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Changes To Construction

The newly introduced Sailing skill and the Construction skill are somewhat interdependent, where having a higher Construction level will significantly boost your Sailing capabilities. To be able to upgrade to the maximum boat in the game, you need level 87 Construction.

Also with Sailing, Jagex introduced a number of new Construction training methods using a shipwright's table, now providing the longest AFK times for the skill.

If you're returning to RS, you may not know that you can now left-click construct items with the Menu Entry Swapper plugin on RuneLite, or even on mobile with the new inbuilt settings.

Jagex also improved the loading times of Player Owned Houses, so you can now benefit from more rooms at once without impacting the loading time.

And there’s also some new house locations, most recently the Aldarin house.

And there are new house styles, like the Varlamore reskin or Morytania.

Why Train Construction?

Before Sailing, the Construction skill's primary use was to build a Player Owned House. By leveling up, you can implement teleports, altars, pools, and much more, and these are useful quality of life features for your account.

Most players aim for level 84 Construction, and with that, you can boost to create a maxed house.

With 99, the construction skillcape has one of the best teleports in the game, with unlimited teleports to your player owned house, as well as teleports to each house portal.

As a whole, Construction is one of the fastest 99s in the game, where you can viably go from 1 to 99 in close to 15 hours.However, with Construction, the more you spend the faster you train, usually costing at least 100 mil for the regular pathways to 99.

Your Pathway to 99

With leveling Construction, there are three main training methods, and in this guide I'll show all of them.

Traditional Player Owned House Construction involves building and removing furniture inside your Player Owned House repeatedly.

With Mahogany Homes, you repair furniture in various homes across the RuneScape map.

And Sailing Construction involves creating Sailing items at a workbench, with similar aspects to processing skills.

Comparing the three Construction methods, traditional Player Owned House Construction is the fastest, most expensive, and also the most click intensive.

For a more relaxed training pathway, the Sailing methods provide decent XP rates and AFK times, and Mahogany Homes is the cheapest training method.

With traditional Construction methods, these are the estimated costs for 99 with each plank type, as well as their XP rates and the number of planks needed. Mahogany is quite expensive, costing around 150 mil for 99, and the cheapest is oak planks costing about half. There’s also making mounted mythical capes with teak planks, and this usually turns out to be slightly cheaper than oak.

Mahogany Homes provides far cheaper Construction XP, although at the expense of much lower XP rates. Adept contracts are particularly noteworthy, where they give up to 200k XP per hour and only cost 2.5 GP per XP. As a whole, Mahogany Homes are a method to train Construction for cheap. But it is more suitable for Ironmen since you get more XP overall per plank.

And the new Sailing Construction methods provide the longest AFK times for the skill, but at around the same cost as traditional Player Owned House Construction. Reaching 99 with mahogany repair kits would take about three times as long as mahogany in your house, and for around the same cost. Constructing hull parts is another decent option, with higher XP rates than repair kits, but at the expense of being less AFK and a higher cost.

Training Methods

Now I'd like to go into depth about each training method, starting with low level training (how to get your first 30 levels or so), and then I'll go into each method.

Low Level Training (Levels 1-33)

So starting off, there are three low level Construction methods that I would recommend: the Daddy's Home miniquest, training in your Player Owned House, or training with Sailing Construction.

Daddy's Home Miniquest

On any fresh members account, you can go and complete the Daddy's Home miniquest to go from level 1 to 8 Construction.

The miniquest acts as an introduction to Mahogany Homes and also gives you a Player Owned House. It’s definitely worth doing the miniquest, but it's also not a necessity. While it introduces you to Mahogany Homes, I wouldn't suggest training with Mahogany Homes from a low level since it's quite slow.

You can train very quickly with Player Owned House Construction or Sailing Construction.

POH Training

For traditional house training, your first level goal is 33 for oak larders.

To reach level 33, you'll need around 100 regular planks, 250 oak planks, 200 steel nails, and 30k coins.

These are the furniture pieces you need to build to go from 1 to 33. To be honest, you don't need to build these exact furniture pieces since the XP rates are pretty similar for any furniture of the same plank type—just aim to build whichever item uses the most planks at once.

You should start by teleporting to an estate agent (an easy one to get to is in Falador) and buying a starter house for 1k cash.

Then you can use a teleport-to-house to go outside the portal, and you can right-click the portal and enter directly in building mode.

Or, if you're in your house, you can open up the in-game house settings to turn on building mode.

Training involves building and removing furniture, then unnoting planks at Phials outside the Rimmington portal. You'll also need to build a Workshop room and a Dining Room when you get to the level and continue unnoting at Phials.

Low Level Sailing Construction

With Sailing's release, you can also train at a low level with a shipwright's workbench. Doing this requires the Pandemonium quest, which is a short and easy one.

You have two options at a low level: wooden repair kits or wooden hull parts.

Repair kits are more AFK and more cost effective, and hull parts are faster XP but more costly.

For repair kits, you'd buy planks, bronze nails, and swamp paste, then you withdraw a full inventory and construct at a shipwright's workbench. Two workbenches near a bank are the one at Catherby or also the one at Port Khazard.

So you just click the workbench and select to make all, and your character processes through each one. Making hull parts uses more planks at once, so you'll be banking more but getting higher XP rates.

In terms of a pathway to 30 Construction, you can start with wooden, then oak, then teak, and it's going to take around 20 to 30 minutes, costing about 200k to 300k.

Sailing Construction (Levels 1-99)

But a shipwright's workbench isn't just great for low level training; it's excellent at all levels. Now I'm going to get into the main training methods to level 84 or 99 Construction.

I just explained that repair kits are more AFK and cheap, while hull parts are faster but more costly. Well, at higher levels with the higher level Sailing items, the hull parts become far more expensive, to the point where it's not even worth making them.

So with repair kits, it's possible to AFK for 28 seconds per inventory, which really doesn't sound like much, but when you compare it to traditional Player Owned House Construction, it's amazing.

So I would just suggest repair kits up to mahogany if you're looking for cost effectiveness, but you could go as high as ironwood repair kits for faster XP rates and a somewhat reasonable cost. Rosewood repair kits are no good for XP and training, and to be honest, I wouldn't go above mahogany repair kits. With 250k XP per hour and 28 second AFK intervals, that's really not bad for Construction.

Currently, most repair kits are profitable to alch, so with a decent High Alchemy margin on these kits, you’re assured that the price of them won't go down too much over time.

Traditional Methods

Now I'm going to circle back to traditional training. The next few methods I'm showing are the fastest training methods in the game through Player Owned House Construction.

Level 33: Oak Larders (Until Level 50/52)

So at level 33, you unlock oak larders. Oak larders are the fastest training method until you unlock your main method, so this could be anywhere between level 50 to level 74. Showing on the screen right now is how many oak planks you need to reach each method.

Particularly with these POH methods, you should try to do them on RuneLite, as mobile is very difficult for this.

Ensure you have the Menu Entry Swapper plugin installed and turned on, then you can hold shift and right-click a piece of furniture to change the left-click option to build or remove. You no longer need to right-click, and this update was approved by Jagex. There’s also a plugin called Construction QOL which can remap the hotkeys for Construction, so you can build and remove with the same hotkey.

So with oak larders, you build and remove them with oak planks. While doing this, you'll be unnoting planks at Phials outside the Rimmington house portal.

Now, you can get a servant with 20 Construction that can bring you planks, but the servants below the human butler are far too slow, and it's actually faster to unnote planks at Phials.

So you’ll continue training with oak larders, unnoting planks, all the way until 40 Construction which is when you unlock the butler. But to get a butler, you need two bedrooms in your house, and both of those bedrooms need to have a bed.

Once you do that, you need to make your way to the north-eastern corner of Ardougne and enter the Servants' Guild. Speak to the human butler inside and hire him.

Then at level 50 Construction, it is possible to get a demon butler, which is even faster than the human butler. If you have a lot of money to spare, then you should fire the human butler and hire the demon butler at level 50.

To use a servant, you firstly talk to them and ask them to bring items from the bank. Then the servant disappears and eventually returns with your planks while you're training.

Every 8 bank trips, a servant will ask you for payment, which requires some coins in your inventory. A demon butler is quite expensive and the cost does add up, so if you're trying to save money, just use a human butler.

With 58 Construction, you can build a servant's moneybag in your house which holds money and automatically deducts when the servant needs payment. This speeds up your training since it removes any payment dialogue.

So, you continue with oak larders until your desired training method.

Level 50: Mounted Mythical (Cheap)

And the first method you unlock, at level 50 Construction, plus with completion of Dragon Slayer II, you can begin training with mounted mythical capes.

Mounted mythical capes are built in a Quest Hall room. They require three teak planks plus one mythical cape. Instead of getting the regular 90 XP per teak plank with other Construction objects, you get 123 XP per plank. Since you get the mythical cape back when you destroy it, you're basically training at a cheaper cost.

To save the most money with mounted mythical capes, you should definitely just get the regular human butler, since the demon butler is actually too fast for this method. To save even more money, you can request the maximum number of items from the butler. Since he asks for payment every 8 trips regardless of how many items he gets, you save money in the long run.

So, you should be using Menu Entry Swapper and left-clicking to build and remove for this. You just stand next to the mounted mythical cape on the wall and click to build and remove constantly while maintaining planks from the butler.

Overall, you can get 430k XP per hour at high efficiency with mounted mythical capes, and overall it's going to cost 20 mil to reach 84 or 100 mil to reach 99. On the screen are each of the plank quantities needed.

In terms of time, you can expect to reach 84 in 7 hours with this method from when you unlock it, and to reach 99, it takes 31 hours.

Level 52: Mahogany Tables (Fast)

Now, two levels after unlocking mounted mythical capes, you unlock mahogany dining tables, which are the fastest viable training method until level 77.

You can get up to 900k XP per hour here, but at a far higher cost compared to mounted mythical capes.

Going from unlock to 84, it costs about 40 mil, and going from unlock to 99 will cost around 200 mil. But it is of course a lot faster, which means you can reach 84 in as little as 4 hours, or 99 in nearly 15 hours.

Mahogany tables can be built in a Dining Room in your house, so you'll need to add a Dining Room in building mode to train with these. With this method, you should again be using Menu Entry Swapper.

In terms of the butler, if you do want to save a few mil, then definitely just use the human butler and request as much as possible. But that's not the fastest way to do it. With a demon butler, if you request 18 planks at a time, you can perfectly time it so that you use all 18 planks in the time that the butler is gone, and he comes back at the right time.

But overall, that requires even more focus but can really boost your XP rates overall. If you’d like to view the real-time prices for mahogany tables, you can view the cost in the Theoatrix Toolkit app.

Level 74: Oak Doors (Cheap)

Next, at level 74 Construction, you unlock a cheaper alternative with a similar price to mounted mythical capes. Oak dungeon doors provide up to 550k XP per hour while costing the same amount as oak larders, so pretty cheap.

It costs 20 mil to get to 84 from 74, or 110 mil for 99. In terms of time, it's still going to take a fair bit longer than mahogany, but it's very fast compared to other Construction methods.

Since oak dungeon doors use 10 oak planks at a time, it's almost required to use a demon butler; otherwise you'll spend a lot of time waiting around.

Oak dungeon doors are built in the doorspace of a Dungeon room in your house, so you'll need to build some sort of way downstairs.

Level 77: Gnome Benches (Fastest)

Next is the fastest viable Construction training method in the game. One that doesn't cost a huge amount of money and is very fast is constructing mahogany benches, also known as gnome benches.

These give the same XP and use the same amount of planks as mahogany dining tables, except with these, you're able to remove one while building the other since there's two right next to each other.

This opens doors to XP rates nearing 1 mil an hour, but this does require intense focus, and it's very hard to do it perfectly for an hour.

So for this method, you need a Superior Garden for the bench space. Then make sure your Menu Entry Swapper is set up. You build 1 bench, then as you go to remove it, you press 1 to remove and click the next one at the same time.

You can time it perfectly with a demon butler by requesting 24 planks at a time; if you're efficient enough, you can get through all 24 planks before he comes back.

The cost of this method is the same as mahogany tables, but the time taken is reduced, where you can go from 77 to 84 in less than 2 hours, or 77 to 99 in around 10 hours.

Other Benches

Teak Benches

There are also teak garden benches, which provide competitive XP rates, slightly faster than oak dungeon doors and at a similar cost.

The process with these ones is the same but with teak planks, and you can get XP rates up to 575k per hour.

In terms of cost, it's about 30 mil for 84 and 130 mil for 99.

That's all of the traditional Player Owned House methods you should do for 99 Construction. Here's a view of all of them on the screen with their cost and time to 99.

Mahogany Homes

Mahogany Homes is a slower but much cheaper and more relaxed alternative to traditional Construction training. The XP rates are lower overall, but the method is far less click-intensive, making it solid for players who want to save money or train more casually.

There are four contract tiers in Mahogany Homes, each with different XP rates and costs. The most worthwhile for most players are Adept contracts, which can give over 100k XP an hour and cost roughly 30 mil to 99.

On top of the XP, Mahogany Homes also gives you access to the Carpenter’s outfit, which provides a 2.5% Construction XP boost when you have the full set.

To start Mahogany Homes, you need to own a Player Owned House. You can unlock one through the Daddy’s Home miniquest or simply buy one for a thousand coins from any estate agent.

It’s also a good idea to wear Graceful to help with run energy. If you get the Plank Sack from Mahogany Homes, that will improve your efficiency and increase your XP rates.

To begin, speak to Amy in Falador, right next to the estate agent, and choose the contract tier you want. She’ll assign you a house, and from there, you travel to the location and repair the damaged furniture inside using your planks and steel bars.

Once you’ve fixed everything, speak to the homeowner to receive your Construction XP reward, along with a cup of tea that fully restores your run energy.

After completing your first contract with Amy, you can then get future contracts from one of four Mahogany Homes NPCs, located in Falador, Varrock, Ardougne, and Hosidius. For lower-level players, Amy in Falador is usually the easiest to access, although higher-level players can speed things up further by using the NPC Contact spell on the Lunar Spellbook to receive new contracts anywhere.

Overall, Mahogany Homes are a more laid-back and affordable way to train Construction. But for a main account, I’d still recommend the traditional Construction methods or Sailing Construction if your main goal is to level as quickly as possible, since they are significantly faster.

Maxed House Guide

To finish this Construction guide, I'd like to give a brief guide about maxing your Player Owned House. Overall, you need level 84 Construction to build a maxed house, allowing you to boost from level 84 to 92.

In your house, there's a range of upgrades to aim for: jewellery boxes, portal nexus, occult altar, spirit trees, fairy rings, combat dummies, and more.

There’s the jewellery boxes, portal nexus, occult altar, spirit trees, fairy rings, combat dummies and more.

When boosting your Construction, you need to combine the boosts of a Crystal saw with a spicy stew. The Crystal saw gives an invisible +3 Construction level boost and is obtained from the Eyes of Glouphrie quest.

The spicy stews are from freeing Evil Dave in Recipe for Disaster. These can be a pain to get, but once obtained, they give up to a +5 boost, meaning you can get up to +8 with both the saw and the stew.

Ironman Construction

On an Ironman, Construction can't be trained all at once. You need to spend time gathering planks and materials, no matter which Construction method you do.

There have been a few changes to Old School that improve Construction for Ironmen though.

There's a new sawmill on Varlamore with quick access to a bank, and there's the plank sack and the log bag too. From salvaging, you can also get sawmill vouchers, which cut the cost of making planks for irons.

But the best method to get planks is to get teak and mahogany logs from Managing Miscellania, then turning those logs into planks at a sawmill or by using a butler in your house.

The fastest way to do it is teleporting to your house, asking a butler to make planks, and repeating; the butler automatically banks the planks.

At low Construction levels, you can get regular planks from behind Barbarian Assault on the ground. Tempoross isn’t bad for planks either. At high levels, bosses and raids can give a lot of planks, like Zulrah, Callisto, or Chambers.