Architectural Alliance

Architectural Alliance is the first miniquest exclusive to Old School RuneScape. It features Great Kourend, a city in Zeah who is torn apart between five houses: Hosidius, Shayzien, Arceuus, Lovakengj, and Piscarilius. The statue of King Rada I, which stood in the city's centre, was destroyed in a storm that hit the city. The player must unite the Houses of Great Kourend to rebuild the statue of their King.

Walkthrough
Players must first speak to Hosa, a Hosidius architect who will explain that he wishes to rebuild the statue of King Rada I in the centre of Great Kourend after it was heavily damaged in a storm. However, he is unable to receive the assistance of the other architects in their respective Houses, and requests that you do so for him.

In order to receive the assistance of a Great Kourend architect, players will have to speak to them once they gain 100% favour in their respective Houses. Once players have spoken to an architect, they will never lose the favour of the House they gained 100% in. This means in order to complete the miniquest, players will have to gain 100% favour in all Houses.

The location of the architects are as follows:

Gaining favour
The player can gain favour in a House in any order. However, once 100% favour is gained in one House, be sure to speak to the respective House's architect before gaining favour in another House. This allows players who have gained 100% favour in a House to gain favour in another House without losing favour in the others.

Arceuus House
Earning the favour of the Arceuus can be done by assisting the Arceuus Elders with expanding their knowledge, seeking your own dark knowledge, mining rune essence blocks and using the Arceuus spellbook.

Assisting library customers
Because of the Arceuus House Library's unhelpful librarian, Logosia, customers in the library are having trouble finding the texts they seek. Players can speak to Sam, Professor Gracklebone or Villia to search bookcases for books/scrolls around the library for them. Players can find Biblia, another librarian, on the top floor to narrow down the location of the customer's desired text.

Note that if a player is required to find the book "transportation incantations", it is recommended to read it, as doing so will unlock the Teleport to Kourend spell.

Once the text is found and returned to the respective NPC, players is rewarded with a book of arcane knowledge and 1.5% favour. Return to same location to retrieve book.

Seeking dark knowledge
Once players reach 20% favour, they can speak to Horphis, an Arceuus House wizard, who will ask players to collect dark manuscripts found within the library. Players can again speak to Biblia to narrow down the location of the dark manuscripts and the books.

Multiple manuscripts can be obtained without consistently returning to Horphis. Each manuscript given rewards a book of arcane knowledge and 3% favour.

Mining dense essence blocks
Once players reach 25% favour, they will be able to mine dense essence blocks within the dense runestone mine, located east of the Dark Altar. Make sure you bring a chisel.

Players can turn in dense essence blocks to Clerris, rewarding 0.1% favour for every four blocks handed in.

Piscarilius House
Earning the favour of the Piscarilius can be done by assisting the Piscarilius Elders with repairing the fishing nets, taking fish to the market, hunting grubs on the beach and stealing booty from houses.

Repairing fishing cranes
Fishing cranes are found throughout the Piscarilius House, and consistently break. In order to repair them, players require level 30 in crafting.

Players will need a hammer, some nails (preferably mithril), and several planks to repair the fishing cranes. Each crane fixed is rewarded with 0.2% favour. Leenz sells iron nails if players need them. All in all, it will take around 225 planks and 1,400 nails (or more if using anything below mithril) to reach 15%.

The more people that are working, the faster the crane gets repaired, so it is recommended to repair cranes in a busy world.

Taking fresh fish to Frankie
Once players reach 15% favour, they can assist Frankie in delivering fresh fish to the cooling chest inside his store for favour.

It is recommended to collect fresh fish from the barrels directly south of the general store, due to its proximity to Frankie. Start from the westernmost barrel, and work your way east. After about 20 fish, run to the deposit box. The fish start degrading after about 20 fish - so be quick and you might want to give smaller amounts of fish per trip. Players appear to gain ~1% favour for every 50 fresh fish delivered.

Hunting sandworms
Once players reach 30% favour, players with level 15 in hunter can hunt for sandworms in the area north of Tynan's Fishing Supplies. Doing so requires a spade and a bucket. A full load of bucket of sandworms, assuming that the player only carries a spade, usually rewards approximately 4-6% favour.

Stealing booty from houses
Once players reach 75% favour, players with level 49 in thieving can talk to Captain Khaled in the huge building south-east of the bank to get an assignment. Players will need some lockpicks to break and enter a house, and they will have to avoid being caught by the patrolmen. A successful heist awards a few hundred coins, and 0.8% Piscarilius favour.

For a detailed guide on stealing booty, see here.

Lovakengj House
Earning favour with the Lovakengj requires you to assist in the collecting of resources for blast mining and the creation of armour.

Earning the favour of the Lovakengj house will allow players to collect new compounds used to make dynamite for blast mining. Blast mining will allow players to get ores at an accelerated rate, but only if they choose to invest their time with the Lovakengj House.

Making dynamite
Dynamite is used in the Lovakengj House's mining operations. It is created from volcanic sulphur, juniper charcoal, saltpetre and a pot, then using the resulting dynamite pot with a ball of wool. Adding the wool to the dynamite gives roughly 0.033% favour.

Volcanic sulphur, requiring level 42 mining to mine, is found at the sulphur mine in the north-west part of the Lovakengj House. Roughly 0.026% favour is gained for every volcanic sulphur mined.

Juniper charcoal is created by adding juniper logs (which require 42 woodcutting to chop) to one of the charcoal burners (60 max per furnace) then light it and pay Smoggy 600 coins (per furnace) to watch over the process for you. After about 16-17 hours the player will receive 50 charcoal per log they put in the furnace, producing 3,000 juniper charcoal per furnace.

Saltpetre can be found in the area south of the Hosidius House bank, and will spawn in one of five possible locations within the area, and moves once the deposit is depleted. A spade is required to gather saltpetre. A helpful tip is that Konoo, a saltpetre digger, will be located wherever the latest saltpetre deposit is located.

Empty pots can be purchased in bulk in Toothy's Pickaxes, a store next to the bank chest near the sulphur mine.

Making Shayzien supply armour
Once players have 30% favour, they will receive permission to mine in the lovakite mine, where lovakite ore can be found. These ores are then smelted in a special furnace south of the blast mine (or usage of the Superheat Item spell) into lovakite bars to smith Shayzien supply armour. Players require level 65 in mining to mine lovakite, and level 45 smithing to smelt the ore. Players can smith various tiers of the supply armour depending on their smithing level, and turn in the armour pieces to various armourers found throughout the Lovakengj House. Mining and smithing experience will also be given as a reward.

However, by smithing a set of supply armour, consisting of a helm, platebody, greaves, gloves, and boots, players will gain larger amounts of favour by packing them into a Shayzien supply crate, found within drawers in the houses of armourers.

The tier players are able to smith are dependent on their smithing level and the amount of favour players have:
 * At 30%, players can smith tier 1 supply armour for the armourer (tier 1). Handing in tier 1 supply crates earns 0.5% favour per crate turned in.
 * At 40%, players can smith tier 2 supply armour for the armourer (tier 2). Handing in tier 2 supply crates earns 1% favour per crate turned in.
 * At 50%, players can smith tier 3 supply armour for the armourer (tier 3). Handing in tier 3 supply crates earns 1.5% favour per crate turned in.
 * At 60%, players can smith tier 4 supply armour for the armourer (tier 4). Handing in tier 4 supply crates earns 2% favour per crate turned in.
 * At 70%, players can smith tier 5 supply armour for the armourer (tier 5). Handing in tier 5 supply crates earns 2.5% favour per crate turned in.

Shayzien House
Earning favour with the house will allow you access to a training ground found verging on the bloodlands, a desolate area that holds nothing but the mutated remnants of war. You will also be able to police the city to help keep order. Players with 5% Shayzien favour are able to fight lizardmen. Players will also be able to win tiers 1-5 Shayzien armour through the combat ring as the player earns more favour.

Healing wounded soldiers
Wounded soldiers can be found in the Infirmary. In order to heal the soldiers, players must use Shayzien medpacks on them, which are found in small tents next to the infirmary. Players are given 0.1% favour for every healed soldier.

Players can rotate between the soldiers upstairs and downstairs. After healing all the soldiers downstairs, and then healing all the soldiers upstairs, the soldiers downstairs will relapse and will require healing again.

Killing lizardmen
Once players have 5% favour, they are able to enter the Lizardman Canyon to kill lizardmen and their brute counterparts, who can inflict poison. Every lizardman killed gives the player 0.1% favour. There is a 1/250 chance the lizardmen may drop Xeric's talisman, which is charged with lizardman fangs and provides teleports around Great Kourend.

Players can gain favour relatively quickly by using a dwarf multicannon in multicombat areas within the canyon.

Tackling organised crime
Once players have 40% favour, they are able to talk to Captain Ginea in the building directly east of the combat ring to gain information on where organised crime meetings are taking place.

Every 30 minutes a notice appears on the wall in Captain Ginea's tent. It appears at 25 and 55 after the hour, and the event starts at 45 and 15 after the hour. This gives players a maximum of 20 minutes to find the location.

The notice gives the location of an organized crime meeting. After reading the notice you are prompted to take a note to remind players of the location. The meeting lasts for 5 minutes.

Players will have to kill approximately 8 Gangsters and a Gang boss who will drop intelligence, which you can hand in to Captain Ginea for an experience reward and favour.

For a table of possible locations, see here.

Hosidius House
Earning the favour of the Hosidius can be done by helping with the production of farmed foods and preparing food for soldiers. Once you have earned the Favour of the Hosidius house you will gain access to both the city kitchens, which boasts a 5% reduced chance of burning when cooking using their ranges, access to a new Spirit tree patch and the ability to play the Tithe farm minigame, which focuses on gaining farming experience.

Ploughing fields
At 0% favour, players can only plough the fields found throughout the Hosidius House. Players will need to push the plough back and forth to till the soil. Players will automatically keep pushing the plough until they reach the edge of the field, or until the plough breaks, in which case a hammer is needed to repair it.

It is recommended to use longer fields, such as the ones north of the Tithe Farm, so players will have to go around the plough to push it less frequently.

Making fertiliser
At 5% favour, players will be able to make sulphurous fertiliser. This fertiliser, while of no use to the player in farming, is of great use to the Hosidius House's farming industry. Sulphurous fertiliser is created by using saltpetre on regular compost, or vice versa.

Saltpetre can be found in the area south of the bank, and will spawn in one of five possible locations within the area, and moves once the deposit is depleted. A spade is required to gather saltpetre. A helpful tip is that Konoo, a saltpetre digger, will be located wherever the latest saltpetre deposit is located.

Players are to give the fertiliser to the Clerk, located at a building south-west of the bank. In return, players will receive 0.1% favour for every two sulphurous fertilisers given to the clerk. The clerk will take all sulphurous fertilisers in the player's possession, including the bank, which means players do not need to make multiple trips to donate, and can gain massive amounts of favour in one go.

Cooking in the mess hall
Once players have 45% favour, they are able to cook in the mess, where they must cook according to demands of the Shayzien House soldiers. Players must cook either stew, pineapple pizza, or meat pie, based on the highest percentage of the interface on the player's top left screen in the game client.

Players will gain moderate amounts of cooking experience serving soldiers. Players will receive favour once they leave the mess hall.

Instead of dropping bowls, you can place your empty bowls back into the cupboard after using them for dough.

Finishing up
Once players have spoken to all the architects, the statue in the city's centre will be rebuilt. Congratulations, miniquest complete!