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Written mainly by /u/Steelsauce, with help from adventure-mode-chat on Discord, and the [[HCCO/Guide]].
== Preface ==
 
Adventure mode takes what you know about Melvor and turns it on its head! You start with only melee combat unlocked and must pay an increasing GP cost to unlock each skill. It means that the skills you choose will greatly affect the route you take through the game. Your non-combat skills will be locked to your combat level, so the skilling you can do is very limited at first.


== Preface ==
This mode requires you to do more combat than the other modes, especially at the beginning. On one hand, it may be hard for new players to get a grasp of how all skills are connected without using them first. On the other hand, the Adventure mode reduces the number of early-game choices, which can help new players to get a feel of the game. It's all about tradeoffs!
Adventure mode takes what you know about Melvor and turns it on its head! You start with only melee combat unlocked, and must pay an increasing GP cost to unlock each skill. This means that the skills you choose will greatly affect the route you take through the game. Your noncombat skills will be locked to your combat level, so the skilling you can do is very limited at first.


This mode requires you to do more combat than the other modes, especially at the beginning. It may be harder for newer players to get a grasp of how all the skills are interconnected without using them first, so a brand new player is not recommended to start on Adventure mode.
Speaking of tradeoffs, that is the name of the game in this mode. You can save time on one grind by picking another skill or targeting a different enemy, but it will likely cost you more time somewhere else. The trick is to pick aspects of the game that you like the most and focus your time and attention to those areas, then you can apply the time-reduction strategies to the areas you don't like as much. It's all about tradeoffs! We'll get into this more later. That said, there really are ways to hamper yourself pretty badly, so this guide is all about helping you dodge the big mistakes and apply your time where you want to spend it.


A rough strategy is given below, but don't let anyone dictate your <s>suffering</s> adventure!
A rough strategy is given below, but don't let anyone dictate your <s>suffering</s> adventure!
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== Starting out ==
== Starting out ==


First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. Equip your {{ItemIcon|Bronze Sword}} and {{ItemIcon|Shrimp}} and start whacking some {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. Remember to press the Loot All button to keep your potatoes! Use different fighting styles (Stab, Slash, Block) to keep your stats somewhat equal.  
First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. During the tutorial you made a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Dagger|Bronze Dagger}}. This will be the strongest weapon you need until steel. Equip your that and your {{ItemIcon|Shrimp}} and start whacking some {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. Remember to press the Loot All button to keep your potatoes! Use different fighting styles (Stab, Slash, Block) to keep your stats somewhat equal.  


After getting {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|qty=100}}, try killing a {{MonsterIcon|Cow}}. If it hits too hard, level up a bit more with {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}.
After getting about about 10|10|10 (Attack, Strength, Defense), try killing a {{MonsterIcon|Cow}}. If it hits too hard, level up a bit more with {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}.


After that, follow the [[HCCO/Guide]] for a smooth enemy progression, but note that some mobs require you to unlock {{Skill|Slayer}} first.  
After that, follow the [[HCCO/Guide]] for a smooth enemy progression, but note that some mobs require you to unlock {{Skill|Slayer}} first. Do note that this guide may be somewhat outdated, so I'll try to catch some of the basic changes below.


=== Early money making ===
=== Early money making ===
Your first money maker will be fighting {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}. Collect their {{ItemIcon|Leather}}, and then go to the shop and purchase as many {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide}} as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra {{GP|50}} compared to just selling the plain leather.
Your first money maker will be fighting {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}. Collect their {{ItemIcon|Leather}}, and then go to the shop and purchase as many {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide}} as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra {{GP|50}} compared to just selling the plain leather.


Once you have better gear and levels, killing {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer}} and selling the seeds is more profitable than cows.
Historically, the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} was a critical upgrade in this mode, but since thieving was updated and the combat loot box expanded, that can be your main money-maker very early (within a few hours of starting your character). I'll discuss more advanced tactics below (~4-6 hours to idle woman instead of 8+ for man), but if you just keep thieving from [[Man]], you will eventually reach a 100% success rate and be able to idle him without losing food. Before about 93% success, you will have to keep manually eating to prevent death in this phase.  
 
When you have {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|mithril}} armor and an {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, your next goal is the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} from the {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}. By getting the amulet and purchasing {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I}} from the shop for {{GP|1000000}}, you will be able to idle combat and hence the GP production.
 
If you don’t want to keep hitting the collect loot button, you can earn money slowly offline by mining, fishing, woodcutting, or agility. However, pay attention that unlocking a skill without the money-making strategy in mind can put you in a very dire position. {{Skill|Mining}} and selling {{ItemIcon|Mithril Ore}} is a safe bet.
 
The best early game money making is mining ores using {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}}. You will need to unlock {{Skill|Mining}} as well as buy the gloves for {{GP|500000}}. After that hurdle, you will gain gems with an average value of {{GP|762500}} per 2,000 glove charges, resulting in a profit of {{GP|262500}}. If you are selling the ore, mine the highest tier ore you can.


=== Planning Ahead ===
=== Planning Ahead ===
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[[Combat Level|Read the wiki page on Combat Level.]]
[[Combat Level|Read the wiki page on Combat Level.]]


Your non-combat skills are gated behind your combat level, greatly restricting what you can do. Getting to 99 combat level is an important goal of this mode. Combat level factors in HP, defence, prayer, plus your highest style of combat: magic, ranged, or attack/strength. It's easier to get combat lvl 99 through attack/strength.
Your non-combat skills are gated behind your combat level, greatly restricting what you can do. Getting to 99 combat level is an important early goal of this mode. Combat level factors in HP, defence, prayer, plus your highest style of combat: magic, ranged, or attack/strength. It's easier to get combat lvl 99 through attack/strength.


The combat level formula means that if you have a high level in one combat style, picking up another one won’t raise your combat level until you surpass your other combat style’s level.
The combat level formula means that if you have a high level in one combat style, picking up another one won’t raise your combat level until you surpass your other combat style’s level.
It is meaningfully easier to reach 99 combat through melee than other means, and prayer can further speed this up. You will be aiming for stats (Attack, Strength, Defense, HP, Prayer) something around 79/79/76/78/75 to reach your goal, though feel free to play around with those numbers- they're very flexible.


==== Long Term goals ====
==== Long Term goals ====
If you want to complete the Adventure mode, you will need several billion GP. To get that much money, you need a good method and a plan for how to get it.  
If you want to complete the Adventure mode, you will need several billion GP. To get that much money, you need a good method and a plan for how to get it.  


Read the [[Money Making]] guide to outline your progression in generating GP.
Please read the [[Money Making]] guide in order to make a draft of your money-making progression.


For instance:  
For instance:  
# Unlock Mining.
# Unlock Cooking.
# Get your combat level to 50.
# Kill cows and cook beef.
# Mine and sell {{ItemIcon|Mithril Ore}}.
# Unlock Thieving.
# Buy {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} to sell gems from it.
# Get your combat level to 30.
# Unlock the skills needed for the production of {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin}}
# Thieve from Man, sustaining by manually eating Beef
# Progress through items that improve thieving- Thiever's cape from Bandit Thug or Marauder, Golbin Mask from Golbin Chief, Sneakers from anyone
# Unlock the skills needed for the production of {{ItemIcon|Jadestone Bolts|Jadestone Bolts}} (Note: There are several viable late and endgame money-making setups. Jade Bolts is currently the strongest endgame. Focus progression on things that improve global thieving first, as they improve any money-making build)


== Skills Pros/Cons ==
== Potential Skill Order ==
The recommendation for when to unlock a skill means the following:
 
Early game: skill unlock 1-3.


Mid game: 4-8.  
Choosing a skill order will greatly change your path through the Adventure Mode.<br>
Many skills are interconnected, so you will be limited by your combat level and the items you can't get.  


Late game: 9-13.  
If your goal is the 100% completion, then it is about getting the best money-making method as fast as possible.<br>
This section presents routes from zero to making money with some of the best methods in the game.


End game: 14-18
==== Example: Thieving ====


'''Not yet updated for 1.0 changes!'''
Unlock route: Cooking > Slayer > Fishing > Thieving > Mining > Smithing > Prayer > Combat level 99


==== {{Skill|Attack}}, {{Skill|Strength}} ====
Get {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} from {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. When you have 100 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}, switch to {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}.
'''Pros:''' Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets you train strength afk with [[Barbarian Fishing]]. Melee is the easiest way to idle the first two difficult dungeons, [[Volcanic Cave]] and [[Air God Dungeon]]. Strong against ranged enemies.


'''Cons:'''  Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Need to train two skills instead of one. Weak to magic enemies.
Kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, loot all including {{ItemIcon|Leather}}, buy {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide}} and then sell it.  


==== {{Skill|Defence}} ====
Unlock {{Skill|Cooking}} to stop relying on {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}. Use {{ItemIcon|Beef}} instead.
'''Pros:''' Unlocked at start. Can train with any type of combat. Always contributes to combat level. Reduces food usage.


'''Cons:''' Doesn’t help you kill faster, for more xp/hr.
Unlock {{Skill|Slayer}} and get {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} and {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} from {{MonsterIcon|Mummy}}.


==== {{Skill|Ranged}} ====
Unlock {{Skill|Fishing}}. It will be the source of material for {{Skill|Cooking}}.
'''Pros:''' Fairly easy to get weapon/armor drops from enemies. Frozen arrows are strong and relatively quick to gather with melee. Great against magic enemies.  


'''Cons:''' Need to farm ammo, which is much slower if you don’t have mining + smithing for bolts/knives, and additionally wood + fletching for arrows. Less needed than other forms of combat. Not as strong as magic late game. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Bad against melee enemies, most enemies are melee.
Sell fish to unlock {{Skill|Thieving}}.


Recommended to unlock: Late game, when fighting the [[Water God Dungeon]].
It is not easy to figure out whom to pickpocket with {{Skill|Thieving}} to get the most of money. Use Nomeru's sheet on Thieving from [[Spreadsheets and Theorycrafting]] to decide whom to target. Keep in mind that the results in early game are ''drastically'' different from what is given on the sheet - you need to copy the sheet and enter your current situation.


==== {{Skill|Magic}} ====
Unlock {{Skill|Mining}} and {{Skill|Smithing}}. With them you can create your own armor and weapons.
'''Pros:''' Very strong, especially in the end game. Great for killing hard enemies and dungeons. Ancient magic is high damage and perfect accuracy. Many enemies are melee so you have advantage. Alt magic lets you gain prayer points easily, plus some offline xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting easily.


'''Cons:''' Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes time to craft runes, best runes are locked behind a high runecrafting level. You need woodcutting or thieving to make basic elemental staves, otherwise they are monster drops. Prayer points can come from fishing instead. Needs ancient magic to reach full potential. Only contributes to combat level if higher level than other combat styles. Bad against ranged enemies.
Transition into {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|Mithril}} and then {{ItemIcon|Adamant Helmet|Adamant}} armor. Trim your resulting armor up to Gold (G).


Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you already have [[Mining]] and [[Runecrafting]] unlocked.
After that, you might want to get to Combat level 99 to upgrade your {{Skill|Thieving}} options. For that, unlock {{Skill|Prayer}} and level Melee together with prayers. Use the most expensive and relevant prayers you have. Chivalry and Piety are the best options to level up {{Skill|Prayer}}: the options that spend fewer prayer points have lower rate of prayer-xp-per-point and will slow down your combat.


==== {{Skill|Prayer}} ====
Level up your Combat.<br>
'''Pros:''' Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. Always contributes to combat level.  
Fight the following monsters:
* Attack Level 1-9 {{Icon|Cow|type=monster}}.
* Attack Level 10-49 {{Icon|Frozen Archer|type=monster}}.
* Attack Level 50-99 {{Icon|Giant Crab|type=monster}}.
You can check out the [[Combat Simulator]] to see which monster is the best for your situation. Don't forget to consider the food expenditure.


'''Cons:''' Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are [[Raw Skeleton Fish]] from fishing or [[Blessed Offering]] from alt magic.
As an example of Combat Level 99, the following combination was enough: Attack 77, Strength 75, Defence 79, Hitpoints 77, Prayer 91.


Recommended to unlock: Mid game, when you have a good source of prayer points.
The later upgrades of money-making with {{Skill|Thieving}} consist of {{Skill|Herblore}}, {{Skill|Agility}}, and {{Skill|Summoning}}. It's up to you to decide in which order to unlock them and the other skills they need. Nomeru's sheet on Thieving from [[Spreadsheets and Theorycrafting]] will come in handy to compare the improvements.


==== {{Skill|Slayer}} ====
==== Example: Dragon Javelins ====
'''Pros:''' Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fight. If you are willing to reroll tasks, it gives free slayer xp. Since you will spend a long time doing combat, might as well get extra XP from every kill. Slayer coins can be spent on important upgrades and resupply which gives food, bones and ammo. Unlocks slayer areas with important mobs, like mummy for gold emerald ring and gold topaz ring. With auto slayer upgrade, you can level quickly while afk. You will need to unlock slayer eventually.


'''Cons:''' Acquiring slayer coins requires you to manually reroll tasks, or at least switch to your current task, which is inconvenient for mostly idling/afk players until you get 150k for auto slayer. You can still earn some slayer xp by fighting in a slayer area. Takes a while to earn up coins to buy anything. Does not contribute to combat level!
Unlock route: Cooking > Slayer > Fishing > Mining > Smithing > Rune > Magic > Prayer > Combat level 99 > Woodcutting > Fletching.


Recommended to unlock: Early to Mid game, when you are doing combat and can fight monsters on task.
Most of the things are the same as in the ''Example: Thieving'', but we don't unlock {{Skill|Thieving}}, and we use {{Skill|Alt. Magic}} to get prayer points.


==== {{Skill|Woodcutting}} ====
After you unlocked {{Skill|Smithing}}, unlock {{Skill|Runecrafting}}, {{Skill|Magic}}, and {{Skill|Prayer}}.
'''Pros:''' Easy to train afk, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Get logs for magic staves, arrows. [[Bird Nest]] are a decent source of seeds. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies.


'''Cons:''' Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until a high level.  
Get prayer points through {{Icon|Blessed Offering|type=spell}} from {{Skill|Alt. Magic}}.  


Recommended to unlock: Late to end game, when you are planning to train [[Firemaking]] or [[Fletching]].
Get your combat up to level 99.


==== {{Skill|Fishing}} ====
Unlock {{Skill|Woodcutting}} and {{Skill|Fletching}}.
'''Pros:''' With cooking, easy and afk food supply. Get [[ARoS]] if you are lucky. Chance to get [[Message in a Bottle]], which unlocks [[Raw Skeleton Fish]] which are a great source of prayer points. Train strength afk with [[Barbarian Fishing]]. Can make some decent money offline at higher levels. Note you dont require cooking to gain food from fishing, at level 75 you can fish [[Raw Magic Fish]] which don't need to be cooked and heal 1700 hp.  


'''Cons:''' You can get food from farming or combat. Prayer points can come from alt magic. The gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until high levels, can’t get that sweet [[Whale]]+[[Fishing Skillcape]] gp/hr for a long time.
Level up the unlocked skills to start earning money with {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin|Dragon Javelins}}.


Recommended to unlock: Early to Late game, depending on if your food/prayer source comes from here or from [[Farming]] and [[Alternative Magic]].
== Skills Pros/Cons ==
The recommendation for when to unlock a skill means the following:
 
* Early game: skill unlock 1-3.
* Mid game: 4-8.
* Late game: 9-13.  
* End game: 14-18


==== {{Skill|Firemaking}} ====
===== {{Skill|Attack}}, {{Skill|Strength}} =====
'''Pros:''' The cape gives you xp bonus.. Eventually. Cooking xp bonus with fires. If you are going for max cape, might want to get the [[Firemaking Skillcape]] and [[Pyro]] before completing some other skills.
Pros: Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets you train Strength when idle with [[Barbarian Fishing]]. Strong against ranged enemies.


'''Cons:''' Need 99 combat level to get skill cape, at which point the grind will not be as worth it compared to normal modes. Need to get logs from woodcutting. Need [[Herblore]] for [[Controlled Heat Potion]] for effective training.
Cons: Not as strong as magic in late-game. Need to train two skills instead of one. Weak to magic enemies.


Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have [[Woodcutting]] and [[Herblore]] and want to grind the [[Firemaking Skillcape]] for bonus xp.
===== {{Skill|Defence}} =====
Pros: Unlocked at start. Can train with any type of combat. Always contributes to combat level. Reduces food usage.


==== {{Skill|Cooking}} ====
Cons: Doesn’t increase your damage.
'''Pros:''' Easy and quick afk food with [[Fishing]]. If you aren't able to actively play, it is hard to get food from collecting monster drops or from farming.


'''Cons:''' You can get food and lots of other items from [[Farming]] or [[Combat]]. Farming can provide enough food without spending ingame time collecting it. Does not give any advantage besides food.
===== {{Skill|Ranged}} =====
Pros: Fairly easy to get weapon/armor drops from enemies. Frozen arrows are strong and relatively quick to gather with melee. Strong against magic enemies.  


Recommended to unlock: Early or Late to End game, depending if you take fishing and put off farming.
Cons: Need to farm ammo, which is much slower if you don’t have mining + smithing for bolts/knives, and additionally wood + fletching for arrows. Less needed than other forms of combat. Not as strong as magic late game. Bad against melee enemies, most enemies are melee.


==== {{Skill|Mining}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Late game, when fighting the {{ZoneIcon|Water God Dungeon}}.
'''Pros:''' Mining with [[Gem Gloves]] is the best money making strat early on, plus it's mostly afk. Can earn some offline gp before gem gloves. Need [[Rune Essence]] for [[Runecrafting]] and [[Weird Gloop]] for [[Farming]]. With [[Smithing]], you can get bars for armor trimming, melee armor and weapons, and ranged ammo. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies.


'''Cons:''' Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves.  
===== {{Skill|Magic}} =====
Pros: Very strong, especially in the end game. Ancient magic is high damage and perfect accuracy. Strong against melee, most enemies are melee. {{Skill|Alternative Magic|Alt magic}} lets you gain prayer points easily, plus some idle xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting easily.


Recommended to unlock: Early game, since gem glove mining is so strong early on in this mode.
Cons: Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes time to craft runes, best runes are locked behind a high runecrafting level. You need woodcutting or thieving to make elemental staves, otherwise they are monster drops. Prayer points can come from fishing instead. Needs ancient magic to reach full potential. Bad against ranged enemies.


==== {{Skill|Smithing}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you already have [[Mining]] and [[Runecrafting]] unlocked.
'''Pros:''' Make silver/gold bars for armor trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor. If you get to combat level 99 and 99 smithing, you can make dragon armor and trim it in order to afk volcano. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies.


'''Cons:''' You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). You can earn gold and silver bars from monster drops, although smithing is far quicker. Can get ranged ammo from mob drops.
===== {{Skill|Prayer}} =====
Pros: Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. Always contributes to combat level.  


Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you want better melee gear.
Cons: Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are [[Raw Skeleton Fish]] from fishing or [[Blessed Offering]] from alt magic.


==== {{Skill|Thieving}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Mid game, when you have a good source of prayer points.
'''Pros:''' Get decent gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and ore. Pickpocketing the [[Farmer]] is the best source of [[Seeds]]. Can get [[Chapeau Noir]] to earn more drops from combat.  


Cons: Hard to get started, will want to be naked before getting auto eat. You can get everything here from other places.
===== {{Skill|Slayer}} =====
Pros: Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fight. Slayer coins can be spent on upgrades and resupplies that give food, bones, and ammo. Slayer areas have important mobs, like mummy for gold emerald ring and gold topaz ring.


Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, depending on when you think the drops will be useful.
Cons: Acquiring slayer coins requires you to manually reroll tasks, or at least switch to your current task, which is inconvenient for mostly idling players until you get 150k for auto slayer. You can still earn some slayer xp by fighting in a slayer area. Takes a while to earn up coins to buy anything. Does '''not''' contribute to combat level.


==== {{Skill|Farming}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Early to Mid game, when you need the drops from Slayer mobs.
'''Pros:''' Food with no in game time spent. After a few days you make a ton of food every few hours. Only viable way to get herbs for [[Herblore]]. Get most types of logs. Earn some decent gp with no in game time spent if you sell herbs/logs.  


'''Cons:''' Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Get seeds from [[Thieving]], [[Combat]] or [[Woodcutting]]. Need to buy [[Compost]] or kill farmers for it. Need mining to get [[Weird Gloop]] for best xp and food rate. Thieving or woodcutting is required to get [[Carrot Seeds]].
===== {{Skill|Woodcutting}} =====
Pros: Easy to idle, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Gets logs for magic staves, arrows. [[Bird Nest]] are a decent source of seeds. Level 99 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin|Dragon Javelins]], one of the best end-game [[Money Making]] strategies.


Recommended to unlock: Early to Mid game, depending if you take fishing and cooking first.
Cons: Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}} until a high level.  


==== {{Skill|Fletching}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Late to end game, when you are planning to do Dragon Javelins.
'''Pros:''' Needed to craft [[Arrows]] and bows for [[Ranged]] combat. Level 99 needed to fletch [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies.


'''Cons:''' Ranged is not the strongest combat style, and you can get most arrows and bows from combat drops. Fletching djavs for money is not viable until combat level 99.
===== {{Skill|Fishing}} =====
Pros: With cooking, it's an easy afk food supply. Can get {{ItemIcon|Ancient Ring of Skills|ARoS}} for XP or {{ItemIcon|Message in a Bottle}} that unlocks {{ItemIcon|Raw Skeleton Fish}} - a great source of prayer points. Can train strength afk with [[Barbarian Fishing]]. Can make some decent money offline at higher levels. Cooking is not mandatory to gain edible food from fishing because there's {{ItemIcon|Raw Magic Fish}}, but it's very slow compared to Cooking.  


Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you are planning to train ranged and don't want to farm ammo from combat.
Cons: You can get food from farming or combat. Prayer points can come from alt magic. The gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until high levels.


==== {{Skill|Crafting}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Early to Late game, depending on if your food/prayer source comes from here or from [[Farming]] and [[Alternative Magic]].
'''Pros:''' Makes ranged armor and jewelry.  


'''Cons:''' Ranged armor and jewelry drop from combat. Not a useful skill.
===== {{Skill|Firemaking}} =====
Pros: The skill cape gives you and xp bonus, but you can buy it only at level 99. Gives Cooking an xp bonus with fires. If you are going for max completion, might want to get the [[Firemaking Skillcape]] and [[Pyro]] before completing some other skills.


Recommended to unlock: End game when you have nothing else to unlock.
Cons: Need 99 combat level to get the skill cape, its appeal is reduced by its late acquisition. Need to get logs from woodcutting. Need [[Herblore]] for [[Controlled Heat Potion]] for effective training.


==== {{Skill|Runecrafting}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have [[Woodcutting]] and [[Herblore]] and want to grind the [[Firemaking Skillcape]] for bonus xp.
'''Pros:''' Lets you use [[Magic]], the strongest end game combat style. Also required for [[Alternative Magic]] to gain prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become OP with ancient magic.  


'''Cons:''' Need [[Mining]] first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic. Higher tier runes require a high level, which means a high combat level.
===== {{Skill|Cooking}} =====
Pros: Easy and quick afk food with [[Fishing]]. If you aren't able to actively play, it is hard to get food from collecting monster drops or from farming.


Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you plan to start training magic.
Cons: You can get food and lots of other items from [[Farming]] or [[Combat]]. Farming can provide food without pressing the Loot All button regularly. Does not give any advantage besides food.


==== {{Skill|Herblore}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Depends on if you take fishing and put off farming.
'''Pros:''' Makes other skills more efficient. Combat potions provide a boost, but [[Diamond Luck Potion]] and [[Damage Reduction Potion]] are essential for late game combat. Level 53 needed to efficiently create [[Dragon Javelin]], one of the best end game [[Money Making]] strategies.


'''Cons:''' Needs [[Farming]] for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get depending on you available skills. Need a high combat level and a huge number of ingredients to get the best combat potions. Slow to train.
===== {{Skill|Mining}} =====
Pros: Mining with [[Gem Gloves]] is the best money making strat early on, plus it's idle. Can earn some offline gp before the gloves. Need [[Rune Essence]] for [[Runecrafting]] and [[Weird Gloop]] for [[Farming]]. With [[Smithing]], you can get bars for armor trimming, melee armor and weapons, and ranged ammo. Needed to create [[Dragon Javelin|Dragon Javelins]].


Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you have plenty of herbs and want some efficiency on your other skills.
Cons: Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves.  


==== {{Skill|Agility}} ====
Recommended to unlock: Early game - gem gloves is love, gem gloves is life.
'''Pros:''' Provides small buffs to other skills, increasing XP, mastery, item preservation, combat buffs, etc. Easy afk way to make good gp/hr at higher levels.  


'''Cons:'''  Many obstacles require skills or items you have not unlocked yet. Obstacles become increasingly expensive, and some have large debuffs. Gp/hr Does not surpass gem gloves until at least level 70, unless you have [[Aorpheat's Signet Ring]].
===== {{Skill|Smithing}} =====
Pros: Make silver/gold bars for armor trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor. Needed to create armor in order to idle some crucial late-game locations. Needed to create Dragon Javelins.


Recommended to unlock: Mid to End game, when you have enough money, skills and items to create a useful course.
Cons: You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). You can earn gold and silver bars from monster drops, although smithing is far quicker. Can get ranged ammo from mob drops.


==== {{Skill|Summoning}} ====
Recommended to unlock: When you want better melee gear.
'''Pros:''' Provides small buffs to other skills, and helps in combat. Some synergies provide big boosts.


'''Cons:'''  Needs other skills unlocked to unlock more familiars and synergies. Getting materials for some marks may be tricky, and shards are expensive. Need an [[Agility]] course and spend slayer coins on gear to train efficiently.
===== {{Skill|Thieving}} =====
Pros: Get decent gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and ore. Pickpocketing the [[Farmer]] is the best source of [[Seeds]]. Can get [[Chapeau Noir]] to earn more drops from combat.  


Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have the skills to unlock useful familiars and the money to burn on shards.
Cons: Hard to get started. You can get the vital stuff from other places.


== Potential Skill Order ==
Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, depending on when you think the drops will be useful.


==== Example: up to Dragon Javelins ====
===== {{Skill|Farming}} =====
Pros: Food with no in-game time spent. The only way to get herbs for [[Herblore]]. Gets most types of logs. Earn some decent gp with no in-game time spent if you sell herbs/logs.


This section presents a path from the very start to money-making with {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin}}. Producing them is currently the most profitable money-making method that doesn't require you to have the end-game gear.
Cons: Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Get seeds from [[Thieving]], [[Combat]] or [[Woodcutting]]. Need to buy [[Compost]] or kill farmers for it. Need mining to get [[Weird Gloop]] for best xp and food rate. Thieving or woodcutting is required to get [[Carrot Seeds]].


Get {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} from {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. When you have 100 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}, try {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}.
Recommended to unlock: Early to Late game, depending on if you take fishing and cooking first.


Kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, then unlock {{Skill|Cooking}}. It will save you a ton of gathering and clicking because {{ItemIcon|Beef}} heals 16 times better than {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}.
===== {{Skill|Fletching}} =====
Pros: Needed to craft [[Arrows]] and bows for [[Ranged]] combat. Needed for Dragon Javelins (DJavs).


After you got {{ItemIcon|Beef}} by cooking drops from Cows, get {{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} and {{ItemIcon|Bronze Shield}} from {{MonsterIcon|Golbin}}.
Cons: Ranged is not the strongest combat style, and you can get most arrows and bows from combat drops. Fletching DJavs for money is locked behind high level.


In general, if the mentioned monster is hard, use {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}} to level up more before trying it again.
Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you start doing DJavs.


Get {{ItemIcon|Iron Platebody}} and {{ItemIcon|Iron Platelegs}} from {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}}.
===== {{Skill|Crafting}} =====
Pros: Makes ranged armor and jewelry.  


Get {{ItemIcon|Steel Platebody}} from {{MonsterIcon|Zombie}}.
Cons: Ranged armor and jewelry drop from combat. Not a useful skill.


Get the rest of the Steel armor and weapon set from {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}}.
Recommended to unlock: End game when you have nothing else to unlock.


Unlock {{Skill|Slayer}} and get {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} and {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} from {{MonsterIcon|Mummy}}.
===== {{Skill|Runecrafting}} =====
Pros: Lets you use Magic. Also required for [[Alternative Magic|Alt Magic]] to gain prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become a walking DPS machine with ancient magic.  


Get {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} from {{MonsterIcon|Ice Monster}}. It will hit hard, but if you can survive it and deal damage at a decent rate, do it.
Cons: Need [[Mining]] first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic. Higher tier runes require a high level, which means a high combat level.


Set your character name to "witwix" and get {{ItemIcon|Chest of Witwix}} from {{MonsterIcon|Leech}}. If your name is "witwix", you will always get {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Calculated Promotion}} from this chest.
Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you plan to start training magic.


Unlock {{Skill|Mining}} and {{Skill|Smithing}}. With them unlocked, transition into Mithril and then Adamant armor. If you are strong enough, farm {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer}} instead of Cows to sell the seeds. Trim your armor up to Gold.
===== {{Skill|Herblore}} =====
Pros: Makes other skills more efficient. Combat potions provide a boost, but {{ItemIcon|Diamond Luck Potion IV}} and {{ItemIcon|Damage Reduction Potion IV}} are desired for late game combat. Level 53 helps to create [[Dragon Javelin|Dragon Javelins]] faster.


At this point your Combat level should be more than 50, so you can farm {{ItemIcon|Mithril Ore}}. Farm it until you can buy {{ItemIcon|Gem Gloves}}, then keep them always active when mining and mine more to get Auto Eat 2. This step is aimed at the idle style of play. If you want to manually farm Spider Dungeon, you can do that instead.
Cons: Needs [[Farming]] for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get depending on you available skills. Need a high combat level and a huge number of ingredients to get the best combat potions. Slow to train.


Get {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} from {{ItemIcon|Spider Chest}}. Now you can idle your food production.  
Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you have plenty of herbs and want some efficiency on your other skills.


Unlock {{Skill|Runecrafting}}, {{Skill|Magic}}, and {{Skill|Prayer}} by mining with the Gem Gloves.
===== {{Skill|Agility}} =====
Pros: Provides small buffs to other skills, increasing XP, mastery, item preservation, combat buffs, etc. Easy afk way to make good gp/hr at higher levels.  


Get prayer points through Alt Magic. Use the prayers that are most expensive and useful: Chivalry and Piety are the best options to level up {{Skill|Prayer}}: the options that spend fewer prayer points are both slower and have lower rate of prayer-xp-per-point.
Cons:  Many obstacles require skills or items you have not unlocked yet. Obstacles become increasingly expensive, and some have large debuffs. Gp/hr Does not surpass gem gloves until high levels unless you have {{ItemIcon|Aorpheat's Signet Ring}}.


Level up your Combat. If you have enough food, hit {{MonsterIcon|Tentacle}}. If Tentacle dies from less than two of your average shots, use {{MonsterIcon|Giant Crab}}.
Recommended to unlock: Mid to End game, when you have enough money, skills and items to create a useful course.


Get your combat up to level 99. For instance, the following combination was enough for it: Attack 77, Strength 75, Defence 79, Hitpoints 77, Prayer 91.
===== {{Skill|Summoning}} =====
Pros: Provides small buffs to other skills, and helps in combat. Some synergies provide big boosts.


Unlock {{Skill|Woodcutting}} and {{Skill|Fletching}} by mining the same Mithril Ore with Gem Gloves.
Cons:  Needs other skills unlocked to unlock more familiars and synergies. Getting materials for some marks may be tricky, and shards are expensive. Need an [[Agility]] course and spend slayer coins on gear to train efficiently.


Level up the unlocked skills to create {{ItemIcon|Dragon Javelin}}.
Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have the skills to unlock useful familiars and the money to burn on shards.
 
 
The sections below are '''Not yet updated for 0.22 changes!'''
 
Choosing a skill order will greatly change your path through Adventure Mode. Many skills are interconnected, and you will be limited by items you can't get and your combat level. Read the Skills Pros and Cons list above for a more in depth look at each skill. Plan ahead what skills you will buy next!
 
There is no best skill order. Your order depends greatly on how often you are actively playing the game and overall priorities. The start of the game requires a lot of attention to progress efficiently, but you can still make some progress afk.
 
==== Early Game: Active Playing ====
'''Slayer > Farming > Mining > Gem Gloves > Auto Eat - Tier 1'''
 
With slayer, reroll easy tasks for free until you get the creature you want to fight, usually plants, cows, or farmers. Save slayer coins for auto slayer.
 
Once you have the money for farming, buy it and start farming. Kill farmers for seeds. It is slow at first, but soon will give you more food than you need. Harvest and plant new seeds whenever you can. Herbs and trees are less important for now, but are still good for xp.
 
Buy mining and save up for gem gloves. Mine some essence and use it to make weird gloop. Mine the highest tier ore and sell it if you have to afk and aren't saving for smithing.
 
==== Early Game: AFK Playing ====
'''Mining > Gem Gloves > Fishing > Cooking > Auto Eat - Tier I'''
 
This route will be significantly slower, but at least you can make some progress when you are not able to have the game running.
 
You will need to actively collect loot from combat and heal with potatoes at first. Soon your regen will be enough to outheal plants, and later cows.
 
After you kill enough cows to unlock mining, you can start earning some gp offline, but you will be greatly restricted by combat level. Work towards earning 500k so you can start earning good gp/hr offline. Then get fishing, cooking, and [[Auto Eat - Tier I]] so you can afk combat. When you get the drops, you can train strength through barbarian fishing and get prayer points from bone fish.
 
You will still want to buy slayer and farming soon!
 
==== Mid Game: Melee ====
'''Source of Prayer Points > Prayer > Smithing'''
 
By now you should have a good source of food and progressing through combat. Get prayer points from fishing (bone fish), RC+magic (blessed offering) or slayer (resupply). Train prayer and slayer as you do combat so you are prepared for the higher tier dungeons. You can trim Mithril armor, or wait until you can fight adamant knights and trim their armor.
 
==== Mid Game: Magic ====
'''Runecrafting > Magic > Prayer'''


After some essence mining, start training runecrafting. Craft a set of air robes and get a weapon, either create a [[Magic Wand (Basic)]] from 1k essence or fight [[fairy]] for a staff. Then start whacking melee mobs with wind strike! As your combat level increases, you can craft higher tier runes to use stronger air spells. You can use alt magic to earn xp while offline, and you will want to cast a lot of [[Blessed Offering]] to earn prayer points when you unlock it.
===== {{Skill|Astrology}} =====
Pros: Provides bonuses to all skills. Has no requirements to train.


==== Next Steps ====
Cons: These bonuses won't make help you in farming the gold for the next skill.
There are lots of ways to go from here. Getting slayer and farming is a must if you haven't already. Herblore makes your other skills more efficient, thieving gives you [[Chapeau Noir]] and carrot seeds, agility gives passives boosts. Try to train two combat styles, probably magic and melee. Working on getting to 99 combat level and being able to idle the late game dungeons!


Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have unlocked one of the best money-making methods.


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Preface

Adventure mode takes what you know about Melvor and turns it on its head! You start with only melee combat unlocked and must pay an increasing GP cost to unlock each skill. It means that the skills you choose will greatly affect the route you take through the game. Your non-combat skills will be locked to your combat level, so the skilling you can do is very limited at first.

This mode requires you to do more combat than the other modes, especially at the beginning. On one hand, it may be hard for new players to get a grasp of how all skills are connected without using them first. On the other hand, the Adventure mode reduces the number of early-game choices, which can help new players to get a feel of the game. It's all about tradeoffs!

Speaking of tradeoffs, that is the name of the game in this mode. You can save time on one grind by picking another skill or targeting a different enemy, but it will likely cost you more time somewhere else. The trick is to pick aspects of the game that you like the most and focus your time and attention to those areas, then you can apply the time-reduction strategies to the areas you don't like as much. It's all about tradeoffs! We'll get into this more later. That said, there really are ways to hamper yourself pretty badly, so this guide is all about helping you dodge the big mistakes and apply your time where you want to spend it.

A rough strategy is given below, but don't let anyone dictate your suffering adventure!

Starting out

First you need to do some basic melee combat to get some combat levels and cash for a first skill. During the tutorial you made a Bronze Dagger. This will be the strongest weapon you need until steel. Equip your that and your Shrimp and start whacking some Plants. Remember to press the Loot All button to keep your potatoes! Use different fighting styles (Stab, Slash, Block) to keep your stats somewhat equal.

After getting about about 10|10|10 (Attack, Strength, Defense), try killing a Cow. If it hits too hard, level up a bit more with Plants.

After that, follow the HCCO/Guide for a smooth enemy progression, but note that some mobs require you to unlock Slayer first. Do note that this guide may be somewhat outdated, so I'll try to catch some of the basic changes below.

Early money making

Your first money maker will be fighting Cows. Collect their Leather, and then go to the shop and purchase as many Green Dragonhide as you can, then sell the green hides. This gives an extra Coins.svg 50 compared to just selling the plain leather.

Historically, the Amulet of Looting was a critical upgrade in this mode, but since thieving was updated and the combat loot box expanded, that can be your main money-maker very early (within a few hours of starting your character). I'll discuss more advanced tactics below (~4-6 hours to idle woman instead of 8+ for man), but if you just keep thieving from Man, you will eventually reach a 100% success rate and be able to idle him without losing food. Before about 93% success, you will have to keep manually eating to prevent death in this phase.

Planning Ahead

Skill Unlock Costs

Skill level unlock costs increase drastically, so planning out a skill unlock order is extremely important. Here are unlock costs:

Unlock Cost Cumulative Cost
1 GP 10,000 GP 10,000
2 GP 25,000 GP 35,000
3 GP 50,000 GP 85,000
4 GP 200,000 GP 285,000
5 GP 250,000 GP 535,000
6 GP 400,000 GP 935,000
7 GP 1,000,000 GP 1,935,000
8 GP 2,500,000 GP 4,435,000
9 GP 10,000,000 GP 14,435,000
10 GP 25,000,000 GP 39,435,000
11 GP 50,000,000 GP 89,435,000
12 GP 100,000,000 GP 189,435,000
13 GP 200,000,000 GP 389,435,000
14 GP 500,000,000 GP 889,435,000
15 GP 500,000,000 GP 1,389,435,000
16 GP 500,000,000 GP 1,889,435,000
17 GP 500,000,000 GP 2,389,435,000
18 GP 500,000,000 GP 2,889,435,000
19 GP 500,000,000 GP 3,389,435,000
20 GP 500,000,000 GP 3,889,435,000
21 GP 500,000,000 GP 4,389,435,000
22 GP 500,000,000 GP 4,889,435,000

Combat Level

Read the wiki page on Combat Level.

Your non-combat skills are gated behind your combat level, greatly restricting what you can do. Getting to 99 combat level is an important early goal of this mode. Combat level factors in HP, defence, prayer, plus your highest style of combat: magic, ranged, or attack/strength. It's easier to get combat lvl 99 through attack/strength.

The combat level formula means that if you have a high level in one combat style, picking up another one won’t raise your combat level until you surpass your other combat style’s level.

It is meaningfully easier to reach 99 combat through melee than other means, and prayer can further speed this up. You will be aiming for stats (Attack, Strength, Defense, HP, Prayer) something around 79/79/76/78/75 to reach your goal, though feel free to play around with those numbers- they're very flexible.

Long Term goals

If you want to complete the Adventure mode, you will need several billion GP. To get that much money, you need a good method and a plan for how to get it.

Please read the Money Making guide in order to make a draft of your money-making progression.

For instance:

  1. Unlock Cooking.
  2. Kill cows and cook beef.
  3. Unlock Thieving.
  4. Get your combat level to 30.
  5. Thieve from Man, sustaining by manually eating Beef
  6. Progress through items that improve thieving- Thiever's cape from Bandit Thug or Marauder, Golbin Mask from Golbin Chief, Sneakers from anyone
  7. Unlock the skills needed for the production of Jadestone Bolts (Note: There are several viable late and endgame money-making setups. Jade Bolts is currently the strongest endgame. Focus progression on things that improve global thieving first, as they improve any money-making build)

Potential Skill Order

Choosing a skill order will greatly change your path through the Adventure Mode.
Many skills are interconnected, so you will be limited by your combat level and the items you can't get.

If your goal is the 100% completion, then it is about getting the best money-making method as fast as possible.
This section presents routes from zero to making money with some of the best methods in the game.

Example: Thieving

Unlock route: Cooking > Slayer > Fishing > Thieving > Mining > Smithing > Prayer > Combat level 99

Get Potatoes from Plants. When you have 100 Potatoes, switch to Cows.

Kill Cows, loot all including Leather, buy Green Dragonhide and then sell it.

Unlock Cooking to stop relying on Potatoes. Use Beef instead.

Unlock Slayer and get Amulet of Strength and Gold Emerald Ring from Mummy.

Unlock Fishing. It will be the source of material for Cooking.

Sell fish to unlock Thieving.

It is not easy to figure out whom to pickpocket with Thieving to get the most of money. Use Nomeru's sheet on Thieving from Spreadsheets and Theorycrafting to decide whom to target. Keep in mind that the results in early game are drastically different from what is given on the sheet - you need to copy the sheet and enter your current situation.

Unlock Mining and Smithing. With them you can create your own armor and weapons.

Transition into Mithril and then Adamant armor. Trim your resulting armor up to Gold (G).

After that, you might want to get to Combat level 99 to upgrade your Thieving options. For that, unlock Prayer and level Melee together with prayers. Use the most expensive and relevant prayers you have. Chivalry and Piety are the best options to level up Prayer: the options that spend fewer prayer points have lower rate of prayer-xp-per-point and will slow down your combat.

Level up your Combat.
Fight the following monsters:

You can check out the Combat Simulator to see which monster is the best for your situation. Don't forget to consider the food expenditure.

As an example of Combat Level 99, the following combination was enough: Attack 77, Strength 75, Defence 79, Hitpoints 77, Prayer 91.

The later upgrades of money-making with Thieving consist of Herblore, Agility, and Summoning. It's up to you to decide in which order to unlock them and the other skills they need. Nomeru's sheet on Thieving from Spreadsheets and Theorycrafting will come in handy to compare the improvements.

Example: Dragon Javelins

Unlock route: Cooking > Slayer > Fishing > Mining > Smithing > Rune > Magic > Prayer > Combat level 99 > Woodcutting > Fletching.

Most of the things are the same as in the Example: Thieving, but we don't unlock Thieving, and we use Alt. Magic to get prayer points.

After you unlocked Smithing, unlock Runecrafting, Magic, and Prayer.

Get prayer points through Blessed Offering from Alt. Magic.

Get your combat up to level 99.

Unlock Woodcutting and Fletching.

Level up the unlocked skills to start earning money with Dragon Javelins.

Skills Pros/Cons

The recommendation for when to unlock a skill means the following:

  • Early game: skill unlock 1-3.
  • Mid game: 4-8.
  • Late game: 9-13.
  • End game: 14-18
Attack, Strength

Pros: Unlocked at start. No ammo needed to train. Can get starter weapon/armor quickly. Will need to use it for a while at the start. Fishing lets you train Strength when idle with Barbarian Fishing. Strong against ranged enemies.

Cons: Not as strong as magic in late-game. Need to train two skills instead of one. Weak to magic enemies.

Defence

Pros: Unlocked at start. Can train with any type of combat. Always contributes to combat level. Reduces food usage.

Cons: Doesn’t increase your damage.

Ranged

Pros: Fairly easy to get weapon/armor drops from enemies. Frozen arrows are strong and relatively quick to gather with melee. Strong against magic enemies.

Cons: Need to farm ammo, which is much slower if you don’t have mining + smithing for bolts/knives, and additionally wood + fletching for arrows. Less needed than other forms of combat. Not as strong as magic late game. Bad against melee enemies, most enemies are melee.

Recommended to unlock: Late game, when fighting the Water God Dungeon.

Magic

Pros: Very strong, especially in the end game. Ancient magic is high damage and perfect accuracy. Strong against melee, most enemies are melee. Alt magic lets you gain prayer points easily, plus some idle xp. Can craft good weapons/armor with runecrafting easily.

Cons: Need mining + runecrafting before you can start. Takes time to craft runes, best runes are locked behind a high runecrafting level. You need woodcutting or thieving to make elemental staves, otherwise they are monster drops. Prayer points can come from fishing instead. Needs ancient magic to reach full potential. Bad against ranged enemies.

Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you already have Mining and Runecrafting unlocked.

Prayer

Pros: Helps a ton in combat, especially in difficult combat or late game. You get bones from everything. Always contributes to combat level.

Cons: Needs a supply of prayer points, bone drops aren’t enough. Best ways for that are Raw Skeleton Fish from fishing or Blessed Offering from alt magic.

Recommended to unlock: Mid game, when you have a good source of prayer points.

Slayer

Pros: Rerolling easy tasks is free, so you can always gain slayer coins and xp from what you want to fight. Slayer coins can be spent on upgrades and resupplies that give food, bones, and ammo. Slayer areas have important mobs, like mummy for gold emerald ring and gold topaz ring.

Cons: Acquiring slayer coins requires you to manually reroll tasks, or at least switch to your current task, which is inconvenient for mostly idling players until you get 150k for auto slayer. You can still earn some slayer xp by fighting in a slayer area. Takes a while to earn up coins to buy anything. Does not contribute to combat level.

Recommended to unlock: Early to Mid game, when you need the drops from Slayer mobs.

Woodcutting

Pros: Easy to idle, can make decent gp/hr at higher levels. Gets logs for magic staves, arrows. Bird Nest are a decent source of seeds. Level 99 needed to efficiently create Dragon Javelins, one of the best end-game Money Making strategies.

Cons: Everything you can get here you can get from thieving, and the gp/hr is worse than Gem Gloves until a high level.

Recommended to unlock: Late to end game, when you are planning to do Dragon Javelins.

Fishing

Pros: With cooking, it's an easy afk food supply. Can get ARoS for XP or Message in a Bottle that unlocks Raw Skeleton Fish - a great source of prayer points. Can train strength afk with Barbarian Fishing. Can make some decent money offline at higher levels. Cooking is not mandatory to gain edible food from fishing because there's Raw Magic Fish, but it's very slow compared to Cooking.

Cons: You can get food from farming or combat. Prayer points can come from alt magic. The gp/hr is worse than gem gloves until high levels.

Recommended to unlock: Early to Late game, depending on if your food/prayer source comes from here or from Farming and Alternative Magic.

Firemaking

Pros: The skill cape gives you and xp bonus, but you can buy it only at level 99. Gives Cooking an xp bonus with fires. If you are going for max completion, might want to get the Firemaking Skillcape and Pyro before completing some other skills.

Cons: Need 99 combat level to get the skill cape, its appeal is reduced by its late acquisition. Need to get logs from woodcutting. Need Herblore for Controlled Heat Potion for effective training.

Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have Woodcutting and Herblore and want to grind the Firemaking Skillcape for bonus xp.

Cooking

Pros: Easy and quick afk food with Fishing. If you aren't able to actively play, it is hard to get food from collecting monster drops or from farming.

Cons: You can get food and lots of other items from Farming or Combat. Farming can provide food without pressing the Loot All button regularly. Does not give any advantage besides food.

Recommended to unlock: Depends on if you take fishing and put off farming.

Mining

Pros: Mining with Gem Gloves is the best money making strat early on, plus it's idle. Can earn some offline gp before the gloves. Need Rune Essence for Runecrafting and Weird Gloop for Farming. With Smithing, you can get bars for armor trimming, melee armor and weapons, and ranged ammo. Needed to create Dragon Javelins.

Cons: Need 500k for first pair of gem gloves.

Recommended to unlock: Early game - gem gloves is love, gem gloves is life.

Smithing

Pros: Make silver/gold bars for armor trimming and gp before you can afford gem gloves. Make ranged ammo. Make melee weapons/armor. Needed to create armor in order to idle some crucial late-game locations. Needed to create Dragon Javelins.

Cons: You can kill knights for melee weapons/armor far sooner than you unlock with smithing (except gloves). You can earn gold and silver bars from monster drops, although smithing is far quicker. Can get ranged ammo from mob drops.

Recommended to unlock: When you want better melee gear.

Thieving

Pros: Get decent gp/hr while getting other materials like food and logs and ore. Pickpocketing the Farmer is the best source of Seeds. Can get Chapeau Noir to earn more drops from combat.

Cons: Hard to get started. You can get the vital stuff from other places.

Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, depending on when you think the drops will be useful.

Farming

Pros: Food with no in-game time spent. The only way to get herbs for Herblore. Gets most types of logs. Earn some decent gp with no in-game time spent if you sell herbs/logs.

Cons: Need to open the game every so often to get the most food. Get seeds from Thieving, Combat or Woodcutting. Need to buy Compost or kill farmers for it. Need mining to get Weird Gloop for best xp and food rate. Thieving or woodcutting is required to get Carrot Seeds.

Recommended to unlock: Early to Late game, depending on if you take fishing and cooking first.

Fletching

Pros: Needed to craft Arrows and bows for Ranged combat. Needed for Dragon Javelins (DJavs).

Cons: Ranged is not the strongest combat style, and you can get most arrows and bows from combat drops. Fletching DJavs for money is locked behind high level.

Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you start doing DJavs.

Crafting

Pros: Makes ranged armor and jewelry.

Cons: Ranged armor and jewelry drop from combat. Not a useful skill.

Recommended to unlock: End game when you have nothing else to unlock.

Runecrafting

Pros: Lets you use Magic. Also required for Alt Magic to gain prayer points. Curses and auras make you stronger until you become a walking DPS machine with ancient magic.

Cons: Need Mining first. Doesn’t do anything before unlocking magic. Higher tier runes require a high level, which means a high combat level.

Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you plan to start training magic.

Herblore

Pros: Makes other skills more efficient. Combat potions provide a boost, but Diamond Luck Potion IV and Damage Reduction Potion IV are desired for late game combat. Level 53 helps to create Dragon Javelins faster.

Cons: Needs Farming for herbs, some secondary materials are hard to get depending on you available skills. Need a high combat level and a huge number of ingredients to get the best combat potions. Slow to train.

Recommended to unlock: Mid to Late game, when you have plenty of herbs and want some efficiency on your other skills.

Agility

Pros: Provides small buffs to other skills, increasing XP, mastery, item preservation, combat buffs, etc. Easy afk way to make good gp/hr at higher levels.

Cons: Many obstacles require skills or items you have not unlocked yet. Obstacles become increasingly expensive, and some have large debuffs. Gp/hr Does not surpass gem gloves until high levels unless you have Aorpheat's Signet Ring.

Recommended to unlock: Mid to End game, when you have enough money, skills and items to create a useful course.

Summoning

Pros: Provides small buffs to other skills, and helps in combat. Some synergies provide big boosts.

Cons: Needs other skills unlocked to unlock more familiars and synergies. Getting materials for some marks may be tricky, and shards are expensive. Need an Agility course and spend slayer coins on gear to train efficiently.

Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have the skills to unlock useful familiars and the money to burn on shards.

Astrology

Pros: Provides bonuses to all skills. Has no requirements to train.

Cons: These bonuses won't make help you in farming the gold for the next skill.

Recommended to unlock: Late to End game, when you have unlocked one of the best money-making methods.


Melvor Idle version v1.2.2 (Released: 15th November 2023)
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Slayer (skill).svg Slayer
Skills:
Woodcutting (skill).svg Woodcutting
Fishing (skill).svg Fishing
Firemaking (skill).svg Firemaking
Cooking (skill).svg Cooking
Mining (skill).svg Mining
Smithing (skill).svg Smithing
Thieving (skill).svg Thieving
Farming (skill).svg Farming
Fletching (skill).svg Fletching
Crafting (skill).svg Crafting
Runecrafting (skill).svg Runecrafting
Herblore (skill).svg Herblore
Agility (skill).svg Agility
Summoning (skill).svg Summoning
Astrology (skill).svg Astrology
Township (skill).svg Township
Cartography (skill).svg Cartography
Archaeology (skill).svg Archaeology
Alternative Magic (skill).svg Alternative Magic
Other:
Beginners Guide
Guides
Bank
Combat
Mastery
Money Making
Shop
Easter Eggs
Pets
Golbin Raid
Full Version
Throne of the Herald
Atlas of Discovery
Reference Tables: Items, Equipment, Experience Table, Upgrading Items, Combat Areas, Slayer Areas, Dungeons, Chest Loot Tables, Monsters, Monster Loot Tables
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