Polishing is an Invention perk that has a chance to transmute a gathered resource to a higher tier. It can be created in tool gizmos.
When the perk triggers, it prompts the message: Your polishing perk upgrades the gathered resource.
When Polishing activates while Fishing or Woodcutting, the experience gained in the gathering skill will be that of the original item, not the transmuted item. For example, if Polishing transmutes a regular log into an oak log, only 25 Woodcutting experience will be gained, instead of 37.5 experience.
When Polishing activates while Mining, all ores received in that swing will be transmuted.
Upgrade chance
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Chance (level 20)
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3% (3.3%)
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6% (6.6%)
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| 3 |
9% (9.9%)
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Note: Polishing is bugged due to the Mining and Smithing rework and will not upgrade sea salt to alaea salt, nor silver ore to gold.
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- Prior to a hotfix on 27 July 2016, if polishing triggered on a sillago, it would upgrade it to a wobbegong and cause the fishing spot to instantly deplete - it was treated as if you fished the last wobbegong from a wobbegong spot, not like you caught a sillago from a sillago spot [1]
- ^ Jagex. Mod Shauny's Twitter account. 16:56 27 July 2016. Mod Shauny: "#RSHotfix - Polishing will no longer upgrade fish to Wobbegong via fishing spots in the Arc. (This instantly depleted the spots before) ... Wobbegong fishing spots work differenly so when the perk upgraded it changed the spot hence why it instantly disappeared, there is no viable fix for this currently, but the Perk will work when catching a mid-tier > high-tier fish."
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Raw karambwanji
Frog spawn
Slimy eel
Raw cave eel
Lava eel
Raw baron shark
Raw beltfish
Raw sea turtle
Raw great white shark
Raw manta ray
Large crystal urchin
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Coal
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Adamantite ore
Luminite
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Orichalcite ore
Drakolith
Necrite ore
Phasmatite
Banite ore
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Salty crabletine
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Acadia logs
Yew logs
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Golden bamboo
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