Construction Contracts

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Construction Contracts
Release date	16 November 2020 (Update)
Location	Misthalin
Members	Yes
Requirements	40 Construction
Currency	Contract credits
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Construction Contracts is an alternative way to train Construction, besides building furniture in a player-owned house or on a portable workbench. It was released on 16 November 2020. It requires level 40 Construction to start (up to level 70 Construction for using mahogany planks) and is less intensive and less expensive than regular training. Players can start a contract by talking with any estate agent. Completing contracts awards contract credits, which can be spent on the plank box and the master constructor's outfit.

The fastest way to an estate agent is to use the lunar spell NPC contact. An efficient way to both an estate agent and sawmill NPC next to each other is using attuned crystal teleport seed or Tirannwn Quiver to Ithell clan in Prifddinas. An alternative way is to teleport to Islwyn who is located in the Ithell clan district after the completion of The Light Within quest. The sawmill NPC sells nails and bolts of cloth. Players can also use protean planks, the plank box, and a beast of burden to need to bank less often.

Players can get the Baby Yaga's House pet drop as well as strange and golden rocks from fixing furniture for a contract.

Furniture repaired for Construction Contracts do not count for daily challenges.

Gameplay

Upon getting a Construction contract from an estate agent, players need to travel to the location of the contract. Once there, they can talk to the NPC on the contract to ask what items are needed for the repair or use the calculator below. Then, players can interact with the empty furniture hotspots to build them. Based on the player's Construction level, one of four level-based options can be chosen. Upon repairing all pieces of furniture, players will be rewarded up to five contract credits based on the supplies used. Contracts are semi-random, meaning each contract at each location can differ and require different furniture to repair.

Completing a contract awards a base of 10,000 Construction experience, with an additional bonus for using higher level materials. Each item of furniture built also awards the normal experience for the materials used, so the cost per experience of using the materials is much cheaper than normal construction, but also slower.

Beneficial items

• Experience boosting items apply, for example:
  • Constructor's outfit provides up to +6% experience bonus
  • Sculpting chisels provides +1% experience bonus and construction skill boost of +1
  • Clan avatar skilling bonus buff: consists of a base 3% bonus, increasing by 1% per fealty level to 6% experience bonus
  • The Wise perk provides up to +4%, see Optimal Skilling Perk Setup
  • The Inspire Genius relic provides +2%
  • Artificer's measure can provide upto +5%
• The master constructor's outfit:
  • Increases construction speed
  • Has a chance to instantly finish furniture
  • Provides teleports to estate agents and the current contract location
• The Construction cape effect to save planks can activate
• The Scroll of proficiency effect to save planks can activate
  • The chance is increased by the Artificer's measure and activations will stack the Artificer's Focus buff
• The plank box can be used to carry additional planks to reduce banking
• The Brooch of the Gods can spawn divine blessings

Without the master outfit to teleport directly to the contract, one may consider carrying teleportation items:

• An amulet of glory (or variant) to teleport to Draynor Village market, which is near to many contract locations; it can also teleport to Edgeville for the general store location
• Lumbridge lodestone is close to several contract locations, which can benefit from consuming vis wax for quicker teleports to it; equally the Varrock lodestone is close to the Blue Moon Inn
• Wilderness Sword for quick teleport to Edgeville
• Runes for Lumbridge Teleport (or a tablet), which is slightly closer to the general store than the lodestone
• Runes for Varrock Teleport (or a tablet) (if set to the fountain) is close to the Varrock locations
• A teleport to near an estate agent
  • A Prifddinas tablet teleports directly next to the Estate agent
  • (Attuned) crystal teleport seed
  • After The Light Within, the Islwyn teleport of the Tirannwn quiver (any tier) also goes to Ithell district, which can save inventory space if using the Brooch of the Gods
  • Falador Teleport is not far from Falador's estate agent
  • Alternatively, use the NPC Contact Lunar spell instead

It can also prove benificial to those using the Prifddinas Estate agent to use the PoH portal to access an amulet of glory mounted in the Player owned house hallway Variants, giving unlimited teleports outlined above.

Material and plank types

Players need different materials based on the furniture required to build and can use different planks, starting at different levels.

Protean planks can be used in place of any planks that the player can use. If protean planks and other plank types (including any planks in a plank box) are in the inventory, the other plank types are used before the protean planks. The protean powerup does not affect the speed in which you complete tasks.

• The scroll of proficiency provides a chance to save planks while building. Your proficient construction ability means you retain [amount] plank[s].
• Wearing the construction cape, or placing it on a skillcape stand in a Tier 3 Player Lodge in the Anachronia base camp, provides a chance to save an additional plank as well. Your skillcape allows you to save a plank.

Any tier of nails can be used, from bronze to rune, but bronze nails are more likely to bend.

Using better planks will increase the amount of contract credits and the experience earned, as well as the speed with which the repairs are done during a contract.

For each hotspot there is a progress bar that fills at different rates, depending on the quality of planks used. The rates without the master constructor's outfit are listed in the following table. After the progress bar is filled, it takes further 0.6 seconds per nail used to finish the repair.

Level	Plank	Time to fill the bar
40	Plank	58.8 seconds (98 ticks)
50	Oak plank	30 seconds (50 ticks)
60	Teak plank	19.8 seconds (33 ticks)
70	Mahogany plank	14.4 seconds (24 ticks)

Each hotspot repaired with the following plank type gives the following credits. The credits are rewarded upon the completion of the contract, and any fractions are rounded down.

Level	Plank	Credits for each hotspot	Credits for contract if all hotspots repaired with these planks
40	Plank	0.2	1
50	Oak plank	0.4	2
60	Teak plank	0.6	3
70	Mahogany plank	1	5

The experience gained from repairing a piece of furniture is as in the following table.

Level	Material	XP each
40	Plank	28
40	Iron bar	10
40	Steel bar	20
50	Oak plank	60
60	Teak plank	90
60	Mithril bar	?
70	Mahogany plank	140
70	Adamant bar	10
N/A	Protean plank	28, 60, 90, or 140
N/A	Bolt of cloth	15
N/A	White candle	5 or 2.5
N/A	Bronze nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Iron nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Steel nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Black nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Mithril nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Adamant nails	1.5 for each set of two nails
N/A	Rune nails	1.5 for each set of two nails

XP reward

Completing a contract awards a base of 10,000 experience as a reward, in addition to experience earned from using the materials. Reward XP is granted upon completion of the final item. This reward is increased by using better materials:

• +0 XP for each item made using basic planks (10,000 XP reward for everything made out of basic wood)
• +200 XP for each item made using oak planks (11,000 XP reward for everything made out of oak)
• +500 XP for each item made using teak planks (12,500 XP reward for everything made out of teak)
• +1,000 XP for each item made using mahogany planks (15,000 XP reward for everything made out of mahogany)

Mixing materials will give the sum of the items made — e.g. making one item of each plus 1 extra mahogany will give 12,700 reward XP (10,000 + 0 + 200 + 500 + 1,000 + 1,000).

Experience boosting effects will apply to the reward (i.e. the constructor's outfit will increase a 15,000 XP reward to 15,900 XP).

Locations

The contracts are given for 11 different non-player characters around Misthalin for which the player can build furniture. The locations, characters, and directions provided by the contract are listed below. Most repairs will involve furniture on both the ground floor^[UK]1^st floor^[US] and 1^st floor^[UK]2^nd floor^[US] - so be aware of where the stairs or ladders are in each building.

Contractee	Location	Directions	Map
Aggie	Draynor	Can be found to the west of the town centre.
Ned	Draynor	Can be found northeast of the bank.
Wise old man	Draynor	Can be found north of the bank.
The shopkeeper	Edgeville	Can be found north of the bank.
Bob's Axes	Lumbridge	Can be found west of the Lumbridge graveyard.
Father Aereck	Lumbridge	Can be found outside the Lumbridge courtyard.
The shopkeeper	Lumbridge	Can be found north of the castle.
Victoria	Lumbridge	Can be found south of the Lumbridge lodestone.
The bartender	Varrock	Can be found on the road leading north from the Varrock lodestone.
Charos	Varrock	South of the Varrock estate agent
The shopkeeper	Varrock	Can be found southeast of the main square.

Furniture

This is all possible furniture that can be requested. As mentioned above, any type of plank can be used, with rewards improving for using better planks; any nails can be used, the better the nail the less chance it will bend (and therefore faster the build is completed).

For reference, 3 furniture hotspots require metal bars to construct:

• The sink in Victoria's house in Lumbridge, which requires 2 steel bars.
• The organ in the Lumbridge church, which requires 4 steel bars.
• The stove in the Lumbridge general store, which requires 2 of either iron bars when constructed using regular planks, steel bars with oak planks, mithril bars with teak planks, or adamant bars with mahogany planks.

Furniture	Planks	Nails	Additional items / information
Altar	10	4	2 × white candle, 1 × bolt of cloth
Bed (large)	10	4	2 × bolt of cloth
Bed (small)	8	2	1 × bolt of cloth
Bench	5	4	Situated outside the house but in contact with the building walls
Bookcase	8	4
Chair	5	4
Chest	4	2
Counter	6	4
Desk	8	2
Drawers	4	2
Ladder	5	4
Lighting	2	4	1 × white candle
Organ	12	4	4 × steel bar
Pew	5	4
Portrait	2	2
Shelf	4	2
Shelves	6	4
Sink	4	4	2 × steel bar
Stand	3	4	1 × white candle
Stool	4	4
Stove	2	4	2 × metal bar: iron bars for wooden planks, steel bars for oak planks, mithril bars for teak planks, adamant bars for mahogany planks
Table	6	4
Votary	3	4	1 × white candle
Wardrobe	8	4
Wheel	2	2

Calculator

• The contract does not state whether any bed is a large (double though the mahogany icon is a four poster) or a small bed. The building spot will look like a single bed. Only certain locations have large beds:
  • Bob's Brilliant Axes,
  • Victoria's house,
  • Ned's house,
  • Aggie's house,
  • the Bartender in Varrock (one large & two small), and
  • the Edgeville and Lumbridge shops (one large & one small).
• You can save planks with proficient construction and the construction skillcape

template = Construction contracts calculator form = conconform result = conconres param = plank|Plank in use|Wooden|buttonselect|Wooden,Oak,Teak,Mahogany,Protean|| param = nails|Nails in use|Steel|buttonselect|Bronze,Iron,Steel,Black,Mithril,Adamant,Rune|| param = furniture1|Furniture requested|None|select|None,Altar,Bed (large),Bed (small),Bench,Bookcase,Chair,Chest,Counter,Desk,Drawers,Ladder,Lighting,Organ,Pew,Portrait,Shelf,Shelves,Sink,Stand,Stool,Stove,Table,Votary,Wardrobe,Wheel|| param = furniture2|Furniture requested|None|select|None,Altar,Bed (large),Bed (small),Bench,Bookcase,Chair,Chest,Counter,Desk,Drawers,Ladder,Lighting,Organ,Pew,Portrait,Shelf,Shelves,Sink,Stand,Stool,Stove,Table,Votary,Wardrobe,Wheel|| param = furniture3|Furniture requested|None|select|None,Altar,Bed (large),Bed (small),Bench,Bookcase,Chair,Chest,Counter,Desk,Drawers,Ladder,Lighting,Organ,Pew,Portrait,Shelf,Shelves,Sink,Stand,Stool,Stove,Table,Votary,Wardrobe,Wheel|| param = furniture4|Furniture requested|None|select|None,Altar,Bed (large),Bed (small),Bench,Bookcase,Chair,Chest,Counter,Desk,Drawers,Ladder,Lighting,Organ,Pew,Portrait,Shelf,Shelves,Sink,Stand,Stool,Stove,Table,Votary,Wardrobe,Wheel|| param = furniture5|Furniture requested|None|select|None,Altar,Bed (large),Bed (small),Bench,Bookcase,Chair,Chest,Counter,Desk,Drawers,Ladder,Lighting,Organ,Pew,Portrait,Shelf,Shelves,Sink,Stand,Stool,Stove,Table,Votary,Wardrobe,Wheel||

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Shop

Main article: Estate Agents Shop

The contract credits earned with completing contracts can be spent in the Estate Agents Shop via any of the five estate agents in Varrock, Seers village, Falador, Ardougne, or Prifddinas.

Rewards in the shop include the plank box and its two upgrades as well as the master constructor's outfit.

Achievements

Absolute Planker is a completionist cape requirement.

There are 8 achievements in this subsubcategory (showing 8).

Name	Members	Description
Absolute Planker	Yes	Upgrade your plank box to hold 100 of each plank.	10
One Star Review	Yes	Earn only 1 credit from a construction contract.	5
Construction Contracts II	Yes	Complete 10 construction contracts.	5
Construction Contracts I	Yes	Complete 1 construction contract.	5
Five Star Review	Yes	Earn 5 credits from a construction contract.	5
Construction Contracts III	Yes	Complete 25 construction contracts.	5
Construction Contracts IV	Yes	Complete 50 construction contracts.	5
Construction Contracts V	Yes	Complete 100 construction contracts.	10

Update history

The update history project is a work-in-progress – not all updates to this topic may be covered below. See here for how to help out!

• patch 23 November 2020 (Update):
  • When completing a contract for Father Aereck using all mahogany planks, you will now receive 5 Contract credits, as intended.
  • Fixed a typo in the Construction Contracts UI that only became visible after completing a contract.

• update 16 November 2020 (Update):
  • Added to game.