Simple Arrow

General

Item Type

Tool

Wintermute

No

Renewable

Yes (Beachcombing)

Statistics

Weight
0.15 kg (0.33 lbs)

Harvest
1 × Arrowhead 2 × Crow Feather

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A home-made Arrow, created by combining an Arrow shaft with Crow feathers and an Arrowhead.

In-game description

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Simple Arrows are craftable ammunition items for Survival Bows.

Overview[]

Arrows are reusable ammunition for the Survival Bow. Arrows embed themselves in most soft targets when fired from a bow. Simple Arrows may occasionally be found in hunting blinds or near carcasses.

Simple arrows are one of three arrow types currently in the game, they have an easily accessible recipe and are very effective against all types of Wildlife. Fire Hardened Arrows are even easier to craft, but are only capable of killing small game animals such as Rabbits and Ptarmigans and are very brittle. Manufactured Arrows are the most difficult arrow type to obtain; requiring the completion of Sutherland's first special request before they can be traded for, then up to 10 arrows can be bought each time. They are a pure upgrade from the simple arrow and inflict 12.5% more damage and are twice as durable, but are not available on interloper or misery.

Wear[]

The total durability of arrows is variable and depends on a material table to determine it's condition loss; with the hardness of the material and the angle at which the arrow impacts the target determining the amount of degradation received. After a hit takes the arrow's condition below 0% it will break and turn into a Broken Arrow then fall to the ground where it may be retrieved and harvested for 1 Arrowhead and 2 Crow Feathers.

Arrow condition loss on Impact (Increased by perpendicular hits)[]

Material	Snow	Flesh	Wood	Stone/Metal
Condition Loss	4%	24%	30%	55%

Ricochet[]

Arrows hitting hard surfaces will bounce off. Bounces off hard vertical surfaces can be hard to predict and may even return back toward the player. Glancing bounces are a common occurrence when arrows hit horizontal surfaces, especially ice. These glancing arrows carry a lot of their original momentum through the bounce and can travel 15 or more meters further along their original trajectory, far out of sight of the player. In this case, arrows can be very difficult to locate for players that do not know how far they actually can bounce.