Wooden Arrows

[Deez 47]

Since flint is so valuable in a multiplayer environment, I propose that an alternative recipe for arrows to be added. They should only really require a stick and a feather, and possibly a knife or something to widdle one end into a point.

[Devlin 51]

um where have you gotten your info? there is a reason wooden arrows were practicaly never used, for one they break practicaly on contack barely penetrating the skin, they are often dull which means that most never even penetrated the skin. and due to the light nature of wood, they would be impossible to control, first there is the need for counter balancing, then there is the fact that to counter balance a wooden arrow would require the arrow to be nearly twice its length which leaves to much room for flaws, bends and other imperfections for it to even be feasible. i suggest instead that we keep the current arrow recipie but also add a way to make metal arrow heads, maybe even metal bows and metal sticks to use for fully metal arrown and crossbow bolts, thus creating more ways of getting arrows and not making it too overly easy. also most tiny shapped metal objects take alot of skill to make so making tinyt things like arrowheads and nauls should take atleast alot of hammering, maybe 2 stages if you can figure out how it would be done, possibly breaking ingots up into Metal Bits?

[Deez 47]

Yeah the wooden ones are just the first tier really. Wooden arrows will be replaced by stone, replaced by metals, and yeah.

[Lancezh 8]

why not make a new tool called "arrow heads" can be crafted out of iron or so and has a 100 uses together with 1 stick, 1 feather.

[Devlin 51]

how about they just add fletching? the skill of creating arrows and bows?

[Crysyn 179]

um where have you gotten your info? there is a reason wooden arrows were practicaly never used, for one they break practicaly on contack barely penetrating the skin, they are often dull which means that most never even penetrated the skin. and due to the light nature of wood, they would be impossible to control, first there is the need for counter balancing, then there is the fact that to counter balance a wooden arrow would require the arrow to be nearly twice its length which leaves to much room for flaws, bends and other imperfections for it to even be feasible.

Sorry man but

1) Never used - Wrong, we have no way of telling this for the same reason we cant tell what type of wood all those ancient arrow heads were attached to, they degrade the stone arrow head is all that is left and that is what we find.

2) Break on contact barely penetrating the skin - Wrong again. Headless but sharpened arrows penetrate about an inch or so less than one with the common broad arrowhead we all know and love. What is different here is the size of the wound however. Wooden arrows leave a fairly small entry wound that would reduce the chance of a creature dying because of bleeding or bleeding that much at all really. THis is where the headed arrows do have an advantage.

3) Do not penetrate skin - See above in general but for point of consideration it takes like what, 1-2 pounds of force to break human skin? most animals we would hunt might take a bit more but not a large amount (We make and strengthen leather from their skin, but it is not found that strong while the creature is alive )

4) and due to the light nature of wood, they would be impossible to control, first there is the need for counter balancing, then there is the fact that to counter balance a wooden arrow would require the arrow to be nearly twice its length which leaves to much room for flaws, bends and other imperfections for it to even be feasible.

This is along one but ultimately the one that made me write this response. Arrowheads are very small and very light. Even a large arrowhead is measured in ounces at most. Compared to the shaft of the arrow the head is marginal and is why arrows these days can be refitted with different heads and such with out you needing to do anything to the shafts. As for making them longer, well I have never heard of that. The arrows are sized to the bows and the pull on it, they are not a specific length just because of the head they have on them (note I said Just because of the head ). Lengthening the arrows would not be required.

Now, overall a headed arrow is more likely to lead to the death of the target over time as opposed to wooden arrows because of the wound size. This however is an overkill analysis for the realm of Minecraft and TFCraft in general. Wooden arrows sound like a valid option to me and would require the flint tool on to a carving knife (Which you can see on the wiki we already have art for) in order to craft them. This would yield slightly less damaging arrows (maybe it would take 1-2 more wooden ones) overall. I am -NOT- suggesting that we get wooden arrows in place of metal tipped arrows. Things need to progress through the tiers and that includes metal arrowheads. But an alternate when Flint is just a rare resource is not a bad idea either.