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The major part of this guide is written by @Username#7620 and @mazunki [they/them]#3247 on the Discord community. If you got any questions, or anything is wrong make sure to shout out to either one of us. Feel free to edit the guide, or add stuff to it too.
== What is HCCO? ==
HCCO stands for {{Icon|Hardcore}} {{Icon|Combat}} Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on {{Icon|Hardcore}}. There is a secondary challenge, 12b, which means you may not buy any [[Bank]] slots, and are limited to the 12 provided to you by default. This is a popular additional challenge and most of the guide is directly applicable to 12b players (albeit with a lot more bank management).


Thanks to everyone in #hardcore-mode-chat for making this possible. :)
To create a HCCO account, one can create a typical hardcore account and abstain from all non-combat skills. Alternatively, through the official mod manager one can use the [https://mod.io/g/melvoridle/m/hcco Combat Only Account Mod] to create an account with non-combat skills completely disabled and hidden. This mod offers the option for a mediumcore version, which is identical but doesn't have permadeath (you still lose one random item on death). This is different to a Standard account (aka Softcore), which has a different combat triangle that is less punishing and has health regen. Most of this guide will assume HC and therefore will sometimes be overly conservative for a softcore account.


=Preface=
There are currently no tangible differences between either of these options for playing HCCO mode, and one can [https://mod.io/g/melvoridle/m/save-game-converter convert between gamemodes through the use of mods]. It is recommended to use the mod for MCCO or HCCO mode for the most immersive experience, as the community will add unique content specifically designed for CO in future, including a CO option in the collection log.
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.  
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.  


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.
== Preface ==
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.
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 {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants}}. Starting out, you should fight {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}} for the {{ItemIcon|Potatoes}} they drop and to increase your combat levels.
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=
Note about {{Skill|Attack}} vs {{Skill|Strength}} vs {{Skill|Defence}}: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways. {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use, {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} increases your maximum hit, and {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.
    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==
{{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}} should be the first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from {{MonsterIcon|Plant|Plants|nolink=true}} (roughly by half). {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} should be second, {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} rather than {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}}.
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.


=Chapter II: Mithril armor=
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.
    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 {{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.
There are different styles in the game, depending on the weapon you’re wielding. Melee weapons, which will be our main focus initially, 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.


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.
The style you choose will also give you experience towards the combat skill in question: Stabbing gives {{Skill|Attack|nolink=true}} experience, Slashing gives {{Skill|Strength|nolink=true}} experience, while Blocking is used to train {{Skill|Defence|nolink=true}}. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock {{UpgradeIcon|Auto Eat - Tier I|Auto Eat}}, so eating will be less of a worry.


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.
== Chapters ==


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.
=== Chapter I: Gearing Up ===
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.
{{:HCCO/Guide/1}}


==Chapter II—A: Looting Amulet==
=== Chapter II: Mithril Armour ===
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.
{{:HCCO/Guide/2}}


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.
=== Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/3}}


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.
=== Chapter IV: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/4}}


====Don’t do this, please ====
=== Chapter V: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient ===
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.
{{:HCCO/Guide/5}}


==Chapter II—B: Auto Eat 1==
=== Chapter VI: Non-Melee Training ===
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.
{{:HCCO/Guide/6}}


====Safe path====
=== Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons ===
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}}.
{{:HCCO/Guide/7}}


Assuming you’ve got the {{ItemIcon|Ice Sword}}, the average gold yield per {{MonsterIcon|Cow|cow}} is 203 GP.
=== Chapter VIII: Into the Mist ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/8}}


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.
=== Chapter IX: T90 grind ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/9}}


=== Chapter X: Unhallowed Wasteland ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/10}}


=Chapter III: Mithril to adamant (g) + rune boots (g) + rune gloves=
=== Chaper XI: Impending Darkness Event ===
    Start: Amulet of Looting, AE1, 5x Mithril Armor, 40/40/40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
{{:HCCO/Guide/11}}
    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?
=== Chaper XII: Throne of the Herald ===
 
{{:HCCO/Guide/12}}
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.
 
https://i.imgur.com/oCualgl.png
 
{{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}}.
 
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.
 
=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==
{{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.
 
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.
 
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}}.
 
==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.
 
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.
 
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 {{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'''


=== Chaper XIII: Manual Content ===
{{:HCCO/Guide/13}}


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Latest revision as of 20:10, 23 June 2024

What is HCCO?

HCCO stands for

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Hardcore
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Combat

Only. This implies that you cannot use any non-Combat skills at any time, and must play on

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Hardcore

. There is a secondary challenge, 12b, which means you may not buy any Bank slots, and are limited to the 12 provided to you by default. This is a popular additional challenge and most of the guide is directly applicable to 12b players (albeit with a lot more bank management).

To create a HCCO account, one can create a typical hardcore account and abstain from all non-combat skills. Alternatively, through the official mod manager one can use the Combat Only Account Mod to create an account with non-combat skills completely disabled and hidden. This mod offers the option for a mediumcore version, which is identical but doesn't have permadeath (you still lose one random item on death). This is different to a Standard account (aka Softcore), which has a different combat triangle that is less punishing and has health regen. Most of this guide will assume HC and therefore will sometimes be overly conservative for a softcore account.

There are currently no tangible differences between either of these options for playing HCCO mode, and one can convert between gamemodes through the use of mods. It is recommended to use the mod for MCCO or HCCO mode for the most immersive experience, as the community will add unique content specifically designed for CO in future, including a CO option in the collection log.

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.

Note about

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Attack

vs

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Strength

vs

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Defence

: All three combat skills are very useful to level in their own ways.

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Attack

increases your chance to hit and unlocks new weapons to use,

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Strength

increases your maximum hit, and

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Defence

increases your chance to not get hit (which saves you food). In general, they should all be leveled equally.

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Defence

should be the first combat skill that you level, as it greatly reduces the amount of damage that you will take from Plants (roughly by half).

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Attack

should be second,

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Strength

should be last. Since you have a low chance to hit, it’s more important to level

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Attack

rather than

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Strength

.

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 initially, 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

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Attack

experience, Slashing gives

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Strength

experience, while Blocking is used to train

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Defence

. At the start, you’ll have to eat manually to ensure that you won’t die. Later on, you will unlock

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Auto Eat

, so eating will be less of a worry.

Chapters

Chapter I: Gearing Up

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 To start, you should have: Nothing!
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 At the end, you should have: 4 Steel Armour pieces

Press here if you are ready

Chapter II: Mithril Armour

To start, you should have: Full Steel Armour,
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20, Steel Scimitar
At the end, you should have:
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Auto Eat - Tier I, 4-5 pieces of Mithril Armour,
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40 /
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40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger

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Chapter III: Mithril to (G) Adamant

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 To start, you should have:
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Auto Eat - Tier I, Full Mithril Armour,
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40 /
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40 /
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40, Ice Sword, Adamant Dagger
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 At the end, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, Amulet of Looting, Rune 2H Sword,
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70 /
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70

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Chapter IV: (G) Adamant to Full (G) Rune

To start, you should have: Almost full (G) Adamant Armour, (G) Rune Boots, Desert Wrappings, Rune 2H Sword,
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70
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Auto Eat - Tier II
At the end, you should have: Full (G) Adamant Armour or Full (G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80 /
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80 /
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80, Sunset Rapier / Ancient Sword,
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Auto Eat - Tier III

Press here if you are ready

Chapter V: (G) Rune to (G) Ancient

To start, you should have: Full (G) Adamant Armour or Full (G) Rune Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Strength,
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80 /
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80, Sunset Rapier,
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Auto Eat - Tier III
At the end, you should have: Full (G) Ancient Armour, Paladin Gloves, Elite Amulet of Defence,
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88+, Dragonfire Shield, Sandstorm Ring

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Chapter VI: Non-Melee Training

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 To start, you should have:
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1 and
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1
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 At the end, you should have:
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85 with Full (U) Ancient D-hide,
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Ancient Crossbow and Scaled Shield and
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85 with Mystic Air Staff and Ancient Wizard Robes or Black Wizard Robes

Press here if you are ready

Chapter VII: (G) Ancient to God Dungeons

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 To start, you should have: Plenty of Ancient Arrows, Death Runes and Food.
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 At the end, you should have: Fury of the Elemental Zodiacs and full Aeris, Glacia, Terran and Ragnar God Armour.

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Chapter VIII: Into the Mist

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 To start, you should have:
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86 and
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Dungeon Equipment Swapping
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 At the end, you should have: Passive Slot

Press here if you are ready

Chapter IX: T90 grind

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 To start, you should have: IDK!
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 At the end, you should have: IDK!

Press here if you are ready

Chapter X: Unhallowed Wasteland

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 To start, you should have: IDK!
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 At the end, you should have: IDK!

Press here if you are ready

Chaper XI: Impending Darkness Event

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 To start, you should have: IDK!
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 At the end, you should have: IDK!

Press here if you are ready

Chaper XII: Throne of the Herald

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 To start, you should have: IDK!
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 At the end, you should have: IDK!

Press here if you are ready

Chaper XIII: Manual Content

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 To start, you should have: IDK!
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 At the end, you should have: IDK!

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Melvor Idle version v1.3.1 (Released: 30th October 2024)
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Combat:
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Attack •
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Strength •
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Defence •
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Hitpoints •
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Ranged •
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Magic •
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Prayer •
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Slayer •
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Corruption
Skills:
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Farming •
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Township •
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Woodcutting •
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Fishing •
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Firemaking •
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Cooking •
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Mining •
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Smithing •
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Thieving •
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Fletching •
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Crafting •
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Runecrafting •
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Herblore •
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Agility •
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Summoning •
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Astrology •
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Alternative Magic •
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Cartography •
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Archaeology •
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Harvesting
Other:
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Beginners Guide • Guides •
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Bank •
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Combat •
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Mastery •
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Money Making •
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Shop • Easter Eggs • Pets •
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Golbin Raid •
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Full Version • Throne of the Herald • Atlas of Discovery •
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Into the Abyss
Reference Tables: Items, Equipment, Experience Table, Upgrading Items, Combat Areas, Slayer Areas, Dungeons, Strongholds, The Abyss, Monsters
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