Materials

This is a list of known materials in the Invention skill. Materials are obtained by disassembling items found throughout RuneScape. This requires level 80 Smithing, Crafting, and Divination.

Common materials

When disassembling materials, common components are shown as white text and are often found in every item.

Name	Description	Disassembly sources
Base parts	Bits of framework for something more complex.	Bolts, weapons with hilts, shields.	List
Blade parts	Materials which can hold a keen edge.	Stabbing, slashing, and thrown weapons.	List
Clear parts	Things you can see through, in material form.	Gems, glass.	List
Connector parts	Materials used to connect things together.	Claws, whips, crossbows, hatchets, jewellery.	List
Cover parts	Large parts for making a chassis or shell.	Armour, shields, clothing.	List
Crafted parts	Some work has already gone into this.	Summoning scrolls and pouches, spears, arrows, two-handed crossbows, potions, bars, planks, leather. Also herbs and runes.	List
Crystal parts	An orderly structure, good for focus or timing.	Harmonic dust, non-attuned crystal items.	List
Deflecting parts	Useful if you need to accelerate, decelerate or steer something.	Hybrid/melee/magic armour, shields, defenders, halberds.	List
Delicate parts	Fine materials that need to be handled with care.	Orbs and books, jewellery, potions, glass, gems.	List
Flexible parts	It's bendy!	Whips, bows, Summoning pouches.	List
Head parts	The business end of something.	Hatchets, battleaxes, blunt weapons, pickaxes, wands, ammunition.	List
Magic parts	Materials with magical potency.	Runes, signs and portents, magic weapons, magic armour.	List
Metallic parts	Good conductor, hard but slightly brittle.	Swords, knives.	List
Organic parts	Bits of something that was once alive.	Seeds, bones, ashes, food, herbs, potions.	List
Padded parts	Possible use as a shock absorber or just to increase comfort.	Ranged armour, clothing, staves.	List
Plated parts	Casings, containers and parts of armour.	Mauls, thrown axes, melee armour.	List
Simple parts	Useful things for building with.	Ores, logs, hides, bars, planks, leather, basic weapons and clothing.	List
Smooth parts	Materials with low friction, pleasant to touch.	Glass, gems, jewellery, orbs and books, warhammers, maces, battleaxes.	List
Spiked parts	These are sharp and pointy, which could be useful.	Daggers, claws, one-handed crossbows, thrown weapons, bolts.	List
Spiritual parts	Materials connected to the spirit realm.	Summoning charms, scrolls and pouches.	List
Stave parts	Bits and pieces of a staff, bowstaff, or similar.	Arrows, staves, spears, halberds, bows.	List
Tensile parts	Materials used to hold things in place.	Bows, crossbows, ranged armour.	List

Uncommon materials

Uncommon materials are found the same way as with common materials. However, when a player disassembles an item for an uncommon material, they are highlighted as orange text.

Name	Description	Disassembly sources
Dextrous components	Easily manipulated and well-balanced.	Swords, longswords, maces, bows, crossbows.	List
Direct components	These seem to have straightforward applications.	Spears, battleaxes, pickaxes.	List
Enhancing components	The notion of making something better, in essential form.	Orbs and books, potions, glass, jewellery, food, herbs.	List
Ethereal components	These materials are not quite all here, at least not all at once.	Signs and portents, orbs and books, ashes.	List
Evasive components	The quality of evasiveness, carefully isolated.	Ranged armour, hybrid armour.	List
Healthy components	The platonic ideal of health in material form.	Herbs, potions, foods.	List
Heavy components	A small quantity of pure weightiness.	Mauls, warhammers, maces, pickaxes.	List
Imbued components	Thrumming with power and vibrating gently	Wands, staves.	List
Light components	Materials that lack weight, and seem to faintly glow.	Gems, daggers.	List
Living components	It's alive. Alive!	Food, herbs, seeds, logs, hides	List
Pious components	The quality of faith, carefully isolated.	Bones, ashes.	List
Powerful components	An amount of raw power taken from the thing that contained it.	Staves, magic/hybrid armour, Summoning pouches and scrolls, runes.	List
Precious components	A quantum of value, stored as a material.	Jewellery, gems.	List
Precise components	The quality of precision, carefully isolated.	Stabbing weapons, bows, arrows, wands.	List
Protective components	The quality of protection, carefully isolated.	Armour and shields.	List
Refined components	Amazing what you can find in a pile of junk.	Require level 22 Invention. Obtained using a Junk refiner.	List
Sharp components	The quality of sharpness, carefully isolated.	Slashing weapons, thrown weapons.	List
Strong components	This ought to be useful if you need something tough.	Melee armour, shields, hatchets, two-handed swords, warhammers, mauls, shieldbows.	List
Stunning components	Has a numbing quality to the touch.	Crossbows, bolts, halberds.	List
Subtle components	These might be good for something underhanded.	Defenders, scimitars, whips.	List
Swift components	Always in motion, even when at rest.	Claws, knives, thrown weapons.	List
Variable components	It's not quite certain what these do, but they probably do something.	Miscellaneous	List

Rare materials

Unlike common and uncommon materials, rare materials can only be found through more specific items. Most rare materials have a 100% chance of obtaining; only a select few do not have this chance.

Name	Level	Description	Disassembly sources
Ancient components	83	Sometimes things acquire virtue and power by dint of age alone.	Third-Age Equipment	List
Armadyl components	74	Godly, simple, and well-meaning	Armadyl god items	List
Ascended components	99	The ascension project is not an ethical use of science.	Ascension crossbow (and off-hand variant), Ascension grips, Sirenic equipment	List
File:Augmented components.png Augmented components	99			List
Bandos components	74	Godly, heavy, and firm in their belief.	Bandos god items	List
Brassican components	54	Come on, are you even taking this seriously?	Cabbages.	List
Corporeal components	40	The soul of a dangerous predator lies within. Also requires: Dwarven tech tree	Spirit shields	List
Culinary components	45	You're an inventor, not a chemist, but you still need to cook.	Culinaromancer's chest items	List
Dragonfire components	49	Warm to the touch and glowing at its core	Royal crossbow, Dragonfire shields, rune dragon boots	List
Explosive components	49	They hum. Don't drop them.	Hand cannon	List
Fortunate components	54	Some of the luck has clung to the salvaged parts of treasure.	Treasure trails items	List
Fungal components	54	Pustulent, and more complex than you might expect.	Fungal armour.	List
Harnessed components	45	Bursting with the power of harnessed elemental and catalytic runes.	Elemental items.	List
Knightly components	34	An oath can have force that takes an almost physical power.	Black and White Knight items.	List
Noxious components	99		Noxious Weapons	List
Oceanic components	87	This material was salvaged from the armour of those who sing to beasts.	Seasinger equipment	List
Pestiferous components	40	Also requires: Goblin tech tree	Void Knight items	List
Resilient components	87	Harder than iron, harder then steel.	Tetsu equipment	List
Rumbling components	99	All the pressure of a faultline, but far more compact.	Tectonic items, Raids Gear, Drygores	List
Saradomin components	74	Godly, powerful, and certain in their purpose.	Saradomin god items	List
Seren components	83	A faint singing can be heard in the depths of the material.	Attuned Crystal items	List
Shifting components	69	Pulse and shift and generally express a desire to be something else.	Chaotic items	List
Silent components	87	Heady, with notes of leather and venom.	Death Lotus equipment	List
Undead components	54	This material pulses as if unwilling to die.	Barrows equipment, Malevolent armour/kiteshield, Merciless kiteshield, Vengeful kiteshield	List
Zamorak components	74	Godly, chaotic, and competitive.	Zamorak god items.	List
Zaros components	83	They're so inscrutable you're not sure quite how they do what they do.	Zaros god items, Abyssal items	List

Other materials

Name	Description	Disassembly sources
Junk	There may be some use to this stuff, somehow?	Almost every item that can be disassembled.