What Construct can you create at Caster Level 5?

[ddgon]

If you take Craft Wondrous Items at lvl 3 and Arms and Armor at 5 then with your wizard bonus feat you can pick Craft Construct, but I can't find any constructs that you could make at that level? they all requre higher level spells then a 5th level can cast. Am I missing something?

[Bob_Loblaw]

Keep in mind that you don't have to be able to cast the spells yourself or you can use scrolls/wands to "cast" the spell as well.

Also, animated objects are constructs. From reading about animated objects, it seems that there are two ways to make permanent animated objects. One is with the feat Craft Construct and the other is by making the spell Animate Object permanent. At least the way I read it. It isn't as clear as it should be.

Not all feats are necessarily useful at the level you qualify. Heighten Spell is not really a great feat until you can cast spells higher than 1st or 2nd level. You can take it at 1st level though and heighten your 0-level spells if you want.

There are also constructs from books other than the Bestiary. Some may be 3rd party stuff, but still allowed in your games. There are some from the APs or other Pathfinder books. Check out this site for a list.

You can also discuss different constructs with your GM. Just like other Item Creation feats, you are necessarily limited to what's in the books. You can make unique creations of your own.

[Tinalles]

A Homunculus is probably the only thing you can reasonably do at level 5. It has only one spell pre-requisite of a higher level than you can cast (Arcane Eye), and you can use a scroll for that or else just increase the DC of the Spellcraft check to enchant it by +5.

The other option is to work with your GM to create a custom Construct of an appropriate level. Perhaps something which does not have a combat function, but does some useful task. Such as:

- A tiny flying messenger construct, which basically repeats a short message to a specified person and brings back a response.

- A small dish-washing golem who keeps the pots scrubbed at the local tavern.

- A small scrivener golem who transcribes non-magical texts quickly and without error.

Any of those would be about CR 1/2, and not very expensive to build -- say, about 1,250 gp total for each one. They could be "practice" constructs to make as you work your way up to tougher more impressive things.

[VRMH]

Intelligent Items are Constructs too, so you could make a Hand of the Mage-construct that crawls around and lends a hand.