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[Raven]

A Quick One, i understand that a High quality melee weapon does higher damage than a normal One (masterwork Cooper sword doing good damage), does this apply to crossbows too?

[anewaname]

From the wiki's ranged combat section, crossbow quality effects accuracy, and bolt quality effects damage.

[Raven]

Ugh... Have to train a bowyer?

[Fleeting Frames]

A weaponsmith can make high-quality metal crossbows, and high enough skill makes loss of accuracy from low quality less relevant, so not necessarily.

[Saiko Kila]

Ugh... Have to train a bowyer?

If you have migrants, there is a big chance one of them will be a bowyer. I always get a LEV 11 bowyer eventually. In current fort I got a very old bowyer, so I ordered him to make as many masterwork bone crossbows as possible before he kicks the bucket, which he did. His replacement took a couple of years to appear, but they will show up eventually.

Anyway, my point is that it's better to train a weaponsmith, who uses forge and weaponsmith skill to make metal crossbows AND other useful weapons and stuff including ammo, instead of a bowyer who uses bowyer's shop to make bone or wooden crossbows, and can't even make ammo for it (unless he also doubles as a bonecrafter; wooden ammo is not worth considering if you have bones).

[Raven]

at the moment I use wood ammo for training, still have to create a proper bone industry with chickens, it needs time

and i have to start a forge, yea