Phantom Blade Zero Ancient Timber and the Feather Bow Bags

Each bag on this page came down to a Feather Bow arrow on a PS5 run for Map Master, and the Phantom Blade Zero 100% completion maps and guides follow the other upgrade materials. Timber upgrades nothing outside the Ranged type, so you can skip it entirely if bows and thrown weapons aren’t part of your build.

Phantom Blade Zero Ancient Timber Upgrades: Feather Bow, Flying Dagger, and Goldblaze

Ancient Timber takes Ranged Phantom Edges up to level 10. The reported Ranged edges are the Feather Bow from Weeping Creek Valley, the Flying Dagger from Crimson Forest, Goldblaze from Pangzhen, and the Loong Trident and One-Eyed Bow from Meigu Lake, and the Feather Bow and every other Phantom Edge compare their stats.

Above level 10, Ranged edges are reported to switch to the refined tier, the Camphor Timber that takes over past level 10. Spend Ancient Timber freely on the early levels, and save the refined pieces for the one Ranged edge you plan to keep.

Weeping Creek Valley Ancient Timber in Phantom Blade Zero: Shoot the Bags

The easy early grab is a single piece on the suspended bridge on the fourth floor of the Valley Sha-Chi Tower Base, no bow needed. The tower’s other Timber is in hanging bags on its third and fourth floors, and two more bags of two hang in a tree and a withered tree, all waiting for the Feather Bow.

The bow comes from the Brooding Old Archer once you return the Broken-String Bow from the Ruthless Archer Camp, and the Purge the Sect Tale and Leave None Alive both lead to valley Timber. One last piece lies by the river in an area that opens only after Old Man Gen starts Leave None Alive in the Village of Lu.

Crimson Forest Ancient Timber in Phantom Blade Zero: The Paper Wall and the Flying Dagger

None of the forest’s Timber is in a bag, so you can collect it whether or not you’ve finished the bow. Eight pieces wait at the bottom of a narrow canyon behind a paper wall, six lie on a corpse by the dirt path, and six more are out in the open. The Phantom Blade Zero Crimson Forest map places each pile.

The forest also gives you a second Ranged edge. Delivering Zhang’s three treasures for Quick Hand’s Request is reported to earn the Flying Dagger, so the Quick Hand’s Request steps for the Flying Dagger decide whether your Timber goes into a bow or a thrown blade.

Phantom Blade Zero Ancient Timber in the Village of Lu and Pangzhen

The Village of Lu’s Timber comes in stacks of eight, large single piles that arrive close together, and the Phantom Blade Zero Village of Lu map places each stack. That makes the village the point where a Ranged edge can take a real jump in levels.

Pangzhen’s stacks are five pieces each, and Goldblaze is reported to come from delivering Zhang’s Pangzhen treasures. If you’ve been raising the Feather Bow or Flying Dagger, these stacks keep it climbing, and the Phantom Blade Zero Pangzhen & Mirage Estate map places them.

Buying Ancient Timber in Phantom Blade Zero Versus Shooting It Down

The valley Peddler sells three Ancient Timber and Quick Hand Zhang sells six, both at 1,040 Remnant Dust each. That’s 3,120 Dust for the Peddler’s shelf alone, and the Peddler’s and Zhang’s Edge material prices list the other materials competing for the same Dust.

Buy only when a level is a piece or two short. Remnant Dust also pays for every weapon upgrade, skill, and polish, and enemies don’t respawn to replace it, so shooting down the valley’s bags after the Feather Bow is always cheaper than buying the Peddler’s stock.

Phantom Blade Zero Ancient Timber Plan: Bow First, Then Commit

Get the Feather Bow, clear the valley bags, then sweep Crimson Forest’s ground piles before you decide between the bow and the Flying Dagger. Upgrades under level 10 are reported to refund for free, so testing both with the same Timber costs nothing.

Past level 10, getting your materials back takes a Phantom Reforge Talisman for Ranged edges. Commit to one Ranged edge before you move into Camphor Timber, since that’s the point where a change of heart starts to cost you, and keep spare Ancient Timber for a second edge only if you switch between bow and dagger often.