The Fletcher's Forge: An Arrow Enchantment Mod [WIP]

[AtlasEXE]

I've browsed the nexus and I've noticed that there is a lack of mods related to creating arrows with magical effects. The closest I could find from other sources was DarkFox127's enchanted arrow mod. It was an awesome idea, though for some reason he hasn't posted it here.

 

I'm working on my own enchanted arrow mod as well with the following features:

 

- A workbench dedicated not only to enchanting arrows currently in your inventory, but also crafting arrows. Handy for those who don't have Dawnguard nor wish to purchase it.

- Several different enchantments, including standard ones such as fire, frost, shock and soul trap and special ones that require recipes that are found as random loot.

- Most enchantments has varying levels of strength.

- A special vendor dedicated to selling enchanted arrows and crafting materials for them.

- Optional Dawnguard and Dragonborn support.

- The ability to easily incorporate arrows from others mods into this one.

 

How the system works:

 

Arrows are enchanted with specialized crystals. These crystals can be crafted at a smelter using filled soul gems and certain ingredients. For example, Fire Salts + Filled Soul Gem = Fire Crystal. The better the soul gem, the more crystals you can gain from this process. For example, using a grand soul gem yields 5 crystals, while a petty soul gem only yields one.

 

Once you have the crystals, you can take it and the arrows you wish to enchant to the arrow crafting bench. These workbenches are located near the blacksmith in every hold capital (except Winterhold, since most of the town is dead) as well as a few other places around Skyrim The more crystals you use to enchant the arrow, the stronger it will be. Each crafting yields 24 arrows, so with 5 crystals, you can either make one set of strong arrows or five sets of weaker arrows.

 

You can use the workbench to create arrows straight away, using the same materials as you would in Dawnguard. However, to start making crystals and enchanting arrows, you'll need to have the book "Fletching for Complete Idiots" in your inventory, which can be bought from the Drunken Huntsman or the Fletcher in Solitude.

 

Currently, the types of arrows I plan to have on the first release are the following:

 

Fire Arrows

Frost Arrows

Shock Arrows

Poison Arrows

Light Arrows (Places a light on the target and deals extra damage to the undead)

Soul Trap Arrows

Anti-Magic Arrows

Anti-Stamina Arrows

Frenzy Arrows

Vampiric Arrows

Orc-Slaying Arrows.

 

Although I've played around with the Creation Kit quite a bit and have about 6 months of experience with it under my belt, this is the first mod I plan to release. Feedback is greatly appreciated.