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Release date
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14 March 2016 (Update)
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Gizmo type
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Tool
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Standard
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3
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Ancient
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4
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Has a 3% chance per rank of transmuting a gathered resource to a higher tier. This perk has an increased chance to activate on level 20 items.
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Infobox • Talk page
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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 multiple resources are gathered in one action and Polishing activates, all of them will be transmuted.
This perk has no effect on Archaeology.[1]
Upgrade chance
Rank
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Chance[r 1]
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3% (3.3%)
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2 |
6% (6.6%)
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3 |
9% (9.9%)
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4 |
12% (13.2%)
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- ^ All numbers in parentheses refer to gear with item level 20.
The following lists both affected and unaffected resources for the Fishing, Mining, and Woodcutting skills by the Polishing perk.
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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 20 June 2022 (Update):
- The Polishing perk now correctly upgrades Sea Salt to Alaea Sea Salt when mining Salty Crabletines.
- patch 13 July 2020 (Update):
- The ‘Polishing’ perk can now upgrade sea salt to alaea sea salt.
- 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.[2]
- When used with Cheapskate, it's possible for both perks to proc at the same time, causing the original resource to be gathered.
- Polishing may trigger at the same time as Butterfingers, and this causes Polishing to not upgrade the dropped item.
- ^ Jagex. Mod Rowley's Twitter account. 2 April 2020. (Archived from the original on 30 May 2020.) Mod Rowley: "It was bugging me, so the full list (including Fortune) of perks that work with Archaeology excavation:"
- ^ Jagex. Mod Shauny's Twitter account. 27 July 2016. (Archived from the original on 28 October 2019.) 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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Abilities |
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Damage/Accuracy modifying |
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Damage reduction |
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Adrenaline |
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Prayer |
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Additional items |
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Experience |
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Skilling |
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Energy drain reduction |
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Utility |
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Miscellaneous |
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Ancient |
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