Ironman Guide/Construction

Construction training on an Ironman is not very different from training the skill normally; however, sourcing the required logs and/or planks does require additional planning.

Early levels can be skipped by completing a few quests. Some easily available early-game quests are:

• Daddy's Home rewards 544 Construction experience, a player-owned house, a crate full of beginner construction supplies.
  • This quest does require 5 bolts of cloth, which can only be purchased for 3,250 coins; however, the rewards provided are worth more than the initial investment amount.
• Tower of Life requires 10 , rewards 1,000 Construction experience
• Refer to the Optimal quest guide/Ironman guide for the optimal order to complete quests while minimising manual training.

Planks used for training construction award the same amount of experience per plank regardless of the item built^[1]. In general, the fastest experience per hour relies on using the highest level plank possible while also building the items that requires most planks per build. For example, building a repair bench requires 2 oak planks and awards 120 Construction experience. A crafting table 1 requires 4 oak planks and awards 240 Construction experience. Because both actions take the same amount of time, it is two times the experience per hour to build the crafting table 1.

Another important factor is the cost the player is willing to invest in training Construction. Because the experience amounts are static^[1], the fastest training method may not be the most sustainable. Players should balance their experience rates with the additional cost incurred for higher experience Planks or other materials.

• 16 - Make crafting table 1s in your Workshop.
• 33 - Make oak larders in your kitchen.

• 38 - Make teak tables in your dining room.
• 66 - Make teak garden bench in your Superior garden.

• 40 - Make mahogany bookcases in your parlour, quest hall, or study.
• 52 - Make mahogany tables in your Dining room.

Early levels can be bypassed by defeating Wintertodt while training Firemaking. Having a player-owned house is required to receive Construction experience from repairing braziers (4× player's Construction level). To maximize experience, train Construction to level 20 before doing Wintertodt. Soloing Wintertodt will yield substantially more construction experience and loot rolls per hour at the cost of some Firemaking experience per hour.

While slower than Wintertodt, fixing the damaged totem poles during the Tempoross fight will award 4x the player's Construction level. To maximize experience, train Construction to level 20 before doing Tempoross.

Completing Mahogany Homes contracts is an alternative training method that is more interactive and offers more experience per plank but much slower than traditional training methods. Mounted mythical capes with teak planks offer up to three times higher experience per hour than adept Mahogany Homes contracts; this time save makes up for requiring more logs and coins if you can make approximately 600,000 coins per hour or if money is not the limiting factor.

This method requires you to teleport around Gielinor and rebuild the furniture of the citizens inhabiting various cities. There are 12 houses spread over Varrock, Falador, East Ardougne and Hosidius. All cities contain 3 possible houses to refurnish, and a house requires on average 13 planks to complete. Some furniture requires a steel bar. If you have a diary cape, it is slightly faster to teleport with the diary cape to Sarah (Toby) and Ross (Two-pints). It is recommended to put your player-owned house in Hosidius since Barbara is close to the house portal. Charged rings of wealth are recommended, as the teleport to Falador Park is a bit faster than the spellbook teleport. If you have a limited amount of ring of wealth charges, it is instead recommended to use Falador Teleport. Fill your rune pouch with teleports to Varrock, Home, and Ardougne, and have a charged Xeric's Talisman equipped for Hosidius contracts. Ideally, you should only use the Falador east bank when you have a contract in Falador, and the bank in Hosidius when you have a contract at one of the two north houses (you use teleport to house for the south house). If you run out of supplies before reaching one of these banks, bank at Seers Village. You should buy the plank sack as soon as possible, and then get the outfit pieces.

This method is significantly faster on the Lunar spellbook, as players can obtain a new construction contract through the Astral Contact spell. For this method, fill your rune pouch with astral, cosmic, and air runes (or equip a staff of air) and equip a charged Xeric's talisman and a ring of wealth. Players will also need to have teleport tablets for Varrock and Ardougne (and Falador, if not using a ring of wealth).

For players without a diary cape, it is marginally faster to equip a charged chronicle and teleport to the Champion's Guild when assigned a contract in Sarah's house along Varrock's southern wall.

At 47 Construction, mounted mythical capes become available with the completion of Dragon Slayer II, which significantly reduces the amount of teak planks needed for training. Constructing mounted mythical capes increases the experience per plank to 123 rather than 90 because of a bonus 100 experience for using the mythical cape.

Items cannot be dropped in building mode and it is possible to receive a full inventory of planks from the butler before removing the mounted mythical cape. It cannot be removed without inventory space for the cape, so a plank sack or equipable item in your inventory can be used to make space temporarily.

Early construction supplies can be gathered manually; however, there are a few helpful methods when starting out:

• Picking up regular planks that spawn near the Barbarian Outpost and in Port Khazard are recommended as both locations are near to a bank.
• Defeating Tempoross and collecting its rewards can provide regular and oak planks along with a lot of other Ironman-friendly supplies.
• Early shipwreck salvaging provides regular and oak planks; however, the salvaging locations may be far from a bank.
  • Salvaging also provides sawmill coupons which can be exchanged for free planks at a Sawmill.
• Mobsters from Intelligence Gathering often drop planks when killed.

Additional supplies can also be gathered by completing the following:

• Teak or mahogany logs can also be passively obtained via Managing Miscellania every day.
  • If collecting maple logs for Fletching, put 5 workers on teak or mahogany Woodcutting. Mahogany is faster but more expensive and teak is only recommended if attempting to save some money on Construction training.
• Wintertodt rewards can provide a decent supply of various logs as well depending on the player's Woodcutting level.
• High-level players can also get Construction supplies from combat activities such as the Chambers of Xeric, Zulrah, and Callisto.
• The most consistent way of obtaining planks of any type is by cutting the logs and then having a player-owned house butler convert them into planks and bank them for you.
  • For the fastest possible gathering and experience rates is by using 1.5-tick woodcutting when gathering player-grown teak or mahogany logs on Fossil Island.
  • If training Woodcutting simultaneously, make sure you get the most anima-infused bark to buy sawmill vouchers as you can redeem one sawmill voucher to get one extra plank for free, depending on the type of log in the inventory.
• With the introduction of Auburnvale, it is now the closest sawmill to a bank, beating out the Woodcutting Guild for those that would prefer the standard method.

Stop your butler from getting stuck on your house portal: When summoning your butler to give them logs, they may occasionally get stuck on the western corner of the house portal instead of walking directly to you. To fix this, your house portal must be located in the standard garden tile (as opposed to a formal garden). Then all you have to do is plant reeds in this tile, and then rotate your garden so that the reeds are West of your house portal.

Banking too quickly for your butler: Sometimes the butler will be waiting for you at your house, having not taken the planks to your bank. This has to do with your house instance not closing; the amount this happens can be reduced by using a higher population world, this is because the instance will close quicker. If you find yourself in this situation you can manually use a log from your inventory on him, this will make him send the planks he's holding to your bank while taking your logs to the sawmill.

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