Celebrated by Gnomes throughout Norrath, the Tinkerfest holiday occurs for several days near the end of July and the beginning of August. During Tinkerfest, Gnomes hold festivals celebrating tinkering and all things gnomish, frequently exchanging gifts with family members and celebrating their heritage. Once celebrated regularly, it has only been recently resurrected post-shattering.
Speaking Gnomish will be handy for this holiday!
Overview
An Unstable Tinkered Portal, to take you to the Steamfont Mountains' Gnomeland Security Headquarters.
Celebrations and celebrators can be found wherever gnomes are found. To find out more about this summer celebration, speak with any Celebrations Coordinator NPC. However, the central location to all Tinkerfest celebrations is in the Gnomeland Security Headquarters in Steamfont Mountains. To make your way there, many "Unstable Tinkered Portals" can be found throughout Norrath to transport you to the party headquarters.
Evil-Aligned Cities with Portals
- Freeport - in the bustling center of Temple Street ( 28, 3, 68 )
- Gorowyn - near to the first elevator upon entering the city from Timorous Deep ( 2575, 8, 1228 )
- Neriak - within Indigo Hollow ( 42, 17, -32 )
Good-Aligned Cities with Portals
- Kelethin - on the platform near the Kelethin First Regional Bank ( 298, 106, 151 )
- Qeynos - on the east side of Qeynos Capitol District ( 267, -16, 68 )
- New Halas - on the platforms leading down to the Erollis Dock ( -428, 53, 27 )
Other Portals
- Solusek's Eye - near the Solusek Mining Company gnomes ( 33, 14, -41 )
- The Bonemire - within the Drednever Crash Site ( 39, 43, 523 )
- Moors of Ykesha - around the crafting area and bank within the Dropship Landing Zone ( 1780, 453, 837 )
- Great Divide - Thurgadin Docks ( 1284, -540, 424 )
Quests
- 2011: Some of the quests are now given by different questgivers than Didyma.
- Friendly Competition - given by Jon Jeffas (introduced in 2009)
- Tinkerfest Cheer - given by Tomker; repeatable, with two new rewards added in 2010
- Great Balls of Fire - given by Mad Mattie; repeatable (introduced in 2010) (two new cloak reward choices in 2011)
- The Legend of the Geargobbler - given by Didyma (introduced in 2010) (new backpack reward added in 2011)
- If They Only Had a Brain - given by Blantsworth Coggington III after you complete Great Balls of Fire five times (introduced in 2011)
- A Tinkerer's Clockwork Catalog - only available if a Guide is in the Gnomeland Security Headquarters
- The Tome of Tinkering - another Guide quest
Recipes and House Items
Myron, a Tinkerfest vendor, has sets of Blueprints available for purchase. They cost 10 Shiny Tinkerfest Cogs each.
- Master Tinkerer Blueprints 1.0 - introduced in 2011, and requires a Tinkering skill of 400 to scribe.
- Master Tinkerer's Companion Blueprints 1.0 - requires a Tinkering skill of 400 to scribe.
- Tinkerfest Blueprints 1.0 - requires a Tinkering skill of 25 to scribe.
- Tinkerfest Blueprints 2.0 - introduced in 2010, and requires a Tinkering skill of 25 to scribe.
- Tinkerfest Blueprints 3.0 - introduced in 2011, and requires a Tinkering skill of 25 to scribe.
However, nearly all of the items (all, except a handful) which are available in the recipe books are also directly available for purchase from Myron.
Collectables
Starting in 2009, purple shinies for Tinkered Parts should now spawn in any zone containing a portal to the Gnomeland Security Headquarters -- not solely the headquarters itself. You will now also find yellow shinies (marked with an exclamation point "!"), which yield Shiny Tinkerfest Cogs that can then be used for purchasing items from Myron or for crafting the Tinkerfest recipes, in any of the zones containing a Tinkerfest celebration.
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This article refers to events, personae and activities only accessable in-game during the annual Tinkerfest festivities that occur roughly from the end of July to early August. |