Elemental Workshop II

To begin, you need to go to the Exam Centre south of the Digsite. In the south eastern corner of the building, there are two chests. Search the bookcase two tiles down (the one attached both to the wall and another bookcase) to find a beaten book with a scroll in it as a bookmark.

Note: There is a bug where searching the bookcase may give the message "The label on this shelf reads 'Earth Sciences'; however, the helpful books have been taken. It looks like the other students got to them first." If this happens, search the other bookcases to start the quest.

Read the book and then the scroll, and then head to Seers' Village. Do not get rid of this book before the end of the quest; if you do, you will not be able to make the helmet out of the primed mind bar.

If you don't already have the battered key, head to the building south-west of Seers' Village Bank, and search the north-east bookcase to get a slashed book and a battered key. Enter the north building with the anvil icon, and let yourself in to the workshop the same way as in the Elemental Workshop I quest.

Next, go into the northern water elemental room and search the machinery to the south-west side of the room. You will receive the key used to unlock the hatch in the main room.

Note: If you do not read the scroll, you will not get the search option for the machinery.

Note: Before you go down, quickly "mine" two elemental ores (three if you desire a mind shield) from the west room, and smelt them into elemental metals in the south room (you will need 4 coal per elemental bar). Ironmen may find coal at the mine west of Seers' Village; 20 Agility is required to access it through a shortcut.

Go to the middle of the room and use the key on the locked hatch. Once you're downstairs, you need to fix the machinery. First, go to the "Schematic crate" (directly beside an old lever) to the south and take both the crane and the lever schematics. Then go back upstairs and use one of your bars on the workbench (make sure you only make one in the smithing menu, as the default will be make all!) and make the crane claw. Do not make a helmet yet!

Now, go back down and pull the south-western lever right next to the old crane, and then use the claw on the crane.

Next, head up the small stairs to your west (not up the hatch, but onto the metal construct) to get to the upper level. Open the junction box in the west to work on the pipes for the press (click on the ends you want to connect). You'll want to arrange them as seen on the left.

Hint: The player is led to assume that the machine operates by steam pressure. There is a huge entry pipe that leads from outside the workshop, suggesting that this is a power input source. Observe the lever schematic and the relative pipe entry points. The lever schematic indicates that it is in the middle position normally, blocking flow from the middle pipe, and requires pulling to either side to activate and allow flow from the middle pipe to the outer pipes.

Explanation of the solution: The correct solution is worked out from the clue given by the lever schematic as well as by seeing how the 6 pipes are connected to the back of the junction box. These correspond to the pipe ends in the interface. The lever schematic shows that the middle pipe coming from the lever, top-right in the interface, allows steam to flow towards the lever and must therefore be connected to the large supply pipe, top-middle in the interface. Next, the 2 remaining pipes coming from the lever, bottom-right and bottom-middle in the interface, must be connected to the 2 pipes coming from the press, top-left and bottom-left in the interface. The only combination that works is bottom-right to top-left and bottom-middle to bottom-left.

For the next two parts, you'll need to search some crates in the bottom and upstairs area. The small cog, medium cog, large cog and piece of pipe are located randomly in crates for each player. However, only certain crates contain items: on the bottom floor try searching the double-stacked crates next to the large exit staircase, the single crate north-west by the stairwell down, the double-stacked crate east of the west water valve, the double-stacked crates south-east, and the crate next to the schematics crate. Upstairs try searching the double-stacked crate south-east above the old crane and the double-stacked crate directly north-west of the junction box. If searching a crate does not yield an "It's empty." message or produce an item, it is not possible to find an item within. Once you have found all 3 cogs and the piece of pipe, you can stop searching the crates. If you lose one of the items before using it you can retrieve it in the same crate it was found previously.

Use the pipe on the broken pipe upstairs on the northernmost point of the scaffolding. Then for the cogs, take them back down the steps to the wind tunnel on the east side of the track. On the side of the wind tunnel are three pins (under 2 yellow directional arrows). By using the cogs on the machine pins, you want to stick the small one on the upper-left pin, the medium one on the lower left, and the large one on the right.

Do this twice if you want the shield.

Show animation: A bit of mind draining.

Go down one more level to where there are two doors, one with the mind symbol and the other with the body symbol. Go into the mind room (nearest), and place your bar on the extractor gun and operate the extractor hat next to it. A part of you will be drained into the bar turning it into a primed mind bar (that will be picked upstairs in the old crane).

This will temporarily lower your Magic level by 20.

NOTE: You can power multiple bars while here, but each additional bar will drain your Magic by another 20 levels. Power an additional bar if you wish to make a mind shield at the same time as your mind helmet (this is not required to complete the quest).

Once you have picked up the bar/s from the extractor gun, go back up to the workshop. The beaten book is required to be in your inventory to make the mind helmet, otherwise you will make a mind shield. Make a mind helmet out of the bar and the quest is complete.

Congratulations, quest complete!

After the quest is completed, if you have gathered an additional powered bar, make the mind shield with the slashed book in your inventory. Using a bar on the anvil with the slashed book in your inventory will make a mind shield, otherwise you will make a second mind helmet.

Both the mind shield and helmet can be sold on the grand exchange for 40,528 and 1,255 respectively.