Only 1-99 Guide
Introduction to Construction:
Construction was released for members May, 31st, 2006. Construction allows players to build a Player-owned house (or POH) and provide the furnishings for them. Construction is regarded as one of the most expensive skills to train because of the materials needed for it. Construction is currently one of the fastest skills to train, depending on how much money a player is willing to spend. Construction is regarded by many players as a unique 99 skill that many players do not have, due to its high cost.
Other Information about Construction and Hi-scores:
Minimum level for Hi-scores 30, as of 01 March 2011.
Players with 99; 15,969, as of 22 October 2011.
Players with 200M experience; 17, as of 22 October 2011.
The Start:
To begin Construction, players must buy a house by paying one of the four Estate Agents found in cities all over RuneScape. A basic house will cost 1000 coins, and will be in Rimmington by default. As a player advances in construction, more house locations will be made available, as well as house styles. To change either of these, it is required to speak to the Estate Agent again who will charge a fee for changing either.
Estate Agent Locations:
Seers' Village, northeast of the bank.
Falador, west of the east bank.
Ardougne, west of the south bank.
Varrock, north of the east bank.
Building:
After you have purchased the starter house, you will want to go to the Grand Exchange and buy. At least 1000 teleport to house tabs, 1000 steel nails, hammer, saw and planks.
Once you have your house tabs, nails, saw, hammer and planks, put them all in your inventory and teleport to you house and switch on building mode. Go into your parlor (the only room you have) and start making crude wooden chairs.
Levels 1-8 - Crude Wooden Chairs
You will need to make 14 crude wooden chairs requiring 28 planks and your nails.
Levels 8-14 - Wooden Chairs
You will be required to make 16 wooden chairs, needing 48 planks and your nails.
Levels 14-19 - Rocking Chairs
You need to make 22 rocking chairs, needing 66 planks and your nails.
Levels 18-22 - Oak Chairs
You need to make 14 oak chairs, needing 28 oak planks.
Firstly make a Dining Room that costs 5,000gp.
Levels 22-26 - Oak Dining Tables
You need to make 13 oak dining tables, requiring 52 oak planks.
At Level 26 you can make a Rope bell-pull.
Requires 1 oak plank and 1 rope.
A rope bell-pull allows you to summon a servant to the room if you cannot find him.
Different servants need different construction levels and they provide different services, such as greeting guests, serving food, and taking items to and from bank and unnoting items. The higher the servant's level, the better and faster the quality of their services is, but the more they cost.
After you make your rope bell-pull you will wan tot get a servant from The Servant's Guild, which can be found in East Ardougne. The Servant's Guild is a place where you can hire different servants for your house. When entered you can talk to the chief servant and he will ask you if you want to hire a servant. When hired they will charge you with an amount of coins and for each 8 bankings. Also if you want a servant, you need at least 2 bedrooms in your house with a bed in each room. Your servant will take automatically the second best room in the house.
The servant's guild is located to the north of the Ardougne marketplace. It's easy to reach by just teleporting to Ardougne and then walking north.
You can hire a Servant according to these statistics:
Person Construction Level Salary Maximum number of carried items
Rick 20 500gp 6
Maid 25 1,000gp 10
Cook 30 3,000gp 16
Butler 40 5,000gp 20
Demon butler 50 10,000gp 26
A servant would not be recommended till level 30, 40, or 50 construction.
Level 26-30 Oak Dining Tables
From 26-30 you need to make 19 oak dining tables, needing 76 oak planks.
At level 30 you will want to make two bedrooms. One for you and one for your servant if you plan on buying one. If you are not buying one now it's better to have this done now then later.
A bedroom costs 10,000 coins each. So bring 20,000gp and make 2. All you need to do is build a bed in each.
You need 6 oak planks and 4 bolts of cloth.
Level 30-33 Oak Dining Tables
From 30-33 you need to make 19 oak tables, needing 76 oak planks.
Once you reach 50 construction go back to one of the real estate agents and switch you house location to yannille. This will cost 25,000gp but you can run from the bank to your house instead of tele tabbing.
Now you need to make a kitchen costing you 5,000gp.
Level 33-74 Oak Larders
You will need to make 2,246 oak larders, needing 17,968 oak planks.
Level 74-99 Oak Dungeon Doors
You will need to make 19,897 oak dungeon doors, needing 198,970 oak planks.
Total amount of cash used in this guide:
Normal Planks: 146*288 = 42,048gp
Oak Planks: 217,183*516 = 112,066,428gp
Bolt of Cloth: 8*1287 = 10,296gp
Rope: 1*95 = 95gp
Teleport to House Tabs: 1,000*829 = 829,000gp
Teleport to Falador Tabs: 1,000*863 = 863,000gp
Servant: I can not determine price for your servant as I do not know how often you used him.
Total: 113,810,867gp
All prices are based off Grand Exchange March 2nd 2011.
As you can see construction is expensive and this is fastest and cheapest way to 99.
Go get that cape:
Thank you for reading my guide.
Credits to RuneScape Wikia for most images and the first 3 paragraphs and the Butler Paragraph.
