Disassemble

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Disassemble
Release date	25 January 2016 (Update)
Members	Yes
Level	1 Invention 80 Crafting 80 Divination 80 Smithing
Spellbook	Normal, Lunar, Ancient
Type	Skilling
Experience	0
Runes	None
Cooldown	Unknown edit
Description	Disassemble the targeted item into Invention materials.
Infobox • Talk page

Disassemble is an Invention ability unlocked during the Invention Tutorial, located under skilling spells. When used on an item, the item will be disassembled into materials which can be used in Invention. It requires 1 Invention (which in turn requires 80 Divination, Crafting, and Smithing) and the Inventor's Tools (which are automatically added to the tool belt during the tutorial) to use, but has no cost. Disassemble can also be used by dragging the item over the Invention icon in the inventory; additionally, tool, weapon, and armour gizmos can be disassembled using their right-click option.

Both noted and unnoted items can be disassembled. Some items disassemble in batches - for example, most ammunition disassembles in batches of 50. Up to 60 batches (normally 60 items, or 3000 ammunition, etc) will be automatically disassembled per use of disassemble.

Analyse can be used to know what materials the item can be disassembled into, but using it is not a requirement to disassemble the item.

Disassembly takes 2 game ticks (1.2 seconds) per batch, giving an absolute maximum of 3000 sets per hour.

Mechanics

Almost all the necessary information for disassembly is provided by the Analyse ability. There are essentially two steps to the mechanics of disassembly: how the analysis information is generated, and how that list, over many disassemblies, is turned into a distribution of those materials.

Within analysis, several key points of information are given:

• The number of items disassembled per action
• The junk chance of the item
• The number of materials obtained per disassemble ("chances for materials"), excluding special components
• The list of possible materials to be obtained from disassembling the item, with special components at the top, then listed in decreasing probability order

Additionally, upon disassembly, Invention experience is gained. Repeated disassembly of the same item will give a distribution of the possible materials (and junk).

Disassemble

In general:

• Items that can be alchemised can also be disassembled (though there are many counterexamples)
• Items that cannot be alchemised also cannot be disassembled (again, many counterexamples)
• Augmented items can always be disassembled, even if their non-augmented versions cannot be

Disassembly categories

Almost every item falls into a group of items which disassemble into the same list of possible materials; for example, rune helms, rune platebodies, and mithril helms all disassemble into the same list of possible materials, just with varying material and junk chances. This means that they are in the same disassembly category. Disassembly categories don't have visible in-game names, so we have given them our own, logical names on the wiki - e.g. the category for the above items is melee armour.

Within each category there are essentially subcategories which vary the material number. For example, within the melee armour category there are several subcategories, including: melee helm, which give 6 materials; melee body, which gives 8 materials; and melee boots, which give 4 materials. Subcategories are mainly the intersection of an item's main category and an item's slot and/or use.

The key point is that if the list of possible materials is different (excluding special materials), it is a different category.

Determining an item's category

An item is given a category by the game the following points (in loose order of precedence):

• Manual category specification
• If the item is equipable:
  • Assign category based on offensive and defensive stats, assign material number based on slot/hand (e.g. armour, weapons)
  • If it has no class nor stats, assign clothing category (e.g. pink skirt)
• If it is a craftable item, use the primary required skill to determine category (e.g. food, potions)
• If it is a gatherable material, use the primary gathering skill to determine category (e.g. logs, ore)
• If it is a crafting material with no gathering skill, use the crafting skill to determine category (e.g. leather)
• If all else fails, assign default category

On the player's end, the easiest way to find an item's category is to analyse it, then look that up in the known categories.

Special materials

Whether an item gives special materials are essentially all manually defined. Special materials are given in addition to the normal number of materials. Special materials are almost always rare materials which require additional research to utilise in a gizmo.

Depening on the source item, special materials may always be given, or may only be given sometimes. In general, if more than one special material is awarded at once (e.g. Dragonfire shield gives 3 Dragonfire components), it will always give that number (and never none or another number); however, some items that only give 1 special material will always give it (e.g. Dragon Rider lance), and some items will have a chance of awarding it (e.g. cabbage). (Put another way, if the material has only a chance of being awarded, the maximum special materials per disassembly is 1 (excluding levelled augmented items, as the material multiplier applies later).)

Unfortunately, the Analyse ability does not provide information on the quantity or chance of special materials, so the only way to know how many special materials are given and the chance of receiving them is to disassemble one or more of the item.

An interesting addition to this is items that can give one of a selection of special materials, most notably non-attuned crystal equipment. Crystal equipment will always give one special material, but the material can be either crystal parts, Seren components, or Faceted components with the distribution being heavily weighted toward crystal parts.

Item level

Item disassembly level - not to be confused with equipment tier or any other use of 'level' - is an internal number related to each item which determines both the base junk chance of the item, and the experience given upon disassembly. The level is directly related to how the category is determined - the equip requirement, the crafting/gathering level, etc. It is an integer with minimum 1 and (current) maximum of 100.

Experience

The experience $x$ given by a normal item is a function of its item disassembly level $l$, and a "goodness" variable $g$:

$x=\max(\left\lfloor 0.03\times l\times g\right\rfloor ,0.1)$

$g={\begin{cases}10&{\text{if good}}\\1&{\text{otherwise}}\end{cases}}$

Items that are defined as good are most equipable items, with some exceptions (e.g. signs, ammunition), and some non-equipable items (e.g. unstrung amulets). Goodness (generally) applies to categories as a whole.

For example, a rune platebody requires level 50 Defence to equip, so its level is 50. As it is an equipable item, it is considered "good".

$\max(\left\lfloor 0.03\times 50\times 10\right\rfloor ,0.1)=1.5\times 10=15$

All items give at least 0.1 experience. Level 1 items, for example, are calculated to give 0.03 experience, which rounds down to 0. The $\max$ function corrects this, giving it 0.1 for disassemble.

Augmented items give this experience in addition to experience based on its item level.

Junk chance

Main article: Junk § Calculation

An item's junk chance depends on its item disassembly level and your current junk chance reduction. Junk chance is split into three sections: levels 1 to 74 follow a linear formula, levels 75 to 89 roughly follow a quadratic formula (though it is easier to use a lookup table), and levels 90 and higher never give junk.

Augmented items level 4 and higher never give junk when disassembled.

Augmented items

For full tabulation of experience of disassembling an augmented item, see Calculator:Equipment experience by tier

Prompt for disassembling a tier 90, level 20 item.

Disassembling augmented items also destroys the augmentor. They behave differently from other items when disassembled past level 1. Level 1 augmented items will give the exact same materials and experience as the unaugmented version. Level 2 items and above have additional experience amounts and different behaviour, as described in the table below.

Disassembling an item gives different experience based on its tier, with the normal value being for tier 80. Tier 90 items give 15% more experience; tier 70, 15% less. For tier 75 items give 7.5% less experience and tier 85 items give 7.5% more experience. Tier 1 items count as tier 25 for this experience, giving 17.5% of tier 80 experience.

${\text{XP}}={\text{Base XP}}\times \left(1+1.5\times {\frac {{\text{Tier}}-80}{100}}\right)$

Item level	Item experience	Invention experience (tier 80)			Item effects
		Disassembly	Siphon	GP/XP
1	0	0	N/A		N/A
2	1,160	9,000			Disassembling this item has a 50% chance to return installed gizmos.
3	2,607	27,000			Disassembling this item gives double materials.
4	5,176	54,000	9,000	30.66	Disassembling this item never gives junk.
5	8,286	108,000	27,000	10.22	This item drains 10% less charge when used.
6	11,760	144,000	54,000	5.11	Disassembling this item gives triple materials.
7	15,835	198,000	108,000	2.55	Disassembling this item gives an extra random uncommon material.
8	21,152	270,000	144,000	1.92	Disassembling this item returns all installed gizmos.
9	28,761	378,000	198,000	1.39	Disassembling this item gives quadruple materials.
10	40,120	540,000	270,000	1.02	Disassembling this item gives the maximum extra Invention XP.
11	57,095		378,000	0.73	N/A
12	81,960		540,000	0.51	Siphoning this item gives the maximum extra Invention XP.
13	117,397			0.26	Siphoning this item has a 50% chance to not consume the siphon.
14	166,496				This item drains 12.5% less charge when used.
15	232,755				This item can now be used with an Equipment separator.
16	320,080			0.00	Siphoning this item no longer consumes the siphon.
17	432,785				Using the Equipment separator on this item has a 25% chance to not consume the separator.
18	575,592				This item drains 15% less charge when used.
19	753,631				Using the Equipment separator on this item has a 50% chance to not consume the separator.
20	972,440				Helpful perks will activate 10% (multiplicative) more frequently. See Perk benefits for a list of perks that are known to be affected.

Material distribution

The process by which the resulting materials are given upon disassembly is as follows:

Here, the term "roll" is used to mean randomly generate a number and compare against the relevant chance

• For each of the number of materials:
  1. Roll against junk chance
  2. If not junk, roll against the material distribution and give 1 of the relevant material
• If the item gives special components always, give them; if it gives them sometimes, roll against special chance

Thus, there are two steps to determining the chance of getting a specific material from an item: the junk chance, which is clearly stated in analysis, and the material distribution, which is obfuscated.

However, with large sample sizes of non-junk materials, a material distribution can be found. For example, shortbows have distribution:

Material	Stated chance	Chance
Stave parts	"Often"	35%
Tensile parts	"Often"	30%
Flexible parts	"Often"	30%
Precise components	"Rarely"	3%
Dextrous components	"Rarely"	2%

The chances given in analysis ("often", "sometimes", and "rarely") do correspond to a range of chances. Rarely is under 5%, sometimes is between 5% and 20%, and often is more than 20%.

Technicals

In a more strict sense, materials within a category have a 'weight' applied, and the total weight of the category is what is rolled against. So the above example is weighted 35, 30, 30, 3, 2, respectively, which totals 100. Many categories are intentionally weighted to total 100, but there are many counterexamples - for example, salvage is weighted 35, 30, 30, 1, 1, 1, which totals 98, and gizmos have a total weight of 245, which do not make for simple fractions.

In the case of specials, if multiple specials could be given, it does a similar roll for them (in the case of crystal equipment, crystal is weight 85, Seren 15, and faceted 15, total 115).

All other disassembly-related rolls (junk chance, special chance) are rolled out of 1,000,000 - e.g. a 50.5% junk chance is really a roll against 505,000 out of 1,000,000; this maximizes the precision of the rolls.

Invention master cape

Main article: Invention master cape § Disassembly chances

The invention master cape has a perk that increases the chance of receiving uncommon and rare materials by 20%. This is accomplished by multiplying the weights of the uncommon/rare materials by 1.2 - whether the weights are rejuggled to be out of the original total or are rolled out of the new total is currently unknown (and makes a very minor difference, so a very large amount of data is required to check).

Limitations

See also: Category:Items that cannot be disassembled

• Disassemble cannot be used at the following locations; attempting to do so will prompt the message: "You can't disassemble items here."
  • Inside Daemonheim, during Dungeoneering
  • The Wilderness
  • Underwater
  • Barrows minigame
  • Barbarian Assault
  • Castle Wars
  • Clan Wars
  • Soul Wars
  • Flash Powder Factory
  • Stealing Creation and Tutorial
  • Great Orb Project
  • New Varrock area
  • Duel arena area
  • While standing on Serenity posts
• Trying to disassemble items while being transmogrified prompts the message: "You aren't ready to disassemble items at the moment." This can also appear under some other conditions.
• Disassemble cannot be used on equipped items, nor items on the ground, present in the Loot tab, or in a Beast of Burden's inventory - they must be moved to the player's inventory first.

Not all items can be disassembled:

• Attempting to disassemble most restricted items will prompt the message: "That item cannot be disassembled."
• Attempting to disassemble crystal seeds prompt the message: "You cannot disassemble crystal seeds." This does not apply to charged Crystal teleport seeds.
• Attempting to disassemble living items such as dreadnips and red chinchompas will prompt the message: "You monster! You can't disassemble a living thing."
• Attempting to disassemble Tokkul will prompt the message: "The TzHaar would not approve if you disassembled TokKul."
• Attempting to disassemble certain rare items (Off-hand rubber chicken, Blue marionette) or high valued items (Blue partyhat) will prompt the message: "You could not bring yourself to destroy this rare item."
• Attempting to disassemble certain items (Amulet of ranging, Cat antipoison) will prompt the message: "You could not disassemble that item."
• Attempting to disassemble certain bolt tips used to prompt the message: "You cannot disassemble bolt tips." Similarly, some arrowheads prompted the message: "You cannot disassemble arrowheads." This is no longer the case as both of these item categories can now be disassembled as of 8 February 2016.

Update history

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• patch 3 February 2020 (Update):
  • All smithable items now disassemble into 4 Invention parts or components per bar used in their creation.
    • For example, a 2h sword with no upgrades, which requires 4 bars to create, breaks down into 16 parts or components. An elder rune platebody + 5, which requires 160 bars to create from scratch, breaks into 640 parts or components.
  • Elder rune equipment now has a higher chance of breaking into components rather than parts, compared to other tiers of equipment. Component 1 increased from 3% to 9% per roll. Component 2 increased from 2% to 6% per roll.
  • Breakdown Perk Activation Chance from 0.8% per rank per bar, down to a flat 0.8% per rank.

• patch 6 March 2017 (Update):
  • Players can no longer disassemble items worth over 1m in combat.

• patch 16 January 2017 (Update):
  • Players can no longer disassemble and equip the same item.

• patch 17 October 2016 (Update):
  • The disassembly confirm window hotkey has been changed to Y instead of 1.

• ninja 5 September 2016 (Update):
  • Disassembling and siphoning items will now count towards Invention harmony pillars, capping at 50k XP per action.

• ninja 22 August 2016 (Update):
  • Made the order of Analyse and Disassemble consistent across all spellbooks.

• ninja 13 June 2016 (Update):
  • Removed the warning when disassembling items when the player has maximum materials.
  • Players can now disassemble individual items in combat.

• patch 13 June 2016 (Update):
  • Players will no longer disconnect when disassembling items if there are fewer items than originally specified.

• patch 14 March 2016 (Update):
  • Shields now identify correctly as shields rather than as armour when being disassembled.

• patch 22 February 2016 (Update):
  • There is now an extra warning before disassembling an item when you don't have the inventory space to recover all of your gizmos.

Trivia

• Pets such as ravens will only yield the default "That item cannot be disassembled." message despite being a living thing. On the other hand, salamanders, seeds, and saplings can be disassembled.