Osrs how to make bolts

Required by crossbows as ammunition, bolts are hard-hitting arrow-like weapons that can also be enchanted. Variety is the spice of life and this ammunition types has it in spades, with dozens of variants being available to players.

Regardless of your intention, if you’re using or planning on using a crossbow, you need to know which bolts are the best.

This list will provide you all the info you need to make you the best crossbowman in the entirety of RuneScape!

10. Emerald Bolts

Enchanted Mithril Bolts, Emerald bolts are incredible. Upon hit, Emerald bolts have a 55% chance of applying the Magical Poison debuff, dealing 5 extra poison damage. You can even complete the Kandarin Diary quest to increase this chance by 10%!

Ranged Bonus: 85

Grand Exchange price: 201

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Enchant Mithril bolts with a magic level of 27 or buy them from the Grand Exchange.

9. Normal Broad-Tipped Bolts

A slayer level of 55 is required to fire this ammo type but it’s worth it, as they’re extremely easy to obtain while still dealing high damage. Mostly used for training purposes, few bolts in the game are as useful overall!

Ranged Bonus: 100

Grand Exchange price:  N/A

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Purchase them from any Slayer Master. Or purchase the ability to Fletch them and craft them with a Fletching level of 55.

8. Adamant Bolts

The first “ordinary” bolts on this list, Adamant bolts are higher than the previous entry due to the lack of a slayer level requirement. Additionally, Adamant crossbows can fire Adamant bolts, whereas only Rune crossbows or higher can fire the previous entry!

Ranged Bonus: 100

Grand Exchange price: 191

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Craft with a Smithing level of 73, dropped by Skeletal Wyverns or Iron Dragons. Or buy from the Grand Exchange.

7. Amethyst Broad-Tipped Bolts

Like the other broad-tipped bolts, a slayer level is required to equip this variant. With a very nice ranged bonus, Amethyst Broad-Tipped bolts are powerful indeed. Obtaining them in high amounts can be a pain though, significantly reducing how much I’d recommend stocking up on them.

Ranged Bonus: 115

Grand Exchange price: N/A

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Craft with a Fletching level of 76.

6. Runite Bolts

In terms of base damage bonuses, Runite bolts are unparalleled when it comes to free-to-play characters. Otherwise, it’s a nice ammunition type to help you succeed in your early adventures. Due to their very high cost, only use this bolt type in pvp or boss fights!

Ranged Bonus: 115

Grand Exchange price: 1014

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Craft with a Smithing level of 88. Or buy from the Grand Exchange. Plenty of monsters drop these bolts too, see the full list on the wikia.

5. Ruby Bolts

With just a smidgen higher ranged bonus over adamant bolts, Ruby bolts are an enchanted bolt variant with a cool effect. Upon landing on their target, Ruby bolts have a chance of activating the Blood Forfeit effect. Sacrificing 10% of your own HP to deal 20% of your opponent’s current HP, up to a maximum of 100. In pvp, the chance of this happening is 11%, compared to 6% in pve.

Extremely powerful against bosses, less so against players!

Ranged Bonus: 103

Grand Exchange price: 238

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Enchant Adamant bolts with a magic level of 49.

4. Diamond Bolts

Wielding the Armor Piercing enchantment, these bolts can increase the max by 15%, ignoring the defence of the opponent while reducing your accuracy slightly. Such an effect has an 5% chance of activating in pvp and a 10% chance in pve.

In pvp, using these bolts can result in some very nice easy kills!

Ranged Bonus: 105

Grand Exchange price: 299

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Enchant Adamant bolts with a magic level of 57.

3. Dragonstone Bolts

Yet another enchanted bolt and easily the best yet. Dragonstone bolts are arrows imbued with the power of dragonfire, having a chance of triggering the Dragon’s Breath effect. As you can imagine, this effect hurls dragonfire against the enemy, adding significant bonus damage depending on their defense. With little defensive stats, you can deal huge amounts of damage with this bolt type.

Ranged Bonus: 117

Grand Exchange price: 1777

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Enchant Adamant bolts with a magic level of 68. Revenants have a decent chance of dropping them too.

2. Dragon Bolts

Sporting the highest ranged bonus of any bolt in the entire game, Dragon bolts are an exceptional ammunition choice for your crossbow. Costing a surprisingly low price for their power, you should try to get your inventory full as they’re strong in all situations.

Ranged Bonus: 122

Grand Exchange price: 975

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Craft with a Fletching level of 84 or buy from the Grand Exchange.

1. Onyx Bolts

A single Onyx bolt costs more than every other bolt on this list combined which is crazy, although it shows how powerful this ammunition is. Specifically the Life Leech enchantment, dealing a bonus of 20% extra damage and healing you for a whopping 25% of the damage dealt.

Such a powerful enchantment surely has a horrifically low chance of activating, right? Nope, with a 10% chance of triggering in pvp, it’s surprisingly common!

Ranged Bonus: 120

Grand Exchange price: 7918

(SPOILER) How to obtain: Enchant Runite bolts with a magic level of 87. The Corporeal Beast also has a chance of dropping them.

Bolt tips are made through Fletching skill by cutting gems with chisel. Amethyst bolt tips are unique in that they have a Crafting requirement to make them instead of a Fletching requirement like other bolt tips. These bolt tips may only be attached to broad bolts to create amethyst broad bolts.

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Furthermore, how do you make tipped bolts Osrs?

Broad-tipped boltsUnfinished broad bolts can be obtained through Slayer masters, either via Slayer reward points or with coins. In order to make them usable, the player must have bought the ability to fletch them in the Slayer rewards shop, after which they can add feathers.

One may also ask, how many bolt tips per hour? Each diamond becomes 12 tips when chiselled. It takes 70 seconds to cut an inventory of diamond bolt tips, so up to 1,400 diamonds can be cut per hour. The price paid for diamond bolt tips can vary by more than 20% on either side of the median price.

Thereof, how do you make diamond bolt tips Osrs?

Diamond bolt tips can be created through the Fletching skill. A player must have a Fletching level of 65 and take a cut diamond and use a chisel with it to make 12 diamond bolt tips, giving 7 experience.

How many bolt tips per gem?

A player must have a Fletching level of 63 and take a Ruby and use a Chisel with it to make 12 ruby bolt tips, yielding 6 experience points per gem.

Must be able to wield a Steel Crossbow or better (level 20 ranged required).

Player made using your Fletching and Smithing skill.

These bolts are ammo for Steel Crossbows and above.

These are made with the Smithing and Fletching skills. Using 1 Steel bar on an anvil with a Hammer in your inventory or on your toolbar will allow you to make 10 Steel bolts (unf) (requires 33 Smithing, earning 37.5 exp). Then using your Fletching skill you'll need to add Feathers to the unfinished bolts (requires 46 Fletching, earning 35 exp).

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Steel crossbow bolts.

The Fletching skill in Runescape allows you to make bows and arrows, but it also gives you the ability to make crossbows and bolts. There are a few different bolts that you can make in the game, from regular bolts to “tipped” bolts.

Making Bolts

Bolts are made with metal, feathers, and gems. You will need unfinished bolts and feathers. Unfinished bolts are done by smithing a metal bar on an anvil into them. A complete bolt is made from adding a feather to this unfinished bolt. The level you need to make bolts and the experience you get for making the bolt varies by the style of metal. Bolts, when finished (whether tipped or regular), are then able to be used in basic crossbows. They make for a good bit of ranged combat damage in battles.

• Bronze bolts – These require a fletching level of 9 and will give you a half a point of experience.
• Blurite bolts – These bolts require a level of 24 and will give you a point of experience.
• Iron bolts – Iron bolts take a level of 39 to create and will give you 1.5 points of experience.
• Silver bolts – These bolts require a level of 43 and they give 2.5 points of experience.
• Steel bolts – These will require a 46 fletching skill and they give 3.5 points of experience.
• Mithril bolts – Requires a 54 level of fletching skill and they will give 5 points of experience.
• Adamant bolts – This bolt requires a 61 in fletching level and it will give you 7 points of experience.
• Rune bolts – These require a level of 69 in fletching and they will give 10 experience points

Making Tipped Bolts

Tipped bolts are what you call bolts that have gems and things added to the tip. Also adding a mithril grapple can be a tipped bolt. These are the types of gems and things you can add to bolts to make them tipped. You are able to chisel regular opals, pearls, and gems to make that type of bolt tip. There are also barbed tips that you can buy so that you can make a barbed tip bolt. Making cut gems so that you can have them on your bolts is a bit different. Making gemmed tipped bolts requires a certain level of ability and will give you a few experience points. This is what you’ll need to make those gemmed tipped bolts.

• Opal/Bronze – Needs an opal tip and a bronze bolt. You will need to cut an opal into an opal bolt tip, and put it onto a bronze bolt to make this type of bolt. Requires a level of 11 in fletching and gives 1.6 in experience.
• Jade/Blurite – Needs a jade tip and a blurite bolt. You will need to cut a jade into a jade bolt tip, and put it onto a blurite bolt to make this type of bolt.Requires a level of 26 in fletching and gives 2.4 in experience.
• Pearl/Iron – Needs a pearl tip and an iron bolt. You will need to cut a pearl into a pearl bolt tip, and put it onto an iron bolt to make this type of bolt.This requires a fletching level of 41 and gives you 3.2 experience.
• Red Topaz/Steel – This needs a red topaz tip and a steel bolt. You will need to cut a red topaz into a red topaz bolt tip, and put it onto a steel bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a level of 48 in fletching and gives 3.9 in experience.
• Barbed/Bronze – This needs a barbed tip and a bronze bolt. You will need to buy barbed tips and put it onto a bronze bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a level of 51 in fletching and it will give 9.5 in experience.
• Sapphire/Mithril – This needs a sapphire tip and mithril bolt. You will need to cut a sapphire into a sapphire bolt tip, and put it onto a mithril bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 56 in fletching level and it will give 4.7 in experience.
• Emerald/Mithril – This needs an emerald tip and mithril bolt. You will need to cut a emerald into a emerald bolt tip, and put it onto a mithril bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 58 in fletching level and it will give 5.5 in experience.
• Mithril Grapple/Mithril – This needs a mithril grapple and a mithril bolt. You will need to get the mithril grapple and put it onto a mithril bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 1 in fletching level and gives 5.5 in experience.
• Ruby/Adamant – This needs a ruby tip and an adamant bolt. You will need to cut a ruby into a ruby bolt tip, and put it onto a adamant bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 63 in fletching level and gives a 6.3 in experience.
• Diamond/Adamant – This needs a diamond tip and an adamant bolt.You will need to cut a diamond into a diamond bolt tip, and put it onto a adamant bolt to make this type of bolt. It requires a 65 in fletching level and a 7 in experience.
• Dragonstone/Rune – This needs a dragonstone tip and a rune bolt. You will need to cut a dragonstone into a dragonstone bolt tip, and put it onto a rune bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 71 in fletching level and an 8.2 in experience.
• Onyx/Rune – This needs an onyx tip and a rune bolt. You will need to cut a onyx into a onyx bolt tip, and put it onto a rune bolt to make this type of bolt.It requires a 73 in fletching level and gives 9.4 in experience.

Overview

As you can see making bolts requires a bit of skill but having tipped bolts, especially when you enchant them, can really make for a powerful weapon in the hands of someone with good ranged abilities. You will be able to level up your fletching ability by making all the boys and the ammo for them. However, bolts can be enchanted and have the properties of the enchantment, the properties of the bolt and the tip that it has. There is a bigger and better amount of damage for you to have using a crossbow than a regular bow. But mainly it is just up to the player to decide which of these are better for their ranged combat style.

This post is part of the series: Runescape Ranged Skill Guide

From crossbows & bolts to bows & arrows and thrown weapons, check out this guide for improving your ranged weapon skills in Runescape.

1. Runescape Ranged Skill: Crossbows & Bolts
2. Runescape Ranged Skill: The Bows & Arrows
3. Runescape Ranged Skill: Thrown Weapons
4. Runescape Guide to Bolts
5. Runescape Item Guide: Ranged Weapons
6. The Runescape Range Guide to Get 99 Range the Easy Way

Bolts are the ammunition used by crossbows. Most types of bolts are made using a combination of the Smithing and Fletching skills; the metal component is made with Smithing, and feathers are added with Fletching. Certain special bolts can only be obtained through other methods, such as monster drops or specialist shops.

Different types of bolts can be stored in a bolt pouch to conserve space. Like other Ranged ammunition, bolts can occasionally be left on the ground after firing, able to be picked up by the player.

Types of bolts

Normal metal bolts

All of the following bolts can be made through the Smithing and Fletching skills, excluding Dragon; the unfinished bolts are obtained as a monster drop, and can be finished using feathers. All metal bolts can be poisoned.

Gem-tipped and enchanted bolts

Metal bolts can be enhanced by adding gem bolt tips, which increases their Ranged Strength bonus. They can be further improved through enchantment, which adds an effect that will occasionally trigger in combat. With the completion of the hard Kandarin Diary, bolts have a 10% increased base chance of activation.

Bolt type	Image	Enchantment	Base chance in PvP (with Diary)	Other notes	Ranged Strength
Opal bolts (e)		Lucky Lightning: extra damage	5.0% (5.5%)	+14
Jade bolts (e)		Earth's fury: chance of knocking the target to the ground	6.0% (6.6%)	Agile targets may resist this	+30
Pearl bolts (e)		Sea curse: chance of striking the target with a mighty bolt of water, dealing extra damage	6.0% (6.6%)	It will have more damage and a higher accuracy on fiery monsters (e.g. Chromatic dragons)	+48
Topaz bolts (e)		Down to earth: chance of lowering the target's Magic level	4.0% (4.4%)	Only works on another player	+66
Sapphire bolts (e)		Clear mind: chance of lowering the target's Prayer points and giving part of them to the attacker	5.0% (5.5%)	Only works on another player	+83
Emerald bolts (e)		Magical poison: Chance of poisoning the opponent	54.0% (59.4%)	Poison damage starts at 5. In PvM, the base chance is increased to 55.0%, which stacks with the diary boost.[1]	+85
Ruby bolts (e)		Blood forfeit: chance of removing 20% of the target's currentHitpoints	11.0% (12.1%)	This effect costs 10% of the attacker's own current Hitpoints. In PvM, the base chance is reduced to 6.0%.[1]	+103
Diamond bolts (e)		Armour piercing: the bolts will negate a sizeable portion of the target's Ranged defence, and the special attack raises the bolts' maximum hit	5.0% (5.5%)	In PvM, the base chance is increased to 10.0%, which stacks with the diary boost.[1]	+105
Dragonstone bolts (e)		Dragon's breath: chance of inflicting a Dragonfire hit against the target	6.0% (6.6%)	Does not work if the target has protection against dragonfire, or are dragons themselves	+117
Onyx bolts (e)