Old Bow
Weapon · WeaponBow3★Crude ranged weapon put together in a hurry, and the damage reflects that.
Old Bow is 17th of 25 bows by attack, at 208 against the 24,000 of Mechanical Bow.
No recipe takes it as an ingredient. Whatever you build is the finished article, so there is no reason to hoard spares.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.
Old Bow Crafting Recipe
Wood×52
Stone×8
Fiber×26Crafting it takes 86 materials across 3 types, and the bottleneck is almost always the 52× requirement — line that up first and the rest follows.
Where to Find Old Bow
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is treasure map digs (tier 1) at 1.9% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Old Bow
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 65 to 247, a 3.8x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
Ammunition Old Bow Uses
Old Bow takes 3 kinds of ammunition — Arrow, Fire Arrow, Poison Arrow — so the damage you actually deal depends as much on what you loaded as on the weapon itself.
| Ammo | Yield | Craft cost |
|---|---|---|
 Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2 |
 Fire Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Flame Organ ×1 |
 Poison Arrow | ×10 | Wood ×2, Stone ×2, Venom Gland ×1 |
Schematics That Unlock Old Bow
The Technology tree hands you the plain Old Bow at level 3 for 1 Technology point, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. The fastest route is treasure map digs (tier 1), and the reason is the ladder rather than the top rung: that pool stocks every tier, so the common copies it hands you fuse upward into the one you want. Counting them, a top-tier Old Bow schematic works out at roughly 74 containers against the 130 the 4★ drop rate alone suggests. Spare low tiers are progress, not clutter. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Old Bow Schematic 3 | 3★ | Treasure map digs (tier 1), fishing in Grasslands — best 1.9% (grade 2/5) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Step up from here and you get Old Bow at 247 attack; step down and it is Old Bow at 169. Weigh the jump against what the next tier costs you before committing the resources.
Other bows at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
