construction help

[Vulxai]

whats the CHEAPEST way to lvl up my construction to lvl 55? i know nothings cheap in construction, but what is the cheapest way to lvl it up?

[pedrahm5]

well the cheapest would be to mine clay in the crafting guild and make fireplaces with your house in rimmington, but that would take quite some time to get to 55

[elmo_killer6]

Mine limestone and then use it to make fire places.

[Vulxai]

where is limestone mined at?

[Bludragon124]

Sort of cheap and very fast is oak planks. It's the way most players level their construction, definitely the fastest/probably cheapest way. Best way out there IMO.

[Vulxai]

Sort of cheap and very fast is oak planks. It's the way most players level their construction, definitely the fastest/probably cheapest way. Best way out there IMO.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

would there be a certain oak plank involved item that i can build over and over again that will raise it faster and cheap?

[Mamong]

Oak Larders. They require 8 oak planks, and then just get your butler to bring more planks from the bank.

[Vulxai]

ok, so im going to need about 2480 oak planks (620k), how much will i need to pay the butler to make all those trips?

[Mamong]

I think its roughly 50k in butler payments per 1000 planks.

[Chartres]

Here's another option for you that might save time and money since, based on your calculations, it appears you were planning on running your own oak logs to the sawmill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take cash, saw and hammer in inventory and wield an axe, go to your house in Remmington. Exit portal and cut an inventory of oak logs. Go back into house in building mode, go to dining room, ring bell for butler, use logs on him and send him to the sawmill for 24 planks - less if it's not demon butler. Remove dining table, butler returns with planks, build and remove 4 carved oak tables. Repeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the butler will ask for wages about every 10 trips or so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is worth it to move your dining room to be adjacent to your portal while you train in this fashion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used many methods and found this one to be the best for me :D

[Captainkidd]

Oak larders for the fastest, it will cost you some money though, if you want to get it free do clay fire places but you will be doing for for about a week.

[Vulxai]

Here's another option for you that might save time and money since, based on your calculations, it appears you were planning on running your own oak logs to the sawmill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Take cash, saw and hammer in inventory and wield an axe, go to your house in Remmington. Exit portal and cut an inventory of oak logs. Go back into house in building mode, go to dining room, ring bell for butler, use logs on him and send him to the sawmill for 24 planks - less if it's not demon butler. Remove dining table, butler returns with planks, build and remove 4 carved oak tables. Repeat.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think the butler will ask for wages about every 10 trips or so.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is worth it to move your dining room to be adjacent to your portal while you train in this fashion.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I used many methods and found this one to be the best for me :D

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so i would have to pay him for about every 270 oak logs i send him to get? if i had to pay him 50k each time, i'd be saving 17.5k... so for oak larders (which everyone is sayin is fastest), id be savin 150k total

[Chartres]

so i would have to pay him for about every 270 oak logs i send him to get? if i had to pay him 50k each time, i'd be saving 17.5k... so for oak larders (which everyone is sayin is fastest), id be savin 150k total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whether you send him to the sawmill or the bank, you will have to pay the demon butler 10k for every 10 or so trips, so that remains constant. As the price to plank oak logs is the same via the butler or via your own hard work running back and forth to sawmill, s

ending him to the sawmill saves you time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I build carved oak tables rather than larders (larders use 8 planks, carved tables use 6) the experience per plank is also a constant) because with a demon butler you can build 4 tables per inventory, only one wasted space.

 

 

 

And my dining room is closer to portal than my kitchen, not to mention being able to use the bell to ring him without then running to kitchen.

[Vulxai]

 

so i would have to pay him for about every 270 oak logs i send him to get? if i had to pay him 50k each time, i'd be saving 17.5k... so for oak larders (which everyone is sayin is fastest), id be savin 150k total

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Whether you send him to the sawmill or the bank, you will have to pay the demon butler 10k for every 10 or so trips, so that remains constant. As the price to plank oak logs is the same via the butler or via your own hard work running back and forth to sawmill, s

ending him to the sawmill saves you time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I build carved oak tables rather than larders (larders use 8 planks, carved tables use 6) the experience per plank is also a constant) because with a demon butler you can build 4 tables per inventory, only one wasted space.

 

 

 

And my dining room is closer to portal than my kitchen, not to mention being able to use the bell to ring him without then running to kitchen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

so i DO have to pay the 250 ea. for oak planks or i DONT have to pay the 250 ea.?

[Chartres]

Yes, you have to pay to make the planks regardless of whether or not you take them to the sawmill or have your butler do it. Sorry if that was confusing.

[Hazbaz0]

Limestone will take you ages, just get oak planks and make oak stuff, it is very fast but can be costy....not really to get to 50..

[nitram99]

I'm also doing Construction right now and my goal is to get from lvl 52 to lvl 67 (to be able to construct a Mahogany Eagle Lectern in my Study room to be able to create House Teleport Tablets). And doing this has made me research for the best/fastet/most cost-efficient method to reach my goal. The tips given here in this thread before my tips are good but I think I can add some other ideas to reaching your goal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you want to save money you can lvl up fast even without using a servant which this guide tells you how;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=526281

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The only thing you have to pay for except the cost to make the acctual Oak Planks is the 1k per golden string you have to pay the troll for making the Lyres, so a total of like 30-40k extra added to the cost of 250 gp per Oak Plank. You also need some like 100 Raw Bass (if you have an enchanted Ring of Charos that is, otherwise you need about the same amount of Raw Sharks).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think almost everybody doing higher lvl Construction know the Balloon Ride Method but if you don't know it, it is as follows (with a twist I added);

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1) Get to Castle War bank chest by any means

 

 

 

2) Dress in the lightest possible clothing (like Boots of Lightness and Spotted or Spottier Cape)

 

 

 

3) Get the required amount of cash

 

 

 

4) Get 1 Willow Log and 1 Yew Log from the bank chest

 

 

 

5) Get the amount of Oak Logs so that you carry as close to 40 kg of weight as possible

 

 

 

6) Now the added twist - get your wc axe out of the bank and wield it

 

 

 

7) Run to the balloon ride assistant just outside the Castle War area

 

 

 

8) You pay the 1 Willow Log to the assistant and ride to Varrock

 

 

 

9) Now start to cut the Oak Trees just beside the balloon to fill your inventory up so it's full

 

 

 

10) Pay the Saw Mill Operator to make the Oak Logs into Oak Planks

 

 

 

11) Catch a ride back to Castle War paying the assistant the 1 Yew Log

 

 

 

12) Go/Run into the Castle War area bank chest and repeat the process

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The thing about bringing along your wc axe is that the axe just weigh 1 kg and even if you have to carr 1 less Oak Log along to be able to wield your axe you make that Log up because when you get to Varrock area you can cut you inventory full of Oak Logs there and make them into planks right away there and still be able to catch the ride back to Castle War area because planks weigh a lot less than logs of the same material. So doing this you can still make an almost full load of planks without not being able to ride the balloon.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm wearing my Boots of Lightness and my Spotted Cape and with that clothing I'm able to carry 21 Oak Logs while wielding my axe and carry 1 Willow Log and 1 Yew Log. Then when I get to Varrock area I can cut another 5 Oak Logs (the cash takes 1 space and the Yew Log takes 1 space - you have already payed the assistant the Willow Log so that space is freed up - so you have 5 free spaces to fill with 5 more Oak Logs) there to be able to get to make 26 Oak Planks per ride instead of just the 21, doing this method with the axe brought along.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cutting the Oak Logs I prefer the 2 Oak Trees just beside the south stairs up to the south bank in the Gnome Stronghold area. These trees are very close to the bank and if you aligne the camera to show both trees and also the staircase up to the bank in the same screen you can cut them fast and you can see when the south tree becomes an angry tree spirit (which is very hard to see if you cut that tree with a camera view from just right down on the figure).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So doing all this cost just the cost of the Oak Planks and 1 Willow Log and 1 Yew Log every load of Oak Planks you make. And also the cost of making like 30-40 Lyres which comes to 1k per Lyre, so about 30-40k extra. So if you do just like 2-3 lvls of Construction those extra costs may not make up the cost for doing the lvls with a butler but if you are going to lvl up like 5+ lvls at once this method is cheaper than doing it with a butler because you have to pay him every 7-10 trips so doing that for many lvls becomes a cost that keeps adding up whilst the making of the Lyres is a 1 time cost. An extra cost can also be if you can't cut the Willow and/or the Yew Logs yourself (you need like 40-45 of each Log every 1000 Planks you make) you have to buy them and then that becomes and added cost (the cost is like 15k every 1000 Planks you make for the logs you'll need). Another added cost can be to buy the Raw Bass or the Raw Sharks you need to be able to recharge the Lyres (if you make like 40 Lyres you have to recharge them every 1 Hour or so with 40 Raw Bass or 40 Raw Sharks).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So if you calculate the cost of having to buy all the needed things (Willow Logs, Yew Logs Raw Bass or Raw Sharks) along with the cost of making the Lyres the total number is like this;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40k (making 40 Lyres) + 15k (total cost for buying both the needed Willow and Yew Logs to make 1000 Planks) + 10k/40k (buying the needed Raw Bass or Raw Sharks to recharge the 40 Lyres every like 1 Hour) = total of max 95k for every 1000 Planks and about 1900 Planks (40 Lyres x 2 charges per Lyre = 80 loads of planks x like 24 Planks per load = 1920 Planks per 40 Lyres you use to make Oak things).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So about 120k for every 2000 Oak Planks you use.

 

 

 

And about 175k for every 4000 Oak Planks you use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So doing the butler method is a cost of 10k (if you use the Demon Butler) every 7-10 trips for the Servant which comes to about 90k for every 2000 Oak Planks you use. And 180k for every 4000 Oak Planks you use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So around 4000 Oak Planks the none-butler method becomes cheaper and the gap of cost becomes large for every additional 2000 Oak Planks you make.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So to sum it all up, if you have to buy all the stuff necessary for the none-butler method that method becomes cheaper after about 4000 Oak Planks you use compared to the butler method. If you don't have to buy all the stuff the none-butler method becomes more cheaper alot sooner than at 4000 Oak Planks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you have the enchanted Ring of Charos and are able to catch your own Raw Bass, cut your own Willow and Yew Logs, the none-butler method becomes cheaper than the butler method already from like 500 Oak Planks thou you only then have to pay the cost to make the Lyres which is a 1 time cost of 1k per Lyre. So if you are able to get all the needed stuff yourself then you only have to pay a once-time cost of 1k per Lyre and lvl up Construction can't become any cheaper than that except sticking to making things that you can make yourself like Limestone Bricks, Steel Bars and Soft Clays.