Construction

Construction

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A player builds a chair using Construction.

Construction is a skill that allows players to build their own houses and provide furniture for them. It is also very useful in connection to many other skills, such as prayer, or just a good way to show off what you can do. It was released on May 31, 2006. The current minimum to be ranked on the hiscores in Construction is 30 Construction and Template:Constructionminxp experience.

Basics

To begin Construction, players must buy a house from one of the Estate Agents; see below for locations. A starter house will cost 1000 coins, and will be in Rimmington. A level 40 Magic spell can then be used to teleport to the house, or players can walk to Rimmington, where there is a portal (File:Portalicon.PNG icon on map) that will teleport players to their house. The house starts off with only a small room and garden, but more can be built. To build, go to Player Controls, select "House Options", and set the build mode to on. Players will then see what looks like ghost-like "Hot Spots" where new objects can be built. Players can also visit a friend's house if they are home and using the same portal.

Construction is widely regarded as one of the most costly skills to level up. To get to level 99 fast it would take about 139 million coins using mahogany planks or about 54 million coins using the slower oak planks. A player with no money could just mine 1.3 million clays or 651K limestone bricks to build fireplaces.

See the Constructed items list for details on what you can build at what level. (As stated above, Construction will not be cheap, getting to just level 25 might cost 150k)

Estate agents

Estate agents are located (identified with the house File:Realestateicon.PNG icon on the map) in

• Varrock, just east of the palace.
• Seers' Village northeast of the bank.
• Falador between the furnace and the east bank.
• Ardougne west of the south bank.

House portals

Estate agents can move a player's house from its starter location Rimmington to a new location identified by the portal File:Portalicon.PNG icon on the map.

Location	Level	Cost to move	Notes
Rimmington	1	5000	Popular spot for events.
Taverley	10	5000	Close to the Heroes Guild.
Pollnivneach	20	7500	Very far from a bank, but provides a convenient teleport to the inner desert.
Rellekka	30	10000	Provides a convenient teleport to Relekka and the surrounding area.
Brimhaven	40	15000	Fast access to the Brimhaven dungeon and the Brimhaven Agility Arena can be an advantage. Additionally, provides faster access to Shilo Village via the cart service, and therefore Duradel the slayer master.
Yanille	50	25000	Redundant as a teleport and the most expensive to change to, but closest to a bank.

Additional House Location Info

Location	Advantages	Disadvantages	Skill Usage
Rimmington	Convenient tree access: Normal trees around, oak trees nearby, willow trees to the south of town centre, and 4 yew trees at the west of the portal. General store next door. Convenient clay access: The nearby mine has 2 clay rocks on the far east side. Only minutes away from Port Sarim, and thus most of RuneScape and Pest Control. The Rimmington bush patch, almost unavailable by any other teleport, is right next to the house portal. Least expensive to move to (players start their houses in this portal anyway).	Need a good source of House Teleport tablets to use this area to its fullest.	Construction Woodcutting Fletching Firemaking
Taverley	Close to Hero's Guild for quick glory amulet recharging. Taverley Dungeon located nearby to the south. Dwarven underpass to Catherby nearby, along with the cart system. Vials and Eyes of Newt available in nearby store. Can use games necklace to teleport close to portal. Closest teleport location to a Summoning Obelisk.	No oak trees nearby Far fewer resources compared to Rimmington. Requires a somewhat long walk to bank.	Herblore Summoning Combat Training
Pollivineach	Close to the Smoke Dungeon Faster Ancient Magick access. Access to the Uzer Hunter Area Magic carpets network for easy access to most of the desert area.	Not many useful features in the area. Waterskins required if travelling away from Polnivneach.	Thieving Combat Training
Rellekka	Close to the marketplace and dairy churn. Most convenient access to the Fremennik Province (including the hunter area, slayer dungeon, forest), Keldagrim, and the islands reachable from it, (Waterbirth Island, Neitiznot, Jatizso, Miscellania, Lunar Isle, etc). Access to seaweed respawns, as well as a sandpit and furnace. Rellekka has everything needed to make teleportation tablets, glass, dairy, and pottery. Quick access to a nature rune chest, rock crabs, shark fishing spots, several shops, Many oak and normal trees.	Need PLENTY of house teleport tablets to train construction No bank in town	Woodcutting Fletching Combat Training
Brimhaven	Brimhaven Dungeon is practically next door. Karamja access (including Tai Bwo Wannai for teak and mahogany) Brimhaven Agility Arena minutes away. Nature Altar access.	Few resources. Requires at least 30Gp to enter area unless you use house teleport, Karamja gloves 1, Karamja gloves 2, Karamja gloves 3, or have Ring of Charos (a).	Slayer Agility
Yanille	Closet bank-to-house location (Bank just down the road). The cooking ingredient shop is nearby, with a dairy churn inside. Quick access to the Fairy ring network. An oak tree is right behind the portal, and another is a little further off. Nearby sandpit allows for convenient sand collection for glassmaking, since you can get unlimited buckets from your tool racks. Cows nearby. Good place to live if you hunt. Can bypass the need for watchtower teleport if you have 40 magic. Castle Wars and the Fishing Trawler minigames are nearby.	Costs lots of walking in order if player does not possess duelling rings. Most expensive. Somewhat redundant for teleporting.	Construction Cooking Prayer Hunter Magic

House styles

Estate agents can also redecorate the outside of your house for a fee.

Style	Level	Cost	Notes
Basic Wood	1	5000 (it starts off as basic wood)	Looks like Rimmington
Basic Stone	10	5000	Looks like Lumbridge, Yanille and such cities
Whitewashed stone	20	7500	Looks like Al-Kharid
Fremennik style wood	30	10000	Looks like Rellekka, nice log-house look but ground surface drab and brown.
Tropical wood	40	15000	Looks like houses in Karamja, Taverley, and East Ardougne
Fancy stone	50	25000	Looks like Falador

It is worth noting that for each new style of house you get, the enter tune for the house changes, based on the style your house has.

Rooms

There are many different rooms that can be added to houses. The house a player buys will begin with a garden and parlour, but more rooms can be added. Different rooms will require different Construction levels and will cost money. Due to Chaos Elementals letters people think a bathroom may be coming soon.

Room	Level	Cost
Garden	1	1,000
Parlour	1	1,000
Kitchen	5	5,000
Dining Room	10	5,000
Workshop	15	10,000
Bedroom	20	10,000
Skill Hall	25	15,000
Games room	30	25,000
Combat Room	32	25,000
Quest Hall	35	25,000
Study	40	50,000
Costume Room	42	50,000
Chapel	45	50,000
Portal Chamber	50	100,000
Formal Garden	55	75,000
Throne Room	60	150,000
Oubliette	65	150,000
Dungeon	70	7,500
Treasure Room	75	250,000

Maximum Number of Rooms and Area

Up to level 49 construction, a maximum of 20 rooms and gardens can be built. This rises to a maximum of 30 rooms at level 99 construction.

There is also a maximum area that can be built on that also goes up with construction level, starting at 3 rooms by 3 rooms up to 8 rooms by 8 rooms.

Construction Level	Max Rooms	Max Area
1 - 14	20	3 x 3
15 - 29	20	4 x 4
30 - 44	20	5 x 5
45 - 49	20	6 x 6
50 - 55	21	6 x 6
56 - 59	22	6 x 6
60 - 61	22	7 x 7
62 - 67	23	7 x 7
68 - 73	24	7 x 7
74	25	7 x 7
75 - 79	25	8 x 8
80 - 85	26	8 x 8
86 - 91	27	8 x 8
92 - 95	28	8 x 8
96 - 98	29	8 x 8
99	30	8 x 8

Materials

Many different items are needed for Construction, especially planks, nails, cloth, bricks, soft clay, and steel bars.

Sawmill Operator

Main article:Sawmill

The sawmill operator, just south of the Varrock lumberyard with the File:Saw mill icon.png icon on the minimap, can turn logs into planks for a fee. He also sells bolts of cloth, some nails, and saws. A saw is essential to begin construction. Only members can enter the area.

Nails

Nails can be smithed from all types of metals by players. Additionally, the Sawmill Operator sells bronze, iron, and steel nails. When constructing objects using nails, there is a possibility that players will bend a nail. With higher level nails such as rune, this possibility becomes less likely. Because higher level nails are expensive, most players prefer to use mid-level nails such as iron or steel. However, with oak items and above, joints are used in place of nails.

Stonemason

Players can buy various stoneworking materials from the Stonemason in west Keldagrim just south of the bank.

Item	Cost
Limestone brick	26
Marble block	325,000
Gold leaf	130,000
Magic stone	975,000

Limestone bricks (21 coins) and limestone (10 coins) can also be bought from Mort'ton building/general store.

Players can also mine their own limestone east of Varrock or Arandar and use a chisel to make it into limestone bricks.

Bagged plants

The Garden supplier in Falador Park sells a variety of different plants that can be used by players in their Gardens and Formal Gardens.

Plant	Cost	Garden
Bagged dead tree	1,000	Garden
Bagged nice tree	2,000	Garden
Bagged oak tree	5,000	Garden
Bagged willow tree	10,000	Garden
Bagged maple tree	15,000	Garden
Bagged yew tree	20,000	Garden
Bagged magic tree	50,000	Garden
Bagged plant 1	1,000	Garden
Bagged plant 2	5,000	Garden
Bagged plant 3	10,000	Garden
Thorny hedge	5,000	Formal Garden
Nice hedge	10,000	Formal Garden
Small box hedge	15,000	Formal Garden
Topiary hedge	20,000	Formal Garden
Fancy hedge	25,000	Formal Garden
Tall fancy hedge	50,000	Formal Garden
Tall box hedge	100,000	Formal Garden
Bagged flower	5,000	Formal Garden
Bagged daffodils	10,000	Formal Garden
Bagged bluebells	15,000	Formal Garden
Bagged sunflower	5,000	Formal Garden
Bagged marigolds	10,000	Formal Garden
Bagged roses	15,000	Formal Garden

Stuffed heads

Players can get monster heads, randomly dropped from monsters, turned into trophies at the Taxidermist in Canifis. These trophies can then be used in Skill halls. Players can talk to these trophies for humour relating to the monster the trophy is from. For example, talking to the Crawling Hand trophy will cause the player's character and the trophy to make puns relating to hands.

Item	Cost	Level
Crawling Hand	1,000	38
Cockatrice	2,000	38
Basilisk	4,000	38
Kurask	6,000	58
Abyssal demon	12,000	58
King Black Dragon	50,000	78
Kalphite Queen	50,000	78

The taxidermist can also stuff Big bass, Big swordfish and Big shark, which are randomly obtained through fishing the correct type of fish.

Herald

Players can buy maps, landscapes and portraits for decoration by talking to Sir Renitee in Falador Castle - he's upstairs on the east side of the building. Additionally, the Herald can change a player's family crest, which appears throughout the house and on armour created by the player.

Servants

To hire a servant, players must have at least two bedrooms. There are five different servants, which can do different things. If you already have a servant, you will need to fire him or her in order to hire a new servant. All servants are able to greet guests entering a players' home, but some will have different abilities, such as taking items to and from the bank or sawmill. The higher level servant you have, the faster his or her service is. After using a servant's services seven times, you will be asked to pay him or her again. After using a servent's services eight times, you are required to pay him or her or the servant will quit. They can be found in the building of the very north-east of Ardougne.

Servant	Cost	Level	Food Provided	Services	Items
Rick	500	20	Shrimp	Bank	6
Maid	1,000	25	Stew	Bank	10
Cook	3,000	30	Pineapple pizza	Bank, Sawmill	16
Butler	5,000	40	Chocolate cake	Bank, Sawmill	20
Demon butler	10,000	50	Curry	Bank, Sawmill	26

Use	Asks for Payment	If not paid
1-6	No	N/A
7	Yes	Continues employment
8	Yes (unless paid previous use)	Leaves Employment
9-14	No	N/A
15	Yes	Continues employment
16	Yes (unless paid previous use)	Leaves Employment
17-22	No	N/A
23	Yes	Continues employment
24	Yes (unless paid previous use)	Leaves Employment
And so forth continued in this pattern. This means you should pay your servant every 8th time.

Strategy

Building oak furniture at your workbench provides a nice balance of cost and experience. You could also break down and build oak larders in your kitchen, which uses 8 planks each build and is thus as fast or faster than building oak furniture at your workbench which you have to drop.

You can use noted oak logs with your butler, who will exchange them for un-noted oak logs, and then send him to the sawmill to get oak planks.

At level 28 Construction, players can make Skill Hall armour stands, provided that they have either full Castle Wars armour or have 68 or higher smithing. These stands provide either 67.5, 75, or 82.5 experience per oak plank (2 needed), and can be taken apart, allowing players to regain their armour. As most things made with oak planks provide only 60 experience per plank, this provides more experience, however, it is much slower than building oak larders which use 8 oak planks instead of 2.

For level 33-40, limestone seems to be a cheap option - building lots of fireplaces. After you have reached level 40 or above, you should switch back to oak because the experience will be too slow after this for you to level.

At level 74 Construction, dungeon oak doors (10 oak planks) may be faster than oak larders (8 oak planks); 4 dungeon doors instead of 5 larders for the same experience.

#	Strategy	Raw materials cost	Butler costs	Planking costs	Cost per experience point (larders/workbench)	Cost per experience point (rune or cw3 armour stands)1
1	Buy oak planks for 500 coins each, use them noted with your butler to exchange for un-noted	500	52	0	9.2	6.6
2	Buy oak logs for 50 coins each, use them noted with your butler to exchange for un-noted, and then send him to the sawmill	50	104.2	250	6.73	4.4
3	Use the Balloon Transport System to go from Castle Wars to Varrock sawmill (cost: 1 willow logs each time), cut your own oak logs and plank them yourself, using duelling ring to bank. Same as strategy 1 in all other respects (Duelling rings and willow logs assumed to be largely free in calculation)	0	52	250	5	3.5
4	Use the Balloon Transport System to go from Castle Wars to Varrock sawmill (cost: 1 willow logs each time), cut your own oak logs and plank them yourself. Take House Teleport to do some construction work and use duelling ring to bank. Transport cost per log/plank is 840/24 or 35 coins.	0	35	250	4.75	3.45
5	Use same method as 4, but this time with teak logs from manage thy kingdom.	165	35	500	7.78	n.a.

¹Butler costs roughly halved if you're doing armour stands, because you only have 20 free inventory spots you may as well have a normal butler rather than a demon butler.

As we can see from the table, Construction costs at least 3 coins per experience point, and in practice, getting fast experience will mean spending more like 6-7 coins per experience point.

Have a Dining Room near the Kitchen (if you're doing larders), the Workshop (if you're making flat-packs) or the Skill Hall (if you're making armour stands) and therefore use the butler bell-pull so you can summon him quickly when he wanders off around the house.

Experience

This chart shows the experience given per object when each object is used.

Item	Experience given
Plank & Nails	29
Oak plank	60
Teak plank	90
Mahogany plank	140
Soft clay	10
Cloth	15
Steel bar	20
Limestone	20
Marble block	500
Gold leaf	300
500 runes	44
Molten glass	1
Magic stone	1000

Get there fast

Levels	Strategy
1 to 16	Buy 250 iron nails and 100 planks then make crude wooden chairs.
16	Build a Workshop for 10k.
16 to 33	Buy about 260 oak planks (no nails needed from this point on) and build 1 pluming stand and 6 crafting table 1s in every trip.
33 to 38	Build oak larders in your kitchen. You will need around 235 oak planks.
38 to 46	Build teak tables, at your workbench, which you will need around 420 teak planks.
46	Build a steel framed workbench (6 oak planks and 4 steel bars).
46 to 52	Build carved teak tables at your steel framed workbench. You will use around 620 teak planks.
52 to 99	Build mahogany tables at your steel framed workbench. You will use 92,140 mahogany planks.
99	Go build your house.

Total Supplies

• 500 iron nails
• 100 planks
• 510 oak planks
• 4 steel bars
• 1,040 teak planks
• 92,140 mahogany planks

The cost to get from level 52 (123,660 xp) to level 99 (13,034,431 xp OR total 12,910,771 xp) is:

92,220 Mahogany planks (140 xp) * 1500 coins = 138.3 million coins for fastest xp

143,453 Teak planks (90 xp) * 500 coins = 71.7 million coins

215,180 Oak planks (60 xp) * 250 coins = 53.7 million coins for cheaper slower xp

Get there cheap

• Use 651,722 Limestone bricks to build only stone fireplaces.
  • Buy from the Stonemason in Keldagrim for 26 coins, about 16.9 million coins.
  • Buy from Razmire Keelgan's builders store in Mort'ton 21 coins for about 13.7 million coins.
  • Mine from next to Rag and Bone man, teleport to Castle Wars, use Ballon Transport to get back quickly.

Temporary boosts

Depending on the type of shelf, tea will give a 1, 2, or 3 level bonus. With a normal cup, tea gives +1 Construction. With a porcelain cup, tea gives +2 Construction. With a gold-rimmed cup, tea gives +3 Construction.

Tea cup	Shelf	Bonus
Clay	Wooden 1-2, Oak 1	+1
Porcelain white	Wooden 3, Oak 2, Teak 1	+2
Porcelain white with gold trim	Teak 2 (Teak 1 with Butler glitch was fixed)	+3
Other items	Notes
Crystal saw	Obtained from the The Eyes of Glouphrie	+3
Evil Dave's spicy stew	Made by adding orange spice to stew	-6 to +6

The crystal saw will only work with items that require a saw to build them (will not work when building rooms, placing monsters or growing plants) It will also work simultaneously with bonuses from tea (to get max of +6) or Evil Dave's spicy stew, allowing for a max of +9 to Construction!

For the maximum effect in evil Dave's stew, add orange spice 3 times. Any more will ruin the stew.

Trivia

Initially, Construction seems to be an extremely money-intensive skill. It may be that Jagex have intended player-owned houses as gold sinks, and the intention is to take considerable amounts of cash out of the game.

The watch, sextant and chart cannot be used in your house, trying to use it will give the message: "The sextant doesn't seem to work here".

In RuneScape Classic, there was a skill that had no use called Carpentry. The skill today of Construction was an updated version of this dead skill.

Cursed You was the first player to get 99 Construction; to celebrate it, he hosted a house party which led to the notorious World 111 Glitch.

See Also

• Constructed Items
• Player-owned house
• POH room template
• Quest experience rewards - Construction