The Flash Powder Factory

The Rogues’ Den has come under unwelcome scrutiny by the Imperial Guard of Burthorpe, and Brian O’ Richard has closed its doors once and for all in favour of the Flash Powder Factory.

To stay out of the slammer and ensure that his dear old Mumsie isn’t left destitute, Brian needs resourceful rapscallions such as you to operate the factory machinery; traversing the treacherous obstacles therein to collect and mix reagents, in order to create as much flash powder as possible. The factory’s a dangerous place for the flat-footed, so you’ll be removed once a set time limit is up, or if you become trapped between the doors dividing up the factory’s maze-like interior. You can boost your score by holding multiple sets of factory apparatus, additional sets of which can be “borrowed” from your fellow players. Be sure to keep an eye on yours, though; within the factory, you’ll find little honour among thieves.

Performing well within the factory will earn you points, which can be exchanged for Thieving and Agility experience. Persistence may also earn you new garments, which allow for the creation of four-dose potions, grant additional experience when creating unfinished potions, and improve performance within the factory itself. Finally, you may find pieces of old Rogues’ Den gear strewn among the rubble on the factory floor.

How to start The Flash Powder Factory:

Enter the trapdoor behind the bar of the pub in Burthorpe, and speak to Brian O’ Richard. He’ll give you instructions and all the equipment you’ll need.

Requirements

75 Thieving
75 Agility
50 Herblore
Pickpocketing sets of apparatus from other players may help to improve your score. However, those who choose not to engage in pickpocketing will be able to perform effectively.

Mod Moltare

In Other News...

The Rogues’ Den in Burthorpe has been removed in favour of the new Flash Powder Factory minigame. The safes, bank and cooking fire remain in the area.
Walk on the wild side and check out our Wilderness graphical update, including blasted arcane wastes scarred with lava and ruins of pre-God Wars architecture.
We've updated the conversation interface to bring it in line with recent improvements to the top level interface. The space bar can now be used to proceed through chat, and multiple dialogue options are numbered so that number keys can be used to make your choice.

Patch notes for this update: (Click to View)

The following small fixes and adjustments have now been made to the game. If you spot any further bugs in-game, please use the Bug Report feature.

Graphical:


Blocking has been added on a waterfall in the God Wars dungeon.



Quests & Tasks:


The quest rewards interface now uses proper grammar at the end of One Piercing Note.
Turning on Prayers in a Monkey Madness cutscene no longer causes the cutscene to break.
Larry from the Hunt for Red Raktuber quest now recognises how Witchhaven has changed after Salt in the Wound.



Skills & Minigames:


A treasure trail description has been updated to reflect how a certain church looks.



Other:


Clan owners can again make changes to the citadel within 6 hours of the next build tick.
Citadel upkeep using precious bars now displays correctly.
When chartering ships from Mos Le’Harmless to Karamja, players are now shown the correct price.
’Dice bag’ has been removed from the list of items in Quickchat.
Claiming no coins from Explorer Jack no longer displays a "0 coins added" animation to the money pouch.
The Equilibrium aura now works correctly with the dark bow.
Machetes stored in a toolbelt now work correctly with jungle plants south of Shilo Village.
Logging out while sitting on a chair in a citadel no longer attempts to place the player inside a table.
It is no longer possible to use a halberd on dummies in the Ardougne training grounds from outside of the area.
Spam clicking the money pouch inside Mobilising Armies no longer shows the ‘disabled’ message multiple times.
Smithing with the Varrock Tasks reward armour now takes coal from a coal bag when the double bars effect takes place.
Balnea from As a First Resort has had some spelling altered to reflect her American way of speaking.
Reclaiming Mackers from Diango now correctly sets up the pet system so he no longer runs away.
The Saradomin Godsword's special attack now heals for the correct amount.
Naff now recognises money in a player's money pouch.
Thieving from chests in Dorgesh-Kaan now awards coins.
The ammo mould from Dwarf Cannon can no longer be added to the toolbelt until the quest has been completed. Nulodian will issue replacements even if the mould is in a player’s toolbelt.

Kind of weird that they removed the Rogue's Den minigame entirely, but I guess there's really no point in keeping content that nobody uses. I'm excited for when I get a chance to try out the new factory, and to see the new wilderness, I love graphic updates. Sounds like a pretty decent update overall, may have to get myself those clothes for the 4 dose potion making if it's fast enough.

Wont be able to check it out till tomorrow. Anyone know if the thieve and agil xp are any good?

EDIT: Found out its about 38k agility xp/hr if you get 10k points, and 48k/hr for thieving. Its prolly only good if you want the outfits.

I'm with Evaluate on this one; removing Rogue's Den does seem a little weird. But, replacing it with this seems to be a better move overall. What caught my attention was:

"Performing well within the factory will earn you points, which can be exchanged for Thieving and Agility experience. Persistence may also earn you new garments, which allow for the creation of four-dose potions, grant additional experience when creating unfinished potions, and improve performance within the factory itself."

I wonder if this will be a viable way to train thieving/agility? Also, creating four-dose potions and gaining exp while making unfinished potions sounds really awesome. I expect to see herb and potion prices bouncing around a bit, though.

It will be a while before I can try this mini-game out, but I will definitely check it when I have more time!

Not been yet!!

A chance to pickpocket other players (and generally be a real nuisance) sounds very enticing.

For a mischief like me this looks like a lot of fun, but I can see some people getting very frustrated!

I might have missed it, but did anything happen with the rogue armor?

48k thieving xp = lame lol

depending on how cute the new gear is i prob wont do it :S

I might have missed it, but did anything happen with the rogue armor?

"Finally, you may find pieces of old Rogues’ Den gear strewn among the rubble on the factory floor."

So, it is still obtainable. Unless you meant something else?

Don't know enough to vote yet, but looks like around a 4 atm, a decent update.
I too was surprised about the removal of the old game, but when I thought about it I think it was the right decision. One day I may get that outfit, but probably not anytime soon.