Every Arrow in Enshrouded: Types & What to Craft

The bulk of your shooting is plain piercing arrows. Each rung is tipped with a better metal and comes at a higher level, so move up as your bow level rises. The Hunter crafts every rung but the first; the Wooden Arrow is made by hand from twigs. Ordinary arrows stack to 500. The last column is the craft: its materials and the number of arrows it gives.

Each metal has a poisoned twin: 6 Poisoned Arrows, half piercing and half poison damage. The game's text says what the poison adds: the lowest, Poisoned Copper Arrow, does 8 damage a second for 5 seconds; the highest, Poisoned Celestium Arrow, does 30.

They are not made from raw materials. Each craft starts from 25 of the matching plain arrows plus a poison ingredient, and gives 25: Poisoned Copper Arrow (level 15), Poisoned Bronze Arrow (level 20), Poisoned Iron Arrow (level 27), Poisoned Steel Arrow (level 35), Poisoned Golden Steel Arrow (level 44), Poisoned Celestium Arrow (level 50). So you craft the plain stack first.

4 fire arrows with an area effect: Explosive Arrow I (level 15), Explosive Arrow II (level 27), Explosive Arrow III (level 44), Exploding Arrow IV (level 50). Their text is short (“A Special Arrow that delivers an explosive surprise”), but the files give them an area effect and far more terrain damage than a plain arrow has. They are made from 25 Flint Arrows plus materials; the recipe for Explosive Arrow I is 25× Flint Arrow, 10× Tar, 5× Lump of Clay.

Use them against groups. Against one target, a plain arrow of the same level is cheaper.

Shroud Arrows (Shroud Arrow I, level 15; Shroud Arrow II, level 35; Shroud Arrow III, level 50) deal Shroud damage and disperse a cloud of it on impact: use them on enemies that take extra Shroud damage, which the weakness chart in the enemies section shows.

Bone arrows are blunt damage and, per the game's text, “pierce hit targets to harm multiple foes”. The Collector crafts them: Bone Arrow (15), Giant Bone Arrow I (20), Giant Bone Arrow II (27), Giant Bone Arrow III (35), Giant Bone Arrow IV (38). The Blunt Arrow (level 47, from the Hunter) is the late blunt option.

The Stun Arrow (level 20) is the odd one: it deals little damage but hits the target with massive force to increase the enemies' Stun Bar until they eventually become overpowered. Its damage multiplier is 0.1, a fifth of the others'. Use it to open an enemy for a Merciless Attack, the melee finisher that hits an overpowered enemy; see the skill tree.

The Flare Arrow (level 10) “leaves a flare at the point of impact” for scouting in the dark. The files list no damage type for it.

Our advice, built on the rules above, not a file value: one stack of the best plain arrow your level allows, one stack of its poisoned twin for tough single targets, and a handful of explosive arrows for groups. Add Stun Arrows only if you fight with Merciless Attacks.

Once you have the Mana for it, swap the plain stack for an Eternal Arrow and keep the plain stack as a fallback: see how to get Eternal Arrows. Bows are listed under bows, and all 44 arrows are in the weapon database. Which survivor to rescue first for crafting: the quest order.

The full list for reference, in level order. Athalan Skree (Hunter) makes most of them.