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.

Studying

There are many places throughout Syrnia where you can study Constructing. Every location has limits in some way, either the level you need to study there, or the limits you can learn. Once you have reached the limit for one university, you must move on to the next location if you want to continue your studies (Click "Studying" for more info).

Houses

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.

Shops

Shops allow you to sell items to players. These are built in the same way as a house and follow the same rules (One item = one slot). With shops however, these are also dependent upon your Trading level. If you do not have a high enough Trading level, you will not be able to use all the slots that your shop can provide. More details are available in the Trading manual.

Clan stockhouses

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.

Boats

Boats are required for fishing and are needed to catch the larger fish. The only exception to this is the Brigantine. This cannot be used by the players and is needed to send the Pirates in an invasion (see Fame and Pirates). Boats are also used to travel from island to island, Long Boats are the quickest option when travelling. Boats can be constructed at any location that has the "Construct" option available on the city menu.

How To Build

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.

Image Aim/Power	Type	Level
2/3	Bronze hammer	1
4/6	Iron hammer	10
5/7	Steel hammer	25
8/11	Silver hammer	40
11/11	Candy cane hammer	50
10/15	Gold hammer	55
16/20	Platina hammer	70
22/22	Bone hammer	75
22/22	Skeletal hammer	75
37/40	Syriet hammer	85
52/55	Obsidian hammer	100
62/65	Puranium hammer	120
72/70	Tiromyth hammer	140
82/70	Novariet hammer	160

How To Demolish

If you should need to, you can demolish your house or shop. On the options for your house or shop, click the option saying "Destroy my house" or "Destroy my shop". It will then ask you to confirm your choice at the top of the menu. Once confirmed, the building will be destroyed instantly and you will get back some of the wood you used to build it. Beware, if you have any items or gold in your home or shop when you destroy it, the items and gold will be lost.

How To Upgrade

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.

Building Houses

Number of Slots	Level	Wood Needed	EXP
250	1	250	18
500	1	750	42
1,500	10	2500	131
3,000	20	5000	258
5,000	25	10000	508
10,000	35	15000	760
25,000	45	20000	1,010
50,000	55	30000	1,511
75,000	65	45000	2,261
100,000	75	60000	3,011
150,000	85	90000	4,512
250,000	95	150000	7,512

Building Shops

Number of Slots	Level	Wood Needed	EXP
100	5	500	29
250	6	750	43
500	12	1000	57
750	15	1250	70
1,000	18	1500	83
1,500	23	2000	108
2,000	26	4000	209
2,500	30	5000	259
5,000	40	7500	385
10,000	50	15000	760
20,000	60	30000	1,511
30,000	70	40000	2,011
40,000	80	50000	2,511
50,000	90	55000	2,762
100,000	99	100000	5,012

Size	GP cost	Resources Required
50,000	50000	20000 500
100,000	100000	20000 1000 500
150,000	150000	20000 1500 1000
250,000	250000	40000 2000 2000 1000
500,000	500000	100000 5000 10000 2000
750,000	750000	100000 5000 10000 2000
1,000,000	1000000	100000 5000 1000 2000

Upgrading

Studying Costs

Learning how to build things is not free. You must pay gold pieces to keep on studying. For every session of the timer, you gain 20 experience points. You also have the gold deducted from your inventory. This cost increases as your levels increase. The cost is the same at all universities and schools.