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The Volcanic Cave is the dungeon that unlocks all of the Legendary dungeons. The guide covers gives recommendations on gear needed to idle this dungeon. Idling has a significantly higher skill and equipment requirements than manual clears.
Why Clear Volcanic Cave?
- Clear 1 time:
- Clear 50 times:
- Clear 100 times:
- Clear 100+ times:
According to simulations, to get the full 
ancient armour set it will likely take:
- 640 clears with a 50% chance
- 817 clears with a 75% chance
- 1377 clears with a 95% chance
When to Clear Volcanic Cave?
There are no downsides to attempting Volcanic Cave early as you will obtain powerful gear if you manage to complete it. However, it will be a significant challenge if you attempt this dungeon under-levelled.
In general, you will want at least 
Level 80 and you should be able to complete 
Dragons Den relatively easily before attempting this dungeon. Ideally, you will want sufficient 
Auto Eat to survive the dungeon without resorting to manual eating.
Ancient Magicks
After you clear the Volcanic Cave 100 times you gain access to Ancient Magicks which are a more powerful form of magic. When you have a Ancient Magicks spell equipped, there are no curses available, but you can still use Auroras.
In general, the spells you receive are very powerful:
Winds is best used when your chance to hit is relatively low because you are guaranteed not to miss if your accuracy is 20,000+.
Ignite is a more powerful spell and has a good chance of killing monsters in one-shot.
Icicle Volley is a good all rounder, and can be used in all other cases.
Ancient Magick spells do not scale in the same way as standard magic (i.e. with equipment buffs and debuffs), but they are still impacted by the Combat Triangle in the normal way. Typically, when you first obtain Ancient Magicks it is more powerful than the regular magic and so should used in preference. However, late-game these spells will not scale with gear and so will become less useful.
Gear To Idle
The boss of 
Volcanic Cave uses the 
Melee style and so it is not recommended that you attempt to idle this dungeon with 
Ranged due to the Combat Triangle penalties. This guide assumes that you have 
Auto Eat - Tier III equipped which greatly reduces the DR requirements.
The calculations in this guide are against the 
Hardcore/
Adventure modes, and so should work for most play styles, however if you have lower HP or DR than the guide recommends then check out Can I Idle or the Combat Simulator to see if you build will survive.
Melee
Volcanic Cave is often idled with Melee because the 
dragon armor set can be obtained with 
Level 99, further, the armour can be upgraded to provide 30% DR.
This Melee build requires 820 Hitpoints to idle the dungeon. However, this should be seen as a minimum DR + HP, as any less will be below the max hit of 
Malcs.The 
Sandstorm Ring can be omitted, but at the expense of clear time.
Lower tiers of armor may be used if HP or DR is increased through other sources such as 
Agility, 
Summoning, or more Hitpoints levels, etc.
Pre-Volcanic Magic
Idling with 
Magic is only recommended once you have stronger equipment because it will often end up with a slower clear time, or a more complicated setup.
To idle the dungeon with the build below, you need 780 Hitpoints and 
Weakening III active.
Fire Robes have the exact same stats as 
Air Robes. The secondary effect of robes (+20 minimum hit for matching spells) outweighs the damage increase of higher level spells, therefore, use the highest level spell and robe combination available to you. If available to you, use the 
Ring of Spirit Power instead of the 
Aorpheat's Signet Ring
100+ Volcanoes Magic
After clearing the Volcanic Cave 100 times you will unlock Ancient Magicks which require a minimum of Level 72.
It is recommended that you have 20,000+ accuracy when using the Slicing Winds as this means that the spell will never miss. This is important because you will want to keep a high DPS to make idling worthwhile. You can improve your Accuracy with:
For a magic build 
Prat, the Protector of Secrets will be the biggest hitter, and with this build it will be very close to your Auto-Eat threshhold, so if you need to deviate, then check your setup with the Combat Simulator.
For example:
- At 880 HP you will need to equip the
Stone Skin prayer to provide extra DR.
- At 910 HP you can farm the dungeon with 33% DR and without the prayer or potions.
Once you have sufficient accuracy rating, the 
Miolite Shield cam be swapped out for a ranged or melee shield with more DR such as 
(G) Dragon Shield to lower other HP/DR requirements.
For this build, food usage is 200,000 HP to 250,000 HP per hour.
Weapon Choice
Weapon choice makes a big difference to the number of chests that can realistically be obtained per hour when idling. This table shows how the weapons compare when adjusted to include time required to produce consumables, with reasonable assumptions:
Magic builds using Ancient Magicks generally produce more drops per hour than the Melee equivalents. However, due to the number of runes needed, and the non-scaling nature of Ancient Magicks, as you progress Melee builds will eventually give faster clear times.
This table uses data obtained from the Combat Simulator, and was adjusted by the time it takes to produce the required consumables with some assumptions made about the exact bonuses available for each skill. Use a copy of this spreadsheet to compare with your builds (link).
Gear Options
This section gives some alternative gear suggestions, in descending order of preference, based on the equipment available while idling the Volcanic Cave.
Gloves
Note:
Cape
In order of preference:
Boots
It is not recommended that DR is dropped, but at a pinch:
Ring
TL/DR
In summary, the suggested order of equipment is:
- Obtain the
Sunset Rapier and the Sandstorm Ring
- Perform 100 Volcanic Cave clears as Melee to unclock Slicing Winds
- Do the remainder of Volcanic Cave clears with Slicing Winds with the Surge aurora.
Air God Dungeon and 
Infernal Stronghold
Fire Cape which grants 2% DR
Elite Chest
Dragon Bones, 
and 
ancient armour in preparation for the 
Ancient Crossbow
Amulets of Fury needed for the 
Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs (FEZ). Check the FEZ/Guide for more details.
(G) Dragon Helmet
(G) Dragon Platebody
(G) Dragon Platelegs
(G) Dragon Boots
Paladin Gloves
Knight's Cape
Elite Amulet of Defence
Sandstorm Ring
Sunset Rapier
(G) Dragon Shield
Air Expert Wizard Hat
Air Expert Wizard Robes
Air Expert Wizard Bottoms
Air Expert Wizard Boots
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces
Skull Cape
Elite Amulet of Magic
Aorpheat's Signet Ring
Fire Expert Wizard Hat
Fire Expert Wizard Robes
Fire Expert Wizard Bottoms
Ring of Spirit Power
Magic Assistance Potions
Astrology
Prayer
Ancient Wizard Hat
Ancient Wizard Robes
Ancient Wizard Bottoms
Ancient Wizard Boots
Magic Wand (Powerful)
Miolite Shield
Pre-Volcanic
Dragon Sword
Dragon Claw
Ancient Sword
Ancient Claw
Paladin Gloves
(U) Red D-hide Vambraces
(U) Black D-hide Vambraces
(U) Ancient D-hide Vambraces
Level 73 or higher, or as a reward from the 
Spider Forest
Paladin
Skull Cape
Golden Fire Cape
Knight's Cape
Level 66
Firemaking Skillcape
Level 99 and no DR increase
Obsidian Cape
(G) Dragon Boots
Level 60
(G) Rune Boots
Silver Diamond Ring
Ring of Wealth
Ring of Blade Echoes
Combat:
