Like clockwork, Tinkerfest has returned! Take up your favorite wrench and celebrate all things gnomish, be they metal, combustive, mathematical, experimental, or a combination thereof! Adventures, rewards, buyables and crafted items await you, both new and familiar. You won’t want to miss all of the fun at Gnomeland Security, your headquarters for all things Tinkerfest, in Steamfont Mountains.

New features for 2011:

  • Added an in-game mail to announce event.
  • Event quests now have associated map regions marked.
  • For those that have completed “Great Balls of Fire” at least five times Blantsworth Coggington III in Steamfont Mountains will offer the new quest, "If They Only Had a Brain”.
  • The quest “Friendly Competition” is now offered directly by Jon Jeffas in Steamfont Mountains and is repeatable once, per year.
  • The quest “Tinkerfest Cheer” is now being offered by Tomker, in Steamfont Mountains.
  • The quest “The Legend of the Geargobbler” is now the only quest offered by Didyma in Steamfont Mountains.
  • New rewards on returning quests.
  • Myron, Tinkerfest Merchant, has new house items and two new recipe scrolls for sale.

Niami DenMother over at EQ2 Traders Corner has a great write-up on this year's Tinkerfest, complete with images of many of the available items and all kinds of goodies. Click here to check it out!

And if you're an alt-o-holic, our friends at EQ2 Zam have provided a Tinkerfest Quest Tracker that might be useful!

For recaps on the information collected in prior years, visit these guides provided by our players and fansites:

Don't forget to check in with the Guides of the Shattered Lands to see what kind of quests and activities are happening on your server!

Tinkerfest will run from 12:01 AM PDT on July 29th through 11:59 PM PDT on August 8th. See you there!!