Construction

Construction is a members-only skill that allows players to build their own houses and provide furniture for them. To begin Construction, players must buy a house from one of the estate agents. A starter house will cost 1,000 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 ( icon on the 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 the options menu, 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. See the Constructed items list for details on what you can build at what level. 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.

Construction level-up (link)

The first music that can be played when levelled up.

Construction level-up (link)

The second music that can be played when levelled up.

Significant milestones[]

Level 47 - Quest Hall for mounted glory
Level 50 - Unlock all house locations
Level 65 - Superior Garden
- Pools
- Level 80 - Wilderness obelisk
- Level 85 - POH fairy ring
- Spirit tree
Level 80 - Achievement Gallery
- Level 80 - Spell book altars
- Level 81 - Jewellery box
Level 99 - The Skill cape

Estate agents[]

Estate agents are located (identified with the house 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.
Hosidius House south of the Mess, on Great Kourend

House portals[]

Estate agents can move a player's house from its starter location Rimmington to a new location identified by the portal icon on the map. Your house cannot be moved to Yanille on the Deadman Mode servers.

Location	Level	Cost to move
Rimmington	1	5,000
Taverley	10	5,000
Pollnivneach	20	7,500
Great Kourend	25	8,750
Rellekka	30	10,000
Brimhaven	40	15,000
Yanille	50	25,000

Additional house location info[]

Location	Advantages	Disadvantages	Skill Usage
Rimmington	Since the NPC Phials was added into the general store to un-note your items (for a fee), Rimmington is now the best location for a Gilded altar. There are 2 oak trees only steps away from the portal, and 4 yew trees just west of the portal. Willow trees can be found just south of Rimmington center. 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. There is a bush patch right next to the house portal.	Relatively far from a bank.	Construction Woodcutting Fletching Firemaking Prayer
Taverley	Close to the Heroes' Guild for quick amulet of glory recharging. Taverley Dungeon located nearby to the south. Dwarven underpass to Catherby nearby, along with the Keldagrim mine cart system. Vials and eyes of newt available in the nearby store. Can use a games necklace to teleport close to portal. Close to Taverley tree patch.	Far fewer nearby resources compared to Rimmington. Nearest bank is the Rogues' Den.	Herblore Combat
Pollnivneach	Close to the Smoke Dungeon. Faster Ancient Magicks access. The town has a rooftop agility course for those with 70+ Agility. Easy desert access and two magic carpet stations nearby.	Far from anything truly useful. Closest bank is in Nardah but you may take a carpet to the Shantay Pass.	Thieving Combat Agility
Rellekka	Close to the marketplace and a dairy churn. Provides quick access to the Slayer Dungeon and Keldagrim. Nearby are many seaweed respawns, as well as a sandpit and furnace for making molten glass. Nearby mine contains clay for making teleportation tablets and pottery. Easy access to the Lunar Isle, Waterbirth Island, Neitiznot, Jatizso, Ungael and Miscellania.	You will need many house teleport tablets to use Rellekka effectively, as there is no bank in town.	Woodcutting Fletching Combat
Brimhaven	Karamja access. Brimhaven Dungeon is right next to the house portal. Brimhaven Agility Arena is very close. Close to the Nature altar. Close to the Shilo Village cart, and subsequently close to Duradel the Slayer master.	No usable trees, few resources. Requires at least 30 coins to enter the area unless you use house teleports, gnome gliders, Karamja gloves, or the ring of charos.	Slayer Agility
Yanille	Very close to a fairy ring (ciq) for travelling to or from Yanille to many places. Partial completion of Fairytale II - Cure a Queen is required to use the fairy rings. Nightmare Zone minigame teleport can be used to access Yanille easily if a player has low Magic. Bank just down the road. The cooking ingredient shop is nearby, making Yanille the best spot for chefs. There are cows located north of the city walls. Hunter shop nearby. Can bypass the need for the Watchtower Teleport if you have 40 Magic. Castle Wars, Fishing Trawler, and Nightmare Zone minigames are nearby. A useful spot to use an elemental balance if you or a friend has 66 Magic. The bar that sells dragon bitter is nearby, making it easy to build a barrel of it here.	Takes a long time to reach this location without teleports.	Cooking Prayer Hunter

House styles[]

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

Style	Level	Cost	Styled like
Basic wood	1	5,000	Rimmington
Basic stone	10	5,000	Burthorpe
Whitewashed stone	20	7,500	Pollnivneach
Fremennik-style wood	30	10,000	Rellekka
Tropical wood	40	15,000	Brimhaven
Fancy stone	50	25,000	Falador
Deathly mansion	1	35,000	Great Kourend

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.

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
Menagerie	37	30,000
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
Superior Garden	65	75,000
Dungeon	70	7,500
Treasure Room	75	250,000
Achievement Gallery	80	200,000

Maximum number of rooms and area[]

Up to level 49 Construction, a maximum of 23 rooms and gardens can be built. This rises to a maximum of 33 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.

As your maximum house dimensions goes up, so does your yard space. Yard space increases by adding a row to the top of your current yard space, and a column to the right. You should plan accordingly should you desire a centered house, as increasing your construction over time will off-center it.

Construction level	Maximum number of rooms	Maximum house dimensions	Yard space
1	23	3 x 3	5 x 5
15	23	4 x 4	6 x 6
30	23	5 x 5	7 x 7
45	23	6 x 6	8 x 8
50	24	6 x 6	8 x 8
56	25	6 x 6	8 x 8
60	25	7 x 7	9 x 9
62	26	7 x 7	9 x 9
68	27	7 x 7	9 x 9
74	28	7 x 7	9 x 9
75	28	8 x 8	10 x 10
80	29	8 x 8	10 x 10
86	30	8 x 8	10 x 10
92	31	8 x 8	10 x 10
96	32	8 x 8	10 x 10
99	33	8 x 8	10 x 10

Materials[]

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

Sawmill operator[]

Main article: Sawmill

There are two sawmill operators in the game and can be identified by the

icon on the minimap, their main purpose is to exchange logs into planks for a fee. They also sell other construction supplies such as bolts of cloth, some nails, and saws, by trading with them. A saw is essential to begin construction.

The Sawmills are located at Varrock Lumber Yard and in the Woodcutting Guild.

Nails[]

Nails can be made using the Smithing skill from all types of bars. Additionally, the sawmill operator sells bronze, iron, and steel nails for 2, 3 and 5 coins each, respectively. 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.

Stonemason[]

Players can buy various stoneworking materials from the stonemason in Keldagrim.

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 the 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 the 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	3,200	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 frightening trophies at the Taxidermist in Canifis. These trophies can then be displayed in the Skill Hall.

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
Vorkath	50,000	82

The taxidermist can also stuff your 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 the White Knights' Castle - he's upstairs on the east side of the building. Additionally, the Herald can change a player's family crest, which appears on decorations throughout the house and on armour created by the player.

Servants[]

Servants can be hired at the Servants' Guild, the very northeastern building in Ardougne. There are five different servants, which can perform various services. 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 a player has, the faster his or her service is, the better food he or she provides, and the more items he or she can carry to or from a bank or sawmill.

After using a servant's services seven times, the servant will ask the player to pay him or her. After using a servant's services eight times, the player is required to pay him or her or the servant will quit. A player can build a Servant's moneybag and put coins in it to automatically pay his or her servant.

A player must have at least two bedrooms with beds in them in order to hire a servant. A player may only have one servant at a time; if a player wants to hire a new servant, he or she must fire his or her current one first.

Servant	Wages	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

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 servant, who will exchange them for unnoted 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 from 67.5-80 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) will be faster than oak larders (8 oak planks); 4 dungeon doors instead of 5 larders for the same experience. In the skill room, or elsewhere, build a stairway going down to a dungeon stair room. Costs would be same as armour stands.

#	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 with your butler to exchange them for unnoted ones.	500	52	0	9.2	6.6
2	Buy oak logs for 50 coins each, use them with your butler to exchange them for unnoted ones, 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 the Varrock sawmill (cost: 1 willow logs each time), cut your own oak logs and turn them into planks yourself, using a ring of dueling to bank. Same as strategy 1 in all other respects (rings of dueling 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 the Varrock sawmill (cost: 1 willow logs each time), cut your own oak logs and turn them into planks yourself. Teleport to your house with a tablet to do some construction work and use a ring of dueling 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 Managing Miscellania.	165	35	500	7.78	N/A

↑ Butler 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 closer to 6-7 coins per experience point.

Have a Dining Room near the Kitchen (if you're doing larders), the Workshop (if you're making flatpacks) or the Skill Hall (if you're making armour stands) and therefore a butler bell-pull so you can summon him quickly when he wanders off around the house. You can also keep him near you while training by starting to build before completing conversation with your butler. This will usually prevent them from moving.

Experience[]

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

Item	Experience given	Cost per Item	Cost per Exp
Plank & Nails	29	434 - 1,225 (Depending on nail quality)	14.97 - 42.24 (Depending on nail quality)
Oak plank	60	507	8.45
Teak plank	90	967	10.74
Mahogany plank	140	2,110	15.07
Soft clay	10	213	21.3
Bolt of cloth	15	851	56.73
Steel bar	20	473	23.65
Limestone brick	20	180	9
Gold leaf	300	133,875	446.25
Marble block	450	329,397	731.99
Magic stone	1,000	994,155	994.16

Get there fast[]

Levels	Strategy
1-14	Buy 500 iron nails and 109 planks then make crude wooden chairs.
14-17	Make rocking chairs.
17	Build a Workshop for 10,000 coins.
17-22	Buy 230 oak planks (no nails needed from this point on) and build pluming stands.
22	Build Dining Room for 5,000 coins.
22-32	Build oak dining tables (4 oak planks).
32	Build oak workbench (5 oak planks)
32-38	Build carved oak tables (6 oak planks). at your workbench. You will need around 235 oak planks.
38-46	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).
46-52	Build carved teak tables (6 teak planks and 4 bolts of cloth) at your steel framed workbench. You will use around 620 teak planks.
52-99	Build mahogany tables in your Dining Room. You will use 92,140 mahogany planks
99	Build your house the way you want it.

Total supplies[]

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	-5 to +5

The crystal saw will only work with items that require a saw to build them (it 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 maximum boost of +8 to Construction.

For the maximum effect in Evil Dave's stew, add the orange spice 3 times.

Quests rewarding Construction experience[]

Main article: Quest experience rewards

Quest	Experience reward	Construction req.	Other requirements
The Eyes of Glouphrie	250	5	46 , 45 ()
Tower of Life	1,000	10	-
Cold War	1,500	34	10 , 30 , 30 , 15
Darkness of Hallowvale	2,000	5	26 , 20 , 22 , 32 , 33 , 40
The Great Brain Robbery	2,000	30	16 , 50
Making Friends with My Arm	2,000	35	66 , 72 , 68
The Fremennik Isles	5,000	20	40 , 56 , 46
Total	13,750

Skill choice[]

Upon completing any of the following quests, players may choose to allocate experience to Construction. These rewards usually come in the form of items, such as lamps or books, and are independent of any experience rewards directly received for completing the quest.

Quest	Experience reward	Skills available	Skill requirements
Client of Kourend	500 twice	Any	-
Fairytale II - Cure a Queen	2,500	Any skill above 30	49 , 57
A Tail of Two Cats	2,500 twice	Any skill above 30	-
The Great Brain Robbery	5,000	Any skill above 30	16 , 30 , 50
King's Ransom	5,000	Any skill above 50	65
Darkness of Hallowvale	2,000 three times	Any skill above 30	5 , 20 , 22 , 32 , 33 , 40
Curse of the Empty Lord (miniquest)	10,000	Any skill above 50	Some players will need 31
One Small Favour	10,000 twice	Any skill above 30	36 , 25 , 18 , 30
Recipe for Disaster (The final battle)	20,000	Any skill above 50	175 , 48 , 50 , 53 , 53 , 25 , 59 , 40 , 50 , 40 , 40 , 10 , 10 , 36
Total	74,500

Trivia[]

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 unused skill.

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