it is more realistic to require feathers.

[Oparator Stalker]

Wait a second, you say only using feathers dosen't seem realistic to you? Hold on let me get this straight... Since game wise you need a stone, wood and feathers for arrows anyway..
Original arrows of long ago used feathers and the modern arrow still uses feathers or feather style synthicitcs and you saying it is not realistic to use feathers? Really?.... out of curiosity, have you ever been to a real sports hunting shop of any kind regarding the use and making of a arrow?

I find plant made clothes more un-realistc than feather and arrows..

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Цитата допису RageMojo:

plastic would make more sense than cloth fletching. You have it backwards, it is more realistic to require feathers.

... and I agree... you need a more rigid wind guide like a feather or plastic... and what would happen to your cloth arrows in the rain?

[vv [FuMM]]

Ahh yes. I was confused by the term "clothshaft". Having revised what that actually means, (A clothshaft is a measure and not a construction type,) I agree that using plastic or aluminium? (think cans?) might work as well.

Only having one recipe is kind of annoying. I'm going to think about this some more.

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OMG... somebody made an error... admitted to it... and learned from his negative response without lashing out ... that is just... beautiful.

[Seraphin]

I made additional recipes for 1 cloth and 1 glue instead of 1 feather for each arrow and bold in A14.

Additionally I made a recipe for glue which used 1x corn meal and 1x bottle of water to simulate wallpaper adhesive. The idea behind was, the glue isn't used to fix cloth parts onto the arrow, but to harden the clothes used as feather.

We where independent from loot but it still felt ok because it was quite a lot of additional farming to do.
But if you loot corpses for bones, you may not even need the glue recipe.

It worked for us very well.


In A15 I didn't mod it anymore, as we didn't need it yet but still have plenty of feathers.
But now we are more people who play together most of the time, and hordes feel smaller in A15 than in A14.

[vv [FuMM]]

Hmm. I was thinking leather might be ok or thick hide. The argument about worrying about rain is only really important if your quiver gets wet I think.

At this stage I'm more interested in alternate ideas for substitute feathers. Crossbow bolts for example that I've seen look to only use 2 "aeroplane" like wings that arn't all that big on each bolt.

Arrows in this game seem to be one use and not multiple use. Metal arrow heads should be reuseable. Espically crossbow bolts that don't use barbs. I'd say it'd be nice to start having more arrow types like barbed etc.

I try to have conversations here and not fight people. Some times I can't help it and will pick on people though but I try not to yell and rather put across my point. You can't really have a decient conversation if every one is yelling. I don't really want to hang around places where people just fight. This isn't high school.

[Nerdy Dork]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletching

if it you server you can always make you own recipie

[Seraphin]

I think it would be a nice addition, if TFP would add accuracy and/or different ranges set for arrows and bolts.

Non-properly fletched arrows could gain an accuracy and/or range penalty.

As far as I know the very first arrows hadn't any fletches of any kind, even no feathers.
But their usability was limited due to a non stabilised flight.

[Mr. Moustache]

I'm not following you. How is using feathers not realistic? Not too long ago, nearly every arrow out there had feathers for the fletching. It doesn't seem like run-of-the-mill "cloth" would be rigid enough to provide any in-flight stability.

[Crazed Possum]

Paper for feathers............so simple yet effective.

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Цитата допису Crazed Possum:

Paper for feathers............so simple yet effective.

Paper is more abundant than plastic and still rigid enough for stability. I can see that as a substitute BUT ingame paper is not as abundant as feathers just like cloth is not as abundant as feathers. You would be starving for ammo in a week or two.

[Crazed Possum]

Цитата допису Apollyon78:

Цитата допису Crazed Possum:

Paper for feathers............so simple yet effective.

Paper is more abundant than plastic and still rigid enough for stability. I can see that as a substitute BUT ingame paper is not as abundant as feathers just like cloth is not as abundant as feathers. You would be starving for ammo in a week or two.

Then wood feathers.........anyone using wood knows you will end up with plenty of wooden slivers or peelings that would make good feathers.

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Цитата допису Crazed Possum:

Then wood feathers.........anyone using wood knows you will end up with plenty of wooden slivers or peelings that would make good feathers.

Now that... that is a viable and readily available alternative. Wood is not so brittle when you first cut it from a live tree and its obviously rigid. It can be shaved and sculpted. Well done.