Constructed a Gilded Altar

After a long time of trying, I eventually got around to building my own gilded altar. It is relatively costly, but I have 24 more prayer levels to go and this should help repay the cost in the long term.

Unfortunately, I do not have dragon bones in stock to get up to level 99 prayer, so I know one of my future goals will involve a lot of dragon fighting to be able to stockpile some bones to use for raising my prayer skill.

I am currently level 123 combat and require another 23 prayer levels to obtain 126 combat. If I bought the bones, it would be quite expensive - so I am most likely going to mix some buying as well as gathering bones. This means it will be some time before I reach level 126 combat, but I am not in any major rush.

Overall, my player owned house on runescape is rather under developed - I have been concentrating on other things and not really trained construction skill up much (it is currently level 72 as I used a crystal saw to build the gilded altar).

I also purchased an addition 2 marble blocks - as had expected each burner to require two blocks. Instead, both burners were built and used only 2 blocks. The overall cost is still reasonably significant. The cheapest way to achieve the gilded altar would only be to build the actual altar and the burners.

Cheapest gilded altar cost:

• Gilded Altar = 1,170,000 (1170k) for 2 marble blocks and 4 gold leaves
• Marble Burners = 650,000 (650k) for 2 marble blocks

The basic cost is 1,820,000 (1820k) - that doesn't include the cost of training construction up to a level where you can actually construct the altar. Anyway, hopefully I will get around to putting it to good use in the near future.

Raising Construction

I recently spent some time raising a few construction levels in runescape. For the past 9 months or so I did not train any construction even though I had stocked up 30,000 or more oak logs. I guess I never felt inclined to train it up.

Anyway, my objective is to get to level 75 construction at least and therefore enable me to build the best altar available. This will make it easier to train prayer in the future, although it is expensive at the same time.

The long term benefits of building the best altar should enable any runescape member to enjoy quicker prayer training - if they train their prayer up using dragon bones or better. Although the pest control mini game does give prayer training some alternative and cheaper methods to train it with, I would still like to have the best altar available for my house so that friends can train their prayer in it if they wish.

I am training my construction using oak logs and building oak larders along with employing the demon butler. As I don't spend too much time ingame nowadays, I haven't found a more efficient method yet. I would be happy to find out any better methods - or even alternative metods than people have used when training their construction skill.

At the end of the day, the objective is to achieve 99 construction so that my player owned house will eventually be capable of having the best available materials in all locations. The downside is that it will cost a substantial amount of runescape money to achieve it. Slowly but surely, I am stepping closer - though I am unlikely to get up to level 99 for a year or more yet due to other real life requirements on my time.

The Gilded Altar

Player owned houses in runescape allow people to make their own Altar. There are several altars available and each require different levels of construction. The best altar that can be built is the Gilded Altar.

To be able to build a Gilded Altar you will need to have level 75 Construction. There are also additional items that can be placed in the Altar room and require other items that will be quite costly. The sigificant costs are outlined below if you desire to fully furnish your Altar Room by placing the best available items on the hotspots.

1. Gilded Altar = 1,170,000 (1170k) for 2 marble blocks and 4 gold leaves
2. Icon of Bob = 260,000 (260K) for 2 gold leaves and 4 Mahogany planks
3. Marble Burners = 1,300,000 (1300k) for 4 marble blocks as 2 burners are required
4. Altar Room = 50,000 (50k)
5. Opulent Rug = 130,000 (130k) for 1 gold leaf
6. Large Statue = 975,000 (975k) for 3 marble blocks

At least a total cost of 3,885,000 gp for building the very best altar can run considerably higher than the average players normal budget. Players do not have to fully furnish their Altar Rooms but if they decided to do it, then all the hotspots shown below would have be contain something. Each whitened area is considered a hotspot.


If a player decides to build the best altar available and fully furnishes their altar room, then it will look similar to the picture below.



I hope you agree, that although considerable costs are involved in the overall building process of the Altar Room, the finished article is somewhat impressive. The downside is that not many people will be able to revel in your luxury altar room unless you hold an open house by turning your private chat on and inviting people in.