Inspiration

This article is about the removed Invention mechanic. For other uses, see Inspiration (disambiguation).

For the current version of this mechanic, see Discovery.

Inspiration was removed after an update. The contents of this page no longer exist in RuneScape, and this article is kept for historical purposes.

A player obtaining inspiration while disassembling items.

Inspiration was a mechanic of the Invention skill. Inspiration was used to unlock blueprints of equipment and upgrades in the skill. How optimised the blueprint was during the research process determined how much inspiration was used, with poorly optimised blueprints consuming the most (up to 220% of minimum) and perfectly optimised blueprints consuming the least.

Inspiration was removed in an update on 18 September 2017 as part of a significant update to the Invention skill.

Mechanics

Inspiration could be earned by:

• Advancing an Invention level
• Earning experience in any skill (including Invention); a limited amount of inspiration could be earned this way on each level (resets each time an Invention level is advanced and is equal to 50% of the current level's initial inspiration gains)
• Dismantling a level 10 or higher augmented item
  • The Inspiration cap every level affects both the inspiration gained by training any skills and the inspiration gained from dismantling a level 10 weapon/armour.

The total pool of inspiration earned for every level was fixed at the total needed to research everything. If levels were skipped (as they often were at low levels due to the large amount of experience granted by dismantling levelled-up augmented items), the earnable inspiration at those levels was not lost, but instead could be earned later. If a project was researched without perfect optimisation, the excess inspiration used was returned to the pool to be earned again later. If new research projects were released, the pool size was increased and the additional inspiration could be earned by all, even those that had previously earned all available inspiration.

Players could check the amount of inspiration they had by:

• Clicking "Check inspiration" on the Invention pouch in the Inventory interface, next to the bond pouch
• Mousing over the Invention pouch
• Clicking Inventor's Tools on the tool belt
• Saying the quick chat phrase "I have <amount> inspiration."

Research

Bonus experience was used in discoveries.

Discovery	Level	Cost	Experience	Cumulative cost
Device: Charge pack	1	10	200	10
Research: Apply Augmentor to weapons	2	10	250	20
Device: Gizmo	3	10	400	30
Research: Augmented item maximum level 5	4	40	107	70
Research: Divine charge				110
Device: Gizmo dissolver	8	40	161	150
Device: Equipment dissolver	16	110	628	260
Research: Augmented armour				370
Device: Augmentation dissolver				480
Research: Camouflage outfit piece	20	0	1198	480
Research: Gemstone golem outfit piece				480
Research: Shark outfit piece				480
Research: Rune ethereal outfit piece				480
Device: Junk refiner	22	150	1,541	630
Research: Maximum charge improvement 1				780
Material: Refined components				930
Research: Augmented hatchet				1,080
Research: Augmented pickaxe				1,230
Device: Fishing rod-o-matic				1,380
Device: Pyro-matic				1,530
Device: Hammer-tron				1,680
Device: Tool gizmo				1,830
Device: Urn enhancer	24	150	1,541	1,980
Device: Soul-in-a-box				2,130
Device: Equipment siphon	27	200	2,675	2,330
Research: Augmented item maximum level 10				2,530
Research: Charge drain reduction 1	34	750	5,446	3,280
Research: Junk chance reduction 1				4,030
Material: Knightly components				4,780
Research: Maximum charge improvement 2	40	900	9,184	5,680
Material: Corporeal components		675		6,355
Material: Pestiferous components				7,030
Material: Harnessed components	45	900	12,726	7,930
Research: Augmented leg armour				8,830
Material: Culinary components				9,730
Research: Junk chance reduction 2	49	900	16,114	10,630
Material: Dragonfire components				11,530
Material: Explosive components				12,430
Research: Charge drain reduction 2				13,330
Device: Sprinkler MK1	50	1200	18,257	14,530
Device: Mining accumulator				15,730
Device: Woodcutting accumulator				16,930
Device: Mechanised chinchompa				18,130
Material: Brassican components	54	1,550	22,600	19,680
Material: Fortunate components				21,230
Material: Undead components				22,780
Material: Fungal components				24,330
Device: Crystal tool siphon				25,880
Material: Clockwork components	55		23,779	27,430
Material: Faceted components				28,980
Research: Augmented item maximum level 15	60	1,750	32,284.5	30,730
Device: Fishing accumulator				32,480
Device: B.A.N.K. Stander		1,325		33,805
Device: Calorie bomb				35,130
Device: Monkey mind-control helmet				36,455
Device: Book switcher				37,130
Research: Maximum charge improvement 3	64	1,750	38,610	38,880
Research: Charge drain reduction 3				40,630
Research: Junk chance reduction 3				42,380
Device: Discover the Lab coat outfit	69	1,750	47,562	44,130
Research: Junk chance reduction 4				45,880
Research: Charge drain reduction 4				47,630
Material: Shifting components				49,380
Device: Auto-sanctifier	70	1,725	52,591	51,105
Device: Dungeoneering lock melter				52,830
Device: Dungeoneering party simulator				54,555
Device: Electrified box trap				56,280
Device: Kinetic cyclone				58,005
Device: Oldak coil				59,730
Material: Zamorak components	74	2,300	61,347	62,030
Material: Saradomin components				64,330
Material: Armadyl components				66,630
Material: Bandos components				68,930
Research: Charge drain reduction 5	78	2,300	70,981	71,230
Research: Junk chance reduction 5				73,530
Research: Junk chance reduction 6	83	4,500	89,273	78,030
Research: Charge drain reduction 6				82,530
Material: Ancient components				87,030
Material: Seren components				91,530
Materials: Zaros components		1,750		93,280
Device: Discover the Lightbulb hat item	87	4,500	101,703	97,780
Research: Maximum charge improvement 4				102,280
Material: Oceanic components				106,780
Material: Silent components				111,280
Material: Resilient components				115,780
Material: Avernic components	89	4,500	108,310	120,280
Material: Cywir components				124,780
Material: Ilujankan components				129,280
Material: Shadow components				133,780
Research: Charge drain reduction 7	91	6,000	121,584	139,780
Research: Junk chance reduction 7				145,780
Device: Pogo stick				151,780
Research: Charge drain reduction 8	95	6,000	136,962	157,780
Research: Maximum charge improvement 5				163,780
Research: Junk chance reduction 8				169,780
Research: Professor title				175,780
Research: Augmented item maximum level 20	99	6,000	153,526	181,780
Material: Noxious components				187,780
Material: Rumbling components				193,780
Material: Ascended components				199,780
Research: Charge drain reduction 9	105	11,000	190,188	210,780
Research: Junk chance reduction 9				221,780
Research: Alchemical onyx	107	0	200,382	221,780

Discovering all blueprints would result in a total experience gain of 4,907,159 if no bonus experience was used.

Additional requirements