New Foundations

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New Foundations
Release date	13 February 2023 (Update)
Members	Yes
Voice Over	No
Official series	Fort Forinthry #1
Age	Age of Chaos (Sixth Age)
Timeline	Age of Chaos
Start area	Varrock Palace
Combat	NPC combat level 10–19
Entity icon
Advanced data
Quest ID	489
Quest create ID	328
Official difficulty	Novice
Recommended	Yes
Links	Quests
Infobox • Talk page

New Foundations is the first quest in the Fort Forinthry quest series. Completing it allows the player to interact with and build Fort Forinthry, as well as access its facilities.

Official description

“

King Roald is offering you a duchy and all the problems that come with it.

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Overview

Start point	Portal outside the throne room in the Varrock Palace. Show on map	2023
Member requirement	Members only
Official length	Long
Requirements	Quests: New Foundations None
Items required	Items from the tool belt are not listed unless they do not work or are not automatically added. 20 planks (can be bought nearby) (protean planks work) 88 stone wall segments 352 limestone bricks are needed to build all of the stone wall segments (250 can be bought nearby) 8 wooden frames 96 planks are needed to create all of the refined planks that are needed to build all of the wooden frames
Recommended	Skull sceptre for quick access to Barbarian Village Fort Forinthry Teleports or Wicked hood for quick access to Fort Forinthry Combat gear to defeat several armoured zombies Activated Varrock lodestone unlocked for quick access to the Blue Moon Inn Amulet of glory or activated Draynor lodestone to teleport to the Draynor Village market
Enemies to defeat	10 armoured zombies (level 21)

The beginning

King Roald and Queen Ellamaria are talking to a veteran adventurer.

Stepping on the portal outside the Varrock Palace throne room, the player listens to a short conversation between King Roald, Queen Ellamaria, and a Veteran Adventurer. They are speaking about dealing with a 'cursed' place. Enter the throne room and speak to the king, and a short cutscene will play. The king asks the player to claim the vale, establish a fort, and save Bill from an unfortunate fate. After accepting the quest, follow the King's Road, which is located east of Varrock, north to the Wilderness and east of the Jolly Boar Inn to the vale.

Saving Bill the architect

Items recommended: Combat gear and food

Once arrived to the vale, the player finds another portal in front of the fort. Approaching the portal, the player notices that the area is overrun with numerous zombies. The player may prepare combat gear and food from the nearby bank chest before stepping on the portal. Although there are several level 21 zombies to defeat within the area, high combat level players should have no issue with them. They have 750 life point and are weak to water spells.

After clearing out the zombies, find Bill in a constructing town hall north of the well and ask him about establishing a fort here.

Building the workshop

Items needed: 8 wooden frames and 6 stone wall segments
Items recommended: 96 planks or logs, and 24 limestone bricks or limestones to made from scratch

Bill suggests building a workshop first to make planks and blocks. He brought his old sawmill for cutting logs into planks so that the player may use it in the fort. There's also a workbench for assembling wooden frames and a contraption for cutting stone into stone wall segments. Check the blueprints on the table to find out how many wooden frames and stone wall segments you need to build the workshop. The player will need to create 8 wooden frames and 6 stone wall segments.

To build the wooden frames from planks, first create refined planks at the sawmill in the fort, then use the woodworking bench to create frames out of refined planks. The sawmill and the woodworking bench are adjacent to each other in the workshop much like an Inventor's workbench. To build the stone wall segments, use the stonecutter with limestone bricks. You can buy limestone bricks and planks from Bill. Once these are done, use the blueprint to create the workshop. Bill will tell you to interact with the construction hotspots. The optimal one will be sparkling and give you extra progress but will occasionally move. Follow it for the fastest progress.

Once the player finishes building the workshop, Bill suggests recruiting Aster Dunnet, whose job is doing accounts for the Blue Moon Inn's landlord, as a steward.

Recruiting help

Go to the Blue Moon Inn near the southern entrance of Varrock to talk to Aster Dunnet. They are located outside the inn on the patio. Being responsible to manage everything that occurs within the fort, Aster recommends to recruit somebody to oversee communications and logistics.

Aster suggests the player to talk to a Fremennik woman named Siv to recruit her for overseer, who is in Gunnarsgrunn setting up a new trade route between the Fremennik Province and Gunnarsgrunn. Crossing the River Lum west of Varrock, the player finds her right near Gunnarsgrunn mine and outside the entrance to the Stronghold of Security. After a brief introduction, the player notices that the undead are always crawling around the fort.

Siv will refer the player to the good priest Father Flint to recruit as a priest. He is preaching in the Draynor Village market. After talking to Father Flint and persuading him to join, return to the fort and meet Bill to continue fortifying the fort.

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  Aster appears outside the Blue Moon Inn.

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  Siv appears in Gunnarsgrun.

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  Father Flint appears in Draynor Village market.

Building the gates and walls

Items needed: 20 planks and 82 stone wall segments
Items recommended: 20 logs, and 328 limestone bricks or limestones to make from scratch

The player is building a wall in the fort.

Prepare 82 stone wall segments, and 20 regular wooden (not refined) planks, to build all sections of the wall and two sets of gates. The player may buy some limestone bricks from Bill, but his stock is not enough to fulfil the requirement at once. Therefore the player needs to get more elsewhere unless the player intends to wait for a stock refresh. For players with access to Prifddinas, there is a sawmill operator a short distance from a player-owned house portal in the Ithell Clan who sells 250 limestone bricks (or 500 when the Voice of Seren is active in the district).

Start building two gates and ten wall sections by checking the blueprints at the blueprint station. After checking blueprint and confirming to build that section, the player must interact with the construction hotspots of that part to complete that section in order to start building the next section. Each section takes approximately 4 minutes to build while maintaining "Perfect Build" at 100%.

Tier	Materials required	Building XP
Front gate	10 x Plank 6 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
Rear gate	10 x Plank 6 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
West wall	10 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
North-west wall	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
North wall section 1	10 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
North wall section 2	10 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
North-east wall	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
East wall	10 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
South-east wall	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
South wall section 1	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
South wall section 2	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP
South-west wall	5 x Stone wall segment	3,360 XP

Finishing up

After fortifying the fort by building all wall and gate segments, talk to Bill again to meet Aster, Bill, Father Flint, and Overseer Siv together in the middle of the fort. Aster helps players to address a title as the king declared the fort a new duchy.

Aster also makes a suggestion to name the fort, the duchy of Forinthry in the Kingdom of Misthalin. The player names this new duchy "Fort Forinthry".

Congratulations, quest complete!

Rewards

• 1 quest point
• Access to Fort Forinthry and its facilities
• 2 Treasure Hunter keys (Ironman accounts will not receive these)

Achievements

• New Foundations ( 0) – Complete this quest.
• Quest Cape ( 0) – Complete all quests to obtain the quest cape.

Required for completing

New Foundations is directly required for the following quests/miniquests:

• Murder on the Border

Transcript

This article on a quest has an associated dialogue page. Click here for a transcript of possible conversations and other messaging encountered throughout the quest. Click here for a transcript of the quest's journal entry.

Gallery

Cutscene

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  A threat looms over the three Saradominist kingdoms. We have suffered through famine and war. We need time to recover and rebuild. But in the Wilderness beyond the northern border, Zamorakian forces ready for the attack.

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  The Kingdom of Misthalin stands at the forefront. The other kingdoms can offer little aid. We are not prepared to fight another war. Even the city of Varrock is vulnerable. We must do what we can to protect the undefended lands to the south.

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  In the near Wilderness is a site of strategic importance, a vale that has seen countless battles.. Claim this place. Establish a fortification there and be ready for the retaliation when it comes. Do this, and we will declare your domain a new duchy of the Kingdom. You will rule over it in our name as a peer of the realm.

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Credits

New Foundations
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance	Mod Chaose
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Update history

This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included—see here for how to help out!

• patch 27 March 2023 (Update):
  • The required items to construct buildings during the New Foundations and Murder on the Border quests are now listed in their quest overviews.

• update 13 February 2023 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Thomas seems to make an appearance at the start of this quest as the Veteran Adventurer.
• Aster is non-binary, being the only character introduced in New Foundations that is never referred to with gendered pronouns.