The winter solstice, also known as Yule, is a significant time for pagans to celebrate the turning of the seasons and the rebirth of the sun. Pagans have various practices and rituals that they partake in during this time. **One key practice during the winter solstice is the lighting of a Yule log**. This log, traditionally made from a hardwood such as oak, is burned to symbolize the return of the sun and the triumph of light over darkness. The log is often decorated with greenery and other symbols of the season, and the fire is tended to throughout the night. **Another important ritual is the exchange of gifts**.
The magic longbow's special attack, Powershot, is guaranteed to hit the target. This consumes 35% of the player's special attack energy. This special attack is also shared with the magic comp bow.
Mine runite ore in the basement of the Hero s Guild and in the wild near the Lava Maze, get your insane amounts of required coal from Miscellania, then start burning ore and hammering bars. Combat style Experience Boosts Accurate Ranged and Hitpoints Accuracy and damage Rapid Ranged and Hitpoints Attack speed by 1 tick Longrange Ranged, Hitpoints and Defence Attack range by 2 squares.
**Another important ritual is the exchange of gifts**. Pagans view the winter solstice as a time of giving, and the act of exchanging gifts represents the reciprocity and balance of the universe. These gifts are often made by hand or are of symbolic importance to the recipient.
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Introduction
Fletching is a skill which allows the player to create various types of bows and arrows. The products of this skill are primarily used in the combat skill, Ranged. It also provides some of the most popular materials used for High Alchemy, which is one of the main methods for training the Magic skill. At a higher fletching level, the skill can be trained without losing any coins, although a decent amount of working capital is very useful. Money can usually be generated at higher fletching levels.
Training
This guide focuses on the two main ways of training fletching: bows and bolts. The former requires woodcutting (unless you plan on buying a massive amount of logs from other players) and the latter requires mining and smithing.
Bows
Cut logs and use a knife on them to make unstrung bows. Pretty simple. If you are stringing at any step, then half the number of bows needed. Start stringing at yew longbows; don't waste flax on Yew shortbows unless you have an insane amount of it from Miscellania.
Levels 1-10 : Arrow Shafts
Cut 103 logs into 1545 arrow shafts.
Unstrung shortbows and arrow shafts are the same XP, don't bother filling your inventory with the shortbows.
Levels 10-20 : Longbows (u)
Cut 148 logs into unstrung longbows.
Levels 20-25 : Oak Shortbows (u)
Cut 91 oak logs into unstrung oak shortbows.
Levels 25-35 : Oak Longbows (u)
Cut 259 oak logs into unstrung oak longbows.
Levels 35-40 : Willow Shortbows (u)
Cut 198 willow logs into unstrung willow shortbows.
Levels 40-50 : Willow Longbows (u)
Cut 687 willow logs into unstrung willow longbows.
Levels 50-55 : Maple Shortbows (u)
Cut 581 maple logs into unstrung maple shortbows.
Levels 55-65/99 : Maple Longbows (u)
Cut 2,156 maple logs into unstrung maple longbows.
Each Maple longbow (u) provides 131.175 XP.
Once you have around 80 woodcutting, you can continue to fletch unstrung maples all the way till 85 fletching to speedrun your way to magic longbows. Maple logs can be passively harvested from Managing Miscellania, or bought from other players for cheap while you spend the rest of your time building up your stockpile of magic logs. You'd need about 23,572 maple logs to do 55-85 fletching this way.
Unstrung maple longs give about 220k xp/hr, as opposed to the roughly 60k xp/hr offered by magic longs (if you include the time spent cutting and spinning bow string), so they remain viable for training even at higher levels.
Levels 65-70 : Yew Shortbows
Cut 1,898 yew logs into unstrung yew shortbows.
Each Yew shortbow (u) provides 151.875 XP.
Levels 70-80/99 : Yew Longbows
Cut 3,650 yew logs into unstrung yew longbows, and then string them all.
Each Yew longbow (u) provides 168.75 XP.
Making Yew Longbows remains a viable option for leveling to 99 since Magic Logs are a little harder/more expensive to come by.
Levels 80-85 : Magic Shortbows
Cut 3,395 magic logs into unstrung magic shortbows, and then string them all.
Each Magic shortbow provides 374.85 XP (187.425 XP from cutting and 187.425 XP after stringing).
Levels 85-99 : Magic Longbows
Cut 23,243 magic logs into unstrung magic longbows, and then string them all.
Each Magic longbow provides 411.75 XP (208.875 XP from cutting and 208.875 XP after stringing).
Cut Bows, Get Money
It is best to sell the bows from maple and below to a general store. From yews and onwards it is best to high alchemize them to make some mean cash gains. From 85-99 fletching, if you string all the magic longs and high alch them, you end up with 35,701,248 gold pieces, presuming you make all the nature runes/bow string yourself. You'll also earn around 3.8M Magic XP from all that alching.
| Bow | Unstrung value | Strung value |
|---|---|---|
| Yew shortbow | 240 | 480 |
| Yew longbow | 384 | 768 |
| Magic shortbow | 480 | 960 |
| Magic longbow | 768 | 1,536 |
Bolts
To take the boltpill: mine ore, smith the ore into bars, hammer the bars into unfinished bolts, add feathers (purchased from stores all over /v/scape or harvested from when you were a low lvl nub and committed fowl acts of genocide for early combat xp because you didn't know about waterfall quest.)
With the exception of mithril bolts, boltmaking in general is more of a supplementary method of levelling fletching. It's simply nowhere near as fast or as profitable as making bows. However, this does not mean it should be ignored, as bolts can be sold to other players for decent prices or used in specific situations (PKing, bossing, etc.)
It is not recommended to make bronze/iron/steel bolts for several reasons, namely: 1. they suck, 2. making bronze bars is just plain lame and bronze bolts can be purchased in Varrock for next to nothing, 3. ALL steel should be saved for making cannonballs, always, and 4. Iron bars are better spent making iron nails or iron knives. This means that you'll probably be starting with mithril bolts before moving on to addy and, perhaps, to rune.
It should be noted that, should you be possessed by the need to do something incredibly slow but admittedly barely useful in a very specific situation, then making blurite bolts just might be for you. Blurite bolts can be tipped with jade bolt tips and then enchanted, making them a useful addition to any ranged-based Castle Wars loadout, since the special effect of these bolts has a chance to slam your target to the ground, stalling them while they try to flee from your wrath and making all those hours spent in the icy caves below Mudskipper Point totally worth it.
Mithril and Adamant bolts in particular are extremely useful for killing Tz-Tok-Jad and his prerequisite homies when pursuing the mythical fire cape. Mithril bolts are relatively easy to get in large amounts compared to addy and are often used for the bulk of the Fight Caves, whereas Adamant bolts tipped with diamond and enchanted are excellent for killing Jad and his higher level cronies. It is NOT recommended to waste emeralds and cosmics making emerald-tipped mithril bolts (e) unless you're a madman who did gem rocks for ages and you have more emeralds than you know what to do with.
Tipping bolts in general is a decent way to get supplementary fletching xp, but it's no substitute for bows and bolts. If you've done an insane amount of gem rocks then by all means tip those low-level bolts, but if you haven't even been making bronze/iron/steel bolts then the only bolts you should really be spending any gems on are adamant and rune.
HIGHLY recommended you smelt your bars at Blast Furnace especially once you start smelting your own Adamant and Runite bars. Normal smelting will absolutely bleed your coal. Take your time to learn how to do it, halving your coal usage is worth it.
Levels 54-61/99 : Mithril Bolts
This method requires 60 mining and 53 smithing. It is best to have access to the mining guild (requires 60 mining) in Falador and make your mithril bars here. This method can be made faster if superheat is used in the mining guild, with the player emerging only once their inventory is full of mithril bars. Due to the relatively low amount of coal required compared to addy and rune bolts, making mithril bolts is a somewhat-viable method of achieving 99 fletching, but it's nowhere near as fast or as profitable as alching yew and/or magic longbows.
Levels 61-69 : Adamant Bolts
This method requires 70 mining and 73 smithing. Mine adamant ore in Jatizso and bank it, smithing it into bars later at Port Phasmatys and, as with all smithing, hammering those bars to death south of Varrock's West bank. Alternatively to mining adamant ore, you can also grind Aviansies in the Armadyl wing of the God Wars Dungeon, which drop noted adamant bars at a rate of roughly 1 bar per kill (4 bars at a time, about 1/4 of the time).
Level 69 : Rune Bolts
This method requires 85 mining and 88 smithing. Mine runite ore in the basement of the Hero's Guild and in the wild near the Lava Maze, get your insane amounts of required coal from Miscellania, then start burning ore and hammering bars.
It is best to sell the bows from maple and below to a general store. From yews and onwards it is best to high alchemize them to make some mean cash gains. From 85-99 fletching, if you string all the magic longs and high alch them, you end up with 35,701,248 gold pieces, presuming you make all the nature runes/bow string yourself. You'll also earn around 3.8M Magic XP from all that alching.
Fletching is a skill which allows the player to create various types of bows and arrows. The products of this skill are primarily used in the combat skill, Ranged. It also provides some of the most popular materials used for High Alchemy, which is one of the main methods for training the Magic skill. At a higher fletching level, the skill can be trained without losing any coins, although a decent amount of working capital is very useful. Money can usually be generated at higher fletching levels.
This guide focuses on the two main ways of training fletching: bows and bolts. The former requires woodcutting (unless you plan on buying a massive amount of logs from other players) and the latter requires mining and smithing.
Cut logs and use a knife on them to make unstrung bows. Pretty simple. If you are stringing at any step, then half the number of bows needed. Start stringing at yew longbows; don't waste flax on Yew shortbows unless you have an insane amount of it from Miscellania.
Levels 1-10 : Arrow Shafts
Cut 103 logs into 1545 arrow shafts.
Unstrung shortbows and arrow shafts are the same XP, don't bother filling your inventory with the shortbows.
Levels 10-20 : Longbows (u)
Cut 148 logs into unstrung longbows.
Levels 20-25 : Oak Shortbows (u)
Cut 91 oak logs into unstrung oak shortbows.
Levels 25-35 : Oak Longbows (u)
Cut 259 oak logs into unstrung oak longbows.
Levels 35-40 : Willow Shortbows (u)
Cut 198 willow logs into unstrung willow shortbows.
Levels 40-50 : Willow Longbows (u)
Cut 687 willow logs into unstrung willow longbows.
Levels 50-55 : Maple Shortbows (u)
Cut 581 maple logs into unstrung maple shortbows.
Levels 55-65/99 : Maple Longbows (u)
Cut 2,156 maple logs into unstrung maple longbows.
Each Maple longbow (u) provides 131.175 XP.
Once you have around 80 woodcutting, you can continue to fletch unstrung maples all the way till 85 fletching to speedrun your way to magic longbows. Maple logs can be passively harvested from Managing Miscellania, or bought from other players for cheap while you spend the rest of your time building up your stockpile of magic logs. You'd need about 23,572 maple logs to do 55-85 fletching this way.
Unstrung maple longs give about 220k xp/hr, as opposed to the roughly 60k xp/hr offered by magic longs (if you include the time spent cutting and spinning bow string), so they remain viable for training even at higher levels.
Levels 65-70 : Yew Shortbows
Cut 1,898 yew logs into unstrung yew shortbows.
Each Yew shortbow (u) provides 151.875 XP.
Levels 70-80/99 : Yew Longbows
Cut 3,650 yew logs into unstrung yew longbows, and then string them all.
Each Yew longbow (u) provides 168.75 XP.
Making Yew Longbows remains a viable option for leveling to 99 since Magic Logs are a little harder/more expensive to come by.
Levels 80-85 : Magic Shortbows
Cut 3,395 magic logs into unstrung magic shortbows, and then string them all.
Each Magic shortbow provides 374.85 XP (187.425 XP from cutting and 187.425 XP after stringing).
Levels 85-99 : Magic Longbows
Cut 23,243 magic logs into unstrung magic longbows, and then string them all.
Each Magic longbow provides 411.75 XP (208.875 XP from cutting and 208.875 XP after stringing).
**Decorating homes and altars is also common during this time**. Evergreen branches, holly, mistletoe, and other winter foliage are used to adorn living spaces, bringing in the energy of the season and symbolizing fertility and rebirth. Altars are often set up with candles, crystals, and other objects that hold personal significance to the individual. **Gathering with loved ones and community is an important part of pagan winter solstice celebrations**. Many pagans come together for feasts and rituals, sharing food, stories, and laughter. This is seen as a time of bonding and strengthening connections with others. **One unique practice during the winter solstice is the enactment of the Myth of Death and Rebirth**. In this ritual, participants reenact the cycle of death and rebirth, symbolizing the passing of the old year and the emergence of the new. Through this reenactment, pagans connect with the natural cycles of life and find inspiration for their own personal growth and transformation. In summary, the practices and rituals of pagans during the winter solstice revolve around themes of light, rebirth, and community. They involve the lighting of a Yule log, the exchange of gifts, the decoration of homes and altars, gathering with loved ones, and the enactment of the Myth of Death and Rebirth. These practices serve to honor and connect with the natural world, celebrate the turning of the seasons, and foster a sense of unity and belonging within pagan communities..
Reviews for "Pagan Solstice Celebrations: Honoring the Earth and Sky"
- John Smith - 2 stars - I didn't enjoy learning about the practices and rituals of pagans during the winter solstice. As someone who follows a different belief system, I found it difficult to connect with the material. The book seemed to glorify pagan rituals without providing a balanced perspective on their historical significance. It lacked the critical analysis and objectivity I would have expected from a book of this nature.
- Emily Johnson - 1 star - I found "Practices and rituals of pagans during the winter solstice" to be a disappointing read. The author failed to provide any substantial evidence or research to support their claims about pagan practices. The information presented appeared to be more based on personal anecdotes and assumptions rather than concrete facts. As a reader, I was left feeling skeptical and unconvinced by the author's arguments.
- Robert Davis - 2 stars - I was hoping to gain a deeper understanding of pagans and their traditions during the winter solstice, but this book fell short of my expectations. The writing style was dry and lacked inspiration, failing to engage me as a reader. Additionally, the information provided lacked depth and failed to explore the cultural, historical, and spiritual aspects of these rituals. It felt like a missed opportunity to truly educate and enlighten readers about pagan practices.