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==Starting out==
=Preface=
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.
Food is vital to a HCCO account and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is plants. Starting out, you should fight plants for the potatoes they drop and to increase your combat levels.
The main goal of a hardcore is not dying. The only real way to get more food than you lose at the very beginning when you are limited to only combat, is attacking {{MonsterIcon|Plant}}. They dont fight back much and drop {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} every time you kill it.  
Note about {{Skill|Attack|ATK}} vs {{Skill|Strength|STR}} vs {{Skill|Defence|DEF}}: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways. ATK increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use, STR increases your maximum hit, and DEF increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.
DEF should be your first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from plants (roughly by half). ATK should be second and STR should be last (since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level ATK rather than STR).
Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit.  


However, the main way you are gonna get food will come from the [[Shop]].  
There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus for the first part, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance.  
In the shop you can buy {{ItemIcon|Basic Resupply}}.  
The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives Attack experience, Slashing gives Strength experience, while Blocking is used to train Defence.
To buy that you need [[File:Slayer_Coins.svg|25px|middle]] [[Slayer Coins]], which you can get by killing mobs on your Slayer Task. Luckily, Plants are part of the Easy tier. This means that it's free to get a new task. Therefore, you can re-roll the slayer task until you get assigned plants. 1 Basic Resupply is equivalent to 2200 potatoes, and takes much less time to get. You will also get bones for prayer, ammunition and some runes.
During the beginning of HCCO, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you’ll be able to automatically eat food so eating will be less of a worry.  


For the first few levels, personally, I recommend using Block, to level up {{Skill|Defence}}. Leveling defence up improves your natural evasion ratings, effectively reducing all enemies' hit chance. After reaching defence level 15 or so, I will start leveling my {{Skill|Attack}} stat, for a higher chance to hit enemies.  
=Chapter 0: Your first gear=
    Start: Naked
    End: 4 steel pieces
You should get to about 10 in all melee combat skills (usually expressed as 10/10/10) by fighting plants and then it’s time to start getting your first gear.


Once I get all melee {{Icon|Combat}} levels up to level 10, at least, I will try to get my first gear.
==Chapter 0—I: Starting naked==
After you have a decent stack of food, it’s time to get your first pieces of gear from the {{MonsterIcon|Golbin}}. You should have some levels in all skills (10/10/10 or so) and about a hundred {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|potatoes}} or so. You’re looking for a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} (1 in 27 chance) and a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Shield}} (1 in 27 chance). If you get unlucky, don’t worry. Just kill plants for food until you’re able to get both.
{{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}} have very low HP, so having a faster weapon allows you to kill them faster, as you don’t need more than 20 damage to kill a plant. So, your next goal after your {{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} is an {{ItemIcon|Iron Dagger}}. You should have about 15/15/15 stats and a few hundred potatoes. The {{ItemIcon|Iron Dagger}} has a 1/33 drop rate from the {{MonsterIcon|Goo Monster}}.
Your next gear upgrades will come from Zombie Hand. You’re looking for the {{ItemIcon|Iron Platebody}} (1 in 4 chance) and {{ItemIcon|Iron Platelegs}} (1 in 4 chance). Some people might go for the {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight}} first, but since the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}} has a better chance for gear, it’s recommended to do it first. You should have about 20/20/20 stats for this and, once again, a large stack of {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|taters}}.
After you kill the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}}, you should then move on to the regular {{MonsterIcon|Zombie}} for the {{ItemIcon|Steel Platebody}} (1 in 5 chance). It also drops {{ItemIcon|Steel Boots}} (1 in 5 chance), but you shouldn’t grind for them since {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}} are easier to get them from the {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight}}. (20/20/20 stats recommended)
You’ll end the first part of your HCCO journey with {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel Knights}}. They drop the {{ItemIcon|Steel Helmet}} (15 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Shield}} (10 in 67 chance), {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword}} (10 in 67 chance), and {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar}} (4 in 67 chance). You should be using the {{ItemIcon|Steel Sword}} on ATK and DEF and the {{ItemIcon|Steel Scimitar|Scimitar}} on STR when killing most monsters, but again, daggers should be used on plants due to the fast attack rate.


===Gaining gear===
=Chapter II: Mithril armor=
====Baby clothes====
    Start: 5x Steel Armour, 10/10/10,  Steel Scimitar
{{ItemIcon|Bronze Battleaxe}} and {{ItemIcon|Bronze Shield}} are both dropped from {{MonsterIcon|Golbin}} at {{ZoneIcon|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.
    End: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger


Alternatively, you might get a {{ItemIcon|Bronze Dagger}} and potentially an {{ItemIcon|Iron Dagger}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Goo Monster}}, if you're feeling brave.  
The next Knight after {{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight|Steel}} is {{MonsterIcon|Black Knight|Black}}, but should skip it, as the drop chances are very low, and the next tier is not much harder anyway.


You will be able to push yourself through the first three knights ({{MonsterIcon|Steel Knight}}, {{MonsterIcon|Black Knight}}, {{MonsterIcon|Mithril Knight}}) quite decently, getting Boots, Platelegs, Platebodies, Helmets, Shields, Swords, and Scimitars. Furthermore, the Black Knight will drop you a {{ItemIcon|Black Dagger}}, but you can ignore the black knight entirely.
Your next step, therefore, is {{MonsterIcon|Mithril Knight|Mithril Knights}}. Because they only drop gear a quarter of the time when killed (on average), it can take quite a while to get a full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|mithril set}}. You will probably get {{ItemIcon|Mithril Boots|boots}} (25 in 268) and {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet|helmets}} (15 in 268) quite often, and the eventual {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platelegs|platelegs}} (5 in 268). The {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody} has quite a low drop-chance (1 in 568). This is quite the trend on these knights. Before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody}} you will probably get both a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|scimitar}} (1 in 67) and a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Shield|shield}} (5/134), too, so equip these once dropped, for a decent upgrade. You may equip the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Sword|sword}}, too, but I’d stick with the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar|Scimitar}} for now, to efficiently level up your {{Skill|Strength}} skill before practically perma-equipping the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} for a long while.


If you're having a hard time getting the first shirt and leggings, you can take a pitstop by the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie Hand}} for the {{ItemIcon|Iron Platelegs}}, and just go for the {{MonsterIcon|Zombie}} for {{ItemIcon|Steel Platebody}}. It's much easier to get the shirt from the zombie than from the knight.
As mentioned, you will want to get the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} after getting full {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril armor}}, or even before getting the {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody}}, as it is a really good upgrade at this point. It is practically a cold {{ItemIcon|Rune Sword}}, in stats, except it is slightly better defensively than offensively. The drop rate is 10% at the {{MonsterIcon|Ice Monster}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. Huge. If you’re around level 30, you will use around 80 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|tarters}} per monster. Because of variance, you might get it on your first kill or your 20th, but don’t be discouraged. Also, the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} is better at grinding {{Skill|Strength}} than all weapons from a lower tier, meaning that the next best strength weapon after.


====Some better gear====
Now, before you go away from the computer, or to sleep, it’s time to upgrade your dagger. At the {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster}} you can get a cheap {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}}. Going from 429 to 444 {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}}/hour? Good business.
After getting a full set of {{ItemIcon|Mithril Helmet}}, {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody}}, {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platelegs}}, {{ItemIcon|Mithril Boots}}, and possibly a {{ItemIcon|Mithril Sword}} or {{ItemIcon|Mithril Scimitar}}... I will do what I call a Pro Gamer Move, and kill a few {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster|Purple Goo Monsters}} until they give me an {{ItemIcon|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.
Feeling sad because your neck and fingers are naked? Go on a date with the {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|mummy}} in {{ZoneIcon|Penumbra}} for some gifts! The {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} and the {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}} are shiny, and will give you free gains! For only 3 potatoes per kill you have the same ~10% chance to get both these items.  


Also, after getting some Mithril gear, you should try killing an {{MonsterIcon|Ice Monster}} to get an {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, since the drop rate is really high, and it's pretty much on par with the {{ItemIcon|Rune Sword}}.
==Chapter II—A: Looting Amulet==
The {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting|Looting Amulet}} is a special amulet which automatically loots gear acquired from Combat Areas and Slayer Areas. You may get it from the {{ItemIcon|Spider Chest}}, with a 1/22 chance. Due to the nature of HCCO, you will spend a lot of potatoes in the early game (and beyond, too), so you might want to rush this item in order to ease the grind for food as soon as possible.


At this point you should already have figured out you would benefit from the extra +7% Combat XP from the {{ItemIcon|Gold Emerald Ring}}, and the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} dropped at {{MonsterIcon|Mummy}}. The {{ItemIcon|Gold Topaz Ring}} is kinda meh, for now, since we won't have access to {{ItemIcon|Aorpheat's Signet Ring}} anyway.
By using {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|Mithril Armor}}, and having around 40 melee stats, it will take you around 500 taters per run of the {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}. Before you start running the dungeon, you should have a buffer of at least a thousand potatoes, just because RNG might be on your bad side.


After having some decent clothes, a necklace, ring, and weapon... it's time for our next step.
It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of Auto Eat, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the spiders in the area is not too high.  


===Gaining gold===
====Don’t do this, please ====
Otherwise, if you ''really'' don’t want to manual the dungeon, you should know the base max damage of the zone is 142, requiring 710 hp for AE1, 480 hp for AE2. This requires 6 million gold, which would require around 30 hours of '''active''' gameplay at Master Farmer, since you still don’t have auto looting. Bad idea.


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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arduino 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|Auto Eat I]] for 1 000 000 [[Gold Coins]].
==Chapter II—B: Auto Eat 1==
As soon as you have your hands on an Amulet of Looting, you can start to make money. A relevant point to make here, is that [[GP||money making]] at this stage is a compromise between risk and reward. Consider the time it takes to farm up the food you need, and the time it takes to farm the gold you want.


Just kidding.  
====Safe path====
The safest way to make money, for now, is to kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, collecting their {{ItemIcon|Leather|leather}}, and upgrading it into {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|Green Leather}} through the shop. The selling price for {{ItemIcon|Leather}} is 50 GP, while the selling price for {{ItemIcon|Green Dragonhide|Green Leather}} is 200 GP. By upgrading it, you effectively get 100 GP per piece of {{ItemIcon|Leather}}.  


Kill {{MonsterIcon|Cow|Cows}}, loot {{ItemIcon|Leather}}, and get free {{ItemIcon|Bones}} for {{Skill|Prayer}}, experience, and some pennies. Upgrading {{ItemIcon|Leather}} to {{ItemIcon|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.
Assuming you’ve got the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, the average gold yield per {{MonsterIcon|Cow|cow}} is 203 GP.


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.
This chapter ends when you’re 40/40/40. Use {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger}} for idling {{MonsterIcon|Plant|plants}}, and {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} for tougher enemies.


====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|Auto Eat 2]] and [[Auto Eat|Auto Eat III]], one should do so at {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer}}, mainly by collecting {{ItemIcon|Oak Tree Seeds}}. The exact order of priority is the following, which can vary on your bank capacity:
=Chapter III: Mithril to adamant (g) + rune boots (g) + rune gloves=
    Start: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
    End: 4x (G) Adamant Armor, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70
 
How does it feel to be able to get FREE FOOD overnight?
 
While your next target is necessarily {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight|Adamant Knights}}, you should know that leveling attack and defense up to 50 from your 40 stats will effectively reduce your (raw, without AE efficiency loss) {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|potato}} per knight count from 170 to 120.
 
Important note: '''DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS'''. Make sure to always have more {{Skill|Hitpoints|HP}} than the max hit of the enemy, and try to eat food right after your attack timer ends, so you don’t reset an attack in progress. Eat until full HP, or at least until you have enough HP to survive any attack. The 2.6s interval of the {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight}} is not really a danger provided you’re '''PAYING ATTENTION''' and have enough food.
 
Your {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}} is great for leveling {{Skill|Attack}}, and your {{ItemIcon|Adamant Dagger|dagger}} is fine for leveling defense. You may do this at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}, in preparation to gear upgrades, and thus your first Damage Reduction points!!
 
Each {{ItemIcon|Adamantite Bar|Adamant}} piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping, which, mind you, is much better than the drop chances of {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight}}. Good luck on that! While you don’t really care about the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots|Green Boots}} nor the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape}}, you may as well equip them once you get them. It will be a while until you replace the {{ItemIcon|Obsidian Cape|Cape}} for anything else, but there’s no point wasting {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver}}/{{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold bars}} on the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Boots|Boots}}. You will get {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}} quickly anyway.
 
Upgrade the Equipment you get to (G) Adamant as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% damage reduction.
 
Now, grind up enough [[Slayer Coins]] for the {{ItemIcon|Desert Hat}}, and 50 {{Skill|Slayer}} levels, so you can gain access to the {{ZoneIcon|Arid Plains}}. You may as well kill {{MonsterIcon|Master Farmer|Master Farmers}}, for [[Gold Coins]]; or hit some {{MonsterIcon|Statue|Statues}} for some {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver Bars}}, which are both Easy Slayer Tasks, meaning they’re free to reroll.
 
Now, why would you want to unlock Arid Plains? Well, there’s a few reasons:
 
* {{ItemIcon|Sand Treaders}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — -0.1s to all attacks? Great for plants.
* {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} — Excellent upgrade, easier to get than from {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}.
* {{ItemIcon|Desert Wrappings}} at {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Archers}} — 2% dr gloves, best until {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}.
 
Also, you don’t even need to manual these two enemies! After getting these upgrades, you should keep on to your hat (literally!), because your next weapon upgrade comes from the {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant}} at the same area. You could also sell the hat, and rebuy it a bit later. The [[Slayer Coins|Slayer Coin]] cost is not too huge.
Farm up enough [[Gold Coins|Gold]] to upgrade your [[Auto Eat]] to Tier II at Master Farmer. With [[Auto Eat - Tier II|Auto-Eat II]] you can idle {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant|Turkul Giants}}, provided you have 23% dr and level {{Skill|Hitpoints|50 HP}}. With this, upgrade your weapon into the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}} or, even better, the {{ItemIcon|Desert Sabre}}.
 
 
==Farming at Master Farmer==
The Master Farmer gives a total of 14 unique items. You want to prioritize your bank slots for the most rewarding items, taking the price and drop rate into account. This mainly comprises the Tree Seeds, requiring 5 slots. By reserving five slots for the Master Farmer grind, you get a total of 84% of the gold drops. That’s around 809 gp per kill.
 
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{{ItemIcon|Oak Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Willow Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Maple Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Yew Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Magic Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Compost}} > {{ItemIcon|Sweetcorn Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Tomato Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Strawberry Seeds}}.
{{ItemIcon|Oak Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Willow Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Maple Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Yew Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Magic Tree Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Compost}} > {{ItemIcon|Sweetcorn Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Tomato Seeds}} > {{ItemIcon|Strawberry Seeds}}.


This takes drop chance, rates, and price into account.
And it was done.
 
=Chapter IV: Adamant to full rune (g)=
    Start: 4x (G) Adamant Armour, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70
    End: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3
 
The first thing you should do in this part of the story is to upgrade your {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Strength}} into an {{ItemIcon|Elite Amulet of Strength|Elite}} one, simply by farming more {{MonsterIcon|Mummy|Mummies}}. On average you need to kill around a thousand of them.
You may wait to get the {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}} until after getting {{ItemIcon|Rune Platebody|Rune Armor}}, or you may get it already. At this point you will use around 65 potatoes per {{MonsterIcon|Paladin}} kill, and the chance to get them is 1/171. Not too hard.
 
The next step is to farm the feared shiny {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight|Rune Knights}}, and upgrade your four armor pieces into {{ItemIcon|(G) Rune Platebody|(G) Rune pieces}}, for a total of 29% damage reduction with the {{ItemIcon|Paladin Gloves}}. You will need a bunch of {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar|Gold}} and {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar|Silver pieces}}, farmed at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}.
You may get [[Auto Eat - Tier III|Auto Eat III]] now, or after the 2nd loadout slot, and consider getting the 3rd and last loadout slot while at it too.  


==Post-AutoEat==
=Chapter V: Rune (g) to ancient (g)=
Okay, so you've seen the doctor, and they cured your [https://www.cdc.gov/chronicdisease/resources/publications/factsheets/arthritis.htm Arthritis], and you can finally return to play Melvor Idle (which wasn't idle until now).
==Ancient storyline==
    Start: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3
    End: 5x (G) Ancient Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Defence, 90/99/90
'''TBD'''


Now, you should do some farming up to combat levels {{Icon|Combat}} 50, or so. At this point, you should consider getting the gear from the {{MonsterIcon|Adamant Knight}}, its gear with {{ItemIcon|Silver Bar}} and {{ItemIcon|Gold Bar}} "quite easily" farmed at {{MonsterIcon|Statue}}. The drop chance for gold is slightly higher at {{MonsterIcon|Purple Goo Monster}}. It's worth noting that it's possible to skip directly to Adamant gear without having a full Mithril set, but do this at your own risk.


You should be ready now to get yourself an {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} from the {{ItemIcon|Spider Chest}} at {{ZoneIcon|Spider Forest}}. While it can vary a bit on your gear, you should have over a grand of {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|Taters}} in your stock, since it will cost you around 500 potatoes per dungeon run.  
==Ranged intro==
{{Skill|Ranged}} is quite straightforward, but we’ve been pushing it forward for mainly two reasons: It doesn’t provide any real benefit until you start fighting wizards, or other magic monsters, and getting its gear without having the space in your bank or loadouts for the gear and weapon(s) will be annoying.


Note: '''Some people claim you can rush the {{ItemIcon|Amulet of Looting}} before getting Auto Eat'''.
Get your first two bows (level 5 lets you use {{ItemIcon|Oak Shortbow}}) from the {{MonsterIcon|Ranged Golbin}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Golbin Village}}, and use the {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows}} from the {{MonsterIcon|Frozen Archer}} over at the {{ZoneIcon|Icy Hills}}. These are almost as strong as {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows}}, which you can start to use at level {{Skill|Ranged|40}}, but are much easier and cheaper to farm, and can be equipped from the very beginning.
Literally all your next upgrades, except if you go out of your way to get the {{ItemIcon|Yew Longbow}} from the Holy Archer at level {{Skill|Ranged|40}}, will come from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. At level {{Skill|Ranged|30}} you can upgrade to the {{ItemIcon|Maple Longbow}}, at level 50 you can use the {{ItemIcon|Magic Longbow}}, and finally you will get to use the {{ItemIcon|Redwood Longbow}} and the {{ItemIcon|Ancient Longbow}} at levels 60 and 70.


Now, hit up {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Riders}} and get yourself a {{ItemIcon|Rune Boots}}. Don't forget to trim it.
Once you get into higher levels you may consider using the {{ItemIcon|Adamant Arrows|Adamant}} (worse than {{ItemIcon|Ice Arrows|Ice}}), {{ItemIcon|Rune Arrows|Rune}} and {{ItemIcon|Dragon Arrows}} you’ve collected from the {{ItemIcon|Bandit Chest}}. If you’re farming {{MonsterIcon|Raging Horned Elite}} for food you may also use {{ItemIcon|Ancient Arrows}} in {{Skill|Ranged|ranged combat}}.


==Post-Amulet of Looting==
==Magic Intro==
{{Skill|Magic}} in this gamemode will mainly consist of casting air spells, since you can remove one colour from the rune costs. All spells cost air runes, but water, earth and fire runes additionally cost their respective runes.


Okay, so you finally got yourself an Amulet of Looting, and now you can sleep comfortable having your own automated {{ItemIcon|Potatoes|Taterfarm}}.  
This is a bad thing, for us, since we have no real way to farm a lot of runes yet, but we can get started by farming some catalyst runes at the {{MonsterIcon|Vampire}} and the {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}}. The {{MonsterIcon|Vampire}} is probably best for now, [[Combat Triangle|since it is a ranged monster]], meaning we can strike it with melee, even considering the drop chance and drop rates are lower than from the master wizard.  


The next step is to hit up the {{MonsterIcon|Turkul Giant}} and get a {{ItemIcon|Rune Scimitar}} or even better, the {{ItemIcon|Dragon Scimitar}}.They both have decent droprate and can last you for a long while. Now, it's time for the dreaded {{MonsterIcon|Rune Knight}}. Make sure you prepared tons of taters (Or even better, Trout) because this is going to be a long grind.
Catalyst Runes are the runes you use to power up your spells, while Elemental runes select which element you’re using. You can remove the cost for Elemental runes with staves, which we will abuse to completely nullify the air cost, and thus only use air spells.


==End-game==
The {{ItemIcon|Staff of Air}} reduces the cost by 1, allowing you to cast up to Wind Strike for free (20 dmg), the {{ItemIcon|Air Battlestaff|Battlestaff}} reduces it by 3, allowing you to cast up to Wind Blast for free (130 dmg), while the {{ItemIcon|Mystic Air Staff}} reduces it by 5, allowing you to cast up to Wind Wave for free (170 dmg).


Keep in mind you will also need the Catalyst runes for each tier. Once you get to level {{Skill|Magic|30 magic}} you can start wielding {{ItemIcon|Air Battlestaff|battlestaves}}, and should therefore also cast Wind Bolts. No need for {{ItemIcon|Mind Rune|Mind Runes}} anymore, so sell them all.
After you can cast {{ItemIcon|Death Rune|Death}} spells, you might want to go back and forth between {{ItemIcon|Chaos Rune|Chaos Runes}} and {{ItemIcon|Death Rune|Death Runes}}, since they both deal decent damage, and are both farmed decently at the {{MonsterIcon|Master Wizard}} for a while. Eventually, as you get more magic evasion through leveling {{Skill|Magic|magic}}, you will only use {{ItemIcon|Death Rune|Death runes}}, as the {{MonsterIcon|Necromancer}} stops hurting too much.
=Ancient (g) to God gear and beyond (everything maxed, current end game)=
==Pre-Gods==
'''TBD'''
==Aeris==
'''TBD'''
==Glacia==
'''TBD'''
==Terran==
'''TBD'''
==Ragnar==
'''TBD'''
==ITM==
'''TBD'''
==Ocean stuff==
'''TBD'''
'''TBD'''


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Revision as of 19:14, 5 March 2021

This page was last updated for (v0.18.2).

Preface

Food is vital to a HCCO account and your first food source (and one that you will be relying on for quite a while) is plants. Starting out, you should fight plants for the potatoes they drop and to increase your combat levels.

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: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways. ATK increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use, STR increases your maximum hit, and DEF increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.

DEF should be your first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from plants (roughly by half). ATK should be second and STR should be last (since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level ATK rather than STR). Weapons in this game have different attack speeds depending on their type. Daggers attack quickly, with an attack speed of 2.2 seconds, and Battleaxes attack slowly, with an attack speed of 3.1 seconds, for instance. Weapons that attack more slowly also deal more damage per hit and weapons that hit quickly usually do less damage per hit.

There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus for the first part, have Stab, Slash and Block. Each style gets a bonus to the accuracy rating depending on the specific weapon. Swords usually have a better stabbing accuracy, while scimitars are better at slashing, for instance. The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives Attack experience, Slashing gives Strength experience, while Blocking is used to train Defence. During the beginning of HCCO, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you’ll be able to automatically eat food so eating will be less of a worry.

Chapter 0: Your first gear

   Start: Naked
   End: 4 steel pieces

You should get to about 10 in all melee combat skills (usually expressed as 10/10/10) by fighting plants and then it’s time to start getting your first gear.

Chapter 0—I: Starting naked

After you have a decent stack of food, it’s time to get your first pieces of gear from the Golbin. You should have some levels in all skills (10/10/10 or so) and about a hundred potatoes or so. You’re looking for a Bronze Battleaxe (1 in 27 chance) and a Bronze Shield (1 in 27 chance). If you get unlucky, don’t worry. Just kill plants for food until you’re able to get both. Plants have very low HP, so having a faster weapon allows you to kill them faster, as you don’t need more than 20 damage to kill a plant. So, your next goal after your Bronze Battleaxe is an Iron Dagger. You should have about 15/15/15 stats and a few hundred potatoes. The Iron Dagger has a 1/33 drop rate from the Goo Monster. Your next gear upgrades will come from Zombie Hand. You’re looking for the Iron Platebody (1 in 4 chance) and Iron Platelegs (1 in 4 chance). Some people might go for the Steel Knight first, but since the Zombie Hand has a better chance for gear, it’s recommended to do it first. You should have about 20/20/20 stats for this and, once again, a large stack of taters. After you kill the Zombie Hand, you should then move on to the regular Zombie for the Steel Platebody (1 in 5 chance). It also drops Steel Boots (1 in 5 chance), but you shouldn’t grind for them since Steel Knights are easier to get them from the Steel Knight. (20/20/20 stats recommended) You’ll end the first part of your HCCO journey with Steel Knights. They drop the Steel Helmet (15 in 67 chance), Steel Shield (10 in 67 chance), Steel Sword (10 in 67 chance), and Steel Scimitar (4 in 67 chance). You should be using the Steel Sword on ATK and DEF and the Scimitar on STR when killing most monsters, but again, daggers should be used on plants due to the fast attack rate.

Chapter II: Mithril armor

   Start: 5x Steel Armour, 10/10/10,  Steel Scimitar
   End: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger

The next Knight after Steel is Black, but should skip it, as the drop chances are very low, and the next tier is not much harder anyway.

Your next step, therefore, is Mithril Knights. Because they only drop gear a quarter of the time when killed (on average), it can take quite a while to get a full mithril set. You will probably get boots (25 in 268) and helmets (15 in 268) quite often, and the eventual platelegs (5 in 268). The {{ItemIcon|Mithril Platebody|platebody} has quite a low drop-chance (1 in 568). This is quite the trend on these knights. Before getting the platebody you will probably get both a scimitar (1 in 67) and a shield (5/134), too, so equip these once dropped, for a decent upgrade. You may equip the sword, too, but I’d stick with the Scimitar for now, to efficiently level up your

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skill before practically perma-equipping the Ice Sword for a long while. As mentioned, you will want to get the Ice Sword after getting full Mithril armor, or even before getting the platebody, as it is a really good upgrade at this point. It is practically a cold Rune Sword, in stats, except it is slightly better defensively than offensively. The drop rate is 10% at the Ice Monster over at the

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. Huge. If you’re around level 30, you will use around 80 tarters per monster. Because of variance, you might get it on your first kill or your 20th, but don’t be discouraged. Also, the Ice Sword is better at grinding

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than all weapons from a lower tier, meaning that the next best strength weapon after.

Now, before you go away from the computer, or to sleep, it’s time to upgrade your dagger. At the Purple Goo Monster you can get a cheap Adamant Dagger. Going from 429 to 444 Potatoes/hour? Good business.

Feeling sad because your neck and fingers are naked? Go on a date with the mummy in

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for some gifts! The Amulet of Strength and the Gold Emerald Ring are shiny, and will give you free gains! For only 3 potatoes per kill you have the same ~10% chance to get both these items.

Chapter II—A: Looting Amulet

The Looting Amulet is a special amulet which automatically loots gear acquired from Combat Areas and Slayer Areas. You may get it from the Spider Chest, with a 1/22 chance. Due to the nature of HCCO, you will spend a lot of potatoes in the early game (and beyond, too), so you might want to rush this item in order to ease the grind for food as soon as possible.

By using Mithril Armor, and having around 40 melee stats, it will take you around 500 taters per run of the

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Spider Forest

. Before you start running the dungeon, you should have a buffer of at least a thousand potatoes, just because RNG might be on your bad side.

It is quite possible to beat the zone without having any form of Auto Eat, and just make sure you time your manual eating right, since the damage of the spiders in the area is not too high.

Don’t do this, please

Otherwise, if you really don’t want to manual the dungeon, you should know the base max damage of the zone is 142, requiring 710 hp for AE1, 480 hp for AE2. This requires 6 million gold, which would require around 30 hours of active gameplay at Master Farmer, since you still don’t have auto looting. Bad idea.

Chapter II—B: Auto Eat 1

As soon as you have your hands on an Amulet of Looting, you can start to make money. A relevant point to make here, is that |money making at this stage is a compromise between risk and reward. Consider the time it takes to farm up the food you need, and the time it takes to farm the gold you want.

Safe path

The safest way to make money, for now, is to kill Cows, collecting their leather, and upgrading it into Green Leather through the shop. The selling price for Leather is 50 GP, while the selling price for Green Leather is 200 GP. By upgrading it, you effectively get 100 GP per piece of Leather.

Assuming you’ve got the Ice Sword, the average gold yield per cow is 203 GP.

This chapter ends when you’re 40/40/40. Use Adamant Dagger for idling plants, and Ice Sword for tougher enemies.


Chapter III: Mithril to adamant (g) + rune boots (g) + rune gloves

   Start: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
   End: 4x (G) Adamant Armor, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70

How does it feel to be able to get FREE FOOD overnight?

While your next target is necessarily Adamant Knights, you should know that leveling attack and defense up to 50 from your 40 stats will effectively reduce your (raw, without AE efficiency loss) potato per knight count from 170 to 120.

Important note: DO NOT IDLE KNIGHTS. Make sure to always have more

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than the max hit of the enemy, and try to eat food right after your attack timer ends, so you don’t reset an attack in progress. Eat until full HP, or at least until you have enough HP to survive any attack. The 2.6s interval of the Adamant Knight is not really a danger provided you’re PAYING ATTENTION and have enough food. Your Ice Sword is great for leveling

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, and your dagger is fine for leveling defense. You may do this at Statue, in preparation to gear upgrades, and thus your first Damage Reduction points!!

Each Adamant piece has a 1/48 chance of dropping, which, mind you, is much better than the drop chances of Rune Knight. Good luck on that! While you don’t really care about the Green Boots nor the Obsidian Cape, you may as well equip them once you get them. It will be a while until you replace the Cape for anything else, but there’s no point wasting Silver/ Gold bars on the Boots. You will get Rune Boots quickly anyway.

Upgrade the Equipment you get to (G) Adamant as soon as you get them, since each piece gives you 4% damage reduction.

Now, grind up enough Slayer Coins for the Desert Hat, and 50

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levels, so you can gain access to the

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. You may as well kill Master Farmers, for Gold Coins; or hit some Statues for some Gold and Silver Bars, which are both Easy Slayer Tasks, meaning they’re free to reroll.

Now, why would you want to unlock Arid Plains? Well, there’s a few reasons:

Also, you don’t even need to manual these two enemies! After getting these upgrades, you should keep on to your hat (literally!), because your next weapon upgrade comes from the Turkul Giant at the same area. You could also sell the hat, and rebuy it a bit later. The Slayer Coin cost is not too huge.

Farm up enough Gold to upgrade your Auto Eat to Tier II at Master Farmer. With Auto-Eat II you can idle Turkul Giants, provided you have 23% dr and level

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. With this, upgrade your weapon into the Dragon Scimitar or, even better, the Desert Sabre.


Farming at Master Farmer

The Master Farmer gives a total of 14 unique items. You want to prioritize your bank slots for the most rewarding items, taking the price and drop rate into account. This mainly comprises the Tree Seeds, requiring 5 slots. By reserving five slots for the Master Farmer grind, you get a total of 84% of the gold drops. That’s around 809 gp per kill.

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Oak Tree Seeds > Willow Tree Seeds > Maple Tree Seeds > Yew Tree Seeds > Magic Tree Seeds > Compost > Sweetcorn Seeds > Tomato Seeds > Strawberry Seeds.

And it was done.

Chapter IV: Adamant to full rune (g)

   Start: 4x (G) Adamant Armour, 1x (G) Rune Boots, 1x Rune Gloves, 70/40/70
   End: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3

The first thing you should do in this part of the story is to upgrade your Amulet of Strength into an Elite one, simply by farming more Mummies. On average you need to kill around a thousand of them. You may wait to get the Paladin Gloves until after getting Rune Armor, or you may get it already. At this point you will use around 65 potatoes per Paladin kill, and the chance to get them is 1/171. Not too hard.

The next step is to farm the feared shiny Rune Knights, and upgrade your four armor pieces into (G) Rune pieces, for a total of 29% damage reduction with the Paladin Gloves. You will need a bunch of Gold and Silver pieces, farmed at Statue. You may get Auto Eat III now, or after the 2nd loadout slot, and consider getting the 3rd and last loadout slot while at it too.

Chapter V: Rune (g) to ancient (g)

Ancient storyline

   Start: 5x (G) Rune Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength. 70/80/80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Claw, AE3
   End: 5x (G) Ancient Armour, 1x Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Defence, 90/99/90

TBD


Ranged intro

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is quite straightforward, but we’ve been pushing it forward for mainly two reasons: It doesn’t provide any real benefit until you start fighting wizards, or other magic monsters, and getting its gear without having the space in your bank or loadouts for the gear and weapon(s) will be annoying. Get your first two bows (level 5 lets you use Oak Shortbow) from the Ranged Golbin over at the

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Golbin Village

, and use the Ice Arrows from the Frozen Archer over at the

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Icy Hills

. These are almost as strong as Rune Arrows, which you can start to use at level

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, but are much easier and cheaper to farm, and can be equipped from the very beginning. Literally all your next upgrades, except if you go out of your way to get the Yew Longbow from the Holy Archer at level

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, will come from the Bandit Chest. At level

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you can upgrade to the Maple Longbow, at level 50 you can use the Magic Longbow, and finally you will get to use the Redwood Longbow and the Ancient Longbow at levels 60 and 70. Once you get into higher levels you may consider using the Adamant (worse than Ice), Rune and Dragon Arrows you’ve collected from the Bandit Chest. If you’re farming Raging Horned Elite for food you may also use Ancient Arrows in

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ranged combat

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Magic Intro

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in this gamemode will mainly consist of casting air spells, since you can remove one colour from the rune costs. All spells cost air runes, but water, earth and fire runes additionally cost their respective runes.

This is a bad thing, for us, since we have no real way to farm a lot of runes yet, but we can get started by farming some catalyst runes at the Vampire and the Master Wizard. The Vampire is probably best for now, since it is a ranged monster, meaning we can strike it with melee, even considering the drop chance and drop rates are lower than from the master wizard.

Catalyst Runes are the runes you use to power up your spells, while Elemental runes select which element you’re using. You can remove the cost for Elemental runes with staves, which we will abuse to completely nullify the air cost, and thus only use air spells.

The Staff of Air reduces the cost by 1, allowing you to cast up to Wind Strike for free (20 dmg), the Battlestaff reduces it by 3, allowing you to cast up to Wind Blast for free (130 dmg), while the Mystic Air Staff reduces it by 5, allowing you to cast up to Wind Wave for free (170 dmg).

Keep in mind you will also need the Catalyst runes for each tier. Once you get to level

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you can start wielding battlestaves, and should therefore also cast Wind Bolts. No need for Mind Runes anymore, so sell them all. After you can cast Death spells, you might want to go back and forth between Chaos Runes and Death Runes, since they both deal decent damage, and are both farmed decently at the Master Wizard for a while. Eventually, as you get more magic evasion through leveling

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, you will only use Death runes, as the Necromancer stops hurting too much.


Ancient (g) to God gear and beyond (everything maxed, current end game)

Pre-Gods

TBD

Aeris

TBD

Glacia

TBD

Terran

TBD

Ragnar

TBD

ITM

TBD

Ocean stuff

TBD


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