RuneScape's player-owned housing has been completely rebuilt, and as of July 13, 2026, you can jump in and start decorating your dream home right now. All this is rolling out as part of the game's ongoing 25th Anniversary Road to Restoration and giving players a whole new level of control over their homes alongside a top-to-bottom overhaul of the Construction skill.
We've been waiting for this one, and it's a big deal: the update pairs hundreds of customization options with a fully reworked skill, so building a space that's truly your own is more flexible than it's ever been. You can watch the Player-Owned Housing Dev Diary for a full walkthrough.
What's new with customization?
This is where the update really flexes. There's an enormous amount to play with, letting your house reflect your personality more than ever before:
Over 650 decorative items
Five unique house styles
Flexible room shapes and layouts
Free furniture placement
Customizable flooring, interior frame, and furniture skins
Unique achievement, boss, and quest decorations to unlock
A Music Box or Jukebox featuring melodies from across Gielinor
A Weather Vane to control the weather and atmosphere around your home
The Shroud System to create a visual appearance of the plot surroundings
Can you build with friends?
You can. You're able to create or join a Homestead with up to five players, move seamlessly between each other's homes, make use of the facilities your neighbours have built, and shape a community that reflects the achievements of its residents.
Showing off your achievements
Jagex is leaning hard into letting you flaunt your adventuring history with new Achievement and Collection Features:
Display stations and cases to showcase your finest weapons, Boss Trophies, and Archaeological finds
An Achievement Log Display and Skillscape Stand to show off your progress
A Prestigious Cape Stand to give your prized cape a distinguished place of its own
What utility features are included?
New and iconic features have been added to help you prep for the road ahead, grouped into a few categories:
Travel With Ease: a Teleport Nexus for a rune-based teleport hub, a Jewellery Box to collect all teleportation jewellery, a Player Owned Ports Access Table to reach friends easily, and a Dungeoneering Monolith to teleport to Daemonheim quickly.
Prepare for Battle: Potion, Crystal/Combo, and Tea Cauldrons each with their own benefits, plus an Armour Repair stand, a Slayer's Helm stand, Gilded Altars, and a mini War's Restoration crystal to gear up easily.
More Ways to Store: new storage solutions including the Furniture Trunk, Costume and Costume Room Storage, Toy Box, Treasure Chest, Armour Chest, Cape Rack, Menagerie, and Aquarium.
Skilling Support: useful tools, crafting stations, and special furniture, including new Lecterns and Expanded Lecterns to support tablet creation.
Construction now goes to Level 120
The headline change for skillers: Construction has been completely reimagined and is now capped at level 120, introducing a new progression system, new ways to skill up, and new rewards. A new furniture crafting system lets you directly craft furniture to decorate your home, and you can do it through either active or passive training styles - the choice is up to you.
As you progress, you'll unlock new recipes, utility upgrades, new room shapes and layouts, additional customization options, new house styles and decorations, shared community benefits, and prestige rewards.
Where can you play?
RuneScape is available now on PC, Steam, iOS, and Android, complete with cross-platform progression and play across PC and mobile. The Player-Owned Housing Update is live today, so there's no reason to wait to start laying down flooring.
Are you diving straight into decorating, or grinding Construction up to 120 first? Let us know what your dream home is going to look like in the comments.
The full press release from Jagex is below.
RuneScape Launches Highly Anticipated Player-Owned Housing Update
13th July, 2026, Cambridge, UK - Jagex: The RuneScape Company, is thrilled to share that player-owned housing in RuneScape has been totally reimagined and is ready for players to play today. As part of the game's ongoing 25th Anniversary Road to Restoration, players are now given a whole new level of control over their Player Owned Houses alongside an overhaul of the Construction skill, allowing them to create a space that is truly their own.
With the Player-Owned Housing Update, the Construction skill is now capped at 120; players have access to hundreds of customization options, new ways to showcase achievements, new utility features, form Homestead communities with friends, and more.
About Jagex
Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Jagex: The RuneScape Company, is a leader in creating deep and engaging forever games that empower communities across PC and mobile. Our MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, is played around the world and has welcomed over 300 million player accounts.
As RuneScape enters its 25th year in 2026, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: Dragonwilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. Jagex: The RuneScape Company remains focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape's history.
For more information, visit www.jagex.com.
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