However, the Longbow is better for larger game or dangerous prey. The Shortbow can be used for hunting small game and defending yourself, to a degree. The Shortbow is easy to obtain, and you can easily manufacture Flint arrows. However, you can make it from different materials and customize it with modifiers, like any other Tinkers' Construct tool, and you can also customize the arrows. It works essentially like a normal bow: you hold right click to charge, release to fire, and it uses arrows. The Shortbow is Tinkers' Construct's replacement for the vanilla bow. You can help Tinkers' Construct Wiki by organizing the information on this page.