Runescape Construction NPCs

Runescape construction of player owned houses is faciliated through the use of several non-playing characters (NPC's). This ensures that the basic cost of houses will remain the same for every player in the game, although how people accumulate the required resources will impact how much the constuction skill will cost them overall.

The list of NPC's players will encounter when making their player owned house (POH):

• Estate Agents
• Sawmill Operator
• Gardener
• Stonemason
• Taxidermist
• Herald
• Servants

The role of estate agents in runescape is simply to sell the plot of land required for members to build their houses and move them to different locations when requested, if they have a high enough level. It will cost 1,000 gps (gp = gold pieces or runescape money) for the plot and there are 4 agents located throughout runescape. They can be found in Varrock (East of the Palace), Falador (between the east bank and furnace), Seers Village (north east of the bank) and Ardougne (north west from the bank in the south west). Estate agents can also redecorate your house style for a price.

The sawmill operator will convert logs to planks for a price. He is located north east of varrock just outside the sawmill. The cost of converting logs to planks is as follows:

• normal logs to normal planks = 100 gp
• oak logs to oak planks = 250 gp
• teak logs to teack planks = 500 gp
• mahogany logs to mahogany planks = 1000 gp

Although the cost is low in relative terms, the cumulative cost for runescape members can be significant as 1000s of logs are required to gain a good construction level. In addition to this, the sawmill operator also sells a saw, cloth and nails - all of which can be used to help level construction and decorate your house.

The gardener has more of a decorative role within runescape construction. Once again there is a list of items that can be bought. The price range is 1600gp for a bagged plant or dead tree through to 100,000gp for a tall boxed hedge.

The stonemason is again more for decorative purposes and to enable your runescape house to be more distinguished. He is located in southern keldagrim and has the following inventory:

• limstone brick - 45 gps
  
• gold leaf - 130,000 gps
• marble block - 325,000 gps
• magic stone - 975,000 gps

The taxidermist will be used by players for decorative purposes as they may find the heads (or hands) of some runescape monsters as a drop. The taxidermist will stuff this item for a cost with his prices ranging from 1000gps to stuff a crawling hand up to 50,000 gps to stuff the head of a kalphite queen or king black dragon.

The herald is located upstairs in the white knights castle and sells items such as maps and portraits. In addition to this he can amend your family crest, so players who do not like their crest can pay him to alter theirs. The portraits and maps are related to other runescape quests and players need to have completed a relevant quest to gain these.

Finally, but also importantly, are servants. Servants can carry out a number of tasks to help you in your house construction, but will again cost some money. They can be hired from the servants quarters located in East Ardougne and each one has different limitations and costs associated with them.

Most players will aim to get a demon butler in their service to help them train construction effectively through using oak logs. The cost of servants range from 500gp for Rick to 10,000 gp for the demon butler or Alathazdrar who can carry up to 26 items and can serve guests curry.