STABLE BRANCH:
Pressing the R button while holding and empty bow does nothing except to play a reloading animation which does nothing. pressing the R button while holding a loaded bow will also play the reload animation, but it will unload the arrow from your bow and put it into your inventory.
The only way to load the bow right now is to press tab and drag and drop an arrow into the ammunition slot of the bow.
Have a bow, Have arrows in inventory
Press R for reload
Notice that your bow does not become loaded, and if it was loaded prior to pressing R, it is now unloaded
I would like to see an improvised quiver be added to the game which could hold about 20 arrows.
The advantages of having a quiver would be that you can use a faster reload mechanic (the one that is currently broken)
Hello Flimflamm and thank you for the report.
This particular feature of the bow is still being worked on and will be completed in future stages of development.
Regards,
Geez