Tinker

Tinker
Release date	6 February 2017 (Update)
Gizmo type	Tool
Maximum rank
Standard	3
Ancient	4
In-game description
Has a 5% chance per rank to carry out higher quality work, awarding an extra 25% XP. While smithing, has a 2% chance per rank to double your progress. This perk has an increased chance to activate on level 20 items.
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Tinker is a Smithing and Firemaking perk. It acts differently for each. It can be created in tool gizmos and ancient tool gizmos.

While firemaking, it has a 5% chance per rank per action to increase the experience gained from that action by 25%. It does not give extra experience for logs burned with Superheat Form. This extra XP is given as base XP, giving a corresponding increase in item XP and allowing it to be doubled with bonus XP.

While smithing, it has a 2% chance per rank to grant double progress for that swing, increasing the overall experience per hour.

Smithing at a furnace while in Clan Citadels will cause tinker to act like the firemaking version of the perk, granting bonus xp.

When the perk triggers, it prompts the message: Your tinker perk allows you to carry out higher quality work, awarding extra XP/progress.

Unlike the Pyromaniac perk, this perk does work with Protean logs.

Effective experience increase

Rank	Firemaking		Smithing
	Chance	Average increase	Chance
1	5% (5.5%)	1.25% (1.375%)	2% (2.2%)
2	10% (11%)	2.5% (2.75%)	4% (4.4%)
3	15% (16.5%)	3.75% (4.125%)	6% (6.6%)
4	20% (22%)	5% (5.5%)	8% (8.8%)

Sources

Material		Rarity	Perk ranks with X materials
			Standard gizmo					Ancient gizmo
			1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
	Fungal components	Rare	0	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–3	0	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–4	1–4	2–4
	Clockwork components	Rare	1	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–3	0	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–4	2–4	2–4	2–4
	Delicate parts	Common	0	1	1–2	1–2	1–3	0	1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3	1–4	1–4

Suggested gizmos

Gizmo layout	Possible perks	Approx costs
	Tinker 3–4 Other possible perks: Enhanced Efficient Open in calculator: Ancient tool	1,903,330.5 6x Fungal 74,159.25 each 3x Clockwork 486,125 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Chance increases with lower Invention level. Chance at level 62-63 Invention for Tinker 4/Prosper is 58.39% or 1/1.71. Tinker 2–4 Prosper Other possible perks: Enhanced Efficient Open in calculator: Ancient tool	17,653,020.94 1x Third-age 13,764,020.94 each 8x Clockwork 486,125 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Tinker 2–4 Prosper Other possible perks: Enhanced Efficient Open in calculator: Ancient tool	15,593,192.19 3x Clockwork 486,125 each 5x Fungal 74,159.25 each 1x Third-age 13,764,020.94 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Tinker 1–3 (3 is rare) Open in calculator: Tool	370,796.25 5x Fungal 74,159.25 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.
	Tinker 2–3 Enhanced Efficient 2–3 Open in calculator: Tool	2,430,625 5x Clockwork 486,125 each See RS:Material prices for details on how prices are approximated.

Update history

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• patch 26 May 2020 (Update):
  • Fixed an issue where the perks Refined 4, Tinker 4 and Rapid 4 were not activating as often as they should.

• patch 7 January 2019 (Update):
  • Tinker perk now increases chance for double progress when smithing.

• patch 13 February 2017 (Update):
  • The Tinker perk now has a 5% chance per rank to give +25% XP, as opposed to the previous 1% chance per rank to give +10% XP.

• update 6 February 2017 (Update):
  • Added to game.

Trivia

• Prior to the Mining and Smithing rework, the effect of Tinker was the same for both Firemaking and Smithing.