OSRS Construction Guide: 1 to 99 – Revamped for 2026

Construction is one of the most isolated skills in Old School RuneScape, but also one of the most important. A well-built player-owned house (POH) makes every other adventure smoother. This guide covers training methods for both mains and ironmen, key level benchmarks, and the most efficient paths to 99.

Why Train Construction?

Construction lets you build utility elements in your POH. Level 84 gives you a pseudo-max house with a +8 boost. Level 90 gives you a true max house. The construction skill cape is widely considered one of the best in the game.

Key teleport and utility unlocks (assuming boosts):

• Level 76 – Mounted digsite pendant

• Level 82 – Ornate pool of rejuvenation

• Level 83 – Ornate jewelry box

• Level 84 – Crystalline portal nexus

• Level 90 – Spirit tree and fairy ring combination

Questing for a Head Start

Construction doesn't have many quest requirements for training methods. However, two quests help early on.

Daddy's Home (mini-quest) – Get 10 planks, 5 bolts of cloth, 50 nails, a hammer, and a saw from the lumber yard northeast of Varrock. Complete this mini-quest to reach level 8 and get your own house for free (saving 1,000 GP). Open the supply crate and use all materials to reach level 12.

Tower of Life – Requires level 10 Construction. The experience payout isn't huge, but it's quick. Doing both quests gets you to level 15.

Other important quests for utility (not training): Plague City, Children of the Sun, Fairy Tale Part II, The Eyes of Glouphrie, Death to the Dorgeshuun, Lunar Diplomacy, and Dragon Slayer II.

Early Game Training (Levels 1–33)

If you skip quests, buy a house from an estate agent in Varrock, Falador, or Seers' Village for 1,000 GP. Enter your house in Rimmington via build mode.

Materials needed: 142 regular planks, 242 oak planks, and 200–400 nails. Mains buy these on the Grand Exchange. Irons chop regular and oak trees, then take logs to the sawmill northeast of Varrock. Alternatively, complete Children of the Sun for access to the sawmill in Auburnvale (Varlamore), which is much closer to a bank.

Build these furniture pieces in order:

• Crude wooden chair (1–8)

• Wooden chair (8–14)

• Rocking chair (14–19)

• Oak chair (19–26)

• Oak armchair (26–29)

• Oak bookcase (29–33)

Runelite tip: Activate Menu Entry Swapper. Shift-right-click whatever you're building to change left-click options for both build and destroy. This saves massive time.

Hiring a Butler

Build two bedrooms in your house. Build a bed in each. Then go to the Servants' Guild north of the Rimmington market and hire a butler. The standard butler unlocks at level 40, the demon butler at level 50. Butlers fetch supplies from your bank, allowing you to train without leaving your house. Build a servant's money bag in one bedroom to deposit coins so your butler can withdraw from it directly.

Core Training Methods

All methods below assume you have a demon butler and have customized your left-click options.

Oak Larders (level 33+)– Build a kitchen. Have your butler bring oak planks. The cook butler carries only 16 items (200k XP/hour). The demon butler carries more (up to 450k XP/hour). Great budget option.

Mounted Mythical Capes (level 50+) – Requires Dragon Slayer II. Build in a quest hall. Uses teak planks and a mythical cape per build. Up to 400k XP/hour. The budget way to train in your POH.

Mahogany Tables (level 52+)– Build in a dining room. Expensive but ridiculous XP. With a demon butler, you can achieve up to 900k XP/hour. Best for rich mains who want 99 fast.

Teak Garden Benches (level 66+)– Build in a superior garden. 500–650k XP/hour. Slightly cheaper than mahogany.

Oak Dungeon Doors (level 74+)– Build a skill hall, quest hall, or garden with stairs or a dungeon entrance. Go downstairs. Ask your butler to bring oak planks downstairs. Each door takes 10 planks. Up to 530k XP/hour. Slightly over 100 million GP gets you from 74 to 99. This is how I reached 99 on my main.

Mahogany Benches (level 84+)– Build in a superior garden. Have your butler bring 24 planks. Build and destroy both benches. Up to 1 million XP/hour. More demanding but the fastest method.

Mahogany Homes (Best for Irons)

Mahogany Homes is a cheaper, lower-intensity alternative. Talk to Amy in Falador for a contract. Fix furniture in houses across Gielinor. Use the Mahogany Homes plugin to track locations and needed materials.

Contract tiers:

• Beginner (level 1) – regular planks

• Novice (level 20) – oak planks

• Adept (level 50) – teak planks

• Expert (level 70) – mahogany planks

Recommended setup: Set your house to Hosidius. Bring teleport tablets to your house, Varrock, Falador, and Arceuus. Bring a rune pouch with astral, cosmic, and air runes for NPC Contact. Bring a hammer, saw, and 2–3 steel bars for metal repairs.

Use NPC Contact to get new contracts from Amy without traveling back. Buy these rewards from Amy's shop in order: plank sack (fewer bank trips), then the equipable saw (one more inventory slot), then the carpenter's outfit (up to 2.5% bonus XP).

Mahogany Homes caps at 210k XP/hour with teak planks. I do not recommend mahogany planks here (only 260k XP/hour at triple the cost). Save mahogany for tables or benches.

New AFK Method (Sailing Update)

At Port Piscarilius or Docks (level 67 Sailing), you can make hull parts or repair kits. These require no Sailing level despite the location.

Hull parts – Hammer, saw, and 25 planks. Click workbench, select hull parts. Makes five at a time. 70k XP/hour at level 1 with regular planks, up to 450k at level 84 with mahogany.

Repair kits – Requires nails and swamp paste. Two planks per kit. More affordable but slightly less XP. Up to 50k at level 1, 350k at level 80.

These are the most AFK methods. Use teak or mahogany planks. Rosewood is too expensive for the XP.

Long and Curved Bones

After Death to the Dorgeshuun, take long bones (4,500 XP) and curved bones (6,750 XP) to Barlak in the cave goblin city. Not a consistent training method, but useful for bones sitting in your bank.

Boosting Construction Levels

Crystal saw – Obtained after The Eyes of Glouphrie. Gives an invisible +3 boost for anything that isn't a room or plant. Need level 72 to build something requiring 75.

Spicy stews – Use three doses of orange spice on a stew. Gain or lose up to 5 levels in artisan skills. +4 is reliable; +5 is rare and not worth chasing.

Tea – Build a kitchen with a stove, oak larder, teak shelves 2, and a sink. Make a trimmed cup of tea for a visible +3 boost. More consistent than stews.

Recommended Paths to 99

Main account (budget): 1–33 early game → 33–50 oak larders → 50–74 mounted mythical capes → 74–99 oak dungeon doors.

Main account (rich): Same to 52, then 52–77 mahogany tables → 77–99 mahogany benches.

Ironman: Early game to 50, then Mahogany Homes adept contracts (teak planks) from 50 to 99. Do not use mahogany planks for Homes.

AFK enthusiasts: Use hull parts or repair kits at Port Piscarilius. Adapt plank type to your budget.

Final Advice

Construction is fast but expensive. Set a target level based on your needs. Level 84 is enough for a pseudo-max house. Level 90 gives you everything. Level 99 is for the cape and prestige. If you are short on funds to afford the necessary planks, you can buy OSRS gold from MMOEXP to bankroll your training efficiently. Pick a method that fits your budget and intensity preference, and start building.