20 Construction Suggestions

[Will H]

Here's some suggestions regarding construction and houses, most of which aren't that time consuming or intensive to develop, all would I'm sure be appreciated by those who spent a little bit of time and alot of money on their houses. The asterisks indicate suggestions I've heard before, but can't place a name to the original author.

 

1. Add a tool store 6 to the workshop, which provides a steel pickaxe and steel hatchet spawn, and holds up to 8 proto-tools, which must be added separately.

2. If you have a better version of any tool in your bank, you can add it to the tool store that provides it, such as the Crystal Saw, Magic Secateurs, Blast Fusion Hammer and Mithril or higher variants of the hatchet or pickaxe. If you take the tool, you are given the option of receiving the better version. If a guest takes the tool, they will only receive the normal version.

3. Trees planted in a garden can be cut down and regrow like normal trees.* You can also bag any trees you grow in farming patches.* This includes Spirit Trees, so planting them in your house turns it into a destination, but still counts as your one allowed spirit tree.

4. Placing 3 firelighters in a fireplace will colour the flame, and will never run out.

5. A Mahogany Larder provides raw meat, spice, chocolate bars and gnome spice, as well as all of the items provided by the Teak Larder.

6. Greater Focus or Scrying Pool Centerpieces in your Portal Room should allow you access to a greater range of teleport destinations. This includes Senntisten (Digsite), Waterbirth Island, Catherby, Lassar (Ice Mountain), Ourania and Khazard, with the appropriate spellbook and magic levels.

7. You can upgrade portals to double side-by-side portals, even if you've already directed them, so long as you have a Greater Focus in that room or higher. This allows for up to six portals per room.

8. You can mount a Rune Defender, or a Bracelet of Combat for unlimited teleports, in your Guild Trophy hotspot in your Quest Hall.

9. You can mount Keris, or a fully charged Ivandis Flail in your Sword hotspot in your Quest Hall.

10. Anyone on your friends list can enter your house as a guest, even if you're not there, unless you purposely disable this. You can also give permission to anyone in the same clan chat as you.*

11. More styles and house locations! East Ardougne, Falador, Varrock, Edgeville, Seer's Village, Catherby, or Tree Gnome Stronghold.*

12. You can build dirt, clay, limestone or marble paths in Gardens and formal gardens, which extend between the Centrepiece and any doors/paths it can connect to.

13. You can build a small smelting furnace in your workshop.

14. You can move your entire house relative to the borders, at a cost of 10K a time by talking to the Estate Agent.

15. You can build a 'Crossing' room between two or more doors, on the ground or second floor, which can be over an 'outside' room such as a Garden. If built on the ground floor, you can build a straight path between the doors. If built on a second floor over an 'outside' room, you can build a bridge between two or four opposite doors. If built over a solid room, you can either build a path over that room, turning it into a balcony, or a bridge between two or four opposite doors. The bridges come in rope, wooden, limestone, steel, marble, and crystal flavours.

16. If you delete a Garden or Crossing which has never been built upon, you get your money back.

17. You can have a Quest Cape and Helmet of Trials display in your Quest Hall to the right hand side of the staircase. Should a new quest come out, the Quest Cape will be replaced with a banner, indicating the quest to be done. Once you complete the quest, you can use the banner to get your cape back.

18. You can have an Achievement Diary display to the left hand side of the Quest Hall staircase, with Medium, Hard or Hard/Elite sets.

19. You can add skillcapes to the walls of your Skill Hall. All of the capes can still be retrieved from the Cape Rack in the Costume Room.

20. At 99 construction, you can build a single statue of yourself in the items that you are wearing as a centre piece of the formal garden.

Constructive criticism welcome. Do any of these suggestions break any other part of the game?

[Bladewing]

Only thing I would be concerned about is that the Spirit Tree in your house SHOULD STILL count as your one allowed tree. Otherwise they all look good and seem to have no problems.

 

#20 is rather narcissistic though :P

[Will H]

Only thing I would be concerned about is that the Spirit Tree in your house SHOULD STILL count as your one allowed tree. Otherwise they all look good and seem to have no problems.

 

#20 is rather narcissistic though :P

 

Ah yes, I forgot to mention that. To be honest, if you have 99 construction, you deserve to be narcissistic ;P

[foursideking]

lol...and #21: you should be allowed to add insurance onto your house, which, while worthless, will still allow runescape bankers to skrew you the way the american ones do.

[The_Gabe]

lol...and #21: you should be allowed to add insurance onto your house, which, while worthless, will still allow runescape bankers to skrew you the way the american ones do.

 

Lawl

 

OT: I like! Being 99 con myself, I could find these updates useful.

[The_Gabe]

Double post.

[Peronix]

All excellent ideas. This might actually give me reason to train construction provided some of the "useful" updates are 80+

 

Another one I'd rather like is to have 3 floors. I mean I'd like to build myself a proper Castlevania, but 2 floors is kinda wimpy. Also imagine how epic it would be with 3 floors and bridges between rooms at that height.

[Fedorca99]

Most of those seem nice, although overpowered. Having 99 cons myself, most of these would be nice.

 

 

[tripsis]

As a construction addict, I'm all for any construction updates that sound good :P (and these do)

[Will H]

All excellent ideas. This might actually give me reason to train construction provided some of the "useful" updates are 80+

 

Another one I'd rather like is to have 3 floors. I mean I'd like to build myself a proper Castlevania, but 2 floors is kinda wimpy. Also imagine how epic it would be with 3 floors and bridges between rooms at that height.

 

Yeah, I'd love to see that too. Unfortunately, it would probably be extremely difficult to add into the system. I'm trying to go for the small to medium size updates in terms of difficulty in producing it, but feel free to put out suggestions of your own!

Most of those seem nice, although overpowered. Having 99 cons myself, most of these would be nice.

 

 

 

Ah, this is what I'm aiming for. What exactly is overpowered and why?

[All_Is_Great]

All construction updates are welcome in my eyes, as long as their reasonable. I love the idea of new portal destinations, and the other little things you've suggested. The items to be mounted sounds good too. I fully support this thread :thumbup:

[Bladewing]

Yeah I was confused by the "overpowered" comment as well. Most of these seem to be aesthetic additions/fixes. It's not like he's suggesting a "gilded obelisk" which gives you 3.5x xp from summoning pouches.

[Pluckey]

Yeah I was confused by the "overpowered" comment as well. Most of these seem to be aesthetic additions/fixes. It's not like he's suggesting a "gilded obelisk" which gives you 3.5x xp from summoning pouches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That would just as bad as making charms tradeable.

[Will H]

Thanks people!

 

I'm starting to wonder about being able to cut your own trees down. Is it a bad thing that you could teleport to edgeville bank using the mounted glory amulet and teleport back using a house teletab?

[SirHartlar]

I think these are all good suggestions, Jagex really need to add them in if possible.

[The_Gabe]

Thanks people!

 

I'm starting to wonder about being able to cut your own trees down. Is it a bad thing that you could teleport to edgeville bank using the mounted glory amulet and teleport back using a house teletab?

 

Or make your butler bank for you.

[Dax]

Yes. I support this topic.

[Will H]

Thanks people!

 

I'm starting to wonder about being able to cut your own trees down. Is it a bad thing that you could teleport to edgeville bank using the mounted glory amulet and teleport back using a house teletab?

 

Or make your butler bank for you.

 

Or that. Still, is it a bad thing or a good thing that you can make your own woodcutting training spot?

[pulli23]

Thanks people!

 

I'm starting to wonder about being able to cut your own trees down. Is it a bad thing that you could teleport to edgeville bank using the mounted glory amulet and teleport back using a house teletab?

 

Or make your butler bank for you.

 

Or that. Still, is it a bad thing or a good thing that you can make your own woodcutting training spot?

Well with 80 summoning you can do the same (using the hydra scrolls + gnome patch)

[warrior5024]

I still wonder when my Large Orrey will be back to proper size...

 

BEing 99 Construction, I support!

[Will H]

Thanks people!

 

I'm starting to wonder about being able to cut your own trees down. Is it a bad thing that you could teleport to edgeville bank using the mounted glory amulet and teleport back using a house teletab?

 

Or make your butler bank for you.

 

Or that. Still, is it a bad thing or a good thing that you can make your own woodcutting training spot?

Well with 80 summoning you can do the same (using the hydra scrolls + gnome patch)

 

Good point. Fair enough, I'm leaving that one as it is. Yay.

[joke33]

8. You can mount a Rune Defender, or a Bracelet of Combat for unlimited teleports, in your Guild Trophy hotspot in your Quest Hall.

 

Why do people always forget the Skills Necklace?

[Will H]

8. You can mount a Rune Defender, or a Bracelet of Combat for unlimited teleports, in your Guild Trophy hotspot in your Quest Hall.

 

Why do people always forget the Skills Necklace?

 

Ah, forgot about that. It seems a little strange to have the Skills Necklace anywhere apart from in your Skill Hall, though. Maybe it would be more appropriate to have a separate wall mount there?

[Thedra]

Alot of nice ideas. Here are a few of my own, primarily for the purpose of freeing up some bank space.

 

1. A new room - The Armoury. Think of the bank space freed up if you can store some weapons and armour in your house. Perhaps even put your best armour on display for house guests to admire?

 

2. A Circus Trunk in the Costume Room to store all the little goodies we get as rewards.

 

3. A Jewelry Box either in the Bedroom or Costume Room for storage of rings and amulets of all shapes and sizes.

 

4. A Farming Patch. Herbs, Trees, Fruit Trees, Flowers or Veggies - but only one, not all of them. Maybe a compost bin also.

 

5. House Lending/Renting! You could let a friend borrow your house and use your altar, lectern etc. whithout you having to be there or even online. You could also Rent your house to other players for the same purpose. (I just don't want to return home to find it trashed by a wild party!)

[firebird308]

Sounds good to me, even without being maxed. Gives me things to look forwards to adding as I level up. :thumbsup: