Money Making

There are many different ways to make money in Melvor Idle, below are some methods that provide the highest rates of GP gain.

Fletching Dragon Javelins with Alt Magic (Max ~9500k/hr)

Requirements

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  Level 90
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  Level 95, 270 Mining mastery levels in total
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  Level 93
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  Level 92
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  Level 80
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  Level 95

Improves GP Rate

• Woodcutting
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    Level 99, Woodcutting Skillcape
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    Dragon Axe
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    Level 99
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    Master of Nature
  • Beavis
• Mining
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    Level 99, Mining Skillcape
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    Dragon Pickaxe
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    Level 99
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    Level 99
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    Level 99
  • Use Mining Gloves preferably, Gem Gloves otherwise
  • Perfect Swing Potion IV (requires
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    Level 53, 90 Mastery)
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    Master of Nature
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    Cool Rock
• Smithing
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    Level 99, Smithing Skillcape
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    Level 99
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    Art of Control
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    Puff, the Baby Dragon
• Fletching
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    Level 99, Fletching Skillcape
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    Level 99
  • Skilled Fletching Potion IV (requires
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    Level 42, 90 Mastery)
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    Perpetual Haste
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    Quill
• Runecrafting
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    Level 99, Runecrafting Skillcape
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    Level 99
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    Expanded Knowledge
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    Gunter
• Magic
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    Level 99, Magic Skillcape
• Other
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  • Crown of Rhaelyx affects all skills above except
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    Alternative Magic
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    Level 99, Herblore Skillcape
  • Cut Normal Logs while gathering Redwood Logs with Bird Nest Potion IV to maxmize profit while
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    Woodcutting
  • Bird Nest Potion IV, increases the number of Bird Nests obtained that can be sold for additional profit
  • (minor) Clue Chasers Insignia increases the chance for Bird Nests while
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    Woodcutting, Gems while
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    Mining (when not wearing Gem Gloves), and Mastery tokens for all skills by 10%

Method

1. Mine Dragonite Ore and Runite Ore in a 1:2 ratio. Ideally Mining Skillcape and Mining Gloves are equipped and Perfect Swing Potions are active while mining
2. Mine Rune Essence while the Mining Skillcape and Mining Gloves are equipped. Potions do not need to be active here due to the very low respawn time of Rune Essence
3. Cut Redwood Logs. Simultaneously cutting Normal Logs with Bird Nest Potion IV active will drop a significant amount of Bird Nests which can later be sold, greatly increasing the GP rate
4. Runecraft Fire Runes, Nature Runes, and Spirit Runes in a 7:2:3 ratio
5. Smelt Dragonite Bars using
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   Superheat IV while the Magic Skillcape and Mystic Earth Staff are equipped (avoids the need for any Earth Runes)
6. Smith Dragon Javelin Heads
7. Fletch Dragon Javelins while the Fletching Skillcape is equipped and Skilled Fletching Potion IV is active. Using Charge Stones while the Crown of Rhaelyx is equipped during this step provides a significant increase to the GP rate

Smithing Dragon Platebodies (Max 2117k/hr)

Requirements

• Level 99 Mining
• Level 99 Smithing
• Mining Skillcape
• Smithing Skillcape
• Dragon Pickaxe
• 500k gp to purchase Gem Gloves

Improves GP Rate

• Making diamonds into Diamond Luck Potions with the Herblore Skillcape more than doubles their value. This requires:
  • Level 99 Herblore
  • Level 80 Farming
• Aorpheats Signet Ring for a 10% chance to double ore, bar, platebody, and potion gains
• Perfect Swing Potions to increase the idle rate that ore can be mined at.
  • Level 53 Herblore
  • Level 50 Farming
• Increasing Mastery Level of items provide additional resource-saving and doubling benefits.

Method

1. Gather Dragonite Ore, Runite Ore and Coal Ore in a 1:2:6 ratio. This should be done wearing the Mining Skillcape. Depending on Mastery Levels and whether or not Diamond Luck Potions are being made, either Gem Gloves or Mining Gloves should be worn.
2. Make Dragonite Bars while wearing the Smithing Skillcape.
3. Make Dragon Platebodies
4. Make the diamonds into Diamond Luck Potions with the Herblore Skillcape if possible.
5. Sell the Gems, Diamond Luck Potions and Dragon Platebodies for profit

GP Rates with different Equipment and Mastery

The mastery in the tables below assume that every item has that mastery level. Note that the time to gather the ingredients for and make Perfect Swing Potions has not been included in the calculation due to it being negligible. It is also assumed that the Barrentoe Herbs for creating Diamond Luck Potions is grown concurrently during the money-making method, and do not add additional time.

Equipment
Gloves	Mining	Gem	Mining	Gem	Gem	Gem	Gem
Signet Ring	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Make Diamond Luck	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Perfect Swing	No	No	No	No	No	No	Tier 4
Mastery	GP Per Hour
1	35,053	92,850	61,748	109,548	143,643	168,705	470,490
10	99,836	203,815	157,843	240,733	303,798	355,771	700,881
20	185,162	308,001	272,655	364,947	450,083	526,414	853,812
30	277,900	404,524	393,769	481,140	572,598	670,720	979,278
40	405,089	513,805	553,085	614,290	718,743	842,954	1,137,911
50	526,119	617,919	705,407	741,425	839,503	987,252	1,270,966
60	717,626	767,405	938,896	924,779	992,359	1,172,130	1,442,452
70	874,577	894,775	1,132,811	1,080,840	1,156,265	1,366,490	1,637,861
80	1,165,196	1,122,613	1,480,715	1,358,751	1,375,280	1,631,844	1,895,516
90	1,368,183	1,286,852	1,727,857	1,559,149	1,545,851	1,837,532	2,099,939
99	1,382,560	1,306,346	1,744,793	1,581,345	1,577,716	1,872,574	2,117,292

Calculating the GP Rate

The GP rate can be calculated by finding the profit of completing a single platebody action and dividing by the time to complete the action and gather/craft all sub-components.

Main article: Math:Dragon_Platebodies

Fishing

Raw Whales (Max 1,746k/hr)

Requirements

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  Level 95

Improves GP Rate

Name	Description
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Dragon Fishing Rod	The strongest Fishing Rod, reduces fishing catch time by 40%.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Amulet of Fishing	Reduces fishing catch time by 20%. (Stacks multiplicatively with Fishing Rod bonus)
Fishing Skillcape	Doubles the number of fish caught.
File:Aorpheats Signet Ring (item).png Aorpheats Signet Ring	Increases the chance of doubling the number of fish caught by 10%.
Pudding Duckie	Increases the chance of doubling the number of fish caught by 5%.
Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 99	Doubles the number of fish caught.
95% Fishing Mastery Pool Checkpoint	Provides a 25% chance to receive an additional random special item whenever special items are received.

NOTE: The Fishing Skillcape and Level 99 Mastery bonuses will stack, causing at least four fish to be caught each time. The Signet Ring and pet bonuses will provide a 15% chance of catching eight fish.

Expected Outputs Per Hour

• 2,328 Raw Whale, worth 750 each.

Method

Equip Fishing gear and fish for Whales. Each piece of equipment will give a substantial boost to profit per hour. 65 Whale Mastery or 25% Fishing Mastery Pool Checkpoint are the most important targets, either of which will remove the junk catch chance. Fishing is the most profitable single-skill money making method, though it gets outclassed by the multiplicative benefits of the combinations above. This method does not include extra gold gained from special chances which would boost profit per hour marginally. Maximum gp/hr rates assume all improvements to GP rate are obtained and in use.

Alternative Fish

Players who do not yet have level 95 fishing may also choose to consider the following options: (Note that the numbers below include the boost from the Fishing Skillcape, and as such the actual profit per hour will be substantially lower for players who do not have it)

Fish	Requirements	Expected Output/Hr	GP/Fish	Max GP/Hr
Raw Magic Fish	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 80 Message in a Bottle	1,656	960	1,589k
Raw Manta Ray	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 85	2,280	650	1,482k
Raw Shark	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 70	3,492	270	942k

Fletching Magic Longbows (Max 975k/hr)

Requirements

• Level 99 Woodcutting
• Level 99 Fletching
• Dragon Axe Upgrade
• Multi-Tree Upgrade
• Woodcutting Skillcape
• Fletching Skillcape
• (Optional) Aorpheats Signet Ring
• (Optional) Skilled Fletching Potion IV

Method

By utilizing the output doubling of the Fletching Skillcape, the value of magic logs can be more than quadrupled; it is doubled once making unstrung bows, and another time making strung bows. Profits can be further increased by using Skilled Fletching Potion IV and Aorpheats Signet Ring. To calculate the maximum GP per hour, 99 mastery level will be assumed. The entire process is as follows:

1. Cut yew logs and magic logs simultaneously while wearing the Woodcutting Skillcape. The yew logs should be sold.
2. Fletch the magic logs into Magic Longbow (u) while wearing the Fletching Skillcape.
3. Purchase bowstrings from the Shop and fletch the unstrung bows into Magic Longbow.
4. Sell the longbows for profit.

Without using Aorpheats Signet Ring and Skilled Fletching Potion IV profits are around 624k/hr, however, using the ring and potion increases profits by 351k/hr.

Mining with Gem Gloves (Max 729k/hr Idle)

Requirements

• 500k gp to purchase Gem Gloves

Improves GP Rate

• The Mining Skillcape provides additional coal to sell
• Higher tier Pickaxes increase the rate that ore is mined
• The
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  Master of Nature god upgrade decreases the mining interval by 20%
• Higher
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  Mastery levels for an ore allow it to be mined more before it needs to respawn
• Perfect Swing Potions (
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  Level 53) can increase idle GP rates by decreasing the amount of time spent waiting for ores to respawn
• Mining and selling Adamantite Ore provides the highest GP rate when using Perfect Swing Potion III and below. When using Perfect Swing Potion IV, Dragonite Ore provides the highest GP rate.
• Actively switching to the highest tier ore yields higher GP rates

Method

This method relies on Gem Gloves increasing the gem chance to 100% when mining (excluding Rune Essence). The average value of a Gem is 381.25, while a single charge of the Gem Gloves costs only 250. Thus 131.25 of profit is earned per mining action from gems. It is recommended to use this method while gathering the large quantities of ore required to train the

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Smithing

skill. With the

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Dragon Pickaxe

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Master of Nature

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Level 99

, and Perfect Swing Potion IVs, and the Mining Skillcape, an average of 2,423 Dragonite Ore mining actions can be done per hour. Between the ore, extra ore from the pickaxe and mastery double ore chance, the gems from the gloves, and the coal, 279 profit is earned per action on average, for a total of 728,960 profit per hour. With the

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Dragon Pickaxe

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Level 50

, an average of 2,117 Adamantite Ore mining actions can be done per hour. Between the ore, extra ore from the pickaxe and mastery double ore chance, and the gems from the gloves, 219 profit is earned per action on average, for a total of 486,114 profit per hour.

Woodcutting

Improves GP Rate

• Higher tier axes increase the rate that trees are chopped
• Bird Nest Potions increase the rate at which bird nests are gained
• Clue Chasers Insignia can further increase the rate of bird nests
• Aorpheats Signet Ring grants an additional 10% chance to double logs cut.
• The Multi-Tree upgrade allows the player to also cut a second log for additional profit
• The Master of Nature god upgrade increases the GP rate by 25%.
• The Woodcutting Skillcape doubles the rate that trees are chopped
• Higher levels of log Mastery increase the chance to receive double the amount of logs

Chopping Magic and Yew Logs (Max 1,006k/hr)

Requirements

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  Level 75

Method

Simply cut down Magic Logs and your chosen secondary log (if the Multi-Tree upgrade has been purchased) and sell the logs and bird nests for profit.

Expected Resources Per Hour

The maximum rates assume Dragon Axe, Multi-Tree, Signet, Clue Chaser's Insignia, Beavis, Master of Nature, Woodcutting Skillcape, 95% Woodcutting Mastery Pool Checkpoint and 99 log mastery.

Logs	Requirements	Expected Output/Hr	Max GP/Hr
Magic Logs	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 75	1,563 10	707k
Yew Logs	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 60	2,700 18	310k

Chopping Logs With Bird Nests Potions (Max 3,304k/hr)

Requirements

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  Level 10
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  Level 1

Method

Cut down Normal Logs and your chosen secondary log (if the Multi-Tree upgrade has been purchased) and sell the logs and bird nests for profit. If using Bird Nest Potions, a portion of the nests can be opened for Potato Seeds to make more potions.

With Bird Nest Potion II and below, players should cut Normal and Magic Logs for maximum profit.

Expected Resources Per Hour

The maximum rates assume all improvements to GP rates have been obtained and that the player already has the Bird Nest Potions IV made.

Logs	Requirements	Expected Output/Hr	Max GP/Hr
Normal Logs	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 1	14,850 5,500	1,947k
Oak Logs	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Level 10	9,900 3,666	1,357k

Combat

Template:OldStrategy Combat can yield some of the highest GP rates in the game, but may require active work or outside automation to prevent the player from dying. Due to the complexity of combat, exact rates are difficult to determine, but some of the highest GP rate targets are as follows: Volcanic Cave, Master Farmers, Black Dragons.

Melvor Idle version v1.3.1 (Released: 30th October 2024)
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