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Construction 

Construction is a members-only skill that allows players to build their own houses and provide furniture for them. To begin Construction, players must buy a house from one of the estate agents. A starter house will cost 1,000, and will be in Rimmington. A level 40 Magic spell can then be used to teleport to the house, or players can walk to Rimmington, where there is a portal ( icon on the map) that will teleport players to their house.

The house starts off with only a parlour and garden, but furniture and additional rooms can be built. To build, go to the options menu, select house options, and set the building mode mode to on. Players will then see what looks like ghost-like hotspots where new objects can be built. See the Constructed items list for details on what you can build at what level.

Players can also visit a friend's house if they are home and using the same portal.

Temporary skill boost

Construct. Cape +1

Activating the cape's effect will increase the corresponding skill by 1 (Visible)

A Construct. cape or Construction cape is the Cape of Accomplishment for the Construction skill. It can be purchased for 99,000 coins alongside the Construction hood from any Estate agent by players who have achieved skill mastery (level 99) in the Construction skill.

Like all skill capes, the Construction cape gives +9 to all defensive stats, and also a +4 bonus to prayer if it is trimmed, which requires a separate skill at level 99. The cape is automatically trimmed if this condition is met.

When the construction cape is equipped or in the inventory, it provides unlimited teleports to the player's own house and to house portals, which are located in Rimmington, Taverley, Pollnivneach, Hosidius, Rellekka, Brimhaven, Yanille and Prifddinas. All teleports are available regardless of where a player's house is located. This perk provides nearly the same destinations as redirected teleport to house tablets (with the only exception being Trollheim as there is no house portal there) and allows the player to freely relocate their house without having to consider its utility as a teleport destination.

When using the Tele to POH right click function, you will always be placed just north of your house exit portal regardless of where in your house it is located, or inside their house depending on their settings. If you have multiple exit portals, it will prioritize the one that was built last.

This item can be stored in the cape rack of a costume room, as part of the Construction cape set, along with the hood. Ultimate Ironmen will be unable to retrieve individual pieces until the full set is stored. It can also be displayed on a cape hanger in the achievement gallery, from which the owner of the house can access its right-click teleports.

Cup of tea (clay) +1

Only obtainable and usable within a player-owned house. Increase +1 (Visible)

A cup of tea is a drink made in a player-owned house by using a pot of tea on an empty clay cup. This requires 20 Cooking and gives 52 experience. The tea gives a 1 level Construction boost when drunk. The following shelves contain empty clay cups:

Wooden shelves 1

Wooden shelves 2

Oak shelves 1

Players can also ask their servant to serve tea, and if the best shelves in your kitchen are one of those, the servant will serve this type of tea.

A bucket of milk can be added to the tea to make a milky cup of tea. This has no effect besides changing the colour of the tea and the message when drunk.

Tea from player-owned houses can not be put into a tea flask. If a player leaves the house in any way, then this item will disappear from their inventory.

Making a cup of tea

Making a cup of tea requires level 20 Cooking and gives the player 52 experience. The following furniture must be present in the kitchen: a built stove space, a larder, a shelf, and a built sink space.

1. Remove a kettle, a teapot and one or more cup from the shelf.

2. Remove one unit of tea leaves from the larder.

3. Use the kettle on the built sink space to fill it with water.

4. Use the full kettle of water on the build stove space to bring it to a boil.

5. Use the tea leaves on the teapot to turn it into a teapot with leaves.

6. Remove the kettle from the range when the message "The kettle boils." is received.

7. Use the hot kettle on the teapot with leaves to create four servings of tea. This is the only step that grants cooking experience.

8. Use the pot of tea on a cup to pour a cup of tea.

Cup of tea (porcelain) +2

Only obtainable and usable within a player-owned house. With 23 Construction (boostable), a porcelain cup can be acquired from Wooden shelves 3. Increase +2 (Visible)

A cup of tea is a drink made in a player-owned house by using a pot of tea on an empty porcelain cup. This requires 20 Cooking and gives 52 experience. The tea gives a 2 level Construction boost when drunk. The following shelves contain empty porcelain cups:

Wooden shelves 3

Oak shelves 2

Teak shelves 1

Players can also ask their servant to serve tea, and if the best shelves in your kitchen are one of those, the servant will serve this type of tea.

A bucket of milk can be added to the tea to make a milky cup of tea. This has no effect besides changing the colour of the tea and the message when drunk.

Tea from player-owned houses can not be put into a tea flask. If a player leaves the house in any way, then this item will disappear from their inventory.

Cup of tea (trimmed) +3

Only obtainable and usable within a player-owned house. Gold trimmed porcelain cup can be acquired from Teak shelves 2, which requires 67 Construction (boostable). Increase +3 (Visible)

A cup of tea is a drink made in a player-owned house by using a pot of tea on an empty trimmed porcelain cup. This requires 20 Cooking and gives 52 experience. The tea gives a 3 level Construction boost when drunk. Teak shelves 2 are the only shelves that contain gold-trimmed cups.

Players can also ask their servant to serve tea, and if the best shelves in your kitchen are one of those, the servant will serve this type of tea.

A bucket of milk can be added to the tea to make a milky cup of tea. This has no effect besides changing the colour of the tea and the message when drunk.

Tea from player-owned houses can not be put into a tea flask. If a player leaves the house in any way, then this item will disappear from their inventory.

Crystal saw +3

Only applies to items requiring a saw (e.g. not rooms or plants). Increase +3 (Invisible)

A crystal saw is an item made from a crystal saw seed by invoking the singing bowl in Brimstail's cave in the Tree Gnome Stronghold. The seed is awarded to players who complete The Eyes of Glouphrie quest.

When in the inventory, the saw allows the player to build furniture up to 3 levels higher than their current Construction level. Note that this boost only works on furniture that requires both a saw and a hammer to make (STASH units and Fire Pits included); as such, the saw cannot assist in building new rooms or planting flowers in a garden. This bonus stacks with all other visible boosts to Construction, making it possible to boost up to +8 using the saw and Stews.

If players lose or destroy the saw, they can get it back by talking to Brimstail in his cave. He will not give players a seed if they have either the seed or the saw in the bank or inventory.

The saw cannot be used to get higher-level contracts in Mahogany Homes.

Degradation

The saw has 28 charges (56 if the medium Western Provinces Diary has been completed). One charge is used each time the player constructs a piece of furniture while using the saw's invisible boost; thus, players using the saw to build furniture that they already have the base level to build will not consume charges. Charges are not consumed when building STASH units beyond the player's level.

Once the saw runs out of charges, it reverts to its seed form and will need to be re-enchanted by returning to Brimstail's cave. The player can also re-enchant the seed at the singing bowl in Prifddinas.

Spicy stew (orange spice) ±0-5

Depending on type of stew, any skill except Hitpoints can be boosted or reduced by 0 to 5 levels randomly. ±0-5 (Visible)

Orange spice is one of four spices used on stew to make spicy stew. Completion of the Freeing Evil Dave subquest of Recipe for Disaster is required to obtain the spices in Evil Dave's Basement of Doom in Edgeville. The simplest method to obtain these spices is to send your cat to catch Hell-Rats, which will yield between 1 to 4 doses of any of the spice colours. Another option is to kill the Hell-Rat Behemoth in the north-western room, which will always drop a 4 dose of the orange spice. It is possible to combine lower doses of the orange spice on each other to create 4 dose shakers. Once all doses are used it becomes an empty spice shaker.

Spicy stews containing orange spice can temporarily boost or drain the stats of Cooking, Crafting, Construction, Firemaking, Fletching, Runecraft, and Smithing. It is possible to use 1 to 3 doses on a stew yielding, -1 to +1, -3 to +3 and -5 to +5 respectively. Orange spice is considered the most useful due to the fact that it is the only way to visibly boost Firemaking and Runecraft.

Orange spicy stew is a common way for players to complete the Karamja Elite Diary with 86 Runecraft and building various high level objects in their POH.

Making the spicy stew

1. First, obtain a regular stew (easily purchased from Warriors' Guild).

2. Get the spices.

Get a cat (or hellcat) to chase the hell-rats.

Go to Evil Dave's basement in the house west of the Edgeville bank.

When the cat successfully captures a hellrat, it will drop a spice shaker, one of 4 colours, which may have up to 4 doses of that colour in it. After the Evil Dave subquest for Recipe for Disaster has been completed, you can gather spices much more quickly. Using a cat (wily is best) to attack the hell-rat behemoths. These will always give a 4 dose of the specific colour spice they are guarding. Bring any type of fish to heal your cat if they are going to die. You must use the fish on the curtain. (Tip: Raw salmon and trout can be looted in Barbarian Village on a busy server, or raw karambwanji can be caught near Shilo Village; which are stackable and don't require banking. They do not have a quest requirement.)

3. Add up to 3 doses of a colour spice to the regular stew to get a spicy stew.

Evil Dave's spicy stew, or 'EVIL STEW OF DOOM' as he calls it, requires all 4 colours of spice and can boost or decrease a wide number of skills which can be -5 to +5. Each of the four colours of spice affects its own specific set of skills, so players making spicy stew after the quest usually only use one colour of spice, to get a temporary boost in a particular skill.

As with all temporary skill boosts, the spicy stew's level boost can be extended by making use of the Preserve prayer.

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