Flash Powder Factory

The Flash Powder Factory is an update to the Rogues' Den minigame on December 13, 2011.

After the Imperial Guard took notice of the old Rogues' Den, Richard O'Brian shut down his maze and opened the doors to his Flash Powder Factory instead. Inside players can operate the factory, while dodging obstacles and the sneaky fingers of other players.

Agility, Thieving and Herblore experience can be gained from the Factory, and pieces of the old Rogues' Den rewards can also be found lying around.

Requirements

 * 75
 * 75
 * 50
 * Pickpocketing sets of apparatus from other players may help to improve your score. However, those who choose not to engage in pickpocketing will be able to perform effectively.
 * Stat boosting items CANNOT be used to gain access to the factory.

Playing the game
The aim of the game is to make flash powder. To do this, first the reagents are needed, known simply as "A" and "B". These can be obtained from the reagent machines A and B, marked with blue and orange arrows on the minimap, respectively. These can also be located by checking the map where the world map icon usually appears.

To navigate the map, players must pass agility obstacles that separate each room. Some rooms also have 'doors' between them, which can be blocked off, making navigation more difficult.

Once both the reagents have been obtained, they must be taken with to a mixer machine, any of the dark red arrows on the map, to make the powder and gain points.

You will gain a minimum of 100 points for each flash powder made. Additional points can be obtained when making powder by having a bonus, provided by certain factors:
 * Charge - charge can be obtained through an active charge machine, marked with an electricity bolt on the map. The machine will give a 10% bonus for 100 seconds
 * Apparatus - determined by the number of refining apparatus in the inventory. Players will have three of these at the start of the game, and more may be obtained by pickpocketing other players in the arena, and may be lost by being pickpocketed. The number of apparatus each player has will be displayed as a number of green bars above their head. Players can have a maximum of 6 apparatus. It is not possible to pickpocket a player immediately after they have pickpocketed you, nor can you pickpocket them twice in a row. There is a slight delay in the ability to pickpocket if an attempt to do so fails.
 * Residue -

Rewards
Within the factory, the player will earn points referred to as Brianpoints. These points can be used to buy rewards from Brian O'Richard. The rewards that can be bought are as follows.


 * The ability to make 4 dose potions.
 * Agility and Thieving experience.
 * Factory outfit.
 * Factory helm - 2250 points
 * Factory body - 3500 points
 * Factory legs - 2750 points
 * Factory gloves - 1750 points
 * Factory boots - 1750 points
 * Multitool - 35 points
 * Phallus - 1500 points

Trivia

 * On the day of release players received the message "The instance you tried to join is full. Please try back later." This was due to a bug limiting the number of instances and the huge volume of players trying to access the minigame. Players on foreign servers did not have this problem.