Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-34030170-20180601214726

Arrows and Crossbow Bolts are crafted with flint/iron, sticks, and feathers. This makes sense. The problem is the last one. Feathers can be difficult to find in different biomes, such as Mordor, and having to go out and collect them can be very, very annoying. That's why I propose a substitution of metal.

Canon? No idea. I doubt Tolkien ever spent long paragraphs detailing the non-lethal end of arrows. Arrows have been made with synthetic feathers in modern times, but I've been unable to find evidence of an equivalent in Medieval times. But the Orcs are clever, and Mordor is a desert. I doubt they used feathers in their arrows.

This replacement would be crafted with iron or Orc steel, and would be called a Metal Fletching. It would be put in the place of feathers in the arrow recipe, and would be crafted with two of the items next to each other in a normal/Orcish (For the ones using Orc Steel) crafting table. 