Catapult Construction

Starting the quest

 * Speak with the Tyras Guard north of the Tyras Camp. He will explain that General Hining may be wanting to remove him from the job, as he has not been treating the wood properly. He needs someone with more experience in Construction to help him repair the catapult. Then, tell him you will help.


 * Head to the camp and speak with General Hining. He will explain that the catapult is an essential part of the camp's defence, and that having it down could mean disaster for the camp. He will give you permission to help repair the catapult. He also says that he will need you to find the missing engineer, which he suspects may be somewhere in the forest. He will also give you an letter to bring to him. If you lose it, speak to General Hining again.

Finding the Catapult Engineer

 * Find the Catapult Engineer. He is located in a clearing filled with Pawyas, north of the Tyras Guard. To find him, head south-east past some Grizzly bears until you come to a dense forest. Pass through the dense forest. It is here that you will need to have antipoisons and food, as there are traps that will poison you.


 * Head east to another dense forest and pass it.


 * You will now be in a little glowing mushroom clearing. Head north-west. Beware of traps that you may need to pass. Once you are across from the Elf Camp, search for a little path that leads back to the Engineer. Be careful of the stick trap!




 * Speak with the Engineer and offer your assistance.


 * Read the Catapult schematics you get from the engineer to see what materials you will need, then talk to the engineer again and ask to see the letter. Read the letter to find out what kind of materials you need.
 * You will need:
 * 90 Mithril nails
 * 10 Mahogany planks
 * Some metal parts from Rolad, the dwarven engineer in dwarven mine (outside) south of ice mountain
 * A hammer, a saw and a knife

Getting the catapult repair parts

 * Find Rolad at the entrance to the dwarven mines at the Ice Mountain. He will tell you that he has already sent a delivery dwarf to Port Sarim with the metal parts.


 * Head to Port Sarim. You will find Thaki the delivery dwarf at the inn. Talk to him and try to get him to give you the metal parts. He will refuse since you are not wearing a sailor's hat.


 * Search the Drunken Sailor outside the inn to get his hat. Put it on and talk to the delivery dwarf again. This time you will get the metal parts.


 * Get the nails, the planks and the tools, then read the schematics to build the wooden parts of the catapult.

Repairing the catapult

 * Get all of the catapult parts and tools. Then head back to the Tyras guard. Talk to the guard in order to repair the catapult.


 * To repair the catapult, you will have to fit the different pieces of the catapult in a tetris-like puzzle. There are two sides: an orange and a purple side. Both require certain pieces to make it work. There are many possible combinations to fill out one side, but it may not leave you with the correct pieces to complete the other. The following two pictures show the correct piece placements.

Orange Side

Purple Side


 * Once you have solved the puzzle, you have to test the repaired catapult. You will have to hit three stones with an 'X'. This is fairly easy compared to the other puzzle. It requires a small amount of trial and error, but can be quickly finished.




 * After hitting all the rocks, talk to the guard again. Congratulations! You have completed Catapult Construction!



Reward



 * 2 Quest Points
 * 15000 Construction experience
 * 5000 Fletching experience
 * 30 Teak planks
 * 2000 coins
 * Adamant halberd
 * No friendly-fire when using Castle Wars catapults

Trivia

 * Instead of wearing a sailor's hat to get the metal parts from the drunk dwarf, you can wear a tricorn hat.
 * On the first day of release, if players clicked to see the spoilers, they received the message, "Alas, it seems the Tyras guard looking after the reward list has misplaced it. Check back tomorrow."
 * On the day of release of the quest, all servers failed due to unknown reason, and the forum post rate went up to more than 1000 posts per second.
 * After the server crashes, some people got 404 errors when they tried to get onto a server log-in screen.
 * It is the first quest in the Elf Lands not directly related to the Plague City series.
 * When examining the drunken sailor outside the Port Sarim inn, it says, 'shave his belly with a rusty razor!', referring to the classic song, 'What do we do with a drunken sailor'.