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Hardcore Combat Only (HCCO) is a community created Game Mode, where a player's Character is only allowed to use combat skills in 
Hardcore mode. This means the player will only be allowed to level 
Attack, 
Strength, 
Defence, 
Hitpoints, 
Ranged, 
Magic, 
Prayer, and Slayer.
The entire gameplay consists of fighting enemies in different areas, and trying to reach end-game bosses, without ever touching any of the non-combat skills, or ever dying.
Differences
Since we're playing Hardcore, there are some important parts to keep in mind:
- No natural HP regeneration/s.
- We start with 12 bank slots, capped to 80 (+ slots gained from Bank Slot Tokens after hitting 80 cap)
- Harder penalties for being on the weak corner of Combat Triangle.
- Permanent death
To regain Hitpoints, our choices are very limited:
- Consuming food, gained from monster loot:
Ancient Sword with its 25% chance for Life Leech (25% healing from damage dealt)
Warlock Amulet with its 20% healing from damage done from spells.
Known alternatives
Some people play alternative versions of this gamemode.
One of these variants (called HCCO 12 Bank Slots or HCCO12B) includes limiting themselves to the starting 12 bank slots.
Another style (called Hardcore No Gathering, or HCNG), allows using some non-combat skills, but none of the gathering-skills. This means they can't use 
Woodcutting, 
Fishing, 
Mining, 
Farming, but they can use the resources they gain from killing enemies. As a note, they will not be able to level 
Firemaking, as there is no way to obtain 
Normal Logs without Woodcutting.
Starting out
Starting out, it's quite possible you will die many times. Either because of bad luck, or because you forgot to pay attention to the game.
Before you do anything, get a stack of potatoes by punching plants.
For the first few levels, personally, I recommend using Block, to level up Defence. Leveling defence up improves your natural evasion ratings, effectively reducing all enemies' hit chance. I don't enjoy spam-clicking potatoes 300 times a minute. After reaching defence level 15 or so, I will start leveling my Attack stat, for a higher chance to hit enemies.
Once I get all melee 
Combat levels up to level 10, at least, I will try to get my first gear.
Gaining gear
Baby clothes
Bronze Battleaxe and 
Bronze Shield are both dropped from Golbin at Golbin Village. With these, I will go back to grind more potatoes, until I get bored, and believe I am strong enough to get myself some steel gear from the Steel Knight. A quick note: Any weapon is better than your fists, simply because of the 4s cooldown between attacks with your fists.
Alternatively, you might get a 
Bronze Dagger and potentially an 
Iron Dagger from the 
Goo Monster, if you're feeling brave.
You will be able to push yourself through the first three knights (
Steel Knight, 
Black Knight, 
Mithril Knight) quite decently, getting Boots, Platelegs, Platebodies, Helmets, Shields, Swords, and Scimitars. Furthermore, the Black Knight will drop you a 
Black Dagger, but you can ignore the black knight entirely.
If you're having a hard time getting the first shirt and leggings, you can take a pitstop by the 
Zombie Hand for the 
Iron Platelegs, and just go for the 
Zombie for 
Steel Platebody. It's much easier to get the shirt from the zombie than from the knight.
Some better gear
After getting a full set of 
Mithril Helmet, 
Mithril Platebody, 
Mithril Platelegs, 
Mithril Boots, and possibly a 
Mithril Sword or 
Mithril Scimitar... I will do what I call a Pro Gamer Move, and kill a few 
Purple Goo Monsters until they give me an 
Adamant Dagger. The benefit of wielding a dagger over a sword is that you will save yourself 0.2s between attacks, allowing you to hoard up even MORE POTATOES.
Also, after getting some Mithril gear, you should try killing an 
Ice Monster to get an 
Ice Sword, since the drop rate is really high, and it's pretty much on par with the 
Rune Sword.
At this point you should already have figured out you would benefit from the extra +7% Combat XP from the 
Gold Emerald Ring, and the 
Amulet of Strength dropped at 
Mummy. The 
Gold Topaz Ring is kinda meh, for now, since we won't have access to 
Aorpheat's Signet Ring anyway.
After having some decent clothes, a necklace, ring, and weapon... it's time for our next step.
Gaining gold
Okay, so you're sick of being a manual autoclicker, pressing Loot All, equipping potatoes, and munching potatoes for 1001 nights in a row. Okay, so power up an Arduino, connect a real life potato to fuel it with energy, and turn it into a potato powered autoclicker instead. Do this until you have enough potatoes to get a million gold, and can buy Auto Eat I for 1 000 000 Gold Coins.
Just kidding.
Kill 
Cows, loot 
Leather, and get free 
Bones for Prayer, experience, and some pennies. Upgrading Leather to 
Green Dragonhide increases the profit for each one. Do this until you can afford auto-eat. In my experience, this is the most efficient way to get gold at this stage.
While the efficiency of Auto Eat I might not be the best, you will save yourself a lot manual labour, and can finally get yourself a shower, by consuming your hard-earned potatoes.
AE2 and AE3
While this can (and probably should) wait until later, it's nice to know that in order to farm for Auto Eat 2 and Auto Eat III, one should do so at 
Master Farmer, mainly by collecting 
Magic Tree Seeds.
Post-AutoEat
Okay, so you've seen the doctor, and they cured your Arthritis, and you can finally return to play Melvor Idle (which wasn't idle until now).
Now, you should do some farming up to combat levels Combat 50, or so. At this point, you should consider getting the gear from the last two knights (
Adamant Knight, and 
Rune Knight), and upgrade the rune gear with 
Silver Bar and 
Gold Bar "quite easily" farmed at 
Statue. The drop chance for gold is slightly higher at Purple Goo Monster.
You should be ready now to get yourself an 
Amulet of Looting from the 
Spider Chest at 
Spider Forest. While it can vary a bit on your gear, you should have over a grand of 
Taters in your stock, since it will cost you around 500 potatoes per dungeon run.
Note: Some people claim you can rush the Amulet of Looting before getting Auto Eat.
Post-Amulet of Looting
TBD
End-game
TBD
Plant
Salmon, 
Lobster, and 
Shark from 
Sweaty Monster, 
Wet Monster, and 
Moist Monster
Trout from 
Raging Horned Elite
