How to correctly use the bow and arrow?

[Greep]

I find the bow and arrow just doesn't shoot a lot of the time, but haven't been in many situations where I can practice a lot. I needed to take down a griefer after their slow time was up and could not due to inexperience. I've looked this up online and found very little, and some seems to be false.

It seems with a bit of practice and one or two succesful fires (only good time I found was as an eve in an abandoned village. Sorry baby target practice :3) as if you need to rght click for it to fire? Do you need to target a specific part of the victim? I also read online that you need to be one tile away which seems like a myth, but the darned thing doesn't fire a lot so maybe it isn't.

[Xandor]

You can use bow on wolf, boar, and bear (and another big animal that idk what it is called, and goose but goose should not be shot other than for making a Steel File).

You can shoot at a distance, when I hunt animals I wait until they stop then click them (so I don't risk moving toward them just as they move and have them run into me), trying to be maybe 3-5 tiles away from them.
If you are too far away you move towards the target then attacks (same when using knife on snakes).

I have never attacked a player, but I expect it to be a lot harder to hit since if they move then you can end up moving instead of attacking.
I doubt there would be any different mechanics of where you have to press or distance against players.

[Greep]

Ah okay.

Also, apparently I missed on the start screen, kill is listed as one of the few things using right click.

[Tarr]

Bow has a range of three so attempting to shoot outside that range (with zoomout or whatever) will instead force you to run right next to whatever you are trying to shoot before it shoots.

Try not to shoot at people in a cluttered area as if you fire at a time with an item on the ground and miss your intended target your arrow will be lost (deleted).

Clicking on the tile is the same as right clicking the person so if you are bad at clicking people instead attempt to aim at the empty ground.

[Greep]

Alright, someone who's looked at the code should update the wiki. I'd add this information myself, but there's so much misinformation regarding bows out there I don't feel confident.

[Kazmeister]

Originally posted by Xandor:

You can use bow on wolf, boar, and bear (and another big animal that idk what it is called, and goose but goose should not be shot other than for making a Steel File).

You can shoot at a distance, when I hunt animals I wait until they stop then click them (so I don't risk moving toward them just as they move and have them run into me), trying to be maybe 3-5 tiles away from them.
If you are too far away you move towards the target then attacks (same when using knife on snakes).

I have never attacked a player, but I expect it to be a lot harder to hit since if they move then you can end up moving instead of attacking.
I doubt there would be any different mechanics of where you have to press or distance against players.

Bison is the other one, but you forgot Moufflon.

For geese, you just grab an egg, drop it in sheep poo, and when it hatches you pick it up, drop it on a stump, and axe it's little head off. Gotta be quick with the axe though. Domestic geese are actually a pretty good food source, like omelettes but they work twice. But first you need to have domestic sheep and an axe. By then you're usually in the pie business anyway.