About
In July 2026, RuneScape completely reworked Player-Owned Housing as part of the Construction update.
The old housing system was replaced with something much more flexible, with freer room layouts, free furniture placement, new house styles, and a much bigger focus on actually designing a space that feels like your own. Construction was also expanded to level 120.
That update is what kicked this project off.
I wanted a way to experiment with house layouts outside the game, so I started building a visual planner for the new system.
The idea
The RuneScape POH Planner is a browser-based tool for laying out a house visually before committing to the design in-game.
The goal was to make experimenting with different layouts quick and easy: place things on a grid, move them around, change your mind, and try something else without having to rebuild the whole thing in RuneScape.
It started as a pretty simple idea and, as usual, became more of a project than I expected.
Building it
I built the planner with Astro, TypeScript, and Canvas.
A big part of the project was figuring out how to represent the house visually in a way that still felt responsive and easy to interact with. Even a basic planner starts raising interesting problems once you have objects occupying space, state that needs to stay synchronized, and a UI that has to respond immediately while you’re moving things around.
That was a big part of why I kept working on it. It wasn’t just useful for RuneScape — it turned into a genuinely interesting frontend problem.
Why I made it
This is probably the kind of project that best explains how I end up building things.
A game gets a major update.
I start playing with it.
I think, “There should be a better way to do this.”
And instead of just dealing with it like a normal person, I open VS Code.
A little while later, there’s a whole website.
Status
It’s still a work in progress.
The planner is live and usable, but there are still things I want to improve as I spend more time with the new housing system and figure out what would actually make the tool more useful.
Some parts are polished.
Some parts are still being figured out.
That’s half the fun.