Catapult Construction

Starting the quest

 * Speak with the Tyras Guard north of the Tyras Camp he will explain that General Hinning 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. Now tell him you will help.


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

Finding the Catapult Engineer

 * Find the Catapult Engineer. He is located in a clearing filled with Pawya's north of the Tyras Guard. To get to him head south-east past some Grizzly bear's until you come to a dense forest. Pass through the dense forest. It is here 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 and 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 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:
 * 70-90 Mithril nails
 * 10 Mahogany planks
 * Some metal parts from Rolad the dwarf engineer
 * Tools (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 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 you drunk 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 the catapult parts and tools. Then head back to the catapult 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.


 * When you have solve the puzzle you have to test the repaired catapult. You will have to hit three stones with an 'X'.


 * 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 quests all servers failed due to unknown reason and the forum post went up to more than 1000 posts per second largest ever.
 * Appart from Recipe For Disaster's length in name, this quest's name is one of the longest.
 * After the server crashes, some people got 404 errors when they tried to get onto a server log-on screen.