Fletching training

Fletching is the skill of making bows, crossbows and ammunition: you cut logs into bows, stocks and shafts with a knife, string bows, and put arrows, javelins, darts and bolts together. This guide shows where and how to train it on Roat Pkz, how much experience everything gives and how Fletching earns skilling points. Fletching gives double experience in the Resource Area and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, and magic and redwood logs can only be fletched in the Wilderness from level 30 and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.

Quick guide

Levels	Method	Where
1–10	Arrow shafts from logs	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
10–25	Longbows from logs, then string them	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
25–40	Oak longbows, strung	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
40–55	Willow longbows, strung	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
55–70	Maple longbows, strung	Anywhere outside the Wilderness
70–85	Yew longbows, strung; magic shortbows from level 80	Anywhere; magic logs in the Resource Area
85–99	Magic longbows, strung	Resource Area, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons

Cutting a bow and then stringing it gives experience twice for every log, and the Fletching Tutor pays more for the strung bow than the log and bow string cost. Gem-tipped bolts, arrows and javelins give more experience for your time but need tips, heads or gems; see Best experience.

How Fletching works

• Cutting logs: use a knife on logs and choose a bow, a crossbow stock or shafts. Your character cuts one log every 3 ticks (1.8 seconds) until you run out. The knife must be in your inventory.
• Stringing: use a bow string on an unstrung bow, or a crossbow string on an unstrung crossbow. Every bow takes 2 ticks (1.2 seconds).
• Crossbows: use crossbow limbs from Smithing on a stock to make an unstrung crossbow, 3 ticks each.
• Arrows and javelins: you add feathers to 15 arrow shafts to make 15 headless arrows, arrowtips to 15 headless arrows, or javelin heads to 15 javelin shafts. Every set of 15 takes 2 ticks, and one click makes up to 10 sets.
• Darts and bolts: you add feathers to dart tips or unfinished bolts, 10 at a time. They are made the moment you use the items on each other.
• Gem-tipped bolts: use a chisel on a cut gem to make 12 bolt tips (5 ticks), then add 10 tips to 10 bolts (2 ticks per set of 10).
• Where you can fletch: anywhere, including the Wilderness. Magic and redwood logs and magic bows can only be fletched and strung in the Wilderness from level 30 and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. The Resource Area and the Royal and Divine dungeons give double experience.
• Wilderness: you need a combat level of at least 100 to fletch in the Wilderness, and other players can attack you there. Hardcore PvP accounts can only train Fletching in the Wilderness.

Rates per hour

The tables below show what every way of training gives per hour, so you can compare them:

• The hourly amounts are what an efficient player gets in real play: every inventory takes about 10 seconds to restock at the tutor on top of the fletching itself. That works out at about 1,828 bows strung, 1,647 logs cut or 955 logs cut and strung an hour. You get less if you restock slower or take breaks.
• Boosts: pick the boosts you have in the bar above each table: a Double XP or Double Harvest scroll (or the Well of Goodwill perk), the Fletching knife, the Fletching XP clan perk and your vote streak. Every table on the page then shows your rates with them, and your browser remembers what you picked. With nothing picked the tables show base rates. How the boosts add up is under Experience bonuses.
• XP/h is the experience you get an hour. XP/h Resource Area is the same in the Resource Area and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, where Fletching gives double experience. The rest of the Wilderness gives the normal amount.
• SKP/h is your profit in skilling points: what the tutors pay you for what you make, plus the points fletching gives, minus what you pay them for the logs, bows, strings, shafts and gems it uses up. A negative number is what the method costs you. Items no shop sells, such as limbs, arrowtips and bolts, count as free. It is the same everywhere, in the Wilderness too. Double Harvest doubles the extra skilling points that shafts, stringing, crossbows and bolt tips pay.
• PKP/h is that profit in PK points: right-click your skilling points and choose Claim-PKP to get 1 PK point for every 2 skilling points.

Bows

There are three ways to train with bows: cut logs and sell the unstrung bows (or stocks or shafts) to the Fletching Tutor, string unstrung bows you buy from the tutor, or cut logs and string the bows yourself. Stringing gives the same experience as cutting, except for the magic longbow (830 for cutting, 920 for stringing), and you need the same level for both. Magic logs, redwood logs and magic bows can only be fletched in the Wilderness from level 30 and in the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons, so their normal XP/h is for the Wilderness outside the Resource Area.

Cutting logs

Level	Item	Log	XP per log	SKP per log	Logs/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
1	15 arrow or javelin shafts	Logs	25	16	1,636	40,900	81,800	26,176	13,088
5	Shortbow (u)	Logs	25	20	1,647	41,175	82,350	32,940	16,470
9	Wooden stock	Logs	30	20	1,647	49,410	98,820	32,940	16,470
10	Longbow (u)	Logs	50	20	1,647	82,350	164,700	32,940	16,470
15	30 arrow or javelin shafts	Oak logs	75	24	1,636	122,700	245,400	39,264	19,632
20	Oak shortbow (u)	Oak logs	85	20	1,647	139,995	279,990	32,940	16,470
24	Oak stock	Oak logs	80	20	1,647	131,760	263,520	32,940	16,470
25	Oak longbow (u)	Oak logs	125	20	1,647	205,875	411,750	32,940	16,470
30	45 arrow or javelin shafts	Willow logs	100	32	1,636	163,600	327,200	52,352	26,176
35	Willow shortbow (u)	Willow logs	165	30	1,647	271,755	543,510	49,410	24,705
39	Willow stock	Willow logs	110	30	1,647	181,170	362,340	49,410	24,705
40	Willow longbow (u)	Willow logs	210	30	1,647	345,870	691,740	49,410	24,705
45	60 arrow or javelin shafts	Maple logs	150	40	1,636	245,400	490,800	65,440	32,720
50	Maple shortbow (u)	Maple logs	250	40	1,647	411,750	823,500	65,880	32,940
54	Maple stock	Maple logs	160	40	1,647	263,520	527,040	65,880	32,940
55	Maple longbow (u)	Maple logs	290	40	1,647	477,630	955,260	65,880	32,940
60	75 arrow or javelin shafts	Yew logs	200	58	1,636	327,200	654,400	94,888	47,444
65	Yew shortbow (u)	Yew logs	340	50	1,647	559,980	1,119,960	82,350	41,175
69	Yew stock	Yew logs	250	50	1,647	411,750	823,500	82,350	41,175
70	Yew longbow (u)	Yew logs	375	50	1,647	617,625	1,235,250	82,350	41,175
75	90 arrow or javelin shafts	Magic logs	600	250	1,636	981,600	1,963,200	409,000	204,500
78	Magic stock	Magic logs	700	135	1,647	1,152,900	2,305,800	222,345	111,172
80	Magic shortbow (u)	Magic logs	830	135	1,647	1,367,010	2,734,020	222,345	111,172
85	Magic longbow (u)	Magic logs	830	135	1,647	1,367,010	2,734,020	222,345	111,172
90	105 arrow or javelin shafts	Redwood logs	800	332	1,636	1,308,800	2,617,600	543,152	271,576

"SKP per log" is what the Fletching Tutor pays for the unstrung bow or stock minus what the log costs. Shafts pay back what the log is worth, partly in skilling points and partly as the shafts themselves (the tutor buys them back for 1 skilling point each), and add the profit in the table. Redwood logs can only be cut into shafts.

Stringing bows

Level	Bow	Unstrung bow costs	XP per bow	SKP per bow	Bows/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
5	→ Shortbow	40	25	10	1,828	45,700	91,400	18,280	9,140
10	→ Longbow	40	50	10	1,828	91,400	182,800	18,280	9,140
20	→ Oak shortbow	45	85	20	1,828	155,380	310,760	36,560	18,280
25	→ Oak longbow	45	125	20	1,828	228,500	457,000	36,560	18,280
35	→ Willow shortbow	80	165	25	1,828	301,620	603,240	45,700	22,850
40	→ Willow longbow	80	210	25	1,828	383,880	767,760	45,700	22,850
50	→ Maple shortbow	140	250	30	1,828	457,000	914,000	54,840	27,420
55	→ Maple longbow	140	290	30	1,828	530,120	1,060,240	54,840	27,420
65	→ Yew shortbow	350	340	35	1,828	621,520	1,243,040	63,980	31,990
70	→ Yew longbow	350	375	35	1,828	685,500	1,371,000	63,980	31,990
80	→ Magic shortbow	1,135	830	105	1,828	1,517,240	3,034,480	191,940	95,970
85	→ Magic longbow	1,135	920	105	1,828	1,681,760	3,363,520	191,940	95,970

You buy the unstrung bows and the bow strings (20 skilling points each) from the Fletching Tutor. Stringing pays back the unstrung bow and the string and adds 10 (normal bows) to 105 (magic bows) skilling points, which is the "SKP per bow". You need no knife or logs, so a trip is 13 bows and 13 strings.

Cutting and stringing

Level	Bow	Log	XP per log	SKP per log	Logs/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
5	Shortbow	Logs	50	30	955	47,750	95,500	28,650	14,325
10	Longbow	Logs	100	30	955	95,500	191,000	28,650	14,325
20	Oak shortbow	Oak logs	170	40	955	162,350	324,700	38,200	19,100
25	Oak longbow	Oak logs	250	40	955	238,750	477,500	38,200	19,100
35	Willow shortbow	Willow logs	330	55	955	315,150	630,300	52,525	26,262
40	Willow longbow	Willow logs	420	55	955	401,100	802,200	52,525	26,262
50	Maple shortbow	Maple logs	500	70	955	477,500	955,000	66,850	33,425
55	Maple longbow	Maple logs	580	70	955	553,900	1,107,800	66,850	33,425
65	Yew shortbow	Yew logs	680	85	955	649,400	1,298,800	81,175	40,587
70	Yew longbow	Yew logs	750	85	955	716,250	1,432,500	81,175	40,587
80	Magic shortbow	Magic logs	1,660	240	955	1,585,300	3,170,600	229,200	114,600
85	Magic longbow	Magic logs	1,750	240	955	1,671,250	3,342,500	229,200	114,600

Cutting and stringing each log yourself earns the profit of both: what the unstrung bow is worth over the log, and what stringing adds. It gives the most experience per log, but an inventory holds only 13 logs and 13 strings, so you make fewer bows an hour than when you only cut or only string.

Crossbows

Level	Crossbow	Made from	XP per crossbow	SKP per crossbow	Crossbows/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
9	Bronze crossbow (u)	Wooden stock, bronze limbs	120	−30	1,401	168,120	336,240	−42,030	−21,015
9	Bronze crossbow	Wooden stock, bronze limbs	180	10	875	157,500	315,000	8,750	4,375
39	Iron crossbow (u)	Willow stock, iron limbs	440	−60	1,401	616,440	1,232,880	−84,060	−42,030
39	Iron crossbow	Willow stock, iron limbs	660	24	875	577,500	1,155,000	21,000	10,500
54	Mithril crossbow (u)	Maple stock, mithril limbs	640	−110	1,401	896,640	1,793,280	−154,110	−77,055
54	Mithril crossbow	Maple stock, mithril limbs	960	35	875	840,000	1,680,000	30,625	15,312
69	Runite crossbow (u)	Yew stock, runite limbs	1,000	−310	1,401	1,401,000	2,802,000	−434,310	−217,155
69	Rune crossbow	Yew stock, runite limbs	1,500	−54	875	1,312,500	2,625,000	−47,250	−23,625

The (u) row is putting the limbs on the stock (13 a trip); the other row is making the crossbow and stringing it (9 a trip, as each needs a stock, limbs and a string). "SKP per crossbow" counts the stock at the Fletching Tutor's price, because you could sell it instead, and the limbs as free. Putting the crossbow together pays 10 to 40 skilling points and stringing it 60 to 276, so a rune crossbow earns less than selling the yew stock would. You smith the limbs with Smithing and string the unstrung crossbow with a crossbow string, which you can spin from flax with Crafting or buy from the Fletching Tutor for 20 skilling points.

Ammunition

Main articles: Ammunition, Javelins and Darts

Level	Ammunition	XP per set	Sets/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
1	15 headless arrows	75	2,857	214,275	428,550	−42,855	−21,428
1	15 bronze arrows	160	2,857	457,120	914,240	0	0
15	15 iron arrows	304	2,857	868,528	1,737,056	0	0
30	15 steel arrows	600	2,857	1,714,200	3,428,400	0	0
45	15 mithril arrows	904	2,857	2,582,728	5,165,456	0	0
60	15 adamant arrows	1,200	2,857	3,428,400	6,856,800	0	0
75	15 rune arrows	1,400	2,857	3,999,800	7,999,600	0	0
82	15 amethyst arrows	1,680	2,857	4,799,760	9,599,520	0	0
3	15 bronze javelins	180	2,857	514,260	1,028,520	−42,855	−21,428
17	15 iron javelins	360	2,857	1,028,520	2,057,040	−42,855	−21,428
32	15 steel javelins	900	2,857	2,571,300	5,142,600	−42,855	−21,428
47	15 mithril javelins	1,440	2,857	4,114,080	8,228,160	−42,855	−21,428
62	15 adamant javelins	1,800	2,857	5,142,600	10,285,200	−42,855	−21,428
77	15 rune javelins	2,232	2,857	6,376,824	12,753,648	−42,855	−21,428
84	15 amethyst javelins	2,520	2,857	7,199,640	14,399,280	−42,855	−21,428
10	10 bronze darts	45	3,000	135,000	270,000	0	0
22	10 iron darts	45	3,000	135,000	270,000	0	0
37	10 steel darts	187	3,000	561,000	1,122,000	0	0
52	10 mithril darts	280	3,000	840,000	1,680,000	0	0
67	10 adamant darts	375	3,000	1,125,000	2,250,000	0	0
81	10 rune darts	470	3,000	1,410,000	2,820,000	0	0
90	10 amethyst darts	550	3,000	1,650,000	3,300,000	0	0
9	10 bronze bolts	10	3,000	30,000	60,000	0	0
39	10 iron bolts	30	3,000	90,000	180,000	0	0
43	10 steel bolts	70	3,000	210,000	420,000	0	0
54	10 mithril bolts	100	3,000	300,000	600,000	0	0
61	10 adamant bolts	140	3,000	420,000	840,000	0	0
69	10 runite bolts	200	3,000	600,000	1,200,000	0	0

The experience is for a whole set: 15 arrows or javelins, or 10 darts or bolts. Arrows and javelins take 2 ticks a set and one click makes up to 10 sets. Darts and bolts are made the moment you use the items on each other; their rates assume a set about every 1.2 seconds, depending on how fast you click. Headless arrows and javelins use up 15 shafts a set, which the Fletching Tutor sells for 1 skilling point each; the other sets use only smithed parts, so they cost no skilling points. Before you add arrowtips, you make headless arrows from 15 arrow shafts and 15 feathers (level 1, 75 experience per 15). Javelins use javelin shafts and javelin heads, darts use dart tips and feathers, and bolts use unfinished bolts and feathers. You smith the arrowtips, javelin heads, dart tips and unfinished bolts with Smithing, and you make the amethyst tips and heads from amethyst with Crafting.

Gem-tipped bolts

Level	Action	XP per action	SKP per action	Actions/h	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h	PKP/h
12	→ 12 opal bolt tips	20	1	1,058	21,160	42,320	1,058	529
11	10 opal bolts (bronze bolts)	200	0	2,857	571,400	1,142,800	0	0
26	→ 12 jade bolt tips	30	−8	1,058	31,740	63,480	−8,464	−4,232
26	10 jade bolts (blurite bolts)	400	0	2,857	1,142,800	2,285,600	0	0
48	→ 12 topaz bolt tips	40	−20	1,058	42,320	84,640	−21,160	−10,580
48	10 topaz bolts (steel bolts)	800	0	2,857	2,285,600	4,571,200	0	0
56	→ 12 sapphire bolt tips	50	−30	1,058	52,900	105,800	−31,740	−15,870
56	10 sapphire bolts (mithril bolts)	1,000	0	2,857	2,857,000	5,714,000	0	0
58	→ 12 emerald bolt tips	60	−40	1,058	63,480	126,960	−42,320	−21,160
58	10 emerald bolts (mithril bolts)	1,200	0	2,857	3,428,400	6,856,800	0	0
63	→ 12 ruby bolt tips	70	−50	1,058	74,060	148,120	−52,900	−26,450
63	10 ruby bolts (adamant bolts)	1,400	0	2,857	3,999,800	7,999,600	0	0
65	→ 12 diamond bolt tips	80	−86	1,058	84,640	169,280	−90,988	−45,494
65	10 diamond bolts (adamant bolts)	1,600	0	2,857	4,571,200	9,142,400	0	0
71	→ 12 dragonstone bolt tips	90	−130	1,058	95,220	190,440	−137,540	−68,770
71	10 dragonstone bolts (runite bolts)	1,800	0	2,857	5,142,600	10,285,200	0	0
73	→ 12 onyx bolt tips	100	−226	1,058	105,800	211,600	−239,108	−119,554
73	10 onyx bolts (runite bolts)	2,000	0	2,857	5,714,000	11,428,000	0	0
76	10 amethyst broad bolts (broad bolts)	2,200	0	2,857	6,285,400	12,570,800	0	0

Cutting a gem into 12 bolt tips takes 5 ticks and pays 16 skilling points for an opal, up to 60 for an onyx. "SKP per action" takes off the Crafting Tutor's price for the cut gem, so only opal bolt tips make a profit. Tipping 10 bolts takes 2 ticks and costs no skilling points. You buy cut gems from the Crafting Tutor or cut them yourself with Crafting. Plain bolts can be spawned, or fletched from unfinished bolts.

Fletching shop

The Fletching Tutor at ::fletching sells these items for skilling points and buys all of them back for the same price:

	Normal	Oak	Willow	Maple	Yew	Magic	Redwood
Logs	20	25	50	100	300	1,000	2,000
Unstrung shortbow or longbow	40	45	80	140	350	1,135	–
Crossbow stock	40	45	80	140	350	1,135	–

The tutor also gives out knives and feathers for free and sells arrow shafts and javelin shafts for 1 skilling point each, bow strings and crossbow strings for 20 and the Fletching knife (10%) for 100,000. Items you buy with the Buy-X option come as banknotes; a Piles NPC turns them back into items in the Resource Area and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons. The Woodsman tutor sells logs for the same prices, and the Fletching Tutor also stands in the Resource Area and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.

Equipment

Knife and feathers

You need a knife in your inventory to cut logs and a feather for every arrow, dart and bolt. The Fletching Tutor gives both out for free. Cutting gems into bolt tips needs a chisel, which the Crafting Tutor gives out for free.

Fletching knife

Main article: Other experience items

The Fletching knife (10%) gives 10% more Fletching experience while you wield it in your weapon slot, for everything you fletch. Keep a normal knife in your inventory to cut logs. The Fletching Tutor sells it for 100,000 skilling points. It has no level requirement and cannot be traded.

Experience bonuses

Everything you fletch gives the experience in the tables above, raised by these bonuses. Pick them in the bar above any table to see your rates with them.

Bonus	Effect
Fletching knife (10%)	+10%
Resource Area, Royal and Divine skilling dungeons	+100%: double experience
Vote streak	+1% for every day in a row you have voted, up to +50% (::votestreak shows yours)
Fletching XP (10%) clan perk	The total is multiplied by 1.1
Double XP scroll or the Well of Goodwill's Double XP perk	The total is doubled

The knife, Resource Area and vote streak bonuses are added together first, and the clan perk and double experience multiply the result. For example, a magic longbow (u) gives 830 experience. In the Resource Area it gives 1,660, with the Fletching knife 1,743 (830 × 2.1), and with a 50-day vote streak as well 2,158 (× 2.6). The clan perk raises that to 2,373 and double experience to 4,747. The rest of the Wilderness gives normal Fletching experience.

Level boosts

Your boosted Fletching level counts for the level requirements:

• An Indomitable Skiller scroll sets your Fletching level to 99 for an hour, so you can fletch magic longbows at any level. A Skill Boost scroll raises it by 25 levels for an hour. Both are on the Scrolls page.
• The Royal skilling dungeon boosts your skills by 15 levels and the Divine Skilling Zone by 25 levels, up to 99, while you are inside.

Other scrolls

• The Double Harvest scroll and the Well of Goodwill's Double Harvest perk double the extra skilling points that cutting shafts, stringing, crossbows and bolt tips pay (pick Double Harvest in the bar above the tables to see your profit with it), and every dart and bolt action gives twice as many darts or bolts.

Where to train

Location	Getting there	XP	Notes
Skilling Zone	::fletching	Normal	Safe. The Fletching Tutor stands next to the bank in the woodcutting area. You can fletch anywhere else outside the Wilderness too, except magic and redwood logs.
Resource Area	Wilderness level 51–54, see Getting there	Double	Fletching Tutor and Piles. Magic and redwood logs. Entry fee.
Royal skilling dungeon	Teleport interface (Royal Skilling Zone)	Double, +15 levels	Fletching Tutor and Piles. Magic and redwood logs. Royal Donators only; other players there can attack you.
Divine Skilling Zone	Teleport interface	Double, +25 levels	Fletching Tutor and Piles. Magic and redwood logs. Divine Donators only; other players there can attack you.
AFK Skilling zone	::afkskilling	–	AFK flax; see AFK Fletching.

Skilling Island (safe zone)

Fletching yew longbows in a fletching cape and Robin Hood hat at the Skilling Zone (::fletching)
Safe area

Royal & Divine Donators

The Royal skilling dungeon Fletching Tutor, a few steps from the bonfire
Not in the Wilderness, but a donator PvP dungeon: other players can attack you

The rest of the Wilderness gives normal experience, and you can fletch magic and redwood logs anywhere from level 30, for example in the Donator Dungeon. Every Wilderness spot and the Royal and Divine dungeons are dangerous: you lose your items when you die, as described on Items Kept on Death.

Skilling points

Fletching earns skilling points in several ways, and you keep what you make unless you sell it back:

• Unstrung bows and stocks sell to the Fletching Tutor for more than the log costs: 20 skilling points more for logs and oak logs, 30 for willow, 40 for maple, 50 for yew and 135 for magic logs.
• Stringing pays back the unstrung bow and the bow string and adds 10 (normal bows) to 105 (magic bows) skilling points. A strung magic bow made from a bought log earns 240 skilling points in total.
• Shafts pay back the log and add 16 (logs) to 332 (redwood logs) skilling points.
• Crossbows pay 10 to 40 skilling points when you put them together and 60 to 276 when you string them.
• Bolt tips pay 16 to 60 skilling points for every gem.
• You can turn skilling points into PK points at 2 skilling points for 1 PK point.

Training by level

The numbers of logs below count cutting and stringing each bow, without the Fletching knife or other bonuses.

Carving a log into a bow with a knife, in the fletching cape and hood at the Edgeville home area

Levels 1–10: arrow shafts

Cut logs into arrow shafts (25 experience per log); you need about 47 logs to reach level 10. From level 5 you can also cut and string shortbows.

Levels 10–70: longbows

Cut longbows and string them: 100 experience per log from level 10, 250 per oak log from 25, 420 per willow log from 40 and 580 per maple log from 55. From 10 to 70 that is about 70 logs, 120 oak logs, 310 willow logs and 990 maple logs. Every log you turn into a strung bow also earns 30 to 70 skilling points. Shortbows need fewer levels but give less experience, so switch to the longbow of each log as soon as you can.

Levels 70–85: yew longbows

Yew longbows give 750 experience per log, cut and strung, and 85 skilling points of profit. From 70 to 85 you need about 3,360 yew logs. From level 80 you can fletch magic shortbows in the Resource Area instead: 3,320 experience per log there, cut and strung.

Levels 85–99: magic longbows

Magic longbows give 830 experience for cutting and 920 for stringing, 3,500 per log in the Resource Area or the Royal and Divine dungeons, and 240 skilling points of profit. From 85 to 99 you need about 2,790 magic logs there. The Fletching Tutor in the Resource Area sells magic logs, so you never have to leave.

Gem-tipped bolts

From level 65, diamond bolts give more experience for your time than yew longbows, and dragonstone bolts (71) and onyx bolts (73) even more. One onyx gives 12 bolt tips (100 experience) and 12 onyx bolts (2,400 experience). Gem bolts cost skilling points instead of earning them, because you use up the gems.

Best rates

Most experience

Action	Level	XP/h	XP/h Resource Area	SKP/h
15 amethyst javelins	84	7,199,640	14,399,280	−42,855
15 rune javelins	77	6,376,824	12,753,648	−42,855
10 amethyst broad bolts	76	6,285,400	12,570,800	0
10 onyx bolts	73	5,714,000	11,428,000	0
15 adamant javelins	62	5,142,600	10,285,200	−42,855
10 dragonstone bolts	71	5,142,600	10,285,200	0
15 amethyst arrows	82	4,799,760	9,599,520	0
10 diamond bolts	65	4,571,200	9,142,400	0

Ammunition gives the most experience for your time, but you need the tips, heads or gems first: smithing or crafting them takes longer than the fletching itself, and gems and amethyst cost skilling points. Of the bows, stringing bought magic longbows gives the most experience an hour, about 1,681,760 base experience (3,363,520 in the Resource Area).

Most skilling points

Action	Level	SKP/h	PKP/h	XP/h
105 arrow or javelin shafts (from redwood logs)	90	543,152	271,576	1,308,800
90 arrow or javelin shafts (from magic logs)	75	409,000	204,500	981,600
Cut and string magic shortbows	80	229,200	114,600	1,585,300
Cut and string magic longbows	85	229,200	114,600	1,671,250
Magic stock (from magic logs)	78	222,345	111,172	1,152,900
Magic shortbow (u) (from magic logs)	80	222,345	111,172	1,367,010
Magic longbow (u) (from magic logs)	85	222,345	111,172	1,367,010
String bought magic shortbows	80	191,940	95,970	1,517,240
String bought magic longbows	85	191,940	95,970	1,681,760
75 arrow or javelin shafts (from yew logs)	60	94,888	47,444	327,200

Shafts from magic and redwood logs earn the most skilling points, followed by magic bows. All of these need the Wilderness from level 30 or the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons; outside them, yew shafts and yew bows earn the most.

AFK Fletching

Main article: AFK Skilling

In the AFK Skilling zone (::afkskilling) you can train Fletching at the AFK flax without any logs once you have level 50 Fletching. You do not make anything or earn skilling points, and the experience is lower than active Fletching, but your character keeps working while you are away and you earn AFK Tokens for the AFK Skilling Shop. The Fletching knife, vote streak, clan perk and double experience count there too. Divine Donators also have AFK flax in their own zone.

AFK fletching at the flax patch in the AFK Skilling Zone (::afkskilling) - pick flax and string bows for AFK tokens
Safe area

Other rewards

• Pet: while you fletch you can receive the Quetzin skilling pet. It comes more often in the Wilderness and the Royal and Divine skilling dungeons.
• Clue scrolls and Skilling Crates: you can also receive clue scrolls and Skilling Crates while fletching.
• Achievements give skilling points for your Fletching level and experience and for the number of logs and magic logs you cut into bows and stocks. Reaching level 99 also gives a Silver XP Lamp.
• Skillcapes: at level 99 you can wear the Fletching cape, which the Skilling Master in the Skilling Zone gives out for free. With 200 million Fletching experience you can buy the Fletching mastery cape from him for 200,000 PK points.

See also

• Ammunition
• Darts
• Javelins
• Woodcutting training
• Smithing training
• Crafting training
• Skilling outfits
• Skill training guides