Recurve Bow

Tool

A recurve bow that shoots faster and more powerful than a traditional wooden bow. Requires arrows to fire.

Notes

The Recurve Bow is a tier 3 ranged weapon that fires arrows with greater speed and power than a basic wooden bow, dealing 1.2 base damage but only 0.2 damage to animals. It trains the Hunting skill with each use and costs 20 calories per shot, with a maximum durability of 2000 (losing 1 point per use). As a mid-tier tool upgrade, craft one if you have reached the Hunting skill level that unlocks the Recurve Bow recipe; pairing it with good arrows is essential since the bow itself deals reduced animal damage.

Notes are AI-generated and may be imprecise.

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Upgrade modules (one per slot)

Basic (none)Basic Upgrade (−10% cost · −5% labor · −25% time)Advanced (none)Advanced Upgrade (−10% cost · −10% labor · −35% time)Modern (none)Modern Upgrade (−15% cost · −10% labor · −50% time)Specialty (none)Hunting Upgrade (−5% cost · −25% time)

Hunting level 0Skill level changes labor only.Reset to base

Quantity to craftScales ingredients, labor, time, output & total raw by the number of crafts.

Ingredients

Ingredients for this recipe

Ingredient	Qty	Type
Iron Bar	20	item
Linen Yarn	20	item
Leather Hide	6	item
Lumber	5	category

Byproducts (garbage)

Garbage byproducts of this recipe

Material	Qty / craft
Iron Scrap	≈ 0.34
Bio Residue	≈ 0.23
Wood Scrap	≈ 0.06

Approximate — a category ingredient's salvage value depends on the item actually used.

Crafting waste collects in the station's garbage output and must be hauled away or recycled — see the Garbage & Recycling guide.

Crafting

Crafting stats

Labor	750 calories
Craft time	0.5 min
Throughput	≈ 120 Recurve Bow / hour (base)

As a weapon

Showing base values. Set Hunting level / talents in the ⚙ Character panel to recompute.

Recycling & waste

• 6× Iron Scrap
• 1× Bio Residue
• 0.8× Wood Scrap
• 0.2× Textiles

The same salvage value leaks out as garbage when this item is consumed in crafting.

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Total raw to craft this

Recompute for my setup

• 75× Iron Ore
• 30× Flax Stem
• 5× Lumber (any)
• 3× Bison Carcass
• 1.25× Clay

Approximate — category ingredients and any production cycles are counted as raw.

Categories

• Can Be On Surface
• Harvester
• Product
• Tool
• Tools

Obtained from

• Recurve Bow

See also

Composite BowHandsIron MacheteIron ShovelIron SickleModern Machete