Ancient Invention

Concept art of Ancient Invention tools

Ancient Invention is an expansion for the Invention skill, connecting with the Archaeology skill. It introduces ancient gizmos, ancient tools and ancient devices. Players require 85 Invention in order to discover and use ancient gizmos.

To unlock ancient invention, players must either obtain the blueprints from players or the Grand Exchange, or unlock them manually by training Archaeology and crafting the blueprints. It is not required to visit Howl's Floating Workshop to learn Ancient Invention; simply reading the blueprint allows the player to unlock them. All Invention level requirements can be boosted by 17 levels using extreme invention potions.

Blueprints

When training Archaeology at Stormguard Citadel Dig Site, players will receive torn blueprint fragments which can then be used to craft ancient gizmo blueprints at Howl's invention bench in the upper level of Stormguard Citadel. In order to access Howl's Floating Workshop, players must have level 95 Archaeology.

Level	To unlock	Blueprint required	Cost (GE)	Cost (fragments)
85	Ancient weapon gizmo Ancient armour gizmo Ancient tool gizmo	'Ancient gizmos' blueprint	5,270,198	200 (untradeable blueprint) 150 (untradeable random)
93	Enhanced fishing rod-o-matic Enhanced pyro-matic Enhanced hammer-tron	'Ancient tools' blueprint	4,880,048	200 (untradeable blueprint) 150 (untradeable random)
106	XP Capacitor 5000 (inactive)	'XP Capacitor' blueprint	3,910,599	200 (untradeable blueprint) 150 (untradeable random)

Ancient components

Players can acquire 4 types of Ancient components from Archaeology by disassembling restored artefacts. Broken artefacts cannot be disassembled. These components are used in the making of ancient gizmos, devices, and perks. They can also be traded amongst players by exchanging component crates.

In order to prepare these components, players must have the respective Invention level to discover them at an inventor's workbench, varying with each one. They may then be used for gizmo shells.

Level	Component unlocked	Traded as	Cost per crate (GE)	Components per crate	Cost per component
85	Classic components	Small crate (classic components)	4,502,552	100	45,026
		Large crate (classic components)	41,522,494	1000	41,522
85	Historic components	Small crate (historic components)	1,241,882	100	12,419
		Large crate (historic components)	12,748,783	1000	12,749
94	Vintage components	Small crate (vintage components)	1,444,881	5	288,976
		Large crate (vintage components)	6,266,852	25	250,674
103	Timeworn components	Small crate (timeworn components)	241,646	5	48,329
		Large crate (timeworn components)	1,111,496	25	44,460

The Scavenging perk cannot find Ancient components.

Ancient gizmos

Ancient gizmos have weapon, armour, and tool variants that allow the creation of new perks. The ancient gizmos have nine slots, allowing the player to experiment further with perks and rank combinations, obtaining perk ranks that are not obtainable from normal gizmos, such as Scavenging 4 and Aftershock 4.

Ancient perks

Three new perks are introduced with Ancient Invention. As these perks require the use of ancient components, they can only be created in ancient gizmo shells.

Perk	Created on gizmo	Effect
Fortune	Ancient tool gizmo	Gathering skills: Has a 0.5% chance per rank to double and bank what you have gathered. Production skills: Has a 0.1% chance per rank to double and bank what you have produced.
Relentless	Ancient weapon & armour gizmos	1% chance per rank to prevent adrenaline being consumed when using an ability that requires adrenaline.
Ruthless	Ancient weapon gizmo	Whenever you defeat an enemy you gain a 0.5% damage boost per rank for 20 seconds. This can stack up to 5 times.

Ancient devices

Ancient Invention also allows the player to further enhance existing Invention tools so that they act as level 80 tools rather than level 70 tools.

The XP Capacitor 5000 is an Invention device and acts like bonus experience for Invention items. Players can fill the XP capacitor while training with augmented items, with some of the item experience that would have gone to the player's augmented items being stored in the capacitor instead. A filled XP capacitor is tradeable; and grants a player using it double item experience until the capacitor is empty.

Device		level	level	Blueprint required		Benefit
	Enhanced hammer-tron	93	95		'Ancient tools' blueprint	The tool awards Invention experience from disassembly and siphoning as a level 80 tool rather than level 70.
	Enhanced pyro-matic	93	95
	Enhanced fishing rod-o-matic	93	95
	XP Capacitor 5000 (inactive)	106	95		'XP Capacitor' blueprint	A filled XP capacitor is tradeable and grants a player using it double item experience until the capacitor is empty.
	Experimental Aether Reactor	108	118		Theoretical blueprints	Using it on the mysterious monolith unlocks the Conservation of Energy relic power.
	The Subtle Blade	111	112		Theoretical blueprints	Using it on the mysterious monolith unlocks the Abyssal Link relic power.

Update history

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• update 30 March 2020 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• The kinetic dynamo was a planned device that could create divine charges by running around. Although it was presented at RuneFest 2019, it was not released.