Construction Guide
Introduction
Construction is a long-awaited members only skill. It allows players to build their own 20 room mansion, build furniture, decorate the house, and invite friends into their exclusive domain. So, what could you do in your house, you ask? Player-owned houses are very useful as they provide various teleportation options or an altar at which you can pray. But there are many fun activities to do in a house as well. You could ring a bell to call your servant, who will serve food or drinks. The food will be useful if you call your friends over for a friendly boxing match. You could also play many non-combat games with your friends, such as darts. Or you could simply spend your time watching through a telescope, making yourself beautiful or playing music. You could also craft toys, paint armour or warm yourself in front of a cozy fire, to give just a few examples of the many things that can be done at home...
An extremely useful reference for any player is the complete and sortable Construction Table, listing ALL rooms, items, materials, xp, and descriptions in one place (instead of only by room).
Beginner's Walkthrough
To begin, take 1000 gp to an Estate Agent's office in Varrock, Falador, East Ardougne, or Seers' Village (for detailed maps see the Estate Agents section.) He sells you a house at the initial location, which is in Rimmington just north of the square. He also gives you a book, which has some information about Construction.
Now grab some cash and some normal logs (at least 11) and head east outside Varrock's walls to the lumberyard (east of the Jolly Boar Inn). Buy a Saw right away from the Sawmill Operator at the Lumberyard's south entrance (13 gp). He will also take your logs and change them into planks for 100 gp each. Get several pack loads made, to save travelling back here again. You can also get Oak, Teak or Mahogany planks made, for higher fees (see Materials), although you won't be able to use them until your Construction level is higher.
You should also buy some Bolts of cloth from him, for 650 each. Get a good supply - at least 5 to start. (Note that player-made Cloth woven at Looms will not work.)
You will need nails. Iron nails fail some of the time - steel nails fail less often. At least 50 is a good starting supply. Don't invest in thousands, as Oak planks and above do not require nails.
If you want to plant your garden first, go to Falador Park and buy at least 2 Bagged Plant 1 from the Garden Supplier east of the Tree patch. Bring your Watering Can to your house along with the plants.
If you want to build a Fireplace right away, bring 3 soft clay.
Now get a hammer, your Saw, 11 planks, 5 bolts of cloth, at least 11 nails (twice or triple as many to allow for breakage, but they are stackable), and perhaps 10K gp. Also bring your 2 Bagged plant 1's and 3 soft clay, if desired. Go down to the heart of Rimmington. The large glowing portal is the entrance to your very own house, shown on the minimap with this icon: 
When you click on the portal, a selection menu appears.
Choose building mode. You will be teleported to your house.
Welcome! Notice how quiet and peaceful it is. There will be nobody stepping all over the place unless you invite them!
You arrive in a ghostly garden (each item is a potential "spot" to make or plant something). When you click inside your rather tumbledown shack you will see similar ghostly items. Walk to one of the chairs and select "Build". A menu of chair types will appear. Select the Crude wooden chair (the only one you can make at Level 1). Two planks and two nails will be consumed (assuming your nails don't break), and you will have a real chair for sitting! Make a second chair now. You will get a Construction level (total 116 xp)!
At level 2 you can make a rug (2 cloth; 30 xp), as well as some torn curtains (3 planks, 3 cloth, 3 nails; 132 xp) which cover all windows in the room. This brings your level high enough to make a Bookcase (4 planks, 4 nails; 115 xp). Do it!
Congratulations, you are now Level 5 and ready to build a Kitchen (5000 gp) and progress further in Construction!
If you brought soft clay, you can also make a Fireplace (3 soft clay; 30 xp). If you brought Bagged Plant 1's, pick any plant location (small or big, 1 or 2) in your garden and plant them. You can start a second Garden for 1000 gp, as well, and plant more. Planting also earns equal amounts of Farming xp.
Levels and Experience
A complete and sortable Construction Table, listing ALL rooms, items, materials, xp, and descriptions is now available. The table pops up showing only levels 1 to 20 at first, but allows you to sort and filter it many ways to focus on items of interest.
Rooms
Almost all the rooms in your house offer special features. Listed below are some of the most important features, which hopefully will help you in your game life.
At every 5 skill levels, you are able to build a new room type. Costs rise with higher level rooms. Take careful note of the doorways each room offers, so that when you build the room you can position it accordance with your house needs. Stairway rooms may require additional effort, since the stair will ascend from the side of the room opposite the doorway where you installed it. (If you want the bottom of your stairs to face the front of the house, build the room from the doorway behind the desired location.) Click on any room name in the table below to pull up a table of the items that can be built there, showing the level needed, materials, experience, hotspot, and uses.
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Garden |
1 |
1000 gp |
Decoration, Exit Portal, possible Dungeon Entrance |
4 |
| You will already have a garden when you buy your house. In the garden you'll find an exit portal which will take you from your house back to the rest of RuneScape. If you have more than one garden (either normal or formal), you may choose to build a portal, a decorative centrepiece or an entrance to your dungeon (if you have one). You also get an equal amount of farming exp for planting in your garden (for example, if you get 70 construction exp for planting, you'll also get 70 farming exp). |
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Parlour |
1 |
1000 gp |
Sit in chairs by a fire, retrieve completed quest books |
3 |
| The most important feature is the bookcases (which can be built in several types of rooms), containing books from the quests you've completed. You'll be able to remove and read them all; hopefully this will save you some bank space. The fireplace allows you to get a small amount of firemaking exp by using logs with it and then using a tinderbox on them. |
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Kitchen |
5 |
5000 gp |
Water source, obtain food supplies, cook, home brew ale, cat corner |
2 adjacent |
| The kitchen is useful if you cook a lot, or need water. You'll be able to make your very own sink, as well as a range or even an oven! You'll be able to build three different types of larder (depending on your level), which offer endless supplies of basic ingredients. The shelf hotspot works very much like the larder, except it provides unlimited cooking tools/items. The barrel hotspot lets you build different barrels, giving an unlimited supply of your favourite ale. The most important feature here may be making tea, which can temporarily raise your construction by 1 to 3 levels! |
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Dining Room |
10 |
5000 gp |
Sit at table, summon servant, eat served food |
3 |
| There isn't much "special" in the dining room. You can build a bell pull which will summon your servant (if you have one). S/he can be ordered to serve food s/he can make, and will place it on the table. You and your friends can sit at the table and eat. Note that lighting fires in fireplaces (in all rooms) requires normal logs, but gives 80 xp (double the usual). You can also make wall decorations displaying your family crest. |
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Workshop |
15 |
10,000 gp |
Build furniture, craft, heraldry, repair broken and damaged weapons, and obtain tools |
2 opposite |
| This is an important room. You can build tool spaces which supply unlimited tools. At the workbench, you can construct furniture flatpacks for the usual exp. These can be dropped, or sold/given to other players who cannot make/afford them. This allows you to train outside of building mode - no need to remove and rebuild while grinding levels! The repair bench is for fixing broken equipment. If you have the right level, your barrows items will still cost you a bit, but less than getting it repaired by Bob, Dunstan or Tindel. Miscellaneous junk items such as damaged armour, broken arrows or staves and rusty swords can also be repaired for very small skill exp. At the heraldry station, add your family crest to helmets and kiteshields (steel or rune), and even make banners! Finally, at the crafting table you can make clockwork toys (such as a cat) and other items (see Crafting guide.) |
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Bedroom |
20 |
10,000 gp |
Change basic appearance, hairstyle and clothing; two with beds required to hire servant |
2 adjacent |
The main thing about bedrooms is that two of them are required to hire a servant. You can also change your appearance for free: no more paying the hair dresser in Falador or the clothes shop in Varrock to change the colour or style of your hair or clothes. Higher levels of dressers and wardrobes offer more choices.
|
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Skill Hall |
25 |
15,000 gp |
Display skills and trophies, optional stairway (faces opposite from doorway where you created it) |
4 |
| You may build a staircase here to go upstairs or access a dungeon/basement level. Note that only one upper floor is allowed, and one dungeon/basement level. Other than that, this is a "show off" room. If you've killed a crawling hand, a king black dragon, or even a kalphite queen and gotten a head (or hand!), you can mount it here (visit the taxidermist first though). Note that when you remove a trophy display, the trophy item is *not* recoverable. Castle Wars armour can be displayed. To display regular armour (mithril to rune), you must have the Smithing level to make it yourself (also, a skirt is required, not legs). When you remove an armour display, you will recover the armour. However, if you remove the entire Skill hall, all of your display items are gone forever. |
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Games Room |
30 |
25,000 gp |
Play games and train |
3 |
| The games room is a fun place to interact with your friends. You can play 8 different games, and you can even add prizes for the winners (using the prize chest, money only)! |
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Combat Room |
32 |
25,000 gp |
Private multicombat training |
3 |
| Another great room to interact with friends and guests. There are 5 different games you can play; however, there is no prize in this room (only the joy of showing your friends who's the best). If you or your guests die, you will not lose anything, but simply respawn in the house. |
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Quest Hall |
35 |
25,000 gp |
Display quest achievements, optional stairway (faces opposite from doorway where you created it) |
4 |
| Like the skill hall, you can build a staircase taking you up or down in your house. A very useful feature in this room is that you can mount an uncharged Amulet of glory (made with dragonstone, see our crafting guide) to get unlimited teleports to the usual glory destinations. Otherwise, this is a "show off" room to display quest pictures, swords, and guild souvenirs. |
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Study |
40 |
50,000 gp |
Create magic spell tablets, change elemental staff |
3 |
This room is for mages. Lecterns allow you to make tablets of different spells, such as teleport spells. A tablet allows any player to cast a spell without carrying runes, whether or not they have the magic level to cast it. Tablets save inventory spots; for example, a Falador teleport tablet uses only one inventory space, rather than the three normally needed. To make a tablet, you need some soft clay and the runes for the spell. Higher level lecterns offer more spell selections. Another nifty feature is the crystal ball, where you can change element staves (fire, water, air and earth) to any of the other elements (an ordinary "staff of" costs no runes, a battlestaff costs 100 runes, and a mystic staff costs 1000 runes).
|
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Costume Room |
42 |
50,000 gp |
Store unusual clothing items such as treasure trail rewards, random event costumes, mini game armour, magic robes/armour, holiday items and capes |
1 |
Only 1 costume room is allowed in your house. There are many restrictions and definitions for what can be stored in each piece of furniture. The most awkward is that a *complete* set of an outfit is required to store it: for example, shield, helm, plate and legs. Untradeable holiday items you've collected are always available if you've dropped or destroyed yours - just grab another from your toy box (any level). For other hotspots, higher level furniture holds more and different types of costumes. For example, treasure chests hold clue rewards up to level 1 (oak), 2 (teak) or 3 (mahogany).
Safeties have been built in to protect your costumes. You cannot remove furniture nor the rooms without withdrawing your items. Also, if you have a PIN set, you will need to enter it before you can get costumes out. If you don't have the level to build furniture that will hold all of your costumes, consider skipping the xp and just buying flatpacks from another player for your storage needs.
|
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Chapel |
45 |
50,000 gp |
Offer bones for prayer experience |
2 adjacent |
This is one of the best-loved rooms. Training prayer is difficult; even using the ectofuntus (400% of the exp for burying bones) requires tedious hauling and grinding. With the right combination of the highest level altar and incense burners, offering bones can earn up to 350% of the normal exp for burying bones. Torches and candlesticks don't contribute at all to prayer exp; but (oak) incense burners work just as well as the higher burners. Firemaking level 30 is required to light them. Be sure to bring two marrentill herbs and a tinderbox!
|
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Portal Chamber |
50 |
100,000 gp |
Teleport to selected cities |
1 |
You can build up to three portals in one portal room. The room's centrepiece is used to direct or "focus" a portal on any one of the following locations: Varrock, Lumbridge, Falador, Camelot, Ardougne (Plague City quest), Watchtower (Watch Tower quest) & Kharyrll (Ancient Magick). (Note: you cannot focus a portal on a certain destination if you haven't done the required quest.) Focusing a portal requires 100 times the runes normally used for that city's teleport. So, for a portal to Varrock, you'd need 100 fires, 300 airs and 100 law runes. After a portal has been directed, you'll have unlimited teleports to that location.
The highest level centrepiece also has a scry option. This enables you to view the portal destination in real time, and turn the camera angle as you normally would with your arrow keys. It's fun to see what's going on in different locations, or who's waiting for you there. Since a room only has three portals, you can't have all seven in one room. Most players build two portal rooms, allowing them to have six portals (house location may make the missing seventh unnecessary). |
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Formal Garden |
55 |
75,000 gp |
Decoration, optional Exit Portal or Dungeon Entrance |
4 |
| This is pretty much the same as the normal garden, except it looks much fancier: flowers, hedges, border fences, fountains, etc. Any flower planting is replicated in the opposite corner, so it only takes 4 bagged flowers to fill those hotspots. |
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Throne Room |
60 |
150,000 gp |
Receive visitors, use lever to activate floor trap or dungeon challenge mode |
1 |
The most important hotspot in this room is the lever, which has several different options. For example, if people are standing on your floor piece (floor hotspot), you can pull the lever and drop them into your oubliette below, or expel them from your house.
If you right click the lever, you will have the opportunity to enable either challenge mode or player vs. player (PvP) mode. In challenge mode the objective is to get to the chest in your treasure room (if you have one). PvP adds a bit of excitement; it enables players to 'kill' each other all over your house! Great fun for your visitors as well. Note that if you die you won't lose any items, you'll simply be teleported outside the house. |
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Oubliette |
65 |
150,000 gp |
Fend off monster while trying to escape trap |
4 |
| This is a very cool room. If you build this below your throne room, and the trap door is activated, players will be dropped into a cage in your oubliette. Here they will take damage from any floor trap you've planted, and will have to fight for their lives to make it out in time. They can get out of this cage by picklocking the right place in the fence surrounding the cage. You can add a guard (anything from a skeleton to a hell hound) which will attack players during challenge or PvP modes. You can also build teleport traps elsewhere in your dungeon to transport players into this cage if you wish. Note that if you die you won't lose any items, you'll simply be teleported outside the house. |
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Dungeon |
70 |
7500 gp (per Jagex) |
Fight through monsters and traps towards Treasure Room |
2 or 4 |
| Basically you can build your very own barrows maze down here. It's all to prevent your visitors from getting to your treasure room during PvP or challenge modes (see throne room). You can build traps and even add guards to stop intruders. There are many fun things to play around with, if you have the cash for it. The difference between a corridor (doorway on each end) and a junction (doorways on all four sides) is that the junction enables you to make corridors in other directions, simply to make it more confusing for your visitors to find their way around your dungeon. |
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Treasure Room |
75 |
250,000 gp |
Fight a final monster boss to unlock treasure chest |
1 |
This is what the above three rooms have been all about - your very own treasure room! This is the room which contains the reward in the challenge and PvP modes. It also holds the final obstacle players must face in these modes; your boss monster. The monster you add can range from a level 82 lesser demon to a level 246 steel dragon, depending on your level and how much you are willing to spend. It is great fun, and the harder the monster, the harder the game, eh? Note that if you die you won't lose any items, you'll simply be teleported outside the house.
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Rooms Layout
As your Construction level increases, you will be allowed to build your house in a larger layout. The limit is up to a maximum of 20 rooms in an 8 rooms by 8 rooms footprint. You are allowed one upper floor (start by building stairs in a hall), and one lower floor for your dungeon (start with dungeon entrance in a garden).
| 1 |
3x3 |
| 15 |
4x4 |
| 30 |
5x5 |
| 45 |
6x6 |
| 60 |
7x7 |
| 75 |
8x8 |
Materials Overview
The Construction skill employs a wide variety of materials. Here is an overview of the materials, including where you can buy them, how much they cost, and how you can use them. Each item type yields a consistent number of experience points (XP) when used to build something, so you can select the materials which are most cost effective for you.
With every level you gain you will be able to construct more and more furniture for your own house. At higher levels, you can use different types of more expensive materials.
Due to the rising fee scale charged by the Sawmill Operator, it is generally agreed that teak and mahogany planks are not cost effective for skill levelling (higher gp per experience earned). Although oak planks are a bit more gp per xp (2.5 times the sawmill fee for normal logs, but only 2 times the experience), they are faster because there's more experience per load. Normal (from logs) 3.46gp/xp, Oak 4.166gp/xp, Teak 5.55gp/xp, Mahogany 10.7gp/xp. Obviously, normal planks picked up from spawns cost nothing, but the collection time and number of loads required is usually discouraging, and the required nails must still be bought or made.
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Hammer |
Crucial tool! |
Buy at any general store. |
n/a |
 |
Saw |
Crucial tool! |
Buy at the lumberyard from the Sawmill Operator; choose the "trade" option. |
n/a |
 |
Crystal Saw |
Use instead of a saw. Gives a hidden +3 skill bonus. |
Reward from Eyes of Glouphrie quest |
n/a |
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Plank |
Build low level (1-15) furniture (requires nails). |
Chop ordinary trees and take them to the Sawmill Operator. He'll turn them into planks for 100gp each. |
~28.9 with nail |
 |
Oak Plank |
Build medium-low level (15 - 35) furniture. |
Chop oak trees and take them to the Sawmill Operator. He'll turn them into planks for 250gp each. |
60 |
 |
Teak Plank |
Build medium-high level (35 - 50) furniture. |
Chop teak trees and take them to the Sawmill Operator. He'll turn them into planks for 500gp each. |
90 |
 |
Mahogany Plank |
Build high level (50+) furniture. |
Chop mahogany trees and take them to the Sawmill Operator. He'll turn them into planks for 1500gp each. |
140 |
 |
Soft Clay |
Make clay constructions such as fireplaces, or use to support shelves. |
Mine some clay, and use a bucket or jug of water on it. No level requirements. |
10 |
 |
Limestone brick |
Make sturdy stone items (statue, fireplace, staircase, altar, etc.) |
Mine limestone east of Varrock or Arandar, then use chisel on it. Or, buy at Mort'ton shop or the Stonemason in Keldagrim. |
20 |
 |
Iron bar |
Make exit portals. |
Mine iron ore and smelt in a furnace; level 15 Smithing is needed. |
10 |
 |
Steel bar |
Heavy construction in many rooms (Kitchen, Hall, Workshop...). |
Mine 2 coal and 1 iron ore, and smelt in a furnace; level 30 Smithing is needed. |
20 |
 |
Nails |
Use with normal planks. |
Use a hammer at an anvil to smith a metal bar into nails (see the Smithing guide). All nails will bend occasionally, but less often if they are made from higher-level metals. Iron or Steel is recommended. |
See plank entry |
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Cloth |
Make curtains, beds, rugs,... |
Buy from the Sawmill Operator, northeast of Varrock. |
15 |
 |
Molten glass |
Used in various types of furniture, such as Crafting tables, Shaver stands,... |
Get some seaweed and a bucket of sand. Cook the seaweed in order to get soda ash. Use it with the bucket of sand on a furnace. No level requirement. (Refer to Crafting guide.) |
1 |
 |
Rope |
Make a bell pull for summoning servants. |
Buy in general stores throughout RuneScape. |
4 |
The Stonemason in Keldagrim also sells some highly expensive materials for the most advanced construction workers. See the Stonemason heading.
People
There are a number of non-player characters (NPCs) who are critical to the Construction skill. Each offers different services for fees, and/or items you can buy.
- Estate Agent
- Sawmill Operator
- Stonemason
- Garden Supplier
- Taxidermist
- Herald
- Servants
Estate Agent
The skill begins with an Estate Agent. There are four locations: in Varrock, located just west of the chapel (east of the palace); in Falador, east of the furnace; in Seers' Village, northeast of the bank; and in Ardougne, west-southwest of the market square.
Estate Agents sell your basic house located in Rimmington for 1K. You can also have them redecorate the exterior of your house, or move it to a new city, but the styles and locations available depend on your skill level. Note that the exterior for sale at each level matches the buildings in the city location for sale at that same level (Fremennik-style matches Rellekka, etc.)
| Basic Wood |
1 |
1K |
| Basic Stone |
10 |
5K |
| Whitewashed Stone |
20 |
7.5K |
| Fremennik-style Wood |
30 |
10K |
| Tropical Wood |
40 |
15K |
| Fancy Stone |
50 |
25K |
| Rimmington |
1 |
5K |
| Taverly |
10 |
5K |
| Pollnivneach |
20 |
7.5K |
| Rellekka |
30 |
10K |
| Brimhaven |
40 |
15K |
| Yanille |
50 |
25K |
You may move or redecorate your house as many times as you wish to pay. Different locations offer different travel amenities, and bank access may play a key role in selecting your home location. From Rimmington, players have a choice of banking in Falador or Draynor Village, or taking the Port Sarim ship to bank on Pest Control island. Homeowners in Taverly may wish to use a Falador teleport, a Burthorpe games necklace teleport, the Dwarven passage from Catherby, or possibly even the White Wolf Mountain glider. Pollnivneach residents will want to use flying carpets and bank at Shantay Pass. Rellekka homeowners might take advantage of the Fremennik lyre teleport, and possibly use the Etceteria bank. Brimhaven residents can glory amulet to Karamja and walk home, or sail to/from East Ardougne. Yanille homeowners have it best, with a bank right down the street. Amulets of glory and dueling rings are a convenient way to get to banks (Edgeville and Castle Wars). Fairy rings and other transport methods may also be helpful (see Tip.It's Getting Around Guide.)
Suggestions for improving materials transport efficiency include chopping logs near your house, then having your (level 30+) servant take them to the sawmill. This avoids repeated bank runs. A second idea is to unnote your planks, cloth and other unstackable items at a nearby general store. Use caution with this method, since other people could buy your supplies before you do.
Sawmill Operator
The Sawmill Operator is located at the entrance to the Lumberyard northeast of Varrock. He sells saws, cloth and nails, and changes logs into planks for a fee. Although normal planks spawn around Runescape, this man (generally referred to by players as "a thief", "that bandit", and "the richest man in Runescape") is the only source for oak, teak and mahogany planks.
| Saw |
no items |
13 |
| Plank |
Logs |
100 |
| Oak Plank |
Oak Logs |
250 |
| Teak Plank |
Teak Logs |
500 |
| Mahogany Plank |
Mahogany Logs |
1500 |
| Cloth |
no items |
650 |
| Bronze Nail |
no items |
1-2 |
| Iron Nail |
no items |
1-5 |
| Steel Nail |
no items |
1-5 |
Players can make nails themselves, of course (using the Smithing skill), rather than buying them here.
Return to People
Stonemason
The Stonemason is located in Keldagrim, on the west side of town, south of the Bank. He sells construction materials. The fee, purpose, and experience points earned for each item used are listed below.
| Limestone brick |
|
45 |
For making sturdy stone items (statue, fireplace, staircase, altar, etc.) |
20 |
| Gold leaf |
 |
130K |
Fancy decoration for higher level items. |
300 |
| Marble block |
 |
325K |
Expensive, durable construction (level 60+) such as throne, fireplace, opulent table, staircase, dungeon entrance, altar, fountain, etc. |
500 |
| Magic building stone |
 |
975K |
Elaborate upscale construction for highest levels. |
1000 |
Garden Supplier
The Garden Supplier is located in Falador Park, east of the Tree patch. She sells bagged plants, flowers, trees and hedges that can be put in your Garden or Formal Garden. The prices in the table are at full stock (20) of the item, and range from 1K to 100K gp. All bagged plants look identical. Each plant level (1, 2 or 3) can be placed in each plant space (Small plant 1, 2, Big plant 1, 2). The resulting plant will be different for each combination of plant number and location number. Remember to bring your Watering Can when you want to plant. You also get some Farming experience for each planting.
 |
Bagged Plant, Tree or Flower |
Taxidermist
The Taxidermist is located in Canifis, northwest of the tavern. If you slay a beast and find its' head (or hand in one case), you can bring it to her and have it stuffed for a fee. She also stuffs Bass, Swordfish and Shark, but these are specially-named items that you fish up - the normal ones won't do. Mount the stuffed items in your Skill hall to display your trophies. Note that when you remove the trophy display, the trophy item is *not* recoverable. This is also true if you remove your Skill hall - your trophies are gone forever. Players report killing or fishing hundreds of creatures before getting a trophy item, so keep this rarity in mind. Trophy items are not tradeable.
| Bass |
36 |
1K |
| Crawling Hand |
38 |
1K |
| Cockatrice |
38 |
2K |
| Basilisk |
38 |
4K |
| Swordfish |
56 |
2.5K |
| Kurask |
58 |
6K |
| Abyssal Demon |
58 |
12K |
| Shark |
76 |
5K |
| King Black Dragon |
78 |
50K |
| Kalphite Queen |
78 |
50K |
Herald
The Herald Sir Renitee is located in Falador, in the White Knights' Castle. He is upstairs on the east side, sitting in a chair at a desk. He assigns family crests at random. Your first crest assignment (must have at least level 16 Construction) is free. If you do not like your assigned family crest, he will change it for a fee of 5K, but you may also need to bring a specific item (listed in the table below) to be allowed to get your desired crest.
Your family crest can be used on various decorations around your house (Dining Room, Skill Hall and Throne Room), and applied to armour and banners at certain Heraldry stations in a Workshop, depending upon your crafting skill level (at least 38). Only steel or rune full helms and kiteshields can accept crest colours. The final armour appearance will be identical on steel or rune. Note that applying family crest colours to armour is not reversible nor removable at this time (they also cannot be re-painted).
The table below shows the appearance of each crest on a full helm, a kiteshield, a banner, and on the crested decorations in your home.
| Arrav |
Shield of Arrav quest |
 |
| Asgarnia |
None |
 |
| Dorgeshuun |
Lost Tribe quest |
 |
| Dragon |
Dragon Slayer quest |
 |
| Fairy |
Lost City quest |
 |
| Guthix |
70+ Prayer |
 |
| H.A.M. |
None |
 |
| Horse |
Toy horse in inventory |
 |
| Jogre |
None |
 |
| Kandarin |
None |
 |
| Misthalin |
None |
 |
| Money |
Costs 500,000 coins |
 |
| Saradomin |
70+ Prayer |
 |
| Skull |
Skulled while talking to Herald |
 |
| Varrock |
None |
 |
| Zamorak |
70+ Prayer |
 |
As a sideline, he sells portraits, landscapes and maps, which can be used to decorate your Quest Hall. Available portraits and landscapes are based upon your quest adventures.
| Map (Small, Medium or Large) |
1K |
| Portrait (King Arthur, Elena, King of Keldagrim, Prince and Princess of Miscellania) |
1K |
| Landscape (River Lum, Kharid desert, Morytania, Karamja, Isafdar) |
2K |
| First Crest Assignment |
Free |
| Change Crest |
5K |
Servants
When you achieve Construction level 20 and have two bedrooms (each with a bed), you can hire a low-level servant. The Servants' Guild is located in East Ardougne, north of the market square. To hire a servant, simply talk to them and pay them. Though still standing there, they will be at your house. The Master Servant explains what tasks the servants can perform. All of the servants will greet your guests, serve some food, and take items to and from the bank, but the higher level servants can finish bank runs faster. Higher level servants can also carry more items for you. Some servants can also take wood to the sawmill and get planks.
Note that Servants will demand their salary after they run a certain number of trips to the bank or sawmill, and will refuse to do more until you pay. You can fire your servant if you like. You may only have one servant at a time. You must fire the servant you have before hiring a different one.
 Rick |
20 |
500 |
Shrimp |
6 |
n/a |
 Maid |
25 |
1000 |
Stew and Cups of tea |
10 |
n/a |
 Cook |
30 |
3000 |
Pineapple pizzas |
16 |
Wood to Planks |
 Butler |
40 |
5000 |
Chocolate cakes |
20 |
Wood to Planks |
 Demon Butler (Alathazdrar) |
50 |
10,000 |
Curry |
26 |
Wood to Planks |
Tips and Tricks
General
Level Boosting
Repairs in the Workshop
Guest Access
General
Use your level 40 Magic teleport (1 Law, 1 Air, 1 Earth rune) to your house. It saves a lot of walking. Wielding an elemental staff would save one pack space. Using a Dust rune would also save a space in your pack. Using a teleport tablet (made in a Study) saves two spaces!
Some items you build will provide endless supplies of minor items you can use in your house. For example, your first wooden larder (level 9) supplies milk and tea (leaves). Your first wooden shelves (level 12) supply cups, kettles, and teapots.
Some of the supply items cannot be taken out of the house (they disappear out of your inventory), such as tea, beer from your barrel, and beer glasses. (Note that beer from your barrel cannot be used to rebuild the barrel.) However, the workshop tools and bookcase quest books can be taken outside.
When removing and rebuilding items for training purposes, keep in mind that the removed item is destroyed and you normally get nothing back. This includes those hard-to-find monster and fish trophies. Very few items are *recovered*: only armour displays in a skill hall, and sword and guild displays (Amulet of glory, legends cape, antifire shield) in a quest hall. It is reported that if you remove an entire Skill hall or Quest hall, you lose *everything* in it!
Construction level boosting
You can make tea that raises your Construction 1-3 levels temporarily. You will need a larder, shelves, a sink (such as level 7 pump and drain), and a stove (at least a level 11 firepit with hook). Fill the kettle with water and put it on the fire to boil. Put the tea leaves in the teapot. When you see the message that the kettle has boiled, take it off the stove. Pour boiling water from the kettle into the teapot (makes four servings). Pour it into cups. Add milk if desired. Wood shelves 1 and 2 and oak shelves 1 offer a plain tan-coloured cup and teapot, making tea that only raises construction by 1 level. Using nicer porcelain cups and teapots from wood shelves 3, oak shelves 2 and teak shelves 1 will help the tea raise your construction by 2 levels. A gold-trimmed cup and teapot from teak shelves 2 will temporarily raise construction by 3 levels. If you have a butler (minimum level 40 to hire), he can serve you +3 tea if you have teak shelves 1.
| Cup |
 |
Wooden shelves 1,
Wooden shelves 2,
Oak shelves 1 |
+1 |
| Porcelain cup |
 |
Wooden shelves 3,
Oak shelves 2,
Teak shelves 1 |
+2 |
| Porcelain cup (gold trimmed) |
 |
Teak shelves 2 (or Teak shelves 1 with Butler) |
+3 |
In the Evil Dave Recipe for Disaster subquest, players learn how to make a special stat-boosting stew. Jagex states that the orange spice is related to Construction (among other skills). Unfortunately, the stew's stat boosts are random, and might even reduce your stats (-6 to +6). Check Tip.It's Cooking Guide for known details.
A reward from completing the Eyes of Glouphrie quest is the Crystal saw. When carried, it (invisibly) increases your construction level by 3. This boosted level does not apply to rooms, garden plants, dungeon monsters or anything that does not require a saw (things you buy). Using it with construction tea (described above, with a skill bonus of 1 to 3), it can raise your level by up to 6. It can also be used in combination with Evil Dave's stew, with a random outcome of -3 to +9.
Repairs in the Workshop
Formerly useless items found around Runescape can now be repaired at your workshop repair station (or at the home of a friend!) Some minor skill experience is earned for each successful repair. Failing earns no experience. Repairing a broken arrow on a level 15 repair bench earns 8 Fletching xp and may yield a headless/bronze/iron/steel/
mithril arrow. Repairing a broken staff earns 14 Crafting xp and may yield a plain staff or a staff of air/earth/fire/water. A user reports that a broken staff of Iban cannot be repaired here.
Repairing (sharpening) a rusty sword on a level 35 whetstone earns 25 Smithing xp and may yield a bronze/iron/steel/mithril sword or longsword (possibly black as well). Repairing damaged armour on a level 55 armour stand earns 25 Smithing xp and may yield a bronze/iron/steel/mithril plate. Repairing "broken" armour may yield bronze/iron/
steel/mithril legs. Repairing barrows armour yourself still costs money, but it's discounted depending on your smithing skill level (99 smithers pay half price!) It earns 25 Smithing xp as well.
Repairable "junk" items used to be found at random all over RuneScape, but Jagex has recently removed them from crates and sacks. Some locations remain: the H.A.M. cave, digging at the Digsite, picklocking/unlocking Zogre coffins, and Trawler fishing. There are also some broken arrow spawns at the Ranger's guild.
Guest Access
Admission to your house is governed in part by your Private Chat status. You can open your house to all players ("On") or limit it to your friends list ("Friends"). However, if you don't want guests but still want to use private chat, you can right click your exit portal and select "lock" to ensure your privacy. Guests are not admitted when you are in Building mode. According to Jagex, no one can enter your house when you are not at home. However, if you leave your guests there, such as when you are summoned for a random event, they are allowed to remain.
To visit a friend's home, you must be on the same world and at the same town portal they use (if your friend's house is in Yanille, you can't get there from the Rimmington portal). They cannot be in Building mode, and their privacy access must be at a setting that includes you (portal unlocked, and private chat to "on" or "friends" if you are on their friends list).
