There is a buzz in the Invention Guild making its way across Gielinor. Heads are turning and ears are tickling with talk of shiny new perks that'll level up your Artisan and Gathering game.
Get ready for the Augmented RuneCrafting and Thieving Update arriving May 12th! From Woodcutters to Archaeologists, Miners to Smiths, Runecrafters, Fishers, and even a few sneaky Thieves—artisans all across Gielinor are gearing up to make the most of shiny new tools and perks, boosting their yields and cornering the markets.
- Up your Min-Max game with 8 new Perks related to Artisan and Gathering
- Disassemble your way to new Offcut and Manufactured components
- Manufacture two new Skilling Mainhands for RuneCrafting and Thieving with your Invention Skills
- Meet a shady new character at the Invention Guild
Pop in to the Guild
This update plugs directly into the core of the Invention skill—no extra unlocks or hoops to jump through!
From the get go, you can disassemble items listed below for your first new component, Offcuts! For the Manufactured component, you'll need to discover them at the Invention Bench first alongside the shiny new main-hands at their respective levels. The brand new perks are tied to these components, so your best starting point is to head over to the Invention Guild, just north of the Falador Lodestone.
Oh—and keep your eyes peeled. There’s a shady character lurking near the Guild who wants to get their hand on those new Skilling Mainhands.
Spare Components
Fresh off the disassembly line are 2 new components, "Offcut" & "Manufactured".
Offcut 
"Offcuts" components are an Uncommon material. These leftover bits are made from disassembling Flatpacks, Hunter Gear & Furs.
Manufactured 
"Manufactured" components are a Rare material. These well made and reliable materials come from disassembling Wood & Ore Boxes, Runecrafting Talismans & Tiaras, Necroplasm alongside Primal Crossbows, Eternal Shortbows & Iron to Primal equipment from Smithing.
Perk of the Work
When you are done gathering the components you can start assembling them into new perks! All of these perks are beneficial with no negative perks involved - but they might require a little extra thought in how to use them effectively.
| Name | Skills | Description | Component | Perk ranks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Scraps |
Woodcutting, Archaeology | Gain one additional resource when a material cache is depleted or a tree is felled. | Offcut | 1 |
Careless |
Mining, Smithing | While mining, increase your damage by 2% per rank, at the cost of reducing your stamina by an additional 10% per rank. While smithing increases your base progress per strike by 10% per rank, at the cost of reducing heat by an additional 10% per rank. |
Offcut | 1-5 |
Explosive |
Mining | While mining core rocks, your mining damage is increased by 20%, but rockertunities will no longer spawn. | Manufactured | 1 |
Oblivious |
Thieving | When pickpocketing, avoid being stunned, at the cost of 3x damage. | Manufactured | 1 |
Wild Runes |
Runecrafting | +1% chance per rank when crafting runes to channel the Ourania Altar, providing a random assortment of elemental and catalytic runes in place of those you would have gained at the altar you are using. (Does not work when crafting necrotic runes) Xp gained is what would have been expected on craft, number of runes crafted will be the same too, but the distribution of runes will be random. |
Manufactured | 1-5 |
Preservationist |
Archaeology | +1% chance to gain restored artefacts instead of a damaged artefact on excavation completion per rank | Manufactured | 1-5 |
Hasty |
Archaeology | During excavation gives a 1% chance per rank to gain triple excavation progress, at the cost of not receiving a material. | Manufactured | 1-5 |
Naturalist |
Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing | +0.5% chance per rank to gain a random skill specific buff on gather. These buffs lasts 60 seconds. Buffs are: Woodcutting, overgrown idols buffs Increased cut rate XP boost Additional log Log banking Success rate Fishing, deep sea fishing buffs 10% bonus catch rate 10% change to gain extra catch 5% XP boost Mining Mining geode enhancer Mining critical chance enhancer Star sprite buff (25% chance at extra ore) |
Offcut | 1-5 |
Additionally the Polishing and Cheapskate perks will now include Runecrafting offering a chance when binding a rune to upgrade or downgrade to the next tier of rune. This works on both Regular runes (Air, mind, water, earth, fire, body, cosmic, chaos, astral, nature, law, death, blood, soul, time. in that order) and Necrotic runes (spirit, bone, flesh, miasma in that order)
We look forward to seeing how these new perks will shake up how players approach different skills! Maybe you're an archeologist who wants many more artefacts for your Guild rank ups? Hasty and Preservationist can help speed that up.
Looking to maximise those mining/fishing/woodcutting trips? Then grab Naturalist and take advantage of additional buffs. Play around with all these new perk combinations and find a setup that suits your playstyle!
Tools of the Trade
Speaking of best perk combinations, 2 more skills get to join the fray with new Skilling Mainhand items for both Runecrafting and Thieving! These wieldable items offer you additional bonuses for their relevant skills across two different tiers, and can also be augmented to boost their impact on your skilling.
Runecrafting - Binding Rod
The Binding Rod is our new RuneCrafting Mainhand item, which can be upgraded to the Crystal Binding Rod as you progress your Invention skills.
Binding Rod
- An augmentable Runecrafting mainhand
- Discovery: 22 Invention
- To Use: 71 RuneCrafting
Crystal Binding Rod
- An augmentable Runecrafting mainhand
- 5% Additional Runes when RuneCrafting
- Discovery: 82 Invention
- To Use: 81 RuneCrafting
Thieving - Pickpocketing Bag
Get some fast hands for some sneaky steals with the Pickpocketing bag, our new Thieving Mainhand item that also upgrades into a Mushroomy variant. Yes, you read that right.
Pickpocketing Bag
- An augmentable Thieving mainhand
- Discovery: 22 Invention
- To Use: 71 Thieving
Mushroomy Pickpocketing Bag
- An augmentable Thieving mainhand
- 5% chance to increase auto-pickpocketing speed by 0.6 seconds
- Discovery: 82 Invention
- To Use: 81 Thieving
Inventors At The Ready
For those of you wanting to chase these Perks down as soon as you can, don't forget to start stockpiling the resources for Offcuts and Manufactured components listed above. We sense a lot of disassembly in your future.
See you at the Invention Guild on May 12 as we discover new perks & new Skilling mainhands!