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Training Hints and Tips
- You can use the Teleport to House spell at level 40 Magic to get to your house more quickly.
- Use your Construction level to your advantage: higher level servants can help you more quickly.
- Moving house (speak with the Estate agent) can help if you are running to banks...
Heraldry and Family Crests
The workshop contains the heraldry hotspot. With the ability to paint your family crest on steel or rune full helms, you can wear your crest into battle. If you upgrade this to a shield easel, you can paint your crest on a kiteshield! If your Construction level is high enough, you can even make a large banner of your crest to carry around.
Barrows armour repairs
The repair bench, also found in the workshop, is very useful. Basic benches can repair broken staffs and arrows, and if you change this to a whetstone, you can sharpen old rusty swords. If your Construction level allows it, you could even make an armour stand, where you can repair Barrows armour for a reduced cost! The cost depends on your Smithing level: if your Smithing level is 1, the cost will be nearly the same as normal. With 99 Smithing, your repair cost will be practically halved.
Flatpacks
To make flatpacks you will need to construct a workshop and workbench. Dependent on the level of your workbench, you can construct flat-packed items. For example, you can use the same materials to make a rocking chair to make a flatpacked version of it with your workbench. You still get the same experience for making the item. You can then sell this item to another player who is unable to make the item, but wants it for their own house. They simply use the flatpacked version with the hotspot.
Construction Tea
Tea brewed in your Kitchen will boost your construction level by +1, +2 or +3, allowing you to build higher level items in your home. The level boost depends on the type of tea set you get from your shelves; in increasing order, clay, porcelain, or gold-trimmed. To make tea, you need at least level 11 construction to make a stove that can heat the kettle. You also need a larder (for tea leaves) and a sink for water to fill your kettle (from any type kitchen shelves). Fill the kettle with water, put it on the stove, and wait for it to boil. Put the tea leaves into the teapot, pour the hot water into the pot, and then it's time to fill your teacup for a yummy boost.
Crystal Saw
This odd piece of equipment is a combination of elven mystic arts and gnomish ingenuity, given to those adventurers who successfully aid the gnomes in the Eyes of Glouphrie.
By having the crystal saw in your inventory you will be able to construct furnishings in your house even if you don't have the level you would normally require. The crystal saw will effectively supply you with 3 extra levels. If you have level 57 Construction, for example, you will be able to construct level 60 furnishings such as gilded four-poster beds - provided you have necessary materials, of course.
As the power of the crystal is drained slightly in doing this, you will only be able to construct 28 items in this way before the saw reverts to an uncharged crystal seed and it will need to be recharged.
This bonus can be stacked on top of bonuses from tea or Evil Dave's Stew of DOOM. Obviously, if you are lucky you may use the stew to get a massive +9 to your Construction (though only on furnishings) - on the other hand, you may be unlucky and the Evil Stew of DOOM may stack with the saw to give you -3...
Please note that this does not apply to building rooms, placing monsters or growing plants, as they do not require a saw.
Hidey-holes and Racks
As you train Construction, you'll find you're able to build various little hidey-holes and racks in useful locations around RuneScape, which give construction experience "one time only." Hidey-holes can be built nearby many of the crossbow shortcuts around the world, in which you can store spare crossbows and grapples. Racks can be built at various eagle eyries and outside the house that resides atop Baxtorian Falls, and these can be used to store ropes. Building these hidey-holes and racks means you don't have to remember to bring a crossbow/rope with you, and doing so also earns you some Construction XP.
Crossbow shortcut hidey-holes
| Item |
Level required |
Materials required |
Experience gained |
| Falador wall |
29  |
Planks x 4 |
Bronze crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
Nails x 4 |
408 |
| Yanille wall |
31 |
Planks x 4 |
Bronze crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
Nails x 4 |
528 |
| Catherby cliff |
45 |
Oak planks x 4 |
Iron crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
|
984 |
| River Lum |
47 |
Oak planks x 4 |
Steel crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
|
1044 |
| Water Obelisk |
49 |
Teak planks x 4 |
Mithril crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
|
1464 |
| Musa Point |
52 |
Mahogany planks x 4 |
Mithril crossbow x 1 |
Mithril grapple x 1 |
|
1872 |
Rope racks
| Item |
Level required |
Materials required |
Experience gained |
| Eagles' Peak eyrie |
18 |
Planks x 3 |
Rope x 5 |
Nails x 4 |
252 |
| Baxtorian Falls house |
24 |
Oak planks x 3 |
Rope x 5 |
|
540 |
| Karamja eyrie |
28 |
Oak planks x 3 |
Rope x 5 |
|
540 |
| Feldip eyrie |
38 |
Teak planks x 3 |
Rope x 5 |
|
810 |
Construction Training in Dungeoneering
You can gain Construction experience by customizing your dungeon starting room. For a list of the modifications that you can make, visit the construction table page.
Temple Trekking / Burgh de Rott Ramble
Constructor's outfit
From the Temple Trekking / Burgh de Rott Ramble minigames you can get access to a set of armour that, when the full set is worn, gives you a bonus to the Construction XP you can earn.
Individually the items do provide a bonus, but the full set will grant the best bonus: +5%.
