• 1.0 - Introduction
• 2.0 - Basics
•     2.1 - Buying a House
•     2.2 - Entering a House
•     2.3 - House Options and Guests
•     2.4 - Building Mode
• 3.0 - Building Equipment
•     3.1 - Tools
•     3.2 - Materials
• 4.0 - Room Construction
•     4.1 - Garden
•     4.2 - Parlour
•     4.3 - Kitchen
•     4.4 - Dining Room
•     4.5 - Workshop
•     4.6 - Bedroom
•     4.7 - Skill Hall
•     4.8 - Games room
•     4.9 - Combat Room
•     4.10 - Quest hall
•     4.11 - Study
•     4.12 - Costume Room
•     4.13 - Chapel
•     4.14 - Portal Chamber
•     4.15 - Formal Garden
•     4.16 - Throne Room
•     4.17 - Oubliette
•     4.18 - Dungeon rooms
•     4.19 - Treasure Room
• 5.0 - Servants
• 6.0 - Training Strategy
• 7.0 - Frequently Asked Questions
• 8.0 - Quests for Experience

Construction incorporates the building of everything from gardens, kitchens, parlors to special heraldic armors all within your own house. In this skill you will use wooden planks, limestone, and kinds of other building materials to create furniture, doors, windows and many decorative features.

While training your Construction skill, you are building, maintaining, and adding to your own personal house. With the limit currently at 30 rooms in a house, you'll have a great time decorating and furnishing your very own piece of RuneScape architecture.
Note: When listing requirements, this guide only mentions the construction level requirements.

The Estate Agencies are located in the cities of Varrock, Falador, Ardougne, and Seers' Village. At each of these locations you will find an Estate Agent. If you have not already purchased one, he will sell you a basic house and a plot of land to build on for 1,000gp. This initial package includes a garden and a parlor with basic wooden walls and an exit portal. By default your house will be in Rimmington (See '2.2 - Entering a House' for details).

Later on, when you obtain a higher construction level, the Estate Agent will change the wall type and/or the location for a price.

• Basic Wood - Level 1 required, costs 5,000gp
• Basic Stone - Level 10 required, costs 5,000gp
• Whitewashed Stone - Level 20 required, costs 7,500gp
• Fremennik-style Wood - Level 30 required, costs 10,000gp
• Tropical Wood - Level 40 required, costs 15,000gp
• Fancy Stone - Level 50 required, costs 25,000gp
• Rimmington - Level 1 required, costs 5,000gp
• Taverly - Level 10 required, costs 5,000gp
• Pollnivneach - Level 20 required, costs 7,500gp
• Rellekka - Level 30 required, costs 10,000gp
• Brimhaven - Level 40 required, costs 15,000gp
• Yanille - Level 50 required, costs 25,000gp

Each house is located at a certain portal around the RuneScape world. When a house is first created it is at the Rimmington portal, however it can be moved by the Estate Agent. When you 'Enter' a portal you will be given the following options.

At level 40 Magic, you have the ability to cast the House Teleport spell. This spell requires just one Law, Air and Earth rune. As the name suggests, this spell will teleport you directly to your house without the need to use the portal. This spell will only take you to the regular viewing mode for your house.

The 'House Options' menu is located in the regular RuneScape options tab which is marked by the wrench icon. The house options menu allows you to take control over your house in a few different ways. The menu will allow you to:

• » Turn building mode on/off.
• » Expel all guests from your house.
• » Leave your home.

Using this menu and a the following methods, you can control your house guests. You already know that visitors cannot access your house when you are in building mode and that you can expel all your guests at once using the menu. Here are two more ways to control your guests:

From reading the above sections, you already know that you can access the building mode directly from the portal and from the 'House Options' menu. After you have logged on, the first time you enter building mode, you will be required to enter your Bank PIN if you have one. This is to prevent people from wrecking your house, if the managed to log on to your account. Please note that guests cannot visit your house when in building mode. If there are already guests in your house when you turn on building mode, they will be automatically expelled.

After you have entered building mode, the following steps will allow you to build furniture.

1. When you enter building mode 'hot spots' will appear in all the rooms of your house. If you right click on an empty hot spot, you will be given the option to build on it. Select 'Build.'
2. A menu will appear displaying the furniture you can build on that hot spot. To build something, simply click on it, provided you have the required level and materials. If you don't, an 'X' will appear over the item.
3. If your nails don't break, the furniture will be automatically built and will be ready for use.
4. To remove a piece of furniture, simply right click on it in building mode and select 'Remove.' A confirmation screen will appear, assuring that it was not accidental.

Adding additional rooms to your house costs money, but it's as simple as building onto the 'door hot spots' of each room from the opposite side that you wish to create the room on. This will open up the building menu outlining the rooms you're able to build. To remove a room, simply right click on one of its doors, again from the outside of the room. To temporarily increase your construction level while building your house, you need to construct a larder, water source, fire source and shelves. Search the shelves to get tea leaves, kettle, a teapot, and tea cup. Then use a kettle with the water source, and put it on the fireplace or range. Use the hot kettle with the teapot, then use the teapot with a tea cup from the shelves.

Building new levels must be done in combination with staircases. To build up a single level, you must build a staircase directing upwards in one of your rooms. If you try to go up this staircase in building mode, it will ask you if you would like to build a room above. Please note that quest halls and skill halls are the only rooms which support staircases above ground.

You can also add rooms below the ground level of your house. To do this build a staircase downwards from a hall in your house. When adding a room below your house, you now have the option to build a dungeon room (with stairs) in addition to the quest and skill hall options.

Overall, you're allowed to have a total of 3 different levels. You can have a basement/dungeon, a ground floor, and one floor above ground.

There are only two tools you will need in construction. Please note that you will need a hammer and a saw when building almost anything in your house. The main exception to this is plants, which requires a watering can.

Picture	Name	Notes
	Hammer	Obtained from any General Store. Needed for all building activities.
	Saw	Obtained from the Construction Supplies shop. Needed for all building activities.
	Watering Can	Obtained from any Farming Shop. Needed to plant bagged plants.

The most common materials used in construction are planks. For a fee, the sawmill operator north-east of Varrock will cut your logs into planks. The types of logs he will cut into planks are: Normal Logs (100gp), Oak (250gp), Teak (500gp) and Mahogany (1500gp). While there isn't an initial difference between them, the more expensive planks will build better furniture and give more experience.

Another material that's often used in this skill are nails. Made from smithing, nails come in a variety of metal types from Bronze all the way to Rune. All nails will have the same effect on your furniture, however rune nails are strongest and will rarely break while the weaker bronze nails tend to break quite often when trying to construct something.

Picture	Name	Notes
	Planks	See Description Above.
	Nails	See Description Above.
	Steel Bar	Used for making metal furniture. Made from smelting with the smithing skill.
	Bolt of Cloth	Used for curtains, beds, rugs etc. Bought from the Construction Supplies shop.
	Soft Clay	Used for low levelled furniture. Use a bucket of water on clay ore to make soft clay.
	Limestone brick	Used for medium levelled furniture. Bought from the Keldagrim Stonemason shop, and also in Razmire Builders Merchant shop. You can also mine limestone north-east of Varrock (on the way to Canifs) and use a chisel to make the bricks.
	Marble block	Used for higher levelled furniture. Bought from the Keldagrim Stonemason shop.
	Gold leaf	Used to make gilded furniture. Bought from the Keldagrim Stonemason shop.
	Magic stone	Used for high levelled magical furniture. Bought from the Keldagrim Stonemason shop.
	Bagged Plants	Bought from the Garden Centre shop.

Each subsection will outline the requirements and main features for each room. This includes the hotspots as well as any special uses for each room. You may only get the key items back from the following pieces of furniture: Guild Trophy, Castle Wars/Rune/Mithril/Adamant Armour, Mounted Sword. Unfortunately, all other key items from other furniture are unredeemable if you remove them.

A servant can be obtained by going to the servants guild which is just north of the Ardougne marketplace. To own a servant you must have at least 2 bedrooms (with a bed built in each) and the appropriate construction level required. Each servant can do different tasks though the higher level servants can do a larger job than lower level servant. Servants after a certain amount of tasks (often around 7 tasks) will ask to be paid which is additional money needed after you spend the initial money to hire them.

In the beginning, it is fairly easy to level up. Start by going into the parlour room and create 3 crude wooden chairs by clicking on the chair 'hot spots'. The requirements for creating them is 2 planks and 2 nails per chair. You should now have a construction level of 3. This may give you the impression that construction is an easy skill, but the higher your level the harder it becomes.

After you have created 3 crude chairs, you must now remove them. To remove them, simply right click on the chair and select the option 'Remove'. It will then confirm if you really want to remove them, just click yes. After you removed the chairs, you must now rebuild them. Repeat this process until you have run out of planks.

Once you have run out of logs, teleport to Camelot and quickly run to the bank. Withdraw a full inventory of planks, then teleport to your house. Requires 40 magic to teleport to your own house. Now start building crude chairs and removing them. Repeat this process until you have used up your 139 normal planks. By the time you have used up 139 normal planks or created 70 crude wooden chairs, you will have reached 19 construction.

Alternatively, once you reach level 3 construction you can go right up to Falador and mine plenty of clay, then go buy a bucket at a general stores and make a clay fireplace until level 10 then make ponds in a garden. This is slightly less expensive and some believe it to be easier from level 3 until 19. A third method is when you become level 5 construction make decorative rocks in your garden until you wish to switch to something else. Decorative rocks take 5 limestone bricks and give 100xp each so its 20xp per limestone brick.

Once you are 19 construction, you will now have to create a workshop. I highly suggest creating a workshop as close as you can to the portal. To create a workshop, you must be in build mode, click on a door 'hot spot' to add onto your house. It requires 10k gold to create a workshop. Once you have created a workshop, you must now create a wooden work bench which requires 5 planks and 5 nails. You will now be spending 100% of your time constructing on the work bench. You see, the great thing about this work bench is that you can create flatpacks of almost any furniture. These flatpacks are also tradable to other players that might want to buy and add to there own home. This also means no more building chairs and removing them, clicking over and over again.

So by now you should have used up all of your normal planks. Meaning you will be using oak planks from this point on. The great thing about oak planks is that you wont have carry any more nails because they do not require any type of nails to build, and you get more than twice the amount of exp for your money.

At this point, you should be making flatpack oak chairs. Use the teleport method to restock on your supplies and bank your flatpacks because they are a waste of space.

Usually at level 20, people tend to hire 'Rick the butler'. In my opinion, this is a big waste of time and money considering that Rick only serves food, greets guests, and carries six items to and from the bank. I would wait until you are level 30 before you hire a servant. Once you reach 30 construction, it is wise to hire a cook because she has the ability to run your logs to the sawmill. If have your cook run to the sawmill, she will ask you money for the sawmill's fee. The same rule applies for the Butler, and the demon butler. As you upgrade your butlers, the butler will be faster in turning your logs into planks. The cook, butler, and demon butler each have a max limit on the amount of logs that each can carry. The cook can carry up to 16 logs at a time, the butler can carry up to 20 logs at a time, and the demon butler can carry up to 26 logs at a time. The time it usually takes the cook to turn your logs into planks is 15 seconds, 10 seconds for the butler, and 5 seconds for the demon butler. As time goes on, your servants will ask you to pay there fee. The cook will ask for 3,000gp, the butler will ask for 5,000gp, and the demon butler will ask for 10,000gp. If you have a servant, you need to switch out 1 of your logs with some cash to pay for the sawmill fee, along with the servant fee.
Note: Servants can be hired in Ardougne, north of thieving stalls.

Once you have reached 32 construction, you will have the ability to make carved oak tables at your workbench. The requirements for making these tables is 6 planks. Carved Oak Tables are found under the dining tables icon when creating flatpacks. You will be able to make up to 3 Carved Oak Table flatpacks at a time, and will have 5 oak planks left over. With the remaining 5 planks, create 1 Oak chair, and 1 Oak Arm Chair. Doing that will use up all the oaks in your inventory. You use the teleportation method when needed.
Strategy: Alternatively if you wield an air staff, have a saw, a hammer, law runes and earth runes in your inventory for Camelot and Home teleport. You should have 24 inventory spaces for oak planks so of course you can't use a butler to get your planks but it is quicker making 4 carved tables than 3 tables plus 2 chairs. What you do is teleport to Camelot, withdraw 24 oak planks, teleport to your house, flatpack 4 carved tables then repeat.

Another commonly used process is to use the Oak Larders technique. To start the process, it requires to have 33 construction, lots of oak planks (not logs), a kitchen room, and a servant of a cook or higher. To start, first go to your house in build mode. Tell your servant to get oak planks from your bank. Go to your kitchen, once your servant comes back with your oak planks, tell the servant to return back with more oak planks. Then build a oak larder in the larder's hot spot (each time you build a oak larder, it requires 8 planks). Next you must remove it and build another oak larder until you are out of planks. Your servant should be back now with more oak planks for you to build more oak larders. Once your servant is back, command the servant to bring back more oak planks. Repeat this process until you are satisfied. The only thing bad about this step is that you must have oak planks before hand, and if you are buying your oak planks, then you are paying to much.

Keep repeating this process until you reach 40 construction, then upgrade your servant to a butler. After that, go back to creating Carved Oak flatpacks until you reach 50 construction. If you want to continue past 50 construction, I would suggest you use this method until you are satisfied with your level. Yes this is a slow process compared to teak furniture, but why pay double the cash for teak logs but not get even half the doubled exp?

A cheaper method is to get make Decorative Rocks (5 limestone bricks) at 100exp per (20 exp per limestone brick). This could save you a fair bit of money even if it takes you slightly longer. Mining your own limestone and turning them to bricks means you can either do bank runs or only spend money on servant wages.

If you have a Butler and a Dungeon and are using oak planks it is recommended that you build oak dungeon doors. Have a normal butler bring you 20 planks at a time and while he is fetching the planks you have time (if your fast) to build and remove 2 doors. This method brings you far more experience then the oak table method. You do not need a bell because as soon as the Butler gives you the planks you send him out for more.

A: It is south of the lumber yard, north-east of Varrock. You must talk to the Sawmill Operator to turn your logs into planks.

A: 100gp for Normal Logs, 250gp for Oak Logs, 500gp for Teak Logs, and 1,500gp for Mahogany logs.

A: Players usually level on oak larders for a few reasons, as it's fast, good experience and the money amount you lose isn't that big. Although you have to go to the building mode, it's still better than using workbenches.

A: As soon as you have constructed in your kitchen a larder, a sink, a stove and shelf, you can make tea. The tea gives a construction bonus of +1 up to +3 depending on your current construction level. If you've done the Recipe for Disaster Evil Dave sub-quest, you can create the Evil Stew of Doom. Add 3 doses orange spice to a stew to get a bonus on construction which will be between -6 and +6. If you've done the Eyes of Glouphrie quest, you will have received a crystal saw. It adds +3 to your construction. You can combine the Tea OR the Evil Stew of Doom with the Crystal Saw, making the maximum bonus +9 on top of your Construction level. However the saw bonus is only applicable to constructing furnishings, NOT building rooms, buying monsters etc.

A: The way to formulate this is subtracting half of you smithing level from 100, then dividing it by 100 times the normal repair cost at Bob, so the mathematical formula would be [100-(Smithing Level/2)]/100 * Normal Repair Cost.

A: If you delete a room, you will lose all items in that room. There is no way to get them back either, so deleting a demon throne room is not advisable.

A: You'll need soft clay and the runes for the spell you need. Click on your lectern and make the spell you require.

A: Long and curved bones are special bones dropped by monsters that drop big bones. If you take them to Barlak in Dorgesh-Kaan, he will pay you some money per bone, and give you construction xp for them if your construction level is over 30. (1000gp and 1500xp for long bones, 2000gp and 3000xp for curved bones).

• Cold War: 1,500 XP
• Darkness Of Hallowvale: 2,000 XP
• The Eyes Of Glouphrie: 250 XP
• Fremennik Isles, The: 5,000 XP
• Great Brain Robbery, The: 2,000 XP
• Tower of Life: 1,000 XP

• A Fairy Tale Part II: 2,500 XP in any skill of your choice over level 30.
• Great Brain Robbery, The: 5,000 XP for any skill you choose over level 30.
• Legends Quest: 7,650-30,600 XP (7,650 is given to 4 skills from a list of skills)
• One Small Favour: 10,000-20,000 XP (2 x 10,000 lamps for any skill of your choice over level 30)
• Recipe for Disaster: 20,000 XP (A Lamp to grant 20,000xp in a skill of your choice over level 50)