Elemental Workshop IV

Elemental Workshop IV is the fourth installment of the Elemental Workshop quest series.

The quest had been released on the 1st of March, 2011. Elemental Workshop IV was announced to be the first to involve an actual character. The quest introduced Chaos and Cosmic armour, as well as glove and boot versions of the elemental armour sets.

Starting the Quest
Search the bookcase in the sorcerer's tower south of Seer's Village to find a "Notched Book". Read it and then go to the workshop and use a knife on the whetstone,which is upstairs before you enter the workshop. This will create a knife that you can use to open the door. If you do not have your primed bars (see Elemental Workshop II ), make them now. Once you have your 2 primed bars, go into the basement and down the hatch

The Cosmic Room


Proceed to the bottom floor of the workshop, where the mind and body rooms are, and use the key on the door at the end of the hallway. You will lose the key, but the door will not be open permanently. After passing this go to the first room on your right (northeast). You will see a puzzle room with four raised pillars.

The idea behind this puzzle is to line up same-coloured circles in the pillars along a line and then shoot the appropriate runes through the coloured holes (red = fire, blue = water, brown = earth, white = air). Use the control panel in the south-east corner of the room to rotate the pillars so that the colors in them line up using the control panel. Click on the dots representing the pillars and use the appropriate runes on the emitters along the north and east wall. (Some will start with runes but the runes may not be correct. If so, just remove the runes by clicking on the emitters.) When everything is ready, use the control panel again to shoot the runes. If the puzzled is solved correctly, the runes will shoot through the pillars, which then sink into the ground (and rise again, higher, for the next puzzle).

There are three puzzles to solve in succession. Each succeeding one gets larger and taller. With 2- and 3-level pillars, the control panel can also be used to change the level of the emitters.

One tip for solving this puzzle is to try to line up one line of pillars successfully. This then limits your choice of how to arrange the remaining pillars to complete the puzzle. Remember to match colours, and that each level of the pillar has only two possible colours to choose from. Once you have solved the puzzle and placed the runes in the emitters, power up the puzzle. If you are successful four beams of light will pass straight through the pillars, activating the next stage of the puzzle - with 9 pillars in a 3x3 square.

For the 3x3 puzzle, you can also choose which section of the pillars to match up - though, again, there will only be one correct solution. Raise or lower the emitters as appropriate, and power up the machine again. The same method for solving the puzzle applies, - line up one row of pillars correctly, then solve the remainder of the puzzle.



The final section of this puzzle has 16 pillars with 3 different levels on each pillar. Lining up one row of pillars will again lead you to the right solution, and again raise or lower the emitters as appropriate. Power up the machine for a final time, and this will activate the drain machine near the operating panel

After you complete the puzzle, operate the Drain Machine in the south-east corner of the workshop. Here you will see a short cut scene of the automaton, Davi, activating and opening the chaos door. After cutscene one of the piller will be turned so fix it and power machine again.

Before leaving the Cosmic room, use one of your Primed Bars on the machine and operate it to get a Cosmic Bar. Using the cosmic machine will drain your runecrafting level. With the Cosmic Bar go back to the workshop and use the bar on anvil to make pair of Cosmic Gloves(can only be made on elemental workshop anvils), since you will need them later on.

The Chaos Room
Go into the Chaos room and travel west where you will find a Shabby book on the desk.

On the Southeast side of the machine there are a series of levers. The two on the south-facing wall operate the RAMs. The other four slide the conveyor belt either five steps or one step in either direction (the northernmost one is five steps anticlockwise, then one step anticlockwise, one step clockwise, five steps clockwise).

To operate the computer Davi must be given an instruction and an address, represented by two cubes in the CPU. Instructions are "get", "put", "break", and "operate". The addresses are the large stone slabs with rune symbols on them. Note that the astral slab is broken, so this must be fixed first.

In order the instructions should be (Blocks can be placed in either side of RAM): This puts a blank slab on the workbench. You must then carve it using a chisel and hammer on the blank slab on the workbench. After that, click on the carved slab to receive an Astral token. Use the token in your inventory on the broken astral slab to replace it.
 * 1) Get + Nature
 * 2) Put + Mind
 * 3) Break + Law
 * 4) Get + Body
 * 5) Put + Mind
 * 6) Get + Cosmic
 * 7) Put + Mind
 * 8) Get + Fire
 * 9) Put + Water

Now you should tell Davi to This breaks the second wall. This turns the machine on, but you'll find that you cannot use it safely. You need some Cosmic gloves, which can be made now as detailed above.
 * 1) Get + Astral
 * 2) Put + Mind
 * 3) Break + Earth
 * 4) Operate + Chaos

If you do not have the Cosmic gloves, you must go back to the Cosmic room, power up the machine again, and then put a primed bar on the table of the machine. When you power up the machine, it will be transformed into a cosmic bar, which you take upstairs to the anvils to make the gloves. Return to the chaos machine and activate it with a primed bar on the table to retrieve the chaos bar (Note that this will drain your thieving level by 39 levels). You may find that the chaos machine is unpowered again, however telling Davi to Operate Chaos again will easily solve this problem. Return upstairs and use the bar with the anvil to get the Chaos boots.

Congratulations, Quest Complete!



Rewards

 * 1 Quest Points
 * 9000 Crafting XP
 * 7500 Runecrafting XP
 * 50 Coal (noted)
 * Ability to make and equip elemental cosmic and chaos equipment.
 * Ability to make boot and glove equipment from all elemental metals.

Music unlocked

 * Logical Progression

Trivia

 * In the Chaos Elemental's letter from the 45th Postbag from the Hedge had suggested a next Elemental Workshop.
 * There was a bug in-game that the reward gave 1 quest point, instead of 2. This was later fixed by Mod Easty in a hidden update.
 * Keyblade is a possible reference to Kingdom Hearts.
 * It appears that there may be possibly one or two more sequels to the quest(as the cosmic and chaos doors were released together), further down the corridor, there seems to be the Nature door and the Astral door.
 * In the real world 'CPU' stands for Central Processing Unit whereas in Runescape it stands for Cube Parsing Utility.
 * In the real world 'RAM' stands for Random-access Memory. However, in Runescape the name is taken literally as a ram, pushing the cubes.
 * Both CPU and RAM are computing terms, suggesting that the machine is RuneScape's version of a computer.
 * The cubes in the Chaos Puzzle room look like the Companion Cube from the game "Portal".
 * When the quest first came out the spoiler reads: "The chaos machine is currently parsing the rewards. Results will be ready in 'about a day'..."
 * The Adventurer's log entry for this quest reads: "I made some chaos boots from the bar I powered up in the chaos machine."
 * You must have a runecrafting level of at least 39 to operate the cosmic machine and a thieving level of at least 39 to operate the chaos machine. Both machines drain there respective stat by 39 levels so if one wishes to charge multiple bars they need to bring a super restore potion or two to complete a full set.