Constructing

is a skill to build bigger and better houses, ships and shops. Like the Trading skill, Constructing can be trained via studying at universities. However, unlike Trading, you can gain experience through other methods, such as building houses and shops, or even helping a clan build a stockhouse. You can also build different tiers of fishing boats to catch different kinds of fish (see Fishing). Wood is a key part of this skill, so you may need a lot of it (see Woodcutting). A Hammer is always required to begin constructing something. Players will need gold to train Constructing via studying at universities, and it gets more expensive the higher your Constructing level.

Houses are where players can store their items. They're usually used to keep your inventory free of clutter, as well as to keep your items safe should you die in a fight. As you level your Construction skill, you can build larger houses over time (See "Houses & Shops"), allowing you to store greater amounts of items.

A stockhouse is a communal storage system that anyone within a clan can access. Clan leaders can choose permissions for each individual in a clan as to whether they are able to immediately withdraw items from a stockhouse, or if they have to first request them. Clans can work together to build a stockhouse by slowly adding the required items to it over time, also gaining Constructing experience. Once a stockhouse is built, it can also be upgraded to more item slots in the same manner, requiring more gold and items. A clan can only have 1 stockhouse per island.

To build something, you must first equip a hammer and click on the "construct" option in the City Menu. Then, in the center work screen, select the item you would like to construct. You can only have one house or shop in each location, but once one is built, you do have the option to upgrade to a larger house/shop with only an additional cost in Wood. You will need different amounts of Wood to build different things, with bigger buildings needing more Wood. Constructing level 10 is required to build at Pensax.

Houses and shops can also be upgraded in size. There is no Constructing level required to upgrade, but it does require significantly more wood than if it were built from nothing. This is because you would have to spend a lot of money paying for construction levels to build a house of that size but upgrading requires no extra levels and so creates balance. You can achieve house sizes not listed in the table below, but houses can only be upgraded to 10,000 slots. For any bigger houses, they will need to be built from scratch using the table below to determine level and the amount of wood needed.