The chapel is a room in a player-owned house where players can recharge Prayer points and receive bonus Prayer experience for offering bones or various types of ashes to an altar. This room can be created with level 45 Construction and 50,000 coins.
The altar recharges Prayer points, as all other altars do. Altars in a POH also allow players to offer bones upon them, providing bonus Prayer experience over simply burying the bones; the maximum bonus of x3.5 (e.g. total experience is 3.5 times experience when burying) is given by a Gilded altar with two burners lit. Note that, unlike most experience-boosting effects, all boosts from altars are multiplicative, not additive, and are applied after all other boosts. Only altars aligned to Saradomin via either the absence of a icon, a Saradomin symbol, a Saradomin icon, or an Icon of Bob may be used to bless Extra fine sand into Blessed sand for crafting a Blessed flask.
During Double XP Weekends, altars only give their usual bonuses; furthermore, no bonus experience is used, and experience-boosting items or other bonuses will not work.
Level
|
Altar
|
Materials
|
XP
|
Cost
|
Total XP multiplier with burners lit
|
0
|
1
|
2
|
45
|
|
Oak altar
|
4 Oak planks
|
240
|
1,740
|
1
|
1.5
|
2
|
50
|
|
Teak altar
|
4 Teak planks
|
360
|
2,528
|
1.1
|
1.6
|
2.1
|
56
|
|
Cloth altar
|
4 Teak planks, 2 bolts of cloth
|
390
|
5,636
|
1.25
|
1.75
|
2.25
|
60
|
|
Mahogany altar
|
4 Mahogany planks, 2 bolts of cloth
|
590
|
10,056
|
1.5
|
2
|
2.5
|
64
|
|
Limestone altar
|
6 Mahogany planks, 2 bolts of cloth, 2 limestone bricks
|
910
|
14,348
|
1.75
|
2.25
|
2.75
|
70
|
|
Marble altar
|
2 Marble blocks, 2 bolts of cloth
|
1030
|
610,890
|
2
|
2.5
|
3
|
75
|
|
Gilded altar
|
2 Marble blocks, 2 bolts of cloth, 4 gold leaves
|
2230
|
1,157,246
|
2.5
|
3
|
3.5
|
Torches and candlesticks are strictly decorative. Incense burners are lit individually. Each lit burner boosts prayer experience by 50% on top of the altar's experience bonus when offering bones. All three kinds of incense burners give the same prayer bonus. To light the burners, players need a clean marrentill for each burner. At level 99 Prayer, players can use the Prayer cape instead of lighting the burners.
Level
|
Lamp
|
Materials
|
XP
|
Cost
|
Prayer boost
|
45
|
|
Steel torches
|
2 Steel bars
|
80
|
2,402
|
No
|
49
|
|
Wooden torches
|
2 Planks, 2 nails
|
58
|
4,320
|
No
|
53
|
|
Steel candlesticks
|
6 Steel bars, 6 white candles
|
124
|
8,448
|
No
|
57
|
|
Gold candlesticks
|
6 Gold bars, 6 white candles
|
46
|
10,200
|
No
|
61
|
|
Oak incense burners
|
4 Oak planks, 2 steel bars
|
280
|
4,142
|
Yes
|
65
|
|
Mahogany incense burners
|
4 Mahogany planks, 2 steel bars
|
600
|
9,350
|
Yes
|
69
|
|
Marble incense burners
|
2 Marble blocks, 2 steel bars
|
1040
|
610,184
|
Yes
|
The chapel aligns to either Guthix, Saradomin, Zamorak, or Bob depending on the icon chosen. The default alignment is to Saradomin.
The icon you use affects the way some of the furniture looks in your chapel. For example, if you have a Guthix icon, the windows will have the Guthix symbol on them. If you have a Zamorak icon, the two statues will be of Zamorak, along with the symbol on your altar.
This information has been compiled as part of the update history project. Some updates may not be included - see here for how to help out!
- patch 6 June 2016 (Update):
- Training Prayer at a player-owned house altar now contributes towards the Summer hiscores.
- patch 14 April 2014 (Update):
- Players can now use marrentill on Player-Owned House incense burners if they are already lit to refresh the buff timer.
- ninja 21 January 2014 (Update):
- Players can now right-click 'Offer' their bones at a player-owned altar.
- patch 21 January 2014 (Update):
- Bonus XP from costumes now stacks with other bonus XP when training prayer on a player-owned house altar.
- patch 21 February 2012 (Update):
- A new worshipping ashes animation has been created for when demonic ashes are used on a Player Owned House altar.
- patch 9 November 2010 (Update):
- Gilded altar burners no longer remain lit on leaving your house if no-one else is inside.
- patch 25 March 2009 (Update):
- Bones can now be offered in varying quantities in the chapel in your Player-Owned House.