Making Crossbow Bolts

[J0hnm13 15]

I made a post yesterday about crossbows, and it didn't do too bad.. My idea today is another simple and awesome idea for those of us who love and hate the crossbow: Crafting your own bolts!

You're running through the woods. You take your hatchet and hack some branches off of a tree. Instead of that big clunky pile of logs only being used to make a firepit, what if we could make ourselves a few crossbow bolts instead?

Wooden Bolt - Functions exactly the same as a Steel Bolt, but does half damage. According to DayZDB, the crossbow as it is does 3555 blood damage. The wooden bolt could do 1000 or 1500 something along those lines. Possibly an accuracy drop as well?

Arma already has a system for putting one kind of ammo in a different gun; Just look at the PDW or the shotguns with interchangable slugs/pellets.

The combining system is a very very incredible thing if you take it for what it's worth. The fletchings could be made with chicken feathers. The process would be as follows: Kill a chicken. In it's inventory is always an item called "feathers." You run into the woods, hack up some firewood. Right click on your hunting knife. Click 'Whittlie Bolt Shafts' which will give you a "Bundle of Bolt Shafts." Then all you do is right click on the bolt shafts or the feathers, and "Make Bolts." This would remove the shafts and remove the feathers, and give you three wooden bolts.

Basically all it would need would be a little bit of elbow grease, coding, possibly some icon design, and that's it~ Perpetual crossbow ammunition. With a supply of homemade ammunition, the crossbow would be a much more useable weapon.

[bad_mojo (DayZ) 1204]

I have my doubts that a person could fashion a useable crossbow bolt out of sticks in a forest. If it was a basic bow or something simple, sure, but it's a compound crossbow.

from wikipedias compound bow article...

Wooden arrows are not recommeded for use with compound bows due to the higher overall forces that are applied to the arrow being more likely to break the arrow, possibly driving parts of the broken arrow shaft into an archer's arm.

Edit: I do like the idea tho, I just think another bow could be added in order to use the arrows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GwJudQdsMY

Edited November 3, 2012 by bad_mojo