

I made the bow, and made like 22 arrows, wich took around 20 hours of game time to make, having to go back and foward through forges, and my main base, with a ton of scrap metal, and coal, and finding wood, and finding hammers, and finding barch trees, also got this ridiculous condition called cabin fever while making them, and to pass it i made a snow shelter outside my base, and slept there for hours untill it was gone, i know whats more confortable than staying indoors in my warm house, its staying in a snow hole for hours right next to it.Īnd to avoid this condition i just started sleeping outside my house in the snow hole, wich is dumb. This is less reliable if you transition while the animal is bleeding out.Originally posted by russmiller4445:Icarus, did you get the bow to work for you? Arrows can fall out of an animal you shot and will be near where the pathed wihle running around, but they will usually stay stuck in the animal and you can find them on the corpse.

If condition is low it will break on impact (but still does its damage) and you should be able to pick up the broken arrow with ease. Each arrow loses condition every time you fire it. I find it equally likely to get a body shot as a head shot against a charging wolf, but the struggle after getting a body shot is usually very short.Īrrows aren't really saved by chance. The bow only 1 shots wolves and deer with a head shot or crit, otherwise you have to wait for them to bleed out or hit with a 2nd shot. For wolves a single body or head shot will kill them.


It doesn't matter much for bears, since you can shoot them once and wait for them to bleed out with either weapon. You used to be able to do this with the bow if you were really quick, but that went away with the first person presence stuff.Īiming is fairly easy with either, but is a little harder with bow becuase of distance. The rifle is massively superior defensively, you can fire it after a wolf has decided to charge.
